Category: Commentary

So, this morning I noticed comments had stopped working. I submitted a support ticket, but ironically it magically resolved itself before they could do anything.

So who knows what’s going on now. But at the moment it does appear to be working again.

Edit: Okay, I’m gonna unpin this shortly since it seems the problem went away, however mysteriously. Let me know if you run into issues making comments again. (Using the contact form, email or discord, since obviously you can’t make a comment about it…)

Did you know there are lesbians in these captions? Shocking, right? Maybe not, but they never had a tag before, and now they do, thanks to the hard work of a Discord user.

Going forward I’ll try and apply the tag to new posts that fit (feel free to remind me if I miss some).

For a long time, spammers seemed to ignore the Submit form so it didn’t need one, but suddenly I’m getting several junk messages a day through there (and all without images too, not exactly sure how they do it) but anyway I’ve added a captcha to hopefully stop this. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Working on fixing some captcha problems. There are a few issues, them being needlessly case-sensitive, the fact that I have to use two different captchas in different places etc. Currently looking at a minor issue related to dark mode.

Alright, I think that one was a little too subtle, the joke was that the captcha has broken so the words spilled out or something… but I’m not sure everyone could see it. Anyways, it’s still on my radar to actually improve but I haven’t found a good solution yet. Well, there’s one change I can make right now, I’ve switched the comment captcha from letters to numbers so you won’t need to worry about capitalization.

Got a Christmas caption? Now would be the time. And to help improve the chances it actually gets used this year I’ve added a new feature.

The submission forms now have a “Holiday” checkbox. If everything works like it should, these will be flagged for my attention in my inbox. Using it for other time-sensitive captions—like those about I donno, elections, or major sporting events—is fine, but please don’t use it without a legit reason.

WordPress has surprisingly few good options for captcha plugins. There’s the Google one of course, there’s any number that come as part of some complex security suite, there’s the old one that stopped working on the comment form, there’s one that forces visitors to mine crypto… But good options? Not really (unless you like Google, I guess).

So, getting to the point, the solution I settled on is, I admit, more of a “least bad” kind of thing. The old captcha with the funny phrases (nude boobs, etc.) will stick around for the contact form, login etc. And comments get an ugly little three letter code. If you have a long, thoughtful comment to share, I recommend copying it to your clipboard in case something goes wrong, because going back from the error page seems to reset the form. (Believe me, if I knew how to fix that I would.) Logged in users are still exempt though, so that’s one bright spot.

Yeah, I’m aware. Not much I can do on my own, but I’ve contacted my host.

Edit: Sorry for the vague message, I wrote that when the site was working extremely poorly and I feared if I wrote a whole paragraph to explain it would be down again before I could post it!

Anyway, I did get a response to my support ticket overnight. I can’t say that it was completely reassuring because they couldn’t find a specific source for the problem. But they rebooted my server and said they optimized the web server and database software. Perhaps that will help, it does seem to be working fine again for now.

Edit 2: Alright, it’s been a day and no more trouble apparently so I guess it’s fixed.

To fill in people who might not be aware, this blog used to be on Tumblr, but they deleted it not long before going all prude (though I’ve heard they backtracked a bit on that more recently.)

So, when I restarted the blog on paid hosting, I made an archive of the old stuff available as a torrent. But around the end of last year I got a new computer, and honestly I wasn’t really sure how to start sharing it again and still have it count as the same file, so I kinda let it be, hoping someone else was still sharing it. Well, I guess no one was. But serendipitously, I was just doing a little “ego search”, looking for mentions of Nude World Order online, and found that somehow that torrent found its way onto Internet Archive. Pretty sure I never put it there, though it seems to credit me…

Anyway, if you tried to download that torrent before and it didn’t work, here’s a new link which should. Or if you never knew about but are interested, likewise. You’ll need a torrent client of course. If you do download it, please consider seeding (i.e. leaving your torrent client running) to help share it with others.

Yes, it’s fine to send in your own nudes. But you still need to include a proper caption that fits the theme of this blog! I’m sure showing your dick off is exciting enough on its own for you, but put some work in and try to make the submission interesting for the rest of us, OK?

So, starting tomorrow (April 3rd) I’m gonna be out of town on a road trip to see the total eclipse. I’ll be gone for about a week but I’ll try to get some posts (probably one per day) queued up ahead of time, so nobody thinks the blog is dead or anything.

Those of you who have been with me from the tumblr days may remember I took off to see the last one visible in the US, in 2017, as well, and came back with this crappy picture (obviously from before totality).

Technology marches on, so perhaps, weather permitting, I’ll get something a little better this time. I’ll share them if so. Wish me luck.

I encourage US (or Mexican) residents to try and see it if they can. Seeing totality is something special, but if you live where it’s only partial and can’t get away, it’s still worth taking a moment to check it out. If you don’t have solar viewer (don’t look at the sun without one!) an interesting effect you can still observe is how dappled light through leaves turns into little crescents instead of discs.

Anyways, I’ll be back soon enough. See you all later.