/ara/ - 2D MILFs & Mature Women

Updates:

1. New board owner. Previous owner appeared to be MIA so I took over.

2. Flags have been implemented. Check them out!

The following characters have been added: Akiko Minase, Bulma, Chi-Chi, Hanako/Delia, Mitsuko Shindo, Mrs. Briefs, and Rinko Iori. More will be made in the future.

Future direction of this board

The post rate on /ara/ has been abysmal for a while now. So I will be figuring out ways to expand this user base and try to make this board more fun for you guys. I have some ideas (which are currently secret) that I plan to implement sometime in the near future.

/co/ & Western art inclusion?

One idea that's not secret and that I'd like your input on is the following: I might start allowing and encouraging Western art that's related to this board's content. You know, attracting people from /co/, dA, and so on. I feel that diversifying the available content on this board is one possible method of expanding the user base and increasing the post rate. If I do allow it, it will probably be under the condition that their content be segregated in their own threads. Of course, any /furry/ garbage or similar would be prohibited. What do you guys think about this?

any new flags planned?

>>1106

>I'd like to keep the banners non-nude/barely SFW. Leaves more to the imagination. If it's blatant pornography then it's not much of a tease.

Ah, I see. I agree too, but just wanted to make sure.

>/ara/ caters to one specific genre. There isn't any other board to my knowledge that does that.

Surprisingly there isn't. There is a 3D milf board but that's it. The rest is more general, like /rule34/, /vp/, etc.

I need to bug Hotwheels to add a banners page feature so they're all viewable to the public.

>>1117

>any new flags planned?

Unless someone really wants one, I'm just going to wait until HW figures out a better way to display that option because right now it's pretty much hidden.

Heart-san, I was wondering if it would be a good idea to do IRC and/or Skype group?

>>1247

I think it's a little early considering the low traffic, but you can start it if you want to, and I can add it on the sticky.

>>1349

You're right. Although being a small community does have its advantages somewhat, but I'll wait for a little while before posting it.

>>1526

I love that vine.

Alright here it is. Just copypaste it wherever on your Skike and you join.

skype:?chat&blob=Ziboj_1UO-RgIg6x-qx7L0XY4Q1Ofi5NlGIS8VMP500A752sm1Px-iKmw2CWvaE1HE5e8FlKVyIJmg

>>1602

Do I click it or...?

>>1603

Copypaste it on your chat. Do it wherever, really. On an inactive one, for instance.

You'll then get redirected to the chat and join automatically.

>Straight shota & incest are allowed

Does this mean we might see mother-daughter threads at some point or should that be left in y/u/ri?

>>1633

Don't see why not.

I would assume there would be more of an audience on yuri boards though.

Why can we no longer see the file names of images?

And I don't see replies either. Is it just this board? Since other boards I visit seem fine.

>>1789

>Why can we no longer see the file names of images?

looks fine on a PC, but it looks like it's broken for mobile

reverted css changes in >>1039

the lack of reply links is a problem for mobile users on all 8chan boards though. hotwheels will have to fix it.

>>1795

Ah I see.

>>1801

>MILFs, Cakes, & Other Mature Women

>>1801

>I'd say to add the "3DCG" in the sticky instead, since I'm sure (although I might be wrong) most of the users here are intersted in 2D/manga stuff than 3D CG animation/art material.

>>1803

Didn't mean to greentext here. Apologies.

How strict is the definition of milf?

Are curvies like this pic allowed?

>>1826

Curvies and straight shota aren't automatically milf.

Mothers, clearly older women, teachers, etc are more milf stuff.

Just use your better judgement I guess.

>>1826

Keep context quite in mind. Unless the manga/anime/eroge tells you or at least implies that the girls are "adults" (i.e. cakes) then it's fine. But if it's teenagers or young adults (I personally put the limit to 25), then it doesn't count.

>>2117

im not normally a saucefag but please please tell me who is on that gif

This Google-wide ban of 8chan is really bad news for /ara/ and the site itself.

https://medium.com/@infinitechan/google-is-not-your-friend-5a6636af0651

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/08/8chan-hosted-content-disappears-from-google-searches/

>>614

sauce on pic?

