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Synthbuttrange posted:welp I dont see tumblr surviving much longer. where's the place to post comics and poo poo now? Tapas? Webtoons? Smackjeeves? I dunno...
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Zero_Tactility posted:I haven't been following Wilde Life recently (It's good! I just dropped off for whatever reason), but the White-faced Bear's tidal-wave-of-spiders posse is one of my favorite things in it. (Also, Darcy is great) I picked it up very recently and binged the whole thing over like, two very dull days at work. I didn't really know what to expect and found myself almost immediately enthralled. It's not a very original premise as far as webcomics go, but it does a good job at developing that weird unease and mystery in small town America. Naturally I got current very quickly on it and experienced that very terrible feeling of loss when you try to click for more and there's no more. Anyway yeah I love the White-faced Bear's tidal wave of spiders. I really like that trope where something heralds the arrival of some elder being.
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TL;DR for anyone who doesn't care enough to research why Tumblr's finally dying for real: Remember how the internet shamed Reddit into finally dealing with the child porn? Imagine if instead of that, they dug their heels in, and when they got removed from the app store for being a source of child porn, made a bot that flags and removes anything it detects as potentially adult, rather than bother trying to moderate. That's Tumblr right now.
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PMush Perfect posted:TL;DR for anyone who doesn't care enough to research why Tumblr's finally dying for real: Remember how the internet shamed Reddit into finally dealing with the child porn? Imagine if instead of that, they dug their heels in, and when they got removed from the app store for being a source of child porn, made a bot that flags and removes anything it detects as potentially adult, rather than bother trying to moderate. I was about to ask what was up because all I'd read was that they're taking the porn down but if it's an overzealous bot I guess I could see a lot of comics getting flagged.
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'Banned content includes photos, videos, and GIFs of human genitalia, female-presenting nipples, and any media involving sex acts, including illustrations.' https://twitter.com/heyshanmurphy/status/1069703550870142977
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If Tumblr is spoken of in the present tense as of this time next year I’ll be amazed.
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It's also flagged posts which are screenshots of their own mobile ads.
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TwoPair posted:I was about to ask what was up because all I'd read was that they're taking the porn down but if it's an overzealous bot I guess I could see a lot of comics getting flagged.
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I been asking around, seems the only other comparable and current multimedia long-form shitposting site is pillowfort, which is in some sort of mid-launch state right now?
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I've also heard the name "Mastodon" thrown around, but that seems more like open-source Twitter?
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Pillowfort has been in development as a replacement for Tumblr by various people who pretty much gave up on Tumblr moderating/doing things the userbase wanted, and yeah, it's just now approaching launch. I think it's currently in "five dollars gets you beta access" mode. I have no idea how good/reliable it will be, though. It's basically just a user-funded internet project, which don't have the best track record for consistency. Then again, AO3 has similar roots and is still going strong.
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So [un]Divine's story is really ramping up now, and if you haven't heard of it, it's about a guy who gives up his soul to summon a demon to help him deal with his problems and why that was an incredibly no good bad decision (or maybe not??) It's set mainly in a religious school on a small Caribbean island in the 90s, and features creepy-rear end angel designs so if you like that sort of thing you might like this webcomic!  http://www.undivinecomic.com/comic/page-1 Updates MWF on a pretty stable schedule, if you're concerned about that.
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I've even heard Newgrounds being brought up for some reason. It looks like it's not dead somehow?
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Synthbuttrange posted:I've even heard Newgrounds being brought up for some reason. It achieved the same zombie homeostasis that SA did and managed to survive the Aughties relatively untouched by the thresher of progress.
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Yeah, Newgrounds has had gallery functionality for forever and they leave all the porn out the in the open, so a lot of people flocking are there now. It's still kind of a typical gallery site though, not the most suitable for when you just want to dump material online or make bizarre multimedia shitposts. Also dunno if any of the multi-site posting tools support it, looks like Postybirb doesn't at the moment.
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Yahoo announces its buyout of Newgrounds, the website that brought you gently caress Dat rear end and various school shooter flash games.
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mastodon as far as i can tell is like if twitter used the decentralized model of irc honestly its not a terrible idea its just not ever quite caught on because of twitter. lmao if it replaces tumblr instead Typical Pubbie posted:Yahoo announces its buyout of Newgrounds, the website that brought you gently caress Dat rear end and various school shooter flash games. yahoo is verizon-owned now
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Deviantart's also still around, for what that's worth. I think a lot of people are also prepared to parachute over to Patreon when things go wrong, but that lacks the discoverability that was half the point of Tumblr. Who knows, maybe there'll even be a boom of independent websites as people try to avoid being totally dependent on a single platform. That'd be nice.
