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now that ive gotten a semi-not negative article out im due to complain about bubbles againi jest but the popularity contest of it all is still kinda stressfulthough its i think offset by the deltaforum community taking up most of my time and being (99.99%) accepting cough bvbut ANYWAYSi do think bubbles has an issue of votes and not getting like any if youre not the top 5 peopleor have an established community in some wayi do admit i am a bit of the problem since i use the "at least 1 votes"…

im the type of person to quite enjoy forumsyes i know shocking the guy who pays for a domain for his silly site likes forumsand one thing i keep running into that i find so interesting is how tricky image hosting actually istext is incredibly easy to store and retrieve, but images can be millions of times denser for a single pngthe naive solution of just letting users upload opens the door to losing all of your storageand the number one security rule of Dont let people upload arbritrary files…

sourcewidder writes about how blocking is merely used for disagreement rather than a proper moderation tooland, having been on the other side of that way too many times i 100% agree with thisi think people are way too trigger happy to completely cut people off and its terrifyingit feels like theyre just completely denying your existance or that you have any valueand theres no chance to ever improveexcept on the off chance they maybe unblock youliberal blocking can lead to worrying way too much…

after the negativity of the last post, i wanted to do something positiveso anyways the Deltarune Unofficial Message Boards is revived from when i talked about it lastfor context, DUMB1 was set to be shut down a week after it was announcedand within 3 DAYS, people already had a new forum frameworked and actively developedand within 2 of the actual shutdown, the new forum was "finalized" and wiped to serve as the successorthat was a WEEK and 2 DAYS of STRAIGHT DEVELOPMENT to mold a brand new SMF…

so if you didnt happen to see what happened in the blogospherei was yelled at again by someone i sorta looked up toat least this time it (probably) wasnt my fault??so yea basically the timeline