Future of dannychoo.com

I really prefer it the way it is now. I never use twitter, so that would be a waste of space for me...

I've signed onto Twitter, but only because of one friend introduced it to me. Other than that one time, I haven't signed on since. I don't really know what's so great about it. Maybe I should give it more time, but so far it hasn't really interested me much. Plus, website applications like facebook and twitter are banned at my work place.

Let's look forward to the good things which come with change :) I am liking what I see at figure.fm so far ^^

Personally, a "SFW" version of the site would be nice. I have nothing against my co-workers seeing me looking at pics of anime figures, hell, I bring Gunplas to work, but I would be guaranteed that there would be something on the screen like a gratuitous panty shot or ecchi figure. It'd be nice to have a version I could be on during work without having to look over my shoulder.

Moving the blurbs to twitter helps my problem, :D would be nice to chat while at work. Just my two cents.

I like this. Your site has come a long way! The twitter idea is pretty nice too, I know lots of people that use it. (On another note, I know a lot of people that see no use whatsoever in Twitter, but.. Eh.)

Not too crazy on moving the puchis to twitter ^^; Also what do you mean by the Member stuff being read into DC via a feed?

I see good/bad on the eventual removal of the blurbs - But hey, i really like them! T____T - It's nearly like it's own small community. (or maybe i tend to spam it a lot... ^^")
I've been meaning to get myself a twitter, but never really found a solid reason to get it.

Last time i pretty much opposed to change of layout. But eventually found myself adapting to the new look, flow, etc pretty quickly.

tl; dr - No big problems here.

So basically we would all have to signup for Twitter to be able to write a blurb?

I've never used Twitter before, but I would signup if DC requires it. Anyway it's a nice idea, to be able to comment outside of DC, like from an iphone.
Only problem is, there's going to be a lot of messages popping up on twitter as soon as it's implemented.

About the account linking, apart from the cost... just a suggestion, maybe you could have an option to link or not to link the accounts together during registration. (I never used figure.fm or otaku.fm before so I don't know how it works.)

I only came here for the figures. I have no interest in puchi blurbs or twitter or any of the non-figure-related photo articles.

Depending on how often people update their Twitter, the feed's gonna go by realllll fast. Also, I tend to update my Twitter a lot ^^;;; for both conversation and content sharing. Might end up being spam-like.

I do kinda like how the Puchi blurbs have kind of become its own micro-Twitter on the site, though. It's like, Puchi is DC-centric whereas Twitter is all over the place. Or maybe you could have Puchi blurbs feed over to Twitter, but not Twitter to Puchi? Kind of like a 3rd party app or something. I might be rambling x_x;;

Can't wait to see what's in store for figure.fm!

Experienced twitter and not really into it.. Would've preferred for the blurbs to stay. (._.)

I look forward to seeing the upcoming changes.

I'm one of those folks who tried Twitter and then gave it up after finding that it had no real use for me. And lene and the others are right: depending on how often people use their individual Twitter accounts, that feed for blurbs will go by quickly, and people will have problems tracking it.

While I'm excited that the site and community/ies have come so far already, I think I'll count myself as being among those who want to keep the site the way it is right now. The organization and hard work that goes into the site at present never ceases to amaze me.

I was a regular poster over at the old figure.fm, until it closed. I signed up for a DC account but pretty much became a lurker. I'd love to post at the new figure.fm, but it looks like I have to post some more comments in order to upload. I really like the future plans, keep up the good work danny.

Never used Twitter before but it looks interesting enough...

I'd rather have the blurbs stay the way they are right now. Not a big fan of twitter, my last update was months ago i think

good luck for the changes! ^^

I feel that figure.fm posts column is a bit too narrow. Since there are only figure releases at the side, should make the column bigger and it would ease viewing.

Any kind of changes or improvements that livens up the experience in DC is always welcome.

Personally I don't use twitter, but it could be interesting to see the results of it. Will try when it's applied in the website.

I'm still a bit confused on the initial plans... I'll have to reread it again, but my first reaction was the puchi blurbs... It was only 2 days ago that I was pondering whether I should get a twitter account or not ^^;; I think I'll sign up just in case then.

