/film/ - FILM

Hello, /film/.

>>>/atv/ board owner here.

Our board was created to fill the void of a place to discuss TV shows in a more slow appreciative manner, as threads about less popular shows simply die out on the current /tv/ climate, in the vein of /film/'s board culture. As well as popcorny movies, animations and all that secondary media that doesn't suit this board.

Feel welcome to post there, and we will be linking to /film/ (and /tv/) in our announcement links, unless the board owner here tell us not to.

At long last someone has made a boardwatcher script. This script gives you a notification when any of your favorite boards has a new post. You no longer have to waste time checking a bunch of boards manually. It has great potential for a slow board like this one.

https://gitgud.io/trackanon/boardtracker/

Be sure that /film/ is one your favorites and paste this script into your User JS:

// ==UserScript==
// @name        8chan favorite board tracker
// @description	Checks any board you have favorited for new posts.
// @include     /^https?://.*8ch\.net/.*$/
// @namespace   https://8ch.net/
// @require     https://8ch.net/js/jquery.min.js
// @version     0.1
// ==/UserScript==

var BoardTracker = {
	// OPTIONS
	deadAlert: true, // set to true to color board names if they're "dead"
	deadThreshold: 10, // amount of days since last post to consider the board dead
	deadColor: "grey", // what to color a dead board
	
	load: function() {
		if (localStorage.trackerData == undefined) {
			BoardTracker.data = {};
		} else {
			BoardTracker.data = JSON.parse(localStorage.trackerData);
		}
	},
	
	save: function() {
		localStorage.setItem("trackerData", JSON.stringify(BoardTracker.data));
	},
	
	currentData: {},

	onBoard: function(board) {
		return window.location.pathname.search("/"+board+"/") == 0;
	},

	getPostCount: function(board) {
		var url = "https://8ch.net/" + board + "/0.json";
		
		var xhr = $.getJSON( url, function(data) {
			var highPost = 0;
			var time = 0;
			for (var t in data.threads) {
				var curPost = data.threads[t].posts.slice(-1)[0];
				if (curPost.no > highPost) {
					highPost = curPost.no;
					time = curPost.time;
				}
			}
			if (BoardTracker.data[board] == undefined || BoardTracker.onBoard(board)) {
				BoardTracker.data[board] = highPost;
			}
			BoardTracker.currentData[board] = {
				posts: highPost - BoardTracker.data[board],
				time: time
			};
		});
		
		return xhr;
	},

	updateFavorites: function() {
		BoardTracker.load();
		var favorites = JSON.parse(localStorage.favorites);
		var requests = [];
		for (var i in favorites) {
			var board = favorites[i];
			requests.push(BoardTracker.getPostCount(board));
		}
		
		$.when.apply($, requests).then(function() {
			BoardTracker.save();
			
			var favNodes = $(".favorite-boards");
			
			for (var n = 0; n < favNodes.length; n++) {
				var node = favNodes[n];
				for (var c = 0; c < node.children.length; c++) {
					var child = node.children[c];
					var board = child.innerHTML
					if (BoardTracker.currentData[board].posts > 0)
						child.innerHTML = "<b><u>" + board + " ("+ BoardTracker.currentData[board].posts + ")</u></b>";
					
					var date = new Date(BoardTracker.currentData[board].time * 1000);
					child.title = "Last post: " + date.toLocaleString();
					
					if (BoardTracker.deadAlert &&
					    date.getTime() + BoardTracker.deadThreshold * 86400000 < (new Date).getTime()) {
						child.style.color = BoardTracker.deadColor;
						child.title += " (dead board?)";
					}
				}
			}
		});
	},
	
	initialize: function() {
		BoardTracker.updateFavorites();
		$("#favorite-star").click(BoardTracker.updateFavorites);
	}
};

BoardTracker.initialize();

/* END BOARD TRACKER */

>>12127

cool... it actually works!

>so many threads on 404

>>14037

I found this >>10320

I've been getting a fever about learning photography, it crossed my mind that back in Halfchan we had a board about that same topic. Doing an odd search on our front page here landed a result that at some point we also had a photography place with the same legacy name, /p/.

Standing at 1713 posts we can say the place was never a hotspot even in their early 2nd exodus days of October 2014, but they still go at it with the latest posts being as recent as 10 days ago ...so yes, still some activity around.

The point i wanted to reach was how about a photography general thread with those folks being formally invited? I know it's silly to ask for consensus but it's even sillier to start a thread with a complete amateur as myself. Sure even the old child modelling board with thousands of deleted posts got more activity but this would probably add some talent into the thread and reinvigorate that board's seemingly inert userbase, all 3 of them, plus i think maybe some anons might be interested here.

Just saying

>>14494

I've thought about making a photography thread before. I can't offer practical expertise though. So I intended to post about directors who were photographers, films about photography, and also a general imagedump of cool photos.

Dear god, the color contrast does not help with reading

what the fuck guys

>>14715

Ha ha, I missed that. Should be fun!

This board should be less strict to posters. Insofar would fit better on subreddit.

>>14828

Yes, what exactly are you prevented from doing?

We have almost none of these rules

https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueFilm/about/rules/

https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/wiki/index

>all these general threads

This board looks like a comment section on imdb to recommend more related movies.

If were not for the chilling humor or out of topic subjects, /tv/ would have a better userbase for discussions of cinema. Sadly they have no taste.

But I've seen more good films being discussed there than on here.

>>15596

In general sure, but if you make good posts about those films i doubt anyone would complain there's nobody here anyway

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