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Front Page Articles In Forums

Currently, all front page articles automatically post to the forums in the Front Page Articles forum. I will be modifying that so that they all go into Meantime forums. If one is a dupe, or in wrong...

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Live Update

Just a quick notification that Bold Members now have Live Thread Updating activated. What this means is that new posts in a thread are auto displayed without you needing to refresh the page.

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Dd Arcade

I finally got around to installing an arcade that Bold members can play. It's in Beta, so if you run into any issues, tough shit - not much I can do about it. Currently there are only six games, but I...

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Forum Activity Update And Stuff

Just keeping you up to date with the latest forum happenings... I'm just waiting for some checks to clear, or a couple more Bolds, then I will get the points\cash thing finalized with Bold...

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News Story Thread Titles

Look, Xenforo search sucks. Google's search works great, but only after the forum content has been re-indexed. We specify in our thread posting rules to please include subject names in titles when...

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Pulpit Of Doom - Dog Lovers And Human Goats

HERE, NOW - Thanks again to everyone who turned out to Friday night's Pulpit of Doom Podcast. From what I remember, we had a blast - although I was told that I describe masturbating with my dog, or...

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Worst Story On Dd

I've asked this before on various occasions over the years, but what is the worst story you remember reading on DD? One that, for whatever reason, stuck with you more than others.

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Northernspark Has Passed Away

I just received word that one of our members, NorthernSpark, has passed away from an illness. Her son just informed me and asked that I let the members know so that any of the friends she made here...

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Politics Schmolitics

With the current political climate it isn't surprising that some of you have a lot to say about who is in office and what that means to you. That's great! Get it all out there. However, as long as The...

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Store Items

As some have noticed, I have been adding items to the Store. As some have also noticed, the prices are steep. These items I am adding are steep because I don't want a lot of people buying them yet...

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That Money Thang

That money thing Bold members are seeing on their profiles is a new cash system we are checking out. And, no, it's not real cash. Well, it kinda is - but it can only be spent on the forums. I will be...

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Let's Clear The Air A Bit

I know this has a high probablilty of turning into a clusterfuck, but I want to set some things straight after receiving several PMs from different members regarding "doxing" and the like. First off,...

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Site Update

This is not going to be a well thought out post and kind of rambling, but I thought I should give you all a heads up. I think I am done. I honestly take no joy or interest in writing up crime stories...

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Site Update For 4/20/2018

​HERE, NOW – I made a post in our forums explaining the recent lack of articles, but since not all of you visit the forums, I figured it was time to post something more public — especially after...

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Change Of Plans

Ok, of course AFTER I do the podcast talking about upcoming site changes things would change. As I stated, I want to go back to vBulletin but there are some caveats with it -- both technically and...

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Pulpit of Doom Podcast Has Moved To Youtube

Good morning! As I explained in our last Pulpit of Doom podcast, one of the big things we were doing was moving PoD over to Youtube. This had me brushing off my Photoshop and video editing skills so...

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Pulpit of Doom Podcast

We've got two episodes in the bag ove on our Youtube Channel. We are still kicking the tires and getting used to having a few more things to do while livestreaming (just doing the podcast was a bit...

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Pulpit of Doom Podcast Help

Anyone interested in joining up and helping us with the podcast on Youtube? It's a thankless job and actually requires you to listen to them. I need help getting time markers for each story we talk...

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New Shout Box

We will be switching to a new shout box sometime this week when I have time to implement it. It is more robust than the one we are using currently, including: Rooms Dedicated guest room with nickname...

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Forum Changes

I've got a couple of addons I will be implementing over the next few weeks, and some of the forums and categories will be shuffled around a bit. I'll go into the reasons a little later once I get a...

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Pulpit of Doom Livestream - 10/13/09

We will be livestreaming tonight over on our Youtube Channel. This one will be a bit different as we will not be following our normal format and will be discussing upcoming site changes. These changes...

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Two New Forum Additions - Similar Threads and Quick Search

I've added a couple of tools that should help with double-posting. One is a quick search bar that works a hell of a lot quicker than the normal search. You'll see it located at the top of most of the...

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Message for all news related posters

As mentioned in my previous thread, we are changing our homepage to the forums. You can get an idea of what it will look like by clicking the Home tab in your navigation bar. As you can see, the...

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Forum Moderators

Well it looks like the memberships are finally in a consistent upswing again so we are looking for forum moderators. If you are interested in taking control of any of the particular forums (Missing...

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Forum secure, facebook sharing, google search!

Since I have been busy getting the forums ready for prime time, I figured I would also fix a few things that really have needed fixin'. The main issue I have had was getting the site secure, which it...

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Bold Member Gallery

I added a media gallery for Bold members last night. It's Xenforo official and I had to pay for it, so any Bold members want to kick the tires, go for it. Link is at the top (Media) but it gives you...