Sorry for the double post but I was feeling really sad that the blurbs might be 'axed' and I just mindlessly clicked the submit button.

My personal thoughts on this:

- Twitter is such a popular site that IT staff usually blocks access to it
- Seen people spam on their Twitter, things might fade away fast if this is used instead of the
blurbs.
- The blurbs has it's own 'otaku-ish' flavor to it
- Using Twitter is kind of a hassle, would've preferred the blurbs instead

Looking forward to the reorganization. I think having Otaku.fm and Figure.fm will keep things more organized and make it easier to see things you're interested in at the moment. I liked the first incarnations of Otaku.fm and Figure.fm, so look forward to updated versions of both.

Hmm.. never used twitter so that would be a good start for me.
As for the accounts... I don't know since to manage 3 accounts ( 1 for DC.com, 1 for otaku.fm and 1 for figure.fm) seems a bit hard on the users. I do get the fact that at the very least manageability will definitely be there but as for user friendly i guess it won't be like how it is now with figure.fm and dc.com wherein we have the same account.

I enjoy the puchi blurbs but I do not enjoy twitter at all. I feel the puchi blurbs are more cozy and safe too. I say keep them and do not add the twitter part.

I do like the Figure.fm and Otaku.fm being added to the front page of DC.com. I enjoy the member news and feel that if dc.com only had postings from you Danny that people might not visit it everyday ^^ There are days where you don't post at all(I think ^^;) and the member news and puchi blurbs keep the community going. So if Otaku.fm and Figure.fm are the new member news and show up on the front page of DC.com then ^^b

Could you still have the section called member news and just feed figure.fm and otaku.fm into that section instead of making two new sections for each?

looking forward to seeing the upcoming changes~ I'm not really a fan of twitter though :(

Rather than take members' entire Twitter feeds straight in in their entirety, why not require a #PB filter or something so it would show up on the site's front page? (#PB for puchi blurb, of course.) That way, we don't have to see 1,000 tweets about someone's cat having a hard time with a hairball, and instead the tweets are more... I dunno... おたくっぽい?

Looking forward to the new changes! Especially for Otaku.fm and Figure.fm! :D

I'm worried about the possible puchi move to Twitter as well. For one thing, the puchis here feature only DC posts, with its own flavour - which is nice, but can be easily fixed with cynicalicious's suggestion above.

The thing is, however - I wouldn't want everything I saw here to be read by everyone who follows me on twitter. I have followers who couldn't care less about otaku stuff; there are stuff I post here that I wouldn't want them to know either. The way I'm looking at it right now, I'd have to resort to creating another twitter account, which is beyond inconvenient since I'd have to log in and out the whole time.

^^; There's also the issue of my twitter name being different than my DC one. People would have to be able to connect those two names somehow.

And...if I read the diagram right, does this mean the end of Member Stuff, or rather, a complete migration of it over to Otaku.fm? I was hoping to avoid using it, but I guess that's not much of an option any more...^^; Will have to set aside some time to make sure I know my way around.

I'm not an old enough member to have used or known about the old figure/otaku.fm so this stuff is new to me.

This looks like a great integration. Although until now I don't use twitter but if the situation requires I'll do, keep working Danny, life needs some changes, and if its for better.

^^, DC.com will soon be flooded with news! ^^, And I like it. More news item for me to read = more knowledge gained! ^^, Seriously I really learned a lot from visiting DC.com ^^, Keep it up Danny d^^b

Well I've haven't really used figure fm so much, but it looks like everything will be connected quite nicely...

