@coolboymew You should wait for the amateur video game hosting site that I'm coding for @graf and @beardalaxy. I'm considering having woke games filtered from search results by default.
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@xianc78 like i said, i'd want it to be a site everyone can use. i'd mark "LGBT" as an opt-in filter, as well as "political activism." but making it a "woke" filter is cringe... obviously nobody would upload stuff like that and it'll turn into a right-wing extremist echo chamber like everything else does online when it comes to free platforms, which is what i would ideally like to avoid.
during account setup, you could display a list of those filters and ask which ones the user wants to see, then mention they can change it at any time in their user settings.
i think an independent game or account mute feature would be great too, considering that not every filter is going to be extremely verbose. someone who opts in to the loli and gore filters might not necessarily want to see both together, so that one game that keeps popping up on their feed that features both they can have the chance to just mute and forget about.
@beardalaxy These are the default filters I thought about including so far.
@xianc78 Not too bad actually! I still think maybe "Activism" could be a good one to add here as well. Maybe LGBT would be better off as a user-added tag that you can mute or something, since I guess theoretically your game could feature a gay character and not necessarily be activist.
but i like this as a starting point for sure.
as far as furry goes, i can potentially see people not wanting to see furshit whatsoever, not just in a sexual way. i wonder if there is a good way to separate those two concepts in the same way as something like LGBT and Activism, like an "18+ furry" filter and a "furry" tag.
@beardalaxy Users can filter based on any tag they want. It's just that those tags will appear by default or if you are not logged in.
@beardalaxy Speaking of tags. I have to redo the tag system because I just realized that MySQL doesn't support the STRING_SPLIT function that other forms of SQL support. So I have to store tags in a separate table.