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With the new update to Tumblr's community guidelines announcing that they will no longer permit adult content on their site, we'd like to take a moment to reassure all y'all that we have your backs. With a very few exceptions (such as spam and the like), if it's legal under US law, it's okay to post here. We're 100% user-supported, with no advertisers and no venture capitalists to please, and that means we're here for you, not for shady conglomerates that buy up your data and use it in nefarious ways.
Tumblr's definition of "adult content" seems to be inherently visual, and I also wanted to remind people that we do have basic image hosting. (It's definitely not as slick and easy to use as Tumblr's, I won't lie, but it does exist.) If you want to include images in your posts, you can upload them and the site will give you HTML that you can paste into your entry. Or, if you have post-by-email set up, just attach the image to the end of your email and it'll be posted. All users have a 500MB image hosting quota right now. I know that's small for people looking for a place to host NSFW image blogs, but we are reviewing usage statistics to see if we can increase it, or at least make it possible for people to pay for more quota like you can for more icons.
For those asking whether we have a mobile app: we don't at the moment! There are many (soooooo many) prerequisites that we have to do first, which we've been working on but haven't yet finished, because we're dealing with a lot of systems and architecture decisions that were made nearly 20 years ago by now. (A mobile app would also be subject to the same censorship pressure Tumblr faced -- it's looking pretty good that Apple taking the Tumblr app out of the App Store was the proximate cause of Tumblr's content guidelines change, and Apple is notoriously strict on apps for sites that allow user-generated content -- so even once we have one, it's even odds on how long it'll be able to stay available for certain platforms.) We've been trying to improve the website's experience on small screens in the meantime, and that's an ongoing project that we'll do our best to devote some more attention to over the next few months.
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Tumblr's definition of "adult content" seems to be inherently visual, and I also wanted to remind people that we do have basic image hosting. (It's definitely not as slick and easy to use as Tumblr's, I won't lie, but it does exist.) If you want to include images in your posts, you can upload them and the site will give you HTML that you can paste into your entry. Or, if you have post-by-email set up, just attach the image to the end of your email and it'll be posted. All users have a 500MB image hosting quota right now. I know that's small for people looking for a place to host NSFW image blogs, but we are reviewing usage statistics to see if we can increase it, or at least make it possible for people to pay for more quota like you can for more icons.
For those asking whether we have a mobile app: we don't at the moment! There are many (soooooo many) prerequisites that we have to do first, which we've been working on but haven't yet finished, because we're dealing with a lot of systems and architecture decisions that were made nearly 20 years ago by now. (A mobile app would also be subject to the same censorship pressure Tumblr faced -- it's looking pretty good that Apple taking the Tumblr app out of the App Store was the proximate cause of Tumblr's content guidelines change, and Apple is notoriously strict on apps for sites that allow user-generated content -- so even once we have one, it's even odds on how long it'll be able to stay available for certain platforms.) We've been trying to improve the website's experience on small screens in the meantime, and that's an ongoing project that we'll do our best to devote some more attention to over the next few months.
Feel free to use the comments to this post to recommend communities to join and to make new friends, whether you're here for the first time as a Tumblr refugee or have been here since the start (and any range in between). To the newcomers: we're happy to have you join us. Welcome aboard!
(Comment notification emails may be delayed for an hour or two, due to the high volume of emails generated by a
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but i'm terrible in that i bitch and moan about all the modern, super-javascript-heavy sites out there, then praise you guys and LibraryThing and ProjectGutenberg and even AO3 for sticking to a useful and usable interface, even if it isn't the most aesthetically trendy thing around.
it sucks that what works on a desktop browser doesn't always work on mobile.
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I honestly don't think the red scheme is ugly (it's nice to have a site that's not blue everywhere!) but the super teeny font is trying. So far as I care, colors could stay the same so long as the font resizes!
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tl;dr It doesn't have to be Facebook (please don't be Facebook!) even if a few things could be better.
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But dangit, I went looking in your icon comments to see if I could snarf a proper creation credit for it, and I saw that you are in the same ignorant boat as I am. *le sigh*
Google Images to the rescue, possibly? This person's icon page attributes it to
(Thank glob Photobucket walked back their insanity about third-party hosting, or we would be looking at a lot of placeholder images there and we might never know.)
