I don't believe it is a Nintendo issue or something Nintendo has caused. Typically when you login and you get redirected to your profile page you should have your sidebar displayed. If not, you will get redirected to your profile page and it will appear as if you aren't logged in but in reality "you are". It just takes time for the site to realize that you have already logged in. You get redirected to your profile but still have access to the options that allow you to edit your profile settings but not to other features.

I tested this issue and it only seems to occur when you login successfully and you click the back button multiple times to the point where you went back to a page that you were on before you were logged in to your account. Just go back to the BrowseDNS Homepage and click the big blue login button, it should work.

Edit: The 503 Errors is basically you getting rate limited. It occurs typically when the site starts to bug due to database issues, slowness of the site, your device sending multiple requests to the server (common for botnets to do), etc. I'm sure the @administrators will take a look into that when they get a chance.

All i did was tell you NOT to do something, which is simply doing what i'm supposed to do. You said something that wasn't very accurate so you needed to be educated.

If you're responding and i'm educating you, how is that arguing? Lets make sense. Topic Closed.

Cry all you want

I have tissues! if you need any lmk :sneezing_face:

@st4tic said in As someone who's PR department, how might we improve and keep users from leaving?:
As for staff, some of them should be way more patient with certain users. I don't even mean to be rude but seriously.

For example, I've recently seen a user here (shrub, who is now banned,) having to appeal a warning that was only given to her because she said "newsletter ahh post" jokingly. Sure, it was eventually revoked, but it shouldn't even have been issued in the first place since it wasn't rule-breaking at all. If you need another example, some posts talking about another forum site (mppc) were being mass-deleted in a topic, and for seemingly no reason at all. They were not mass-advertising, they weren't doing anything inherently inappropriate, and everyone in the comments was confused by it.

and another thing that I hope was changed(? I'm still kinda confused by it) was a strange dislike for shitposting. I mean, this is a silly forum site after all and shitposting is a great part of the internet. That's just how it is. You could argue "but this is originally for talking about tech and homebrew" but do you really think people use this site for just that? The answer is no. Most people use this just to post silly topics like irl updates or talk about their favorite show, which is why different categories even exist. so like. How would shitposting even affect anything here so negatively?

and yeah, i dont mean all of the mods- but if this behavior could be changed i would greatly appreciate it. I'm sorry if nothing here makes sense im writing this at 1 am and my brain isn't even functioning very well atp <//3

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Nice reply and post regarding this matter. Let us begin,

I want to start off by saying that I have been doing this long enough to know what and how we need to improve a community. Even though some changes are major and take away a lot from this site, they will almost always benefit us in some way. Therefore, I ask that everyone start waiting rather than immediately pointing the finger and complaining. That's an issue as well and I am not referring to you at all. Just keep this in mind.

As stated before, the only reason Shrub and the other User were warned was that newsletters are meant to have clear, constructive, and meaningful replies as this is usually content that is going to be published via Social Media. Additionally, I still hold the expectation that if something isn't necessarily needed or isn't constructive, don't post it.

The Moderation Team noticed a spike in thread-derailing and unnecessary, unconstructive posts made by the community. This forum for the longest has banned any form of Shitposting long before much was said regarding it. However, Shitposting wasn't really a problem until the last few months, when we had a problem with unconstructive, foolish posts, which could in our eyes, be deemed as shitposting.

Despite numerous announcements to keep posts constructive, this problem continued to become worst throughout the months ahead. Additionally, the Forum started dying until we started pushing the unconstructive posts off the site.

This wasn't just an issue, it was a problem that needed to be fixed.

Therefore, shitposting was banned in the forums section, but deemed okay for our public chatrooms.

As a result of us starting to remove shitposting and encouraging more on-topic discussions (this was exactly why the engagement category was made), the number of posts increased by over 10,000 and the number of Topics increased significantly.

On-Topic discussions give you something to post to, rather than a foolish, unconstructive post that is ruining engagement and the amount of interesting content around the forum.

Others, for weeks have been privately begging us to take action regarding this. It was even to the point where the administrators had to step in and help out with this issue!

I believe that our actions to limit the amount of shitposting in the forums, which are meant to have engaging content has boosted the desire to post more and ultimately increased the amount of conversation around the forum area.

To add on to this, we get about 400,000 unique views monthly. Unique views are views from different people, devices, etc. It is just a fancy way of saying that we have 400,000 people either looking through our forum or using the forum to browse the internet. Our goal is to increase the number of users we have coming in by improving engagement and the number of interesting topics. To be genuine, we should've banned shitposting a long time ago.

