Category: Commentary

My old computer seems to be gone for good. Somehow I got it running a couple more times by opening it up and tinkering around, which helped make the transition smoother, but it didn’t last. So I’m working solely from the new computer now. I’m basically all set up as far as blog related tools now (there were more than you’d think), but configuring everything else on here is probably going to take time away from working on the blog as much as I’d like for a while more.

On the whole I guess it turned out alright, I’m sure glad I already had the new PC when the old one conked out.

I mentioned last month that I got a new computer and was in the process of setting it up. Well, that’s still ongoing (I mean, it works, but it doesn’t have all the software I’m used to installed, etc.), obviously I was taking that project at a relaxed pace. But now my old computer has died. Perhaps it could be revived (might be faulty RAM or something, I donno) but under the circumstances I think I’d better just focus on getting the new computer all set up instead of messing with that.

Now don’t worry, I have multiple backups of the Nude World Order related stuff, so worst case I could lose the very newest captions or something, and if all goes well, not even that. But I’m not gonna be able to work on the blog until this is all sorted out. So there might be a day or two without any posts. Hopefully no more than that.

As some of you probably remember, the holidays tend to be a busy time for me, and this year I’ve got some extra things to deal with on top of that. Plumbing problems in the kitchen, and a new computer on order (it will be a much needed upgrade, but will doubtless require significant work to set up with all my software etc).

So anyway, yeah, expect updates to be slower than normal. I’ll still be around though, and hey, if you’ve got any Christmas caption ideas, time to start working on those, or even sending them in. It’s better if I get them at least a couple days in advance, less chance they get lost in the holiday chaos.

So if you looked at the blog earlier this morning, you might have seen a concerning message that the account was suspended. Well, don’t worry; the situation has been resolved. Apparently the issue was I had too many old emails in my inbox. These can be quite large as they include submitted pictures, so my mail box reached 2GB and my host didn’t like that. I did get a warning about this earlier, and I thought I’d addressed it, but apparently it didn’t work quite how I thought. Anyways, it wasn’t anything serious.

However there’s a second consequence of the overstuffed inbox. If you submitted anything after the morning morning of the 13th, it’s likely I didn’t receive it. Sorry about that. Please resend.

I’m not sure if they people who need to see this will even be able to, but I’ve been told on Discord that some people are getting weird errors about too many cookies. I think it has something to do with the HTTPS version of the site. This is annoying because I never even set that up on purpose (don’t see much need for a site like this) but it got created automatically and now it’s causing trouble. Anyways, I’ll be looking into this. Your patience is appreciated. Feel free to get in the comments and let me know any additional details if you’ve experienced something like this.

I’ll be traveling with limited internet access over the weekend, so updates will be sparse. Won’t leave the front page totally idle though.

All of a sudden I notice that the default avatars (the colored geometric patterns) next to comments are broken. It seems that manually uploaded avatars (like mine for instance) are working, but most/all of the default ones are broken right now. (You guys see it too, right? It’s not just me is it?)

I’m concerned it may be caused by the comment editing plug-in, because it does touch on a related part of wordpress and it’s one of the last things I changed before this started. So anyway, comment editing is disabled for the moment. I certainly hope to have it back soon, but for diagnostic purposes at least I’ve gotta see if turning that off makes a difference.

Edit: It doesn’t seem like disabling the comment edit plug-in helped, so that’s turned back on.

I made another attempt to find a plugin that would let people edit or delete their comments… and I finally found one!

It does have some limitations though (because they’re trying to sell a “pro” subscription version which costs more than I can justify). The big limitation is that it only works for logged-in users, so this might be the first really good reason to make an account. It also forces a time limit, which I set for a generous 48 hours.

Anyways, this is still experimental, but I hope this will prove useful. Please let me know if you encounter any problems with it. And as before, if you’re not logged in, you can just reply to yourself and ask me to fix it. (e.g. “Replied in wrong place, please delete.” or “Oops, baked->naked.”) and I’ll correct it and remove the extra comment.

In case you wanna test it out, I suppose the comments on this post would be the place to do it. Please delete any test comments once they’ve served their purpose.

I was just alerted to a very weird error with the captcha plugin. Apparently it breaks if you use any emoji in your message.

You can use old-school emoticons like :) and some of these even get converted to images, but actual emoji trip it up somehow. Quite strange. It doesn’t seem to have a problem with other Unicode characters like Chinese… it just hates emoji I guess.

Anyway, sorry for the inconvenience, but I doubt I can fix it short of finding a whole new captcha plug-in so please just refrain from using emoji in comments for now.

So you probably know I finally got back into my Discord account recently. Well shortly after that, I noticed my server passed a noteworthy milestone: 1000 members! (1001 right at this moment). Unfortunately, over half are accounts that haven’t actually been on in quite a while, and I’ve been thinking I ought to use Discord’s “prune” feature to remove some of these apparently abandoned accounts.

No need to worry though, no one will be banned or anything. You if you’re on a Discord hiatus but want to rejoin the server later you can always do so from this page. Or just stop by quickly any time before this coming weekend to make sure you account is marked active. Accounts that have a role, including the just-for-fun clothing status roles, are also safe.