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Yuge Changes Coming

Just a big heads up, changes are a comin'. Not just the forums, but to the entire site. The biggest of the changes is that I am stepping down from what we call the "Front Page" and it will be sunsetted...

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Suggestions And Feedback

I know you will all miss me terribly when I go on vacation next week, but I will be checking in from time to time. When I come back, I will be focusing on some front page stuff as well as the forums....

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Staycation Over

I left this comment on another post asking about the podcast and @Pagan , but figured I would leave this here as well: "I've been on a week long vacation and decided I was going to do everything I...

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Pulpit of Doom Livestream - 10/20/18

Here, Now - Thanks to everyone who turned up for Saturday night's podcast, and a big shout out to @Edwina Gein for jumping in and helping myself and @Old Man Metal with the show since @Jaded pussied...

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Plugin update day!

Throughout the day I will be updating a slew of outdated plugins and trying to get back into the swing of things. So if anything starts acting wonky, it's just me as usual. Also, on March 9 of 2019 it...

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Forum Upgraded to Xenforo 2.0. Something

Well, thankfully, the forums made it through the upgrade. However, it looks like I have a lot of work to do. Mainly, every plugin and add-on we were using are gone... they do not work with this...

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Major Change With Bold Memberships

As I mentioned in the Yuge thread, a change is coming to the Bold Memberships. However, I spoke to soon... the plugin used to integrate Xenforo with Patreon is unmaintaned at the moment and the author...

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Forum Upgrade 2/4/2019

We have a major forum upgrade I will start tonight. I normally like to save them for the weekend, but I would like to start getting things on track. This is a big 'un and may break some of the plugins....

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Reactions (Likes\Dislikes)

I have started adding back some Reactions (the like icons you use on posts that used to be called Ratings). I've got a bunch more to do but didn't want to overload it with a bunch of shit that don't...

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Profile Info and Trophies

Currently editing and adding some more profile fields for those of you who want to fill them out. Things like user names for other sites like Reddit, Steam, etc. Also including some more personal...

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Trending!

I finally got around to adding something I have always wanted in a forum, and that is a trending section. Unlike most other similar things we have such as most popular, latest activity, etc... clicking...

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Forum Re-org

It's been a long time coming, but we are going to streamline the forums a bit. It won't be too confusing, but here's the immediate plan: REALITY BITES Animal Abuse and When Animals Attack will be...

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Bold Memberships, Patreon, Donating to Site, Etc.

Ok, this will be kind of confusing because I don't have a handle on it quite yet. However, because of recent Patreon news, I will probably make steps to move away from it. Not sure how yet as a lot of...

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Yuge Changes Comin'. YUGE.

In an effort to close the site but keep it online, so myself @Jaded and @Old Man Metal can move on to screamindemon.com, I was approached by a handful of people with ideas to make that happen. During...

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Search Function Is No Longer Crap

Because I care, I finally took the time to get Elasticsearch installed on our server. It is now tied into the forums and our search function is working BEAUTIFULLY. I know it took forever, but it is...

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Forum Upgrade 2.1.1

It's that time again! Xenforo has released a new version of the forum software that I will be implementing this weekend, along with a handful of updates. Nothing too major and I doubt anyone will even...

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New Pulpit of Doom Podcast Details

Without going into a lot of details on why (unless someone actually cares) we will no longer be doing our Pulpit of Doom Podcasts on Youtube. I have been see-sawing on which streaming service we were...

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Important Site Announcement 10/21/2019

Well, after 15 years the time has come to do a bit of changing. Major changing. If you are a forum user only, then this means nothing will change at all, really. But as for the site as a whole, things...

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Bold Subscriptions and some other stuff

I have modified the Subscription\Donation page. It now has two methods of subscribing to the Bold and Bold Plus Memberships - monthly and yearly. I've also updated the Donation portion under the...

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Duplicate Posts

Just wanted to give everyone a quick heads up on duplicate posts. For a little while, there may be instances where a dupe post gets featured over the original. In those cases, the dupe thread will...

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Discord Server Update

We've got some changes coming up, with one of them being using the Discord server a bit more. I have added a voice channel useable by Bold members with a max limit of 10 members at a time (I'll up that...

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Live Watch Parties

I want to try and do something we talked about years and years ago, regarding live watch parties. I am on other Discord servers where they do live watching of movies and would like to try that and see...

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Site Changes for end of 2020 and into 2021

Well, as we head into our 17th year of existence, I will be making some changes... nothing major, aside from putting some focus into the podcast and streaming. I have to renew our Xenforo license for...

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Reaction Bullshit

Before I go any further, let me first explain something I never thought needed explaining. Reactions have been around FOREVER and attached to almost every online thing that allows a post. They have...

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