Regarding your statement about the MPPC forum and other forum communities, we have temporarily removed the mentions and advertisements that users have been creating. This was not done to be petty or show hate towards this forum. Our administration team and higher-ups frequently talk with the forum administrators as we work together to fix issues around our forum. Additionally, I have removed it as we work to establish connections with other forums in hopes of creating an affiliate page that would improve relationships outside of our forum, which is something we are aiming for in the long run.

Hopefully, this somewhat clears up the confusion and I will be awaiting your reply.

Statistically speaking we've actually seen a decrease in the amount of users, posts, and topics, this past month.

Last Month Statistics:
Unique Visitors (These are 100% different people): 282,698.
Topics: 1,010
Posts: 10,920
New Registrations: 401

This Months Statistics:
Unique Visitors: 463,928 / 64.1% Increase
Topics: 851 / 15.7% Decrease
Posts: 10,866 / 0.5% Decrease
New Registrations: 203 / 34.4% Decrease

We are probably going to use github just as a way for you all to see what we are working on here and the rest of the BrowseDNS Service. @VGMoose would probably be the one to ask about the projects and changes he has made.

We did talk about the data deletion process after a user deletes their account as for some reason NodeBB does not delete the posts but instead they just display the username as "A Former User" but there is still more to talk about.

These things take time so we just ask you're patient.

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When he learns to stop acting like a clown then i will take unbanning him into consideration. He will be unbanned just how everyone else will. If he does not want to go through the process than he can stay banned.

sooo... why have you not learned to not post this nonsense in announcements

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@Raven
you moderate a web forum in 2025 your opinion dosent hold much weight lmao

Respectfully, I don't know why you think anything you say matters but other peoples opinions don't. I don't think you understand how egoistical and stupid that sounds from you. You can leave, we are not keeping you here. I could honestly care less about you or what you have to say.

You literally can not say something so disrespectful and expect to get respect back from it and I am saying this to everyone, it just isn't how this works.

I want it to be clear that I did not send that post with the intention to discriminate, be disrespectful, or cause harm to anyone. I simply sent it with the intention to point out how stupid something was and to try and make it clear that everyone gets the same kind of treatment but we're attacking the person who was literally standing up for someone else, kind of shows why people keep leaving. To be fair I could care less about someones sexual orientation and i'd probably forget about it eventually.

i have a feeling you were doing this while they were tryna teach lol

I'm not the one to go at someone if they truely are making a commitment to changing their ways, obviously there are some things we can't give second chances to. In regards to this inappropriate conduct situation I believe that because it does not involve BrowseDNS you are indeed bringing on more drama to the website than we already have. Nothing will be done at all on our behalf until this conduct continues here.

Anyone who consistently takes part in drams will be subject to mute or ban, no questions asked. If you do think that rules of our website were violated please contact a global mod or forum mod.

This is a very professional announcement.

@Shrub Apparently the other disrespectful messages you've posted in the past didn't qualify for you to say sorry, which is why I highly doubt you are sorry.

@Im_alive go chase your dreams ad ignore what these people have to say, it will be hard to come out your comfort zone. Just be you and put your mind to it!

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So let me get this straight, you guys are downvoting a new users posts because you feel like it will make them stop posting things you don't like. Leave people the f*ck alone and learn to ignore. Regardless of how much you think they're shitposting, there is no reason to downvote someones post when they're simply asking questions.

Then you come and say life does not work that way. Maybe think about how doing this in the real world would work? Imagine how someone who is new to a neighborhood for example would feel if they get the same treatment you are giving them. I think they would feel pretty unwelcomed.

Every single person who downvoted that post, that is bad looks on yourself, and for the record, don't say dumb shit in a thread where support is needed. If you are not going to assist in an appropriate manner, go find something else to do.

Shit like this is foolish and I assure you it won't be tolerated.

I responded and hour after you made this thread. It is time for your wakeup call:

All I asked is for you not to make anymore unconstructive topics. Is "Yes" a good title for a Emoji Request thread? I am honestly fed up with your foolishness. You are being disrespectful for no reason, you have already got 4 bans and you feel like we have to keep you here (You are not on Switch) and I am not the one to be here and allow you to be rude to me or anyone else.

You don't have a choice here, you will do what I am telling you not to do or you can go ahead and pack your bags. You don't have to be here nor do we have to keep such a troll in our community. You are new and have already been suggested for a permanent ban... i'm the one who denied the ban request and that is the reason you are still here.

Anymore disrespectful comments sent to our staff, I will add you to the BOS list.