>>2298

https://hitomi.la/galleries/822790.html

Page 12

What about futa and poop? I got a guy to draw vore starring the grandmother from Golden Week eating a bunch of other over-the-hill ladies to become the champion of them all and I'm wondering if that's okay or if that's too much.

It's not stylistically 100%-on-target, though.

>>2436

Welcome to imageboards. I'll be your guide. I'm not a very good guide, though. Here's a K-bar, half a Snickers, a frayed shoelace, and a can of air freshener I was going to throw out anyway. I'm sure you'll figure it out from there.

>>2271

Banner editing still doesn't work >>>/operate/35749

Hopefully it gets fixed soon.

>>2461

Hi aradmin.

>I don't know about the new rules, but on the old /ara/, we allowed onee-sans, such as the Sailor Moons. My definition of "onee-san" for the rules of /ara/ was either a blood-related/non-blood related older sister, or an older teenage girl/young woman having sex with a younger shota.

I avoid being overly nitpicky with the pictures posted, but if we allow teenagers, ordinary sisters, then how could this board possibly differentiate from /h/, /e/, and so on? The way I see it, this board can only survive by catering to a more specific niche as it does now.

>I've noticed that there is now a /ss/ board, which was not there when I first made /ara/. This greatly splits the userbase.

I never really saw /ss/ as a direct competitor to /ara/. All straight shota means is a young boy paired up with one or more females. Said female(s) can be younger than the boy. That's not allowed on /ara/ since only older women are allowed here.

>As for the issue with the furries, this is my "radical" suggestion, but please hear me out. Perhaps a mega furry MILF & /ss/ thread could be made, for all the furry MILF & /ss/ content not to flood the board?

I was thinking about that too, but I'm sure someone will eventually make that thread anyway. So far I have not noticed any real issue with furries yet.

>Simply make a rule that you cannot post furry content outside of it and job's done. Everyone wins.

I don't want to make a strict rule about this. This is more about common sense, where furry content will not be posted in a thread it clearly doesn't belong in. For example, if you look at a thread like >>2234, it seems it's just a lighthearted discussion thread. There's no reason for me to ban highly anthropomorphised furries from such a thread. If, however, someone starts posting stuff like ponies and pokemons, I will spoiler or delete those pictures because I consider those to be bestiality.

>Another suggestion. I don't know if you're good at editing the board's code, but /ara/ could really do with a more custom look.

I have been working on some different stylesheets, but the problem is that I always end up finding this default Yotsuba Blue style to be at least slightly better. It's really hard to beat. I still need a little more time.

>>2470

>I avoid being overly nitpicky with the pictures posted, but if we allow teenagers, ordinary sisters, then how could this board possibly differentiate from /h/, /e/, and so on? The way I see it, this board can only survive by catering to a more specific niche as it does now.

Onee-sans and teenage girls are not the same thing and have never been. An onee-san can have the body of a teenage girl (like Sailor Moon), but her appeal is completely different. Like a large part of /ara/s, the appeal of onee-sans comes from older females with younger males. Like /ara/s, onee-sans have different personalities ranging from the motherly ones to the extremely lewd ones, the H-anime Kateikyoushi no Onee-san The Animation is a great example (it's about a guy in high school who over summer gets four private female tutors, all aged around 20-25, it's an example of the non-incest type of onee-san). Like /ara/s, onee-sans are niche, unlike their imouto counterpart, and the reason for this is the same one as to why femdom is more niche than maledom. And finally like many /ara/s, many onee-sans use ara ara~ as their catchphrase

Onee-sans simply don't belong on any of the other boards, but they still need a place to call home, a place to be loved and hugged. /ara/ is the perfect place for them, because I made /ara/ to give all older females love, be they mothers, older sisters, teachers, aunts, gardeners, etc., knowing very well how depressingly niche older females are, so niche that older females have almost no anime that focuses on them or just caters to the older female crowd, so niche that even in H-anime older females are extremely sparse, so niche that you have to wait months for a single new doujin with older females to appear.

This is why /ara/ was made, so those passionate about older females could talk about them without being persecuted, like on most other boards, even outside 8chan.

To deny entry to onee-sans is to admit the defeat of older females.

