Juxtaposition - Now and the Future

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Jemma

on September 29, 2021

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Oh boy another recap post! This time we're going to talk a little bit about Juxtaposition now and what our plans are going forward.

First off, what is Juxtaposition?

Juxtaposition (or Juxt for short) is the Pretendo Network Miiverse replacement. This includes but is not limited to:

Wii U App
3DS App
Game API
And more!

Juxt isn't the entirety of the Pretendo Network, it's a small but core piece that makes the entire network work in harmony.

A brief history

Juxt started out before I actually even joined the Pretendo Network development team. In 2019 I contacted quarky about their miiverse-api-poc server that had support for the Splatoon Plaza posts, and that was it. The original intent was to take the software and build off of it to generate files for Wara Wara Plaza.

Hello World! Check out the very first instance of Wara Wara Plaza rendering a custom file. A bit underwhelming looking back huh?

From there we quickly realized that the scope of this project was going to be much larger than we though, and moved on to experimenting with the Miiverse Applet itself

Check out this ancient video of the first demo website that was running in the Miiverse Applet.

Shortly after this the project was absorbed into the Pretendo Network, and our full focus was put onto getting the Miiverse Applet patched and working.

2020 was a big year for Juxt, going from the simple api server before, to rapidly building out its web interface and features across both the 3DS and Wii u

First attempt at an interface for the 3DS

Community page Demo on the Wii U

Enough rambling, what works?

Believe it or not Juxt is actually fairly well featured at the moment! Here's a ~~brief~~ list of what’s working for the 3DS and Wii U now.

Wii U

Communities
- View All Communities
- Searching for Community
- Following/Unfollowing
- Showing Followers
- Showing Posts
- Sorting Posts by Type
- Creating New Post
Posts
- Yeah!
- Replies
- Spoilers
- Text
- Drawing
- Screenshots
- New Post
  - Emotion
  - Text
  - Drawing
  - Screenshot
  - Spoiler
Users
- Mii Profile Pictures
- Following/Unfollowing
- Display Verified
- Display Followers and Following
- Display Country and Game Experience
- Posts
- Profile Settings
  - Toggle Visibility of
    - Country
    - Birthday
    - Experience
    - Bio
  - Set Profile Comment
Activity Feed
- Posts from Followed Users
Notifications
- New Follower
- New Reply to Post

3DS

Communities
- View All Communities
- Following/Unfollowing
- Showing Posts
- Sorting Posts by Type
- Creating New Post
Posts
- Yeah!
- Replies
- Spoilers
- Text
- Drawing
- Screenshots
- New Post
  - Emotion
  - Text
  - Drawing
Users
- Mii Profile Pictures
- Display Verified
Activity Feed
- Posts from Followed Users
Notifications
- New Follower
- New Reply to Post

API

/v1/endpoint
- The endpoint that tells the console where to connect to for what, including bans and server maintenance
/v1/communities/0/posts
- In game posts for games like Splatoon, Animal Crossing Plaza, and Nintendo Land
/v1/topics
- The endpoint used for Wara Wara Plaza on the Wii U System Menu

What's still being worked on?

Great question! there is still quite a bit that's being worked on for both the 3DS and Wii U, but here's a quick list:

All User Pages on 3DS
3DS User Menu
YouTube Upload Posts
Posts from Communities in Activity Feed
Post Report Button
Block Users
New Guest Mode
Messages
More Types of Notifications
Sub Communities
A Complete Redesign to fit Nintendo’s Design Better
Adding Friends
Desktop/Mobile Website
More Translations
More API Endpoints
So Many Bug Fixes

And more!

Wrapping Up

So that's basically it for where Just is at right now. I'll show off some screenshots below of how Juxt looks now but check out our YouTube Channel for more video demo's.

Thank you, guys, so much for your patience and support. We can't wait to get Juxt out to more of you guys.

In the meantime, check out our Patreon to get instant access to the Juxt alpha on the Wii U!