I understand that change is inevitable and updating code, and site layout, and whatnot is going to happen, but I really hope you don't change the site "too" much. I enjoy the look and feel of DC.com as it is right now and I hope you just do minor changes to make things more fluid and organized, or for whatever other reason it may need updated. :D I do like your idea of turning Otaku.fm and Figure.fm into their own branch-off-communities. Your sketch makes sense and I hope DC.com will be an even better site from the change. ^.^

I completely understand where you are coming from with the Puchi-to-Twitter change Danny, but I REALLY feel that the puchi blurbs should stay DC.com only. I really have no use for Tiwtter and it would be a shame for some people, me included, to have to sign up with Twitter just to enjoy the puchi blurbs. IMHO, linking it to Twitter sounds good and well on paper, but I feel it would be a bad thing in practice. Twitter would give many more people easier access to the puchi blurbs yes, and also allow more people outside of DC.com to experience our community sure, but this also enables the blurbs to be filled up with random, and I mean no offense to anyone, 'spam' (i.e. I wish I had some cake; My boss was a %&$* today; etc.) that, while generally shows up in the blurbs anyway, would swarm them to the point where the blurbs would lose being Otaku orientated for the most part, save for a few posts. The blurbs as they are now have a healthy mixture of both Otaku and non-Otaku subject matter that makes for a very nice and balanced feature of DC.com.
People would also have a much harder time responding and communicating with each other with so many messages flooding in. The reason I really enjoy the blurbs is that it rolls at a easy to keep up pace, lets people share their minds with each other with little confusion and much conversation, and lets us become a tighter knit, yet welcoming, community of like-minded people. When you scale the puchi to a expanded version, the community aspect becomes somewhat skewed IMO. I mean, I feel a DC.com IRC or the like would be a nicer addition than the Twitter, but then, that is just my wishful thinking. ;)

Sorry for the long post and good luck with all the site work Danny. ^_^

i think the twitter idea is nice ^^ and is a good idea to not to link the three sites accounts 'coz as u said many ppl don't/won't read the three sites for example i don't have figures .... nor money to buy... and they can't reach venezuela easily either so i won't read figure.fm too much .... keep working hard ^^ u have shown me that if u give it your all u can make great things ^^ Good luck with the migrating of DC.com and let's keep the community growing ^^

Ooohh, change is exciting! Only problem is the Twitter thing. People post a lot on Twitter and it might flood the Blurbs with spam. I'd say the Puchi Blurbs are fine the way they are. ^^ I don't usually visit Figure.fm or Otaku.fm, now seems like a good time to start! I'll be looking forward to seeing the improvements.

I am generally going to approach the puchiblurbsaspect of things.

As it is now, I have to write stuff down on a notepad and the Ctrl+a Ctrl+c Ctrl+v to get it to the puchiblurbs.Why? Because if I get to typing it into the puchiblurbs field directly, I get a typing speed of roughly 2 seconds for a letter to appear and on top of that, the computer will respond to nothing untill the puchiblurbs typing is complete.
Have no idea as to why this is happening, but its aggrevating at least ^^;

Abouut the twitter swap. I think that members who want to share their thoughts with others outside DC as well as inside, also have thoughts that they would like to tell only one side. It will also make it almost impossible to keep up, just for that reason - the feed will explode if you don't decide to make a difference ^_^

One thing I am wondering thou danny, what sources have you been learning from for web technologies? What web dev expertise did it take for you to make something like DC.com?

I am more into DannyChoo.com and hope that Danny will continue to improve the features on DC site. Nevertheless, i am open to having an integrated system that links all the websites together as who-knows-one-day i might come across something i like on the other websites.
One thing i hope to get improvements is the area of speed. As some of the other readers have said, i hope that the new features will not interfere with the speed of the websites.
Anyways, good luck and well done on all the websites so far! Cheerios

about linking, i Sure dont vist the oter sites but for the sake of convience for people who do use it at least give the option of linking perhaps it would steamline the go to otaku fm thing without having to relogin... i know password saving is the norm...
in regards to moving DC, good luck change is nice...

A change always is better!

It seems a lot of work, but can't wait to see the change, I'm very excited!

I generally make updates in the Puchi Blurbs that I wouldn't make in my Twitter account, so getting rid of Puchi Blurbs wouldn't be that good of an idea in my point of view.

