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=DDDD YES FINALLY =3 *cant wait till you release it*

I have no ideas for the new name (I'm horrible at choosing names) but I do have some ideas for a layout.

Personally I like the hidden menus:

http://www.traintochina.net/~tesuto/index.php that site does a nice drop down menu with javascript (i think).

I'm not good with javascript but a long time back I tried modifying wacintaki's layout to fit what I liked.
http://oevista.org/woekaki/

That one is more along the lines of what I want because the menu disappears when you take your mouse off.

http://oekaki.rthr-x.com/ they also have something like that which is more similar to my hacked wacintaki.

The one thing I don't like about my hacked wacintaki and aowyn oekaki is that the drop down menu's only work with one template. BDOekaki's drop down menu changes with each template you use.


As for new stuff, on top of those things which are really good ideas, avatars of course, and maybe collaboration (multi-user?).
Maybe a module could be a little log of the recent administrative functions performed on the board.

The non-member drawing sounds wonderful =3

I was also wondering about flash uploading? I don't know if that's really possible but it would be great. If you're going to have gif animations then flash would be cool

Oh yes, siliconsara has an interesting idea too. I totally forgot about that.

Dormando's Oekaki system has a nice feature which allows you create your own layout using html. That would be a very nice idea. That would probably need to be a module though. A lot of people don't know html so yeah =O or maybe not xD;

Wow.  Good start.  Don't get your hopes up, though.  This thing is at least a year away, given how I code. 

siliconsara:  Although I do hope that the future layout doesn't look too "community-like".

My new board is absolutetly not going to be a full-blown CMS.  I prefer minimalistic tools that cover the basics.  If people want something complex, they can get OCELOT.  Besides, there's no way I can go head-on with the likes of 2draw.  I want something more like the original OekakiBBS that lets guests have fun.  Even artist searches and archiving don't really require membership if they're done properly.

As for the layout thing, why not use a html template system?

My #1 priority asside from a good database layer.  I've checked out a number of engines, like Smarty, and they are way too heavyweight for me.  I'll probably be borrowing a lot of code (or at least ideas) from Drupal.  The code quality in that board is absolutely amazing, and it's only a half-meg!  Truly a work of art.  I just wish installation was much easier. 

One danger with a template engine is that people have to learn a new language to make templates.  If people don't know HTML, it's likely a high-end, API-driven template engine won't be any help.  I intend to keep it pretty simple.  Working with UNIX has taught me a lot about proper text editing and search-replacement.

I sent you an e-mail a while back about two feature suggestions, but figured it might be more appropriate to post 'em here. Thus...

One thing that would be incredibly handy is the ability to turn captchas on and off for guest posting. I have no idea how easy this is to implement, but spam spiders seem to have decided that oekaki boards are fertile grounds for advertising pills and poker lately.

Another thing that would be useful is a more robust mass deletion interface for mods. The current setup for deleting comments doesn't really accommodate mass deletions, since the mod is redirected to the main index after every single comment deletion, which makes cleaning up entries without axing the picture (especially posts attacked by spiders) a pretty long and involved process. Any possibility that this could be changed to use checkboxes (or something similar) in the future?

I'm excited to hear about this! I've always liked OekakiPoteto (and Wacintaki, naturally), but I really want to see some fresh alternatives with different features.

I don't think I have a lot of input to offer on this project, though, because the things I want to see are largely community-orientated, since that's what my own oekaki board was. But I will suggest contests with guest/member voting, because my board had a lot of fun with that.

As a side note, I've got my own PHP oekaki project going on. It won't ever be released publicly; it's supposed to be a learning experience, but mostly I'm just mucking around and having fun. Hope that once you do get started, you have as much fun as I am (because then maybe it'd get done sooner ^_~ ).

These days I know better than to make big announcements.  The new oekaki will be ready when its ready.  Probably a year, though.  Major priorities of the project are to make it very small and easy to use.  There's not many oekaki systems out there, but the ones that do exist seem to be leaning towards communities, rather than home pages.  I think that's the wrong direction for oekaki.  I think they should be simple and spontaneous, more like guestbooks.

Wacintaki 1.3 has been delayed since my full-time job has not been going well, and I've run into a few admin issues, namely, some admins won't like the group project support without the ability to turn it off.  It'll be released when I've tested it properly, which means, at least two weeks after uploading new code to my own oekaki.  If I don't waste too much time this weekend fixing a computer (for $$$), I should be testing the final code by Monday.

Wax 5.5.8 will be the last version.  I'm no longer planning to make Wax 5.6.

Hi, i wanted to make a couple suggestions for wacintaki, but if you wanna take them for the new board

One is to be able to have categories, like "beginners/masters" or "chibi/realistic/other", "watercolors/pencil/etc" well i mean, as any webmaster wants and be able to move the drawings from one category to other (there are always users that don't follow the guidelines)

the second suggestion is to have the option of sending the drawings as ecards and be able to pick them up in the site, that would also bring new traffic/users to the board.

my two cents