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Not to be a dick or anything, but help me understand some things...

Hi guys, I'm @idio3 from rdrama, one of the main jannies there. I like the idea of you running an offsite, but I'm absolutely floored by the implementation.

Now I get that there are features of the main site that wouldn't be appropriate for you guys, since you're looking for a different sort of discussion and atmosphere than we are. Longpostbot, annoying graphical and user-nerfing awards, bardbot, etc - it makes perfect sense to remove those. But other decisions I just don't understand. Most notably - what the hell is your beef with Marseys? Why don't image uploads work? It's like you guys intentionally wanted to preclude people from attempting to have fun :marseyshrug:, with the changes being essentially limited to cutting out as many of our features as you could get your hands on...

Anyway, if you could illuminate the rationale for these things, I'd greatly appreciate it! :marseyblowkiss:

be mottizens

set up own website

fork dramacode

remove 90% of features

manage to break the other 10% of features somehow

True story

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It doesn't fit the tone of the Motte at all, but our own marsey derivative would be weirdly appropriate given the reason for the diaspora and the rdrama roots of the place. I mean, who doesn't like marseyposting?

Still in favor of the heavily armed quokka, or other quokka variations

Really what we need is an anthropomorphised castle

...Alexander?

Anthropomorphized castle… a golem?

I proposed this on a niche rDrama–Motte crossover Discord once, but @official_techsupport said he didn't like the (lack of) shading on the generic clip-art castle I found. Anyway, :marseymotte:

/images/1662357761885546.webp

Not shading, the tops of the towers look like we are looking at them from below, while the castle itself is arranged in isometric perspective. It shouldn't be too hard to draw complementary crenellations--if anyone actually wants to use the resulting image.