And this is probably just me, but I'm finding the banner for figure.fm just a bit awkward since it's essentially four images in one. I think it may actually look better with just one banner image. It just kind of bothers me whenever I see the border lines between each image square in that banner.

http://figure.fm/about/en/
Clicking the about tab on figure.fm gives a page not found. How can I learn about the site then! D:

Well, I like the diagram you have going, but it appears more scroll-like compared to the simplified version we have right now.

I recommend once you get it in development, you let us have the option to change between interfaces (as test) and give you feedback to improve it ^_^

I don't use twitter. But it should be interesting on the changes.

twitter ago at this time to read about him that can not keep their users.
and the issue of sharing is a great step forward, but the messages are filtered only for DC or will be placed all those of all users in DC? no, because if so is the "finimondo" = caos ... ^_^"
I'm sure you've thought of everything, and maybe I did not understand it since with English quarrel often ^ _ ^ "
but many users do not see overjoyed to twitter, some spam for a bit because sometimes it is a bit pointless.
although I admit they are curious to see how it is, I do not think their having done wrong choices!
then developed! * _ *

Changing to twitter sounds like a great idea, I think the main reason why people don't seem to get twitter as that it works best when you have a lot of followers and your following a lot of people yourself the community really comes alive on there, many great converstations go on and its great to see what other people with similar interests are doing which is why it would be great on here as a lot of us DC readers share the same interests twitter will help connect us much more than puchi blurbs currently can.

Cool.

Until now I can't otaku.fm and co.
I don't how to use them.

Anyway about twitter:
It's cool thing. I'm using it with TweetDeck.

Interesting... maybe I should start using figure.fm soon. I think I need an account there too :/

Overall, I like the plans.

I would rather have the blurbs stay as they are instead of integrating with Twitter. Aside from that, I see nothing but good in this.

"Many have said that they prefer dannychoo.com to feature only stuff that I post. Because I want to share your stuff with others, I want to continue to feature your stuff on DC but in a different form - being that your items are read into DC via a feed." will this change members stuff much? DC is my main community so members stuff is a big part of why i come here.

I'll find my self missing a lot of your news if i gotta sit in a completely different area to read members stuff. i come here each day and stay for 10+ hours just because its active all the time with members stuff. o_o i think i may have the wrong idea at what your talking about though.

I am new to DC but I have greatly enjoyed the small community feel and the lack of "Bad" people here. This is a very strong community and I hope to find my niche in it. I greatly enjoy the Member News and how open it is. Member News is one of the key selling points of DC and a key reason why I signed up.

I never used figure.fm or otaku.fm before but I'll go check it out. I think adding figure.fm and otaku.fm columns to the DC main would be a good idea. DC would act as hub for all the sites and expose members (Like me) to new things. I don't know about the others but DC is very clean and self censored, keeping those pesky co-workers/teachers from looking over our shoulder and off our backs.

I have never been interested in Twitter and I see many problems with using it. People may not want things they Twitte on DC to be viewed by their friends and vice versa. Plus, there will be lots of spammers. Also, moving the site around may cause DC to become block from those of us that enjoy DC at work and school. Puchi Blurbs are part of the DC community.

I think keeping the site basically the same but expanding it to encompass other sites would be great for the site but still keep the community and safety of DC.

“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.” 495-BC Unknown

Replace Puchi Blurb with Twitter will save the time for typing in 2 different sites, but I would prefer Puchi Blurb to remain, unless it merge with Twitter ^^

4 news columns on the left panel, I cant comment it until we give it a trial run like what you did previously before permanently implement the new features.

Well from what I've seen and experienced, I can only see good things in the horizon!
*raises sake cup*
Here's to another 10 years of continuous prosperity and success of Danny Choo, DC.com, and all other Danny Choo projects!
"KOMPAI!!!"

At first I liked the idea of merging Puchi Blurbs with Twitter. I thought it might become even more interesting that way. But on the second thought I realized that there might be things that some people would not want their non-DC followers to read and vice-versa.

Moving member posts to Otaku.fm? Well, as long as it redirects from DC.com flawlessly, there should not be any problem. And those posts appearing on DC.com will be only Member News, right? It would be puzzling if there were Feeds mingled with it.