If you still have doubts about accepting onee-sans into the /ara/ family, ask the users themselves what they think about that, I can guarantee that most will say yes.

>I never really saw /ss/ as a direct competitor to /ara/. All straight shota means is a young boy paired up with one or more females. Said female(s) can be younger than the boy. That's not allowed on /ara/ since only older women are allowed here.

Yes, but please understand that the majority of content posted on the /ss/ board is young boys with older females, not to mention that the great majority of /ss/ works are young boys with older females.

/ara/ and /ss/ overlap too much, many users of /ara/ like /ss/ content, and many users of /ss/ like /ara/ content. In my opinion there's no point to /ss/ because /ara/ already covers that genre, if they really want young boys with young girls, they can just use the lolicon board.

>I was thinking about that too, but I'm sure someone will eventually make that thread anyway. So far I have not noticed any real issue with furries yet.

>I don't want to make a strict rule about this. This is more about common sense, where furry content will not be posted in a thread it clearly doesn't belong in. For example, if you look at a thread like >>2234 →, it seems it's just a lighthearted discussion thread. There's no reason for me to ban highly anthropomorphised furries from such a thread. If, however, someone starts posting stuff like ponies and pokemons, I will spoiler or delete those pictures because I consider those to be bestiality.

Agreed completely.

>I have been working on some different stylesheets, but the problem is that I always end up finding this default Yotsuba Blue style to be at least slightly better. It's really hard to beat. I still need a little more time.

I recommend an orange style similar to Finalchan, it is very pleasing to the eyes.

Do you need any help with advertising /ara/ and such? I'd be glad to help in any way I can.

>>2471

I never "denied entry" to onee-sans (i.e. it's never been banned outright), in fact you'll probably find some in the straight shota threads we have. However, I'm hesitant to add it to the board title because I don't want people using it as an excuse to make threads about 14-year-olds like Usagi Tsukino from Sailor Moon, just because she happens to have a younger sibling. Underage onee-sans like her have to be posted in context. If she's in a picture by herself, or with someone older than her, that's not /ara/ content. If she's in a picture patting her younger brother on the head or whatever, then that's okay because the context is clear. The only other exception I can think of is that MILF-ification thread.

Does the current board owner have an email address that I can contact?

>>2476

As long as you don't ban onee-san discussion, everything is a-okay.

>>2478

I like the idea of light pink, the green one reminds me too much of Foolz and the brown one just looks wrong

>>2478

>>2479

i like the pink and green ones

>>2493

I really like this one a lot. Purple is the ultimate MILF color imo. I really hope you go with this one as the default, but if you don't could I at least have the CSS?

I'm not a big fan of the pink. Pink is just too loud and in your face, it makes me think of lolis and moe shit. Purple is like a more mature pink, it's more modest and gentle, like older women. It's a lot easier on the eyes when browsing at night as well.

>>2493

I really like this one.

Go for it

Wait, I thought /ss/ was made before /ara/?

With that said, I don't think it overlaps TOO much to be much of a concern, but yes there is some overlap since a lot of milf stuff deals with /ss/ as well.

>>2461

>old board owner is still alive and still hangs around here

You worried me when you disappeared.

>>2470

>Banner editing still doesn't work

Aw, that's unfortunate.

Curious: how many banners can a board have?

>>2508

/ss/ wasn't there when I specifically searched for it back then, and /ara/ was made around the time /a/ was made, one week or so after 8chan skyrocketed in popularity, when board owners were called admins and volunteers were called mods, and when you couldn't make mods unless you gave them the password to your admin account.

Oh, and thanks for your concern. I was worried about you /ara/nons too all this time I've been away.

Truth be told I should've given one of you the password to my account while I was away, so you could take care of /ara/ until I came back. But I guess that doesn't matter anymore.

Also, why isn't the thread sticky'd?

Still experimenting with purple themes. For now I'll leave it Yotsuba Peach. I can paste the different CSS I don't use in a pastebin at some point.

>>2508

>how many banners can a board have?

50. I think we have about 15. And a few of them I plan to remove once we reach that limit since the quality isn't that great compared to the rest.

>>2525

>why isn't the thread sticky'd?

Decided the sticky is unnecessary. It just added clutter at the top. No need for a list of rules when it's obvious what this board is about.

