Alexarion wrote: Yeah I definitely had! And tomorrow my family is visiting! Second party haha 
I feel like the older I get the more space and time for myself I need. I feel like getting more sensitive. I mean I always felt like needing more time to rest from social interactions than others but I feel like it got more over the last years. Maybe Corona plays a part 
Feel that! Since I moved out like. 3 1/2 years ago I appreciate my mothers food even more! 
Same! I love to see everyone expressing themselves 
Hmm I mean when you sign in you‘ve to write down your birthday with year right? Why not making a specific 18+ area? Only Users 18 years old or above have access to it. Guests can‘t see the topic either. Yeah, there might be kids who may trick the system but you can‘t have your eyes everywhere so this might be a solution?
if you're family's visiting then it sounds like the perfect reason to celebrate twice, let's go another round of brownies and party gifts
And I completely get what you mean, the pandemic probably amplified that. My social anxiety was at its worst during that time, that's actually when a lot of things happened to me. I lost 3 of my best friends that I met in this website during that time when my anxiety was even making me not feeling like talking to them (although it really wasn't what caused our drift, but that would be a story for another day). That's the one time I really started taking pills and even had soft depression diagnosed, very early stages of it. It's all gone now though.
I mean, it's not gone, gone, I feel residues of this anxiety in me, but the depression is and so is the way I used to act back then, it takes a lot for me to be unresponsive and unable to answer so that's good
As for the idea of an 18+ area, I can see where you’re coming from, but I think keeping the forums open and inclusive is part of the magic of the website.
The forums were a place where we could talk about anything and everything (within reason, of course), and that made it special for me. It wasn’t about locking certain topics away but allowing every single one of us, a community, where everyone could participate and connect.
The reality now is that the rules have changed for children’s websites as well, even fan-made ones like this can't escape. I have to be cautious to ensure there’s no exposure to things like violence, profanity, or anything else that could cause issues. It’s not ideal, but it’s a responsibility I take seriously to protect everyone involved now that as a kid was nowhere on my mind back then and could even get me in trouble honestly if something ever happened.
However.........
Salomea wrote:Can You maybe put info that the club is 13+ or put info about age restrictions of each show next to it. Plus including the trigger warnings, since that could be useful too. I think that sharing interest in such wide topic shouldn't be of the table because some titles might not be for everyone. Btw by that logic Winx Club: the saga is banned too, yes?
(Plus it gets into some uncomfortable territory. Like if I say I'm reading "Maus", or Kafka's "Process" and they are good because such and such, in the book club, out of line, cause in some places these are over 13 readings?)
But I also second Alexarion, that perhaps there could be a +18 section (and if there were more young people also separate under 16 section). And on unrelated note - just letting You know I've put random "over 25" year number 
cause I don't like putting my real year, for security, but You I am over 25, cause You know my long enough and I didn't think more precision is needed... sorry...
The Fate: The Winx Saga was a very, very good call. I haven't even thought about it, but it literally falls on that sort of category exactly like kdramas. I can't exactly "force" a lock on subforums to appear after people are +18. I could in theory create a script for it, but I'd have to create a brand new group for users registering and being under 18, recreate the web avatar script for that group, allow them to get the same permissions as a normal user but without the +18 section and then force the script to change the user script once they become +18 to change the group to the normal one. That would take me ages, and it also involves changing the registration script and then the login box to force already registered users into being sent back to another group.
So, I'd say......... I'd make a "PG +13" or "+13 | " in the topic title, and adjust the rules in both here, Chata, and also Fan Club I guess? And make sure it would involve shows, movies or games and not necessarily anything else outside of it.
Salomea wrote:Ok, I get how that could be an issue. But on the other hand, can You have someone review your code, or assist You with some issues without getting full web access? Like having only access to a hidden section (something like mods thread) where You could talk and share files, while maybe running the test game separately from the site? And of course that assumes that anyone here can help...
I can't. It's very unofortunate but I really can't.
The game is 100% working. The only thing that isn't and the reason why the game isn't already being at least beta tested is because the registration script is broken, which is what connects the game and your accounts by creating the player avatar in-game. So it's actually the connection to the website and your own accounts that is glitched. The person that would fix it would have to have access to your database accounts and the entire game.
That's why I feel like someone who works on the industry would probably be a safer bet. I'd do backups of everything and everything and by the end of this, simply change the passwords to access the databases.