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OMFG! I have been wondering who made that for YEARS. Thank you so much. I have now properly credited it! (And left a comment on the original post, hah, because I figured they deserved to be thanked for the many moments of joy the icon has given me.)
Thank glob Photobucket walked back their insanity about third-party hosting, or we would be looking at a lot of placeholder images there and we might never know.
For real!
Icon twins to the rescue. :D :D
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the default site skin is painful to us, we need one of the dark skins. and since there are many of us using this body, many people here have personal accounts. logging in and out can be a very harsh experience when the site skin suddenly goes glaring-bright on us each time.
currently we compensate in various ways - our main browser (firefox) allows us to use custom accessibility settings to override a site's colourscheme with our own, so that works. and when we're not able to use our main browser we often go look up one of our few journals that isn't marked NSFW/discretion advised or similar (because age-restriction dumps us out onto a default-site-skin page when we log out) and that has a colourscheme that's okay for us, and we sit on the 'recent entries' page to log out and in using the global navbar at the top. but yeah, we're not always able to do that.
if site-skin-preference could be remembered based on device or IP rather than based on logged-in account, or could be toggled to be that way, it would be much better for us and anyone else for whom the default site skin is a problem, whether for accessibility reasons, small screen reasons, or other. we realise there are potential issues with such a thing though, so we understand if it can't be done.
as always, thankyou so much for being utterly awesome. <3 <3 <3
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https://justgetflux.com/
More directly (though usually not compatible with f.lux) you can also change the settings in your video driver. For most standard Intel drivers, for example, if you have the latest drivers installed, a manager for your color profiles should be in your system tray. If you consistently just don't want certain types of colors on your screen because they're a migraine trigger or similar, changing your display at a video driver level may be helpful.
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we did try flux a while back, and it didn't work for us (for a bunch of reasons including unsuitable colours for us, and not functioning great on our ancient linux laptop). that's still a really good shout though, thankyou for suggesting it just in case!
the driver settings we didn't know about! thankyou! we'll go look into that, see if it's an improvement. our current setup works pretty well for us most of the time, so long as we can use our main browser with its custom colour settings, and aren't trying to navigate one of those sites that break if you use our accessibility settings, lol. but yeah, for those times when we can't, we're totally going to take a look at that colour profiles idea.
one of the biggest reasons we use linux is that we can completely customise the colours in our desktop environments and programs - text document page backgrounds and default text colours, instant messenger backgrounds and text colours, frames & backgrounds for all kinds of windows from image viewers and art programs to popup notifications, dropdown menus and text input boxes on websites, everything. we get to specify the hex codes for all of it. so that's been pretty essential for us. x3
anyway, yeah, thanks so much for your comment. we really appreciate you taking the time to offer us potential solutions! <3
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Redshift is a f.lux competitor for Linux, but I haven't tried it so I can't vouch for it personally. http://jonls.dk/redshift/
It's been ages, but I think there might be some compiz/beryl options that alter your screen? But I don't really know.
The specific way of changing the video driver settings was more Windows-focused, though I'm certain there's a way of doing it on Linux. You can usually do most things on Linux, though I find Windows is just as customizable if you're really stubborn. I use Pidgin for chat (it even works as a third-party client for Skype, Discord, Hangouts, Steam chat, and others!) and that's skinnable on Windows too. Actually, I gave it a black aero glass effect on Windows 10 (Redstone 5 no less!), because I'm a nerd with a retro aesthetic. But I have a GTK themer program with dozens of preinstalled themes, and of course all the themes can be edited by hex values.
I know with Firefox you can alter a lot of pages in CSS with stuff like Greasemonkey or Stylist (or the Stylish fork of your liking). I use a Firefox fork (Basilisk) myself, and definitely take advantage of that. But yeah--changing it at a video driver level cuts to the source. I actually used that for the opposite, when I use my tablet outside in the summer I find it hard to see the screen at all, so I made an outdoors video driver profile that boosts all the whites and brights to blinding levels (and is absolutely eye-scorching to accidentally turn on indoors). It works though, it makes my screen barely visible in sunlight instead of completely unreadable.
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