[11/11/2026] Survey: Follow-up
Howdy!
Thank you to everyone who took the survey.
Some backstory: this project has been mostly unmaintained since I shifted my focus to building weebdex last year, and I basically left it to run itself. Reading your feedback made me realize I'd been too harsh on it.
I understand why some of you would rather keep things as they are, but I'd like to polish the site properly and leave it in better shape before I move on.
I can't list every change, so here's a quick overview of what the overhaul will add, change, and remove:
- Image quality: Originals stay available. Optimized versions will be capped at x1280 WebP.
- Downloads: Downloads stay, but in a different form. Because of infrastructure changes, the server will no longer store and serve archives as they were uploaded. A client-side JavaScript downloader will take over.
- Torrents: Users can upload torrents to individual galleries. The system will also generate a torrent for every gallery on NiyaNiya, plus monthly batches of the whole archive split into shards. I can't promise it'll work flawlessly.
- User uploads: Uploading is back, for whatever that's worth, and this time it's an actual upload system. First-time uploads will be manually approved, after that, galleries publish automatically.
- Tagging: Users will be able to add, suggest, and vote on gallery tags, much like E-Hentai. Votes are weighted by the voter's moderation power, which comes from account age, site activity, and tagging accuracy.
- Petitions: Users can create petitions to rename, expunge, or replace galleries, propose gallery updates, and request changes to tag names and information.
- Organization: Gallery grouping will keep multi-work series and story arcs together, and chapter markers will cover anthologies and tankoubon. Users can propose both.
- Site QoL: Favorite notes, reading history, collections/lists, watched tags, followed uploaders, persistent tag following and blocking, and improved search.
- Reader QoL: Horizontal strip mode, spread offset, and slideshow/autoplay.
- Community: Profiles, comments, private messages, forums, and badges. All of it optional: you'll be able to set your privacy preferences and hide comments across the whole site.
- Account and security: Accounts are moving to Keycloak for better security. 2FA, recovery codes, and account deletion will be available. Password hashing is changing, so you'll need to reset your password the first time you log in after the migration.
- Site merge: HDoujin and NiyaNiya are planned to merge. You'll be able to choose which one you see and toggle between them. It's mainly for convenience, so you can have both in one place under the same account. This is still a long way off: NiyaNiya has to run normally in the overhaul first.
We're also going to rebrand again, since the old domains have expired and the one we still have is blocked in some countries.
None of this will be monetized: not moderation power, not EXP or levels. EXP and levels will be mostly cosmetic, though they'll still feed into your moderation power, which grows with your activity on the site, such as reading and commenting.
Some of you also raised concerns about moderation. If these features are used well, users should be able to resolve tagging issues and duplicate galleries themselves, even when no operators are active. That said, with the infrastructure changes, deduplication should be improved now. Hopefully. And honestly, the site isn't that big anyway, so I doubt there will be many people uploading or using the community features.
On the intrusive ads: thank you for sticking with the site, and I'm sorry you've had to put up with them. They'll be around until the overhaul, unfortunately, so use an ad blocker if they get in the way. I'll look for a better approach then.
Some of this may still change or be cut. I haven't tested the overhaul on the production server yet, so no promises. No ETA either: it could be next week or next month.
[10/29/2026] Survey
Howdy.
We're conducting a survey to improve Schale's infrastructure. Take a quick survey to help us make our site better and tell us what you'd like to see in the future.
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[10/26/2026] HDoujin: Maintenance Mode
Howdy.
Saw your emails. Thanks for letting me know. Sadly, the scraper account used to mirror stuff has been shadowbanned. Creating a new account and regaining access could take weeks or even months, so no fixes are planned for now.
On a side note, expect yet another overhaul of the entire infrastructure in the coming months. It's finally time to pay off years of tech debt.