As someone who found this site on Handy subreddit here are my thoughts on how to make this community more welcoming to new scripters/ members:
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Make the site open - it’s really confusing when you expect to see site about scripting but instead what you are looking at is create account page. Not a deal breaker, but I don’t see a reason why I couldn’t see what I can expect from the site before making an account.
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Stop with “perfectly matching script” phrase in paid scripts category. There is no such thing as perfectly matching script. Different people are using different methods for their scripts even among paid scripters. People who are starting with scripting might feel overwhelmed with the pressure that their script will be worse or not enjoyable because they don’t have support of SLR or Realsync. I tried some of the paid scripts from SLR and free scripts from here and I didn’t notice difference. Maybe they do feel better because you are actually paying money for it - I dunno, that wasn’t my case.
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Unpin advertisements from the site and stop favorizing paid content. I’m talking specifically about these topics:
- https://discuss.eroscripts.com/t/how-to-make-requests-for-custom-paid-script-orders-official-real-sync/5078
- https://discuss.eroscripts.com/t/rs-slr-works-in-progress-2d-vr-daily-updated/3700 - from what I see free scripters are listing they work in progress in their portfolios if they want to. I don’t see why it should be different regarding paid scripters. The list of WiP scripts is linked Google Sheet so names of the scenes do not appear in the search on site anyway. That makes it useless for people who want to check if someone is working on the script.
- https://discuss.eroscripts.com/t/how-to-apply-to-become-a-commercial-paid-scripter/3709 - I don’t understand why becoming the commercial scripter is more important than guides about starting with scripting in the howto category.
- https://discuss.eroscripts.com/t/how-to-connect-all-147-sex-toys-including-the-fleshlight-launch-or-kiiroo-keon-or-onyx-for-interactive-2d-and-vr-step-by-step-guide/12680 - this one is actually pretty weird because it’s pinned post that redirects to other pinned post that’s basically a copy of this post from sexlikereal. I guess commercial scripters want to have pinned post in every category.
The reason why I think they shouldn’t be pinned is because every time a new paid script is posted here all of those informations except WiP list are posted anyway. It’s also really affecting mobile version of the site because pinned advertisments take a lot of screen space:
Either make it one topic that collects all of the above informations or add a banner on the site like it’s normally done for advertisements.
Good example of well pinned posts is Software category.