I wonder how everything will turn out in the end. I am looking forward to it.

Mmm... don't really get it, but.. um, thumbs up?

DC is getting its upgrade . Figure.fm is gonna great but don't know about Otaku.fm .

when I first knew about otaku.fm - it was quite fine and not very exciting but still live up to its hypes .

I say YAY for UPGRADES on sites

Change is good and it's good to see some changes like this happening. I have confidence that all these changes are for the better of the community and those not involved as well ^^ I rather like the ideas of puchi blurbs being replaced by twitter. I haven't been posting puchi blurbs that often because it feels kind of pointless to write the exact same thing I just wrote in twitter.

I actually prefer things to stay the way it is now - much simpler and easier to access~

But change is indeed inevitable, and I have to say figure.fm is a good one. I think I might just use figure.fm soon. ^^

I still prefer Puchi Blurbs not merged with twitter though.. ^^; The points are mentioned aboe by other members. It'll get flooded and I really like this little DC community mini-twitter. ^^

Not so sure about otaku.fm.. Will see when its out. I'll miss the member news column. Migrating to otaku.fm feels a bit like.. I'm not posting in DC anymore? ^^;

Also, is that DCiPhone I see? O_O

It would be a good reason for me to finally join twitter once and for all ^^;

Perhaps a little off topic but who is melissa?
Couldn't help but notice that the sub-URL is /melissa for "My Menu" ^^

Tweet, tweet...
twittle, twittle...
there's only one candy with a hole in the middle.

Oooh with twitter @-) can't wait for the new DC

Don't like the idea of changing puchi blurbs to twitter... I prefer the way puchi blurbs is now.
Other than that the rest looks good.

I like it the way it is. I don't use twitter. But having a private message option. Thats all i can think off to make it better.

how about revamping puichi blurbs into a chat window? over the years ever since blurbs was first conceived, its purpose has evolved,becoming more like a chat server for the community whereas Twitter serves to update the general mass users who want to inform their followers on their status updates.

On the other hand, those who favor blurbs might be accused of being introvert, preferring to be seen mingling with like-minded people and may even be misunderstood as refusing to embrace a main-stream tool like twitter.

Either way, i am all in favor of switching over to twitter. With the craze surrounding twitter, its integration into dannychoo is inevitable.I am not a particular avid user of twitter, but i do believe you can use it as a chat tool as well, similar in the vibe of blurbs. Also, looking at it from a matter-of-fact manner, you have to admit that with twitter being the de facto social medium tool, it has the potential to draw in more readers to the site. for example, an update on my twiiter account would also alert my followers to the presence of dannychoo. I think in that regard, switching to twitter would be the prudent thing to do.

A bit off topic here but will you be bringing back the wallpaper tool? Tis an awesome feature I must say and I miss it :(

Although i have a Twitter account.. I prefer the current puchi blurb as is. :) I think i forgot my account name & password too~ xD

So the member stuff would be changed?
Well the concept of feed/otaku fm is quite unclear for me but if i see it correctly it's like a link to blogs.

In order to have a member stuff read i'll need to have a blog right?

well i'm no blogger and the member stuff actually makes me come here aside from thy emperor's News and photo articles.

but yah just my thoughts though. Change is constant. :) Good luck in modifying this site even further.

The integration of Otaku.fm and Figure.fm is great as for Twitters, I'll give it a go.

in the future Dc will be a super sites that contains everything from shop search engine even blog for every members ^^;(impossible)

I think I entered Otaku.fm and Figures.fm twice on my lifetime o_O
Be waiting for the next DC.com changes!!

Just to let you know Danny. Whatever your plan is, this community here will always there by your side XD

And replacing Puchi Blurbs with Twitter sounds like a good idea. This way, the world outside will know how otakus behave, and there's a possibility that they would grow interested and join DC, which lead them to become a full fledged otakus
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This sounds like a plan to reign the world and fill it with otakus, which means
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I'M IN!!!

Not so hot about twitter replacing the puchi blurbs - registering would be a hassle to some.