Does anybody else dislike multiple image uploads? I get that it's really convenient for doujin dumping, but I personally think it makes the whole board look really cluttered and ugly. I don't mind 2 images like this >>2479 because you can clearly tell it's the same post, but when it gets to 4 or 5 and images start appearing under the rest, that's when things start looking more like a booru than a chan.

This is more of a complaint about the board software so there's not much the /ara/ owner can do about it (unless you're really good with CSS). My suggestion would be to set max image uploads to 3 which is pretty reasonable and probably won't fuck up the formatting of posts (depends on the image dimensions). I really hope Infinity Next will improve on this.

>>2586

I'll try to come up with a workaround with CSS. The two main things I need to do are to reduce the margin between the multifile images and to condense the file info.

>>2586

>Does anybody else dislike multiple image uploads?

Nope, for me multi image uploads is the best thing. Conserves a lot of space for threads/posts and helps me organize my uploads better.

>>2607

Nah

>>2607

Do the mods of /ara/ suck 75 dicks daily?

Does the general /ara/ community?

If you answered "no" to at least one of these, then this board is by default better.

>>2607

>/aco/

>mostly tumblr-tier shit western art

>shit mods

>FOR FREE

>cuckchan

>did I mention the tumblr-tier shit western art?

The only good thing from that board was the Mexican por comic thread.

>>2697

There are some decent artists on tumblr like inkertonkun/inkerbooru, bellend/gonzozeppeli (damn they keep changing aliases), and noill.

Some of there stuff was posted on >>498

>>2705

That's why I mentioned "mostly", but yeah, you're right.

There are many good western artists, mind you. There's just way more shitty ones, sadly. Or at least, the shitty ones (and I include here furry shit artists, no matter how "good" they are) are more prevalent and famous than the good ones.

>>2607

Nope.

Allow Tor users to post images.

Can there also be a sauce list to go with the banner list?

>>2712

k

>>2716

Just ask here for sauce, I don't really know all of them.

CP nigger botter has hit our shores at last. Just letting you guys know to beware.

>>2926

I don't mind this current peach theme. I think it suits /ara/ fine. Maybe you should come up with a similar peach or orange theme. Though if I had to choose between those two dark themes, I think plum is easier to read. Or make the font a little brighter in purple.

>>2931

I'm digging pale oak.

>>2931

pale oak is better between the two

Admi, is it possible to turn on Captcha's for making threads? It's a pain in the ass when the CP spam bot comes around.

>>2932

>>2937

I tested my theme for some time, then realized pale oak is an uglier, desaturated version of Yotsuba. Wasn't so calming in the end. So back to Yotsuba.

>>2941

If it gets bad I can enable it.

B.O., how are you going to deal with Next?

Okay I just thought of a different order I am now trying:

Akiko Minase - Kanon

Bulma - Dragon Ball Z

Chi-Chi - Dragon Ball Z

Sanae Furukawa - Clannad

I think the people who are real fans of these characters remember them by their names first, and their source titles second. Hopefully it won't look too cluttered.

>>3145

The ladder for me. If anyone's really interested they'd put the name in a search engine. I'd be happy either way, honestly.

>>3145

>>3146

Tough call. Just by name looks cleanest but it's nice to know the source. I'm used to that media type order, but the name and source probably makes most sense. Although I wouldn't be so sure people remember by character name before source. I think in the end it's mostly just about getting used to an order.

>>3145

I prefer Source - Name or just Name only.

Name - Source looks really messy.

>>3149

>Although I wouldn't be so sure people remember by character name before source.

This. I find it easier to remember Clannad or Kanon than some long Japanese names like Akiko Minase or Sanae Furukawa. Often my thought process goes like "who's that milf from Kanon again?"

>>3146

>>3145

>>3146

i like source title and then name better

name only is fine too, as >>3148 pointed out that people could search it anyway, it's not like /ara/ is some detailed wiki or something

by media it's a little tricky, because DBZ is a manga but is known more for its anime, Clannad is a visual novel but is known more for its anime, and so on

>>3164

and then Next removes flags next week

>>3165

Oh well. The other site issues are much more important to fix.

