Kwenk Suggestions & Ideas

Sometimes I get a lot of notifications but I mainly want to see when other people engaged with my posts

Sometimes there’s blank commented on a post you also commented on! Which I don’t rlly care abt, so maybe an option to turn those notifs off wld be nice.

It also doesn’t let you reply to other peoples replies sometimes which is annoying.

I just want more organization/cohesion!

I agree with Dolly, more attachments would be really good too.

this might seem like a dumb suggestion but itd be nice to have a more definitive way of knowing wether we gave props to a post or not, the colors change from profile to profile so that can't really be relied on as an identifier and youll obviously know by the number once you've clicked it but youll end up retracting your prop if youve already given it( I love the customization btw i dont think that needs to be changed )idk tho maybe im just being nitpicky
what do yall think?

RE: Blogging

I made a post about this in The Lounge. There, I had to conserve my own suggestions so I could actually ask others what they wanted. Here, I will dump my own ideas for how staff could improve the blogging feature.

- Images. Multiple images would encourage people to post things like comics and really any image sets. Inline images would be even better to break up the walls of text. Dividers, decome, and even just pictures to the side would be great. Alt text is a must if we get this.
- Text colours. Free range to choose any colour would be preferred, but even a nice site-wide palette would be cool. Again, it would break up the text.
- Audio embeds. A much later game feature, if it'll ever be added, but I digress. I think just something like what we have on our profiles.
- Blog background styling. Not necessarily what we have in the posts/profiles, where we can change everything. Even some presets (paper textures, greeting card styles, etc.) would add some fun customisation!

Overall, I think blogs need more than text styling and a higher character limit. Posts garner more interactions because they can be shared in groups, which people already have more control over. Images also tip the scale a lot. I don't want to make posts worse, but I think blogs need to be more inviting than posts overall.

I think blogs should be the main way we talk here. Blogs are where you dump how your day went, while posts are, "My day sucked, lol," or, "Blog is gonna take a little longer."

First post! I suppose an introduction is in order, even if this will get buried eventually.

Hello! I recently made a post in The Lounge, inspired by another user's post, asking what features people would like to see added to Kwenk. Specifically, I was asking about the blogging feature. Although I just posted it, I realised it would be good to have a place dedicated entirely to what we do and don't want on this site.

The group description has a character limit, so I'll throw some conversation starters down here. However, don't feel bound by these. As long as it doesn't break the Kwenk Terms of Service, anything goes!

1. What features do you think are boring, and what would make them more fun?
2. What is something you think would add to the old web revival theme?
3. How do you think we can keep Kwenk unique from other social medias (Bluesky, Insta, etc.)?
4. Any issues with the site as a whole (lag, loading times, etc.)?
5. What are some vague ideas you'd like to see added? Even if you don't know how to implement them!