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SlothfulCobra posted:Deviantart's also still around, for what that's worth. I think a lot of people are also prepared to parachute over to Patreon when things go wrong, but that lacks the discoverability that was half the point of Tumblr. Patreon also has issues with NSFW material if you're actually NSFW, tho (which a lot of webcomics folks offer at high tiers). Displaying it directly is actually quite difficult - typically, artists would do it with links to Tumblr blogs (no longer viable) or...well, I guess zipping the materials and offering them for direct download without actually displaying them.
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praise the Lord all the terrible websites of 2003 will wind up inheriting the internet from the social media megacorps dying of their addiction to nazi chomosSlothfulCobra posted:Deviantart's also still around, for what that's worth. I think a lot of people are also prepared to parachute over to Patreon when things go wrong, but that lacks the discoverability that was half the point of Tumblr. it's always gonna gravitate to a single-platform model, it's the difference between an artist having a booth at a huge marketplace where everyone comes to buy everything and you being hypothetically able to buy their work if you show up at their house and ask. You wanna be seen by the most people you can, and most people aren't gonna bother with other sites if they can get everything they want in one place, and it takes pretty wild circumstances to move people once they've settled on one central nexus (like, the admin randomly up and wipes out the entire userbase's galleries) A Wizard of Goatse fucked around with this message at 18:15 on Dec 4, 2018 |
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There is one clear solution, y'all. Let's all go back to Livejournal.
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Mikl posted:There is one clear solution, y'all. But everyone abandoned Livejournal for Dreamwidth! I forget why but I think it was some similar bullshit.
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LiveJournal got bought out by Russians and started mass-banning communities that had 'objectional content'. Which is why everyone evacuated to Tumblr in the first place.
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as someone who's trying to a find a place to host my comic, i think hosting your own is the best option.
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SlothfulCobra posted:Isn't Hiveworks basically a webring? hiveworks only hosts comics they choose to host, its not a open host like smackjeeves et al
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fun hater posted:hiveworks only hosts comics they choose to host, its not a open host like smackjeeves et al It’s also not an actual webhost, just a publicity network. Every comic featured on Hiveworks has its own website and host already. Also yeah they’re incredibly picky about what they let on. The artis of at least one really well done comic I’ve followed on and off one said she put together a Hiveworks portfolio and was rejected. ...And yet they also promote Goblins proudly, so your mileage may vary.
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my vague understanding is that hiveworks takes care of like website troubleshooting, hosting, maybe page design? idk
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Tollymain posted:my vague understanding is that hiveworks takes care of like website troubleshooting, hosting, maybe page design? idk ads and merch too e: and kickstarters when you want to run them
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i'd like to get a comic onto hiveworks just to see the behind-the-scenes politics and drama, because i have no idea what it would be like but know it would be amazing
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incredible flesh posted:i'd like to get a comic onto hiveworks just to see the behind-the-scenes politics and drama, because i have no idea what it would be like but know it would be amazing oh you think you're the first person to think of that? well guess what buster. its boring as poo poo thank god for small favors
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Rotten Red Rod posted:Haha holy poo poo they put Megatokyo on the list? I love that there is basically no justification for it other than "popularized the style". Yeah, the style that was already popularized... By manga and anime. I dare you to point me to one loving decent webcomic that had Megatokyo as an "influence" other than how not to produce content. It has been several days and several pages, but I'm still marveling that he got away with that. There hasn't been any kind of concerted effort to make him explain where the money went or even to post an update after a year and a half. Also, he seems to have spent all of it somehow, and is living month to month.
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Dogwood Fleet posted:Also, he seems to have spent all of it somehow, and is living month to month.
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Meanwhile, in Widdershins Going with the antipodean hypothesis, the counterpart to an anchor in the Himalaya would be off the coast of Chile, with no major island in that area, so I'm gonna call it the R'lyeh Anchor; making the globe incident foreshadowing of world destruction if it is ever found.
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Dogwood Fleet posted:It has been several days and several pages, but I'm still marveling that he got away with that. There hasn't been any kind of concerted effort to make him explain where the money went or even to post an update after a year and a half. Also, he seems to have spent all of it somehow, and is living month to month. Yeah. I mean, at least the first act of the Homestuck game got put out, although it feels increasingly like that's all people will get. (Hiveswap Friendsim aside.)
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Cat Mattress posted:Meanwhile, in Widdershins Closest land I can find is : Salas y Gómez / Motu Motiro Hiva : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isla_Salas_y_G%F3mez (also http://bigoceanmanagers.org/portfolio/mmhmp/ )
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