I think the changes made so far have been the right choices Danny so i trust in your plans for the future, though i do have to say that i'm not really a fan of twitter. With twitter you have to register friends to be able to see their updates while puchi blurbs pretty much everyone that is a member can write a puchi blurb without having to register him/her as a friend and i think one of the things i like the most about puchi blurbs is to talk with everyone, so how would that work out in twitter?

I think it would be good to have all 'our' stuff on otaku.fm / figure.fm and only featured on DC to drive traffic there. DC then should be mainly (if not only) stuff that you post. I actually don't like replacing the blurbs with twitter because the blurbs are isolated from the torrent of potential tweets on twitter, which is nice.

Haven't delved into figure.fm much, but will definetly do so if that is where all the member stuff will be at. I just don't want to miss out on stuff because it would be only on DC OR .fm.

Can't wait to see it all finished, keep it up! Maybe the shopping part of figure.fm could be linked directly with GSC or MF to buy stuff from them ?

Looking good Danny ^^

Meh... Twitter... though it does save a lot of processes when people end up using the blurbs as some sort of chatroom.

Awww... I don't want Puchiblurbs replaced by Twitter... I like our puchiblurbs, they're ours, just for DC.

I agree with everyone Danny, puchi blurbs is the here in DC imho no need to change it into Twitter ^_^ would love the see the new look of DC.com

Gambare Danny! ^_^/

many things change will lead to more work to fix bugs.
and about trolling if you post news about trols news or high rate news for trols i think you ask for those comments.

personally i like having linked accounts... for testing figure.fm it was nice not having to create a new account and reinput profile information again. so maybe even if they're not automatically linked, i think it'd be nice to give the option?

Please don't switch to Twitter. Its terrible. Stick with the good format!!! :D

I'm really looking forward to the new Figure.fm, the first one really made me enter the world of figures and gunpla... Hope the new one will give me again the will to start building gunplas again, over the Strike Freedom Full Burst's box there's at least one mm. of dust and I still have to finisch the kits I have bought when I came to Japan in 2006 lol.

My thoughts. I rather like the way things are now. Especially concerning member stuff and puchi burbs. If it ain't broke don't fix it kind of thing. Just my 2 yen.

It would be an interesting future at DC.com. I do have a FaceBook that I am using a lot lately to keep in touch with friends.

I don't mind twitter, but I hope we won't have to get new twitter accounts. I already have a twitter account and don't want a second just for DC.

Is it just me but i dont get what your job/company does lol.can anyone fill me in on this?? anywho Twitter sucks please dont use that format at all.

i prefer the changes that will come thankgod.

I am not sure if I like this idea. It seems complicated -_-'

Stepping up the complexity of the DC and all thats DC related, nice going Danny. ^_^

Having a look through figure.fm and realised you're missing a basic element: Comments counter. Though I'm sure you'll be pushing basic stuff like that sooner or later.

I like the idea of using Twitter to replace PuchiBlurbs as it creates more connections with the social networking technologies.

I am still new user (here) at DC.com... but really looking forward to your work... Also very like your work Danny. ^^

Yeah, finally puchi blurbs will be usable. Didn't use them much lately because they were too static. Will we just have to use our Twitter clients as usual and the Tweets will show up in the puchi blurbs section?
Don't know how those folks who don't wan't to change the puchis use them atm? Are you sitting there and refreshing the page every 5sec?

Looks like I have to get a twitter now.Ah well.Really looking forward to more of the new stuff.

change is inevitable...........

No puchi blurbs?? I think they are better than Twitter (considering also that maybe some people dont have or use twitter accounts..)

I understand also that user accounts in DC, Otaku and Figure arent connected, but I think there should be an option for those new users who want to be in the 3 comunities.
^^

The twitter move would be a plus for me as I never use the puchi blurbs and use twitter instead. Maybe you can keep the puchi as it is now and add an option to syndicate twitter with?

Hmmm...i can agree on the multiple accounts...i get the jest of it...but personally...it being as it currently is...is pretty ok by me...the improvements just means more news for us to read then...

