Maggot
They add some green items and they just had to be weed themed. emotion_facepalm
Well, it IS one of the biggest holidays of the year (if you work at Taco Bell)...so I can see why they'd commemorate it.
lol
Anyway, back on track. I think it has potential (okay, I say that about nearly everything), but they flubbed the rollout. I wasn't expecting it to be perfect, and there ARE a lot of nice things that Tentacl does that Gaia either doesn't do or can't do (for example, image hosting), but there are huge gaping holes in functionality.
For starters, the site's designed for desktops with huge monitors. (Or laptops with high-res screens.) This is...to be blunt, totally ******** dumbass - at the very least, design so the site is mobile-compatible and that the major feature is USABLE on mobile. (Especially when the analogous feature has long been compatible on mobile on the mothership.)
More importantly, I get the feeling that users are just dumped in! I know I felt like it - and while I did check my e-mail and see a handy guide, that's something I didn't see until the next time I checked my e-mail. The on-ramping is horrible, and even a bit of an explainer would go a hell of a long way.
Finally, yeah, it feels like it's a free-for-all. While the threads I've been in have been well-behaved so far, this isn't going to last (especially when - say - 4chan gets wind of this). Given Gaia's history of having organized trolling issues in the past (although that was mostly in the Boxxy era), it's stunning that they're just being so laissez-faire about things now. (Okay, the coordinated spam attacks were years ago, BUT STILL.)
They have improved the entire NSFW freaky b***h assault - I hardly see NSFW stuff now, and I have filtering turned off! (That is, I only see it if I look for it.) Although, to be honest, like...I feel like it's less of a "THINK OF THE CHILDREN" issue (because, yes, the children are thinking of you...naked) and more of a "your kink is not my kink" issue. That is, the problem here isn't so much kiddies being scarred by seeing GDer tits, it's
GCDers being scarred by seeing GDer tits. (Not that some GDers don't have nice tits, mind you. It's just that I'd rather not find out. Sorry, ladies. And gents.)