Is it weird I want to see a milf wear a pad? Just seems fitting somehow...

>>3436

ew

>>3193

kek

also that milf is pretty cute

>>3807

Jealousy.

Yeah, dropping by to say that the new banners are pretty gud

So why is there no option to watch threads here

>>4790

You can re-enable it in your custom css options:

a.watchThread {display: inline !important;}

I got rid of it because it's confusing for two reasons:

1. It's right next to "Reply." A new visitor to 8chan may click "Watch Thread" thinking that's the way to open a thread. It would make more sense to have it in the drop-down menu.

2. Nothing seems to happen when you click it. It's not immediately obvious what it does. You have to dig through the interface to find the "watchlist" button at the top. When you click something you should expect immediate visual feedback. Why doesn't the watchlist display when you click "Watch Thread"?

>>5132

Can't visit this thread, it acts like it has been deleted. If the thread has been deleted then it doesn't update on the catalog

Can't access the Index either for that matter, might be a site wide issue

>>5145

>>5146

>>>/sudo/7900

>>5149

Ah i see, thanks, hopefully it will be fixed soon or we get redirects. In any case I can visit the thread again

>>5132

What happened to the replies in this thread? Still a result of that glitch?

>>424

it looks like he fixed his sys cache, no more e0001 you can unsticky this mods

>>5182

nevermind ignore, seems to be fixed

While this board is pretty slow, do you think there could be an /ara/-tan? If so, should she be a cake or a mother? How would she look or act? Would she be a personification of the Oedipus Complex, or would she be her own character who simply fits the mold of /ara/?

>>5828

I think Ara tan would be a thick kind of mother with some soft chub to her belly and a but built on laziness and love. Maybe she could be her own character that molds around /ara/? Like she could deny her needs to devour her son while almost melting when she gets a hug from him?

>>5838

I made a separate draw thread if this thread's too cluttered >>5841

>>5839

>Nipple & areola preferences

A truely motherly character should be lactating, which usually implies larger-than-usual nipples and/or larger areola.

>>5851

Mama-Chan is a pretty solid notion, but like you said, we didn't come up with her.

Lately I've been thinking of having both a milf and a cake-tan, since two would be both the least and most needed to cover the variety of ara. The milf for simply being a mother as well as the older relative sort of ara, while the cake would cover the areas of appeal an older single woman exudes. Obviously she'd be a next door neighbor to milf-tan's family, or at least someone who often interacts with son-anon, or is simply an acquaintance of milf-tan. I think she'd be best with a personality that comes off as a lady in her mid-late twenties who occasionally has troubles with the fact that she's no longer a teenager. Both milf-tan and cake-tan should be sexy and cute, but I think one should be more sexy while the other's more cute.

As for looks, I don't really think I can say which one would be ideal for an ara-tan. I think it can be agreed though that what we want is a body with an ample chest and considerably wide hips, between the points where someone could say that she inherently has an indecent body, but not so far that she looks like a full on fertility goddess like in that one hentai about tittyfucking a milf and daughter. This sounds rather contradictory, but while simply writing posts like this is getting me going, I don't want to have a board-tan that makes me need to fap every time I see an image of her. Then again the Switch Dog-tan is basically that for a bunch of people already.

Did we lose any data? Or are we clear?

>>5874

Probably not but the order of threads is messed up. Ask >>>/sudo/ if he can fix it.

>>5874

The order of threads is wrong but that's a non issue, pictures are still intact.

The Index and many threads 404 now. But catalog works and you can see all the threads. What do?

>>5880

nevermind, seems like we need the BO to fix the individual threads here: >>>/sudo/33263

This anon says the public mod accounts no longer works for some reason, so it has to be the BO or volunteers: >>>/sudo/32293

Ask admin to rebuild /ara/ due to 404s here >>>/sudo/33976

>>5882

Looks like things were rebuilt again, a thread that didn't work previously now works and the index works.

What happened to >>5841 ? Some posts got deleted

What happened to >>5841 ? Some posts got deleted

>>5895

fug repost

>>6269

>Mike Inel having to remove his Gumball R34 works

As much as it's mostly unavoidable due to the nature of the show, it was unfortunate that he had to backtrack on his works involving Nicole for "underage content".