I think most people would not embrace change. But nothings gonna stop change so if users or readers have learnt anything from danny's posts, its that we must move forward and learn new things, which includes new dannychoo.com interfaces and whatnot =)

Hope you have as smooth transition as possible mr choo =)

I don't use any of these sites except Flickr, Facebook, and Myspace. But it's better if they have them. But Twitter, nearly 2/3rds of the world population use it

Expanding the communication between members and visitors is good but it can also have the effect of diluting and even polarizing the community. this will occur via the different posting methods without linking them so they can be viewed at a central location (much the same way posts are viewable now). Too much separation will have a negative effect.

So they will be completly replaced by twitter? why not allow them both so users who post on twitter and those without it can still post them?

I think everyone likes everything you do danny. While our opinion is imporant, you also know whats best for you.

Make us proud! we are behind ya 100% of the way!

PS If you do use twitter, can you still call it puchi blurbs? :D

Stillonly visit DC as the rest don't relly interest me, never gotten into twitter and i not really going to use it in the future.

In my case i think is pretty cool that we can share our love about anime and give info in hows the status of anime in each of our countrys so pretty much if the change has to be made i will support it danny chow n_n

I'm pretty new here, so I don't really know too much about the other sites, but I think that these changes sound reasonable; it's not a total restructuring or anything. Plus, it's not like the site is going to stagnate its development after this: if something isn't working out, I"m sure Danny can change it to accommodate the community's concerns. From what I can tell, Danny's pretty good at responding to issues raised by us users.

Those .fm sites sound particularly interesting, I'll have to check them out soon.

Interested design Danny~ Looks like it will turn out very well for the future~

Hmm... I don't really like twitter... :( But that's ok.

I'd probably like anything you do Danny, so I don't really have anything much to say.

seems like you got big plans - i'm supporting you all the way on this I want to see this to completion!!

Hmm changes or no changes I'll still come to the site.

I still wonder if there are any DannyChoo.com t-shirts coming in the future. I know a lot of people here including myself would love to represent the community!

i like it like this so gr8 and simple

I don't really understand what's going on here... could someone explain Danny's explanation in plain english to me. >_>

I have a Twitter account but it is linked to my Plurk account. Whatever I post in Plurk appears in Twitter and I very seldom to post something directly from Twitter =P

9 year old coding eh? you need to do replace to AJAX Daniel Choo

Hmmm...some really bold plans for DC you got there danny.....
I like the idea of synchronizing twitter to puchi blurbs,since i seldom use my twitter account...this will give it a purpose.
The other ideas are good to hear too........no complaints

good luck with all the changes Danny, can't wait to see the new designs

Why use an outside service to do what your site already does? It's much more cohesive and professional-looking to have your site provide all the services the community uses, rather than having a system where you're required to use another site to interact with with the first one. It's just a lot of extra steps for the users. Unless there's some sort of advertising partnership/publicity/branding thing going on, i can't see the point, really.

Thanks for all the feedback. Looks like Puchi Blurbs will stay. Have thought of another way to manage them on the back end ;-)

If Twitter were implement, it would overflow with zillions of chats,comments, spams from millions of readers here.

Have never used figure.fm but I think I have an account over there. (I honestly can't remember if I created one, or just marked the page.) Replacing the blurbs with Twitter would be a bit easier, because I miss a lot of the blurbs, but it might be confusing for people who have different Twitter names than their account here. Overall, however, the idea is pretty good.
Oh, and I want one of those iKnow pens, now that they've changed their name. Speaking of, I have to figure out their new interface, so I can start with basic Japanese lessons.

I don't mind that people post on DC, in fact I like it, just as long as it stays separate from what you post. I haven't been to Otaku.fm or the other, so I can't comment on those.

I always enjoy the excitement that change brings here to DC.com! Every time DC.com has evolved more people have come to join the community and help it become a more exciting place to be.

Everyone, we need to have faith in what Danny is doing. He always asking for and keeping our opinions in mind during change. When all is said and done, we will be happy with the change.

