Category: Commentary

Poll (serious)

Hehe, no I didn’t plan this when I posted the other one, but I’ve got a question for you guys. A while ago, someone asked if I had considered bringing back the “side blog” like I had on Tumblr, where I would talk about background details on the world, or blog business that I didn’t want to clutter the main thing with. (Like this would probably go there, if I had it.) I’ve posted some of this kind of thing as comments on pictures, which is fine, but it’s not very visible or good for random thoughts that aren’t about a picture.

Thing is, WordPress works differently, so setting up a completely separate blog isn’t as easy and may not be the best solution anyway. WordPress has “categories” which are kind of like tags, but usually broader. So what I’m thinking I’ll do is post the “side blog” stuff right here, but in a separate category from the captions. This way you can read both together or go to the category view and see them separately if you prefer. The main question is whether people would prefer it together by default (slightly easier) or separate by default.

TL;DR are you interested in seeing commentary and discussion posts, and if so, how separate from the captions should they be?

Here’s the poll.

This will also give me an idea how many readers I have, which I’m curious about. So I included and option you can use to let me know you’re here, even if you don’t care about the side blog stuff either way.

New Feature(s)

Thus far I’ve basically been working to recreate the functionality I had on Tumblr. But here, finally, is something that’s actually better. On the right side of the page, below the tag cloud there’s a box where you can enter a combination of tags and see only posts that have all of them. For example work+school will get you naked teachers (currently only two), willing+unhappy for captions where people who registered voluntarily but it didn’t go as planned, or new+humor for funny captions that are not reposts from tumblr. Currently this blog’s catalog of pictures is small compared to the old one, but I expect this feature will become more attractive as the collection grows larger.

Also new, between the archive drop-down and the tag cloud, there’s a text search. Not super useful since the blog is mostly pictures, but one thing you could use it for is to find pictures submitted by a particular contributor.

New system for bulk submissions

As you probably recall, a little while ago I found out my submission form doesn’t like zips for some reason. To give people another option if they have several pictures to share, I set up a new form where you can send up to 10 pictures at once. This is accessible from a link at the top of the Submit page. Emailing submissions is still fine too, of course.

Tiny Text and Big Pictures

I know tiny text is annoying, but sometimes I or a contributor has an idea that just needs a bit of explanation and we can’t resist. But there’s good news, most of the pictures are larger than they’re initially shown. Previously the full size version was hard to get to, but I’ve changed it so all you have to do is click one to blow it up. That should make reading the text easier, and hey, you might want to admire something else in the pictures more closely too.

Yay, it’s working again.

Alright it looks like the problem has been resolved, and for the record, it probably wasn’t  my web host after all. Apparently my ISP was having some kind of partial outage in my area, I suspect maybe a routing goofup. Anyway I didn’t actually notice any other sites affected, but apparently there were, and not just for me.

Please stand by…

I’m having some technical difficulties with my host. I can’t reach the blog from my computer, only my phone. Very odd. Anyway it will be hard to post much until I get this cleared up. Hopefully that won’t take too long.

Status Report

Well, the new site seems to be working. Now that I’ve got the basic stuff set up, I’m investigating adding some more interactive features. Because knowing that people are actually enjoying the blog is what keeps it interesting for me. Currently you can Like or comment on posts by going to their individual post pages, but it’s all fairly clunky. If anyone out there knows WordPress better than I do (it’s my first time using it, so that wouldn’t be hard) and would be willing to give me some pointers, please get in touch, I’d appreciate it.

I was also thinking about all the other adult blogs that are getting deleted on tumblr. If you were the owner of one of them, I wanted to raise the possibility of collaborating somehow. This is just a half-baked idea, but maybe we could talk it over and bake it fully. This site is running on a relatively inexpensive adult-friendly paid hosting service with plenty of storage space and it seems good so far, but of course it’s been less than a month so I don’t really know how permanent this will all be just yet.

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