Hopes for the new Homestuck.com

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They slightly alluded to changing parts which I hope they don't do. For as much as it has aged poorly at parts, I think it's important to preserve the work as it is.

Well, my real wish is that they'd just use the mspaintadventures domain again, but that's not happening. I want to be reading Homestuck on mspaintadventures dot com when Dave reads the Midnight Crew on mspaintadventures dot com.

This is something idk if they could do but a section to play the games like Openbound and Hivebent whenever you want just because. It could be in browser or a section to just download them and play them whenever you feel like it would be nice.

I don't like the UHC having music credits on by default (and displayed in such a distracting way), but it would be cool to have an option to have music credits or art credits displayed right on the page.

@rinshn

"They slightly alluded to changing parts"

No they did not? It's really strange how many people I've seen come away with this impression given that nowhere, in the tweets, the announcement video or the passive-aggressive PNG do they mention anything about the content of Homestuck being altered, only reuploaded. Them including Huss's commentaries means several things would HAVE to stay the same, since Hussie's commentary on some pages is essentially just "man I was up to some shit saying things like that, wasn't I".

Anyway the ironic thing in all this is that I actually DO think that including something that lays off the r-slurs a bit is a good idea, as an OPTION. The UHC Slur Replacement mod had the spirit right, but it's execution was lacking, but clearly someone could find the right way to make it work.

However the main thing I'd love to see Homestuck focus on in the future is officially-licensed translation efforts. They want to grow the audience again, and a great way to do that is making it an international audience. There are already completed translations into Korean, Russian, Spanish and traditional Chinese, as well as a Brazilian Portuguese that's nearly done (page 7646). I can't speak for their quality, obviously, but it's not going in raw, and it's not machine-translated, so I'm sure they hold plenty of value by virtue of existing at all.

The most important thing is having the game's be playable in browser like Beyond Canon has done so far but also having a HIGH QUALITY video of them available for people on devices where the games won't work. Not the Viz Media 180p intern hastily uploaded it in a hurry video quality.

I'm pretty sure there are avenues of the OpenBounds being accessible through Ruffle, which I've seen before in other areas. I think the main thing I'm hoping for is it actually working properly and everything is there, before anything else. To make sure it can be easily read by others. I remember reading it there when I initially started (didn't get far and switched to the Unofficial Collection) and it was Bad.

@mobiancruxtruder

I personally don't think they will change anything, I have just seen some people voicing concerns. I didn't mean to sound against any mods that would improve the reading experience for some readers. It was just something I was seeing be discussed because of an interpretation of part of the post.

one thing I really like about the UHC is the "first-time reader mode", it makes the retcons feel more impactful. i'm hoping they do something similar, where they only appear after John sticks his art in the juju

really surprised no one's directly mentioned the flashes! i'd love for them to put the damn flashes back.

With junedve, Im hoping the flashes run in browser. Im unsure how popular this will be but Im hoping that therell be phone support for the flashes, even if I dont read homestuck on my phone. I just want more support for "reading homestuck" as there can be tbh

Bring the flashes back!! the youtube videos don't work when they get meta and fuck with the frame size. id love to have the games be playable again, too. Optional authors notes and music credits would be amazing. And have everything be accessible through mobile. (Hs2 i love you but a lot of the images fall partly of screen on mobile, and the Vrisual Novel is unplayable on my device)