I like the simple layout diagram you have Danny. I can see more people coming to the area that interest them the most. Over time I'm sure many of them will join us in the parts of the DC.com community. I know many here say they are not interested in other topics that get posted. I see many of those people involved in post outside of their interest... :p

Moving to Twitter is good. It will reduce server load for one thing. I understand people being unsure about losing the Puchi Blurb feel. We can easily use a hash tag to filter out all non-DC.com related tweets. I really say give all of Twitter a try. Many of the things Danny writes up as news items or end up in main articles, we have already been talking about on Twitter. You also have the the opportunity to connect with people in Japan as well.

DC.com has grown so much since I joined in 2007... Great job Danny

Like Danny's said = Change is inevitable and it is evolution...

So I guess whatever changes that Danny want to do... it's his rights...

Being a member I honestly never use any of the Puchi Blurb and the Members News Item coz I don't know what is it for or what can I post there... I scared that I will post a lousy stuff or something irrelevant and being labeled as SPAM and end up being "terminated" by Danny Choo... so if I'm not sure... just stay away from it...

But I think most of the times I only active in giving comments or opinions on certain posts that interest me and that's about it...

Sometimes out of 3 or 4 updates in a day, only 1 that I like but sometimes I may like all 3 or 4 of them... usually it's like that...

I am so grateful now that otaku.fm managed to help generate some traffics into my amateur blog so I think I don't have much complain and if Danny want to change anything here... let's just see and enjoy it...

As for Twitter stuff... I don't have any Twitter account and my office blocked them so I can't access it anyway...

Cheers...

I think Dannychoo.com has been a great evolution of an interest-specific Web 2.0 community. It facilitates communication between fans separated by distance and more disparate interests, it allows great networking between people linked by those interests, and it brings a visual feast to the reader in a way that emphasizes the reader's participation. I don't remember visiting any site that does these things at all if not nearly as well as dc.com. That being said, are there plans to allow user-custom front pages where we might choose what portals or tags we want to see? If you expect more users and more content, then it might benefit users to have a quick way to filter content (again, perhaps by tags?) to their focused interests every time they come to your website.

I'm loving the way things are run at the moment here @ DC but open for subtle changes. Hope it'll be nothing to big to quick. I'd say yes I prefer the things that only you in particular post because we're all so fascinated by you Danny :) Love this site,can't get enough of it and will still be here no matter what changes come about

Change isn't a bad thing. I look forward to what Danny has to offer.

I like the idea of using twitter linking over 3 sites. I personally use twitter and love it. Looking forward to see some changes in DC and its satellites sites.

Hi Danny! just a suggestion for figure.fm. can you also show the number of comments for the member's news/ posts just like what you have here at DC?

tnx! ^^

the future looks bright for dannychoo.com~

but let the puchi blurbs stay~
i'm not a twitter person

trying out figure.fm....just having trouble navigating back to the main page of figure.fm once i log into my profile...

My Twitter account is sort of but not quite the same as my DC.com account. Hopefully people will associate one with the other if I decide to go along with your evil plans.

Have you thought of doing a site specifically for Dollfie-related stuffs? Because Figure.FM is not entirely oriented to my interests. You have a specific Dollfie category now on DC and I think it works. Maybe Dollfie.FM isn't taken?

Twitter= DO NOT WANT

Hmmms. A lot of people seem to be against the twitter idea. I use my twitter a lot, so for me the twitter integration is an amazing idea.

That is some set-up you got there. It would be interesting if in the future all three of them can be linked but I do understand that not everyone reads DC like others. Still it would be interesting.

Puchi Blurbs being tweeted should some how be an option is that makes since

I've yet to really dive into the community aspect of DC. Not sure why but I'd like to change that. Anyways, the changes made will probably not be noticed by me. Change is inevitable anyways.

NICE. Change is GOOD Just make sure it is GOOD CHANGE and NOT NEGATIVE. GOOD CHANGE IS GOOD

I use twitter a lot, but I don't want it to be a replacement for puchi blurbs. Both may be similar, but both have a different 'feel' to it.

And yes, change is constant.

What can I say? DC.com has become a permanent part of me.