Touhou-Project.com

Change in patreon fees

UPDATE Dec 13: Patreon is no longer changing how they collect their fees for the time being. 

Hey there! As you might have seen in recent emails from Patreon, they're changing the way fees are collec...

Modernization and streamlining

There comes a time where old code becomes more than just unwieldy. It starts to become incompatible with new technology and it even starts to fail and produce errors. There’s usually a couple of solutions to that: never update, alter enough code that it can keep chugging along, or rewrite from scr...

More moe, less words

The year is quickly nearing its end and I hope that everyone is enjoying the holiday season. 

Recently, I had to renew the thp.moe domain for another year and I took the time to fix a few of the outstanding issues with the board software that made using the alternate domain a bit of a hassle....

Mobilizing for mobile

With the mobile navigation for the site mostly sorted out, barring one or two small kinks, I thought I’d do a write up on how it came about and why it’s implemented the way it is.  

First of all, I’ve alluded to this in other things I’ve posted on both Patreon and on the site itself, ...

Some quick stats

The above image shows the number of visits THP got over the last week. The automatic color shading isn't very helpful, but what it shows is that about half of THP's visits come for the USA alone, with a total of roughly 58% coming from North America. Note that this isn't the number of unique visitor...

Adhering to standards

 Been a while since the last one of these I wrote and for that I'm sorry. I'll try to do a better job in the future to be more prolific even if it's smaller posts.  

As you've probably figured out by now, I'm not that great of a coder though I do feel confident enough to say I am a tech ...

Just a brief reminder

The 7th annual writing contest is currently in its voting phase so, if you haven't, read the entries and help vote to pick a winner! There's less than a week left to do so.

Current state of things

It's been a while since the last general status post. So I thought it might be best to give a quick rundown of what's happening with the site.

Currently the 7th annual writing contest is in full swing and there's a...

Tangled knots

It’s been a while since the last one of these, I thought it would be interesting to share a few thoughts about some of the behind-the-scenes things and considerations when it comes to working on the site.

First, some news: about a month ago the newest version of Debian released and ...

Mobile Friendliness

 I set up a beta theme for the site that ought to make using THP on a handheld device more enjoyable. It's by no means perfect and I need feedback to make it better. Please test it out and give me your feedback in 2017-06-05 10:19:59 +0000 UTC View Post

Magicians like a good mystery

What's inside? How soon is "soon"? And isn't code for a website abstract, anyhow? It's, uh, a magical allegory. Because magic follows its own rules.

These magicians have come to learn the truth and perhaps, with the right spell cast, you'll also find out before too long. A weekend or two of free t...

Statistics and how useful they are

 If you’re running a website, having a good handle on statistics can be very useful. Being able to tell how many visitors you have, what’s brought them to the site, what they look at and for how long allows you to cater to your community’s needs and address issues. Not only that—statist...

What's in a name?

With Patreon funds, I went ahead and extended ownership of the touhou-project.com domain name for another year. It then occurred to me that some people still might not know about our alternate domain, thp.moe. I've owned this domain for a few years now and you can access the website with either doma...

One month down

Thanks to you guys we're fully funded for the month and even have the beginnings for a reasonable reserve for spending on future site augmentations and needs. Any more concrete plans will have to wait, since it's more prudent to see if the level of support is consistent with each passing month befor...

Easter Eggs

  Over the years, THP has had its fair share of jokes and references in both stories and the site itself. Writers have referenced other stories in their own text and have even created full-blown parodies in some cases. From the admin side: relaxing music in summer, cold snowfall on the pag...

Two new themes

Added a pair of new stylesheets on the site, Dusk and Photon Dark Blue. They were made by two of our moderators and are both dark themes. They're a good alternative to the default Chernobyl green. 

A brief heartfelt message

Now you get to hear me make a lame joke (or the truth as I see it!) and experience the mediocrity of my microphone in all of its glory. Enjoy and thanks for listening!

The heart of the beast

 THP has been a home to Touhou fanfiction has been around for 9 years now. But, its true rebirth as an independent community only came about a year or so after that. It was then that we moved on to the touhou-project domain and a server we controlled. In the first of these posts, I’ll be talk...

New short story contest

A new short story contest  is being organized on the site, focusing on the faeries of Gensokyo.  The deadline for submissions is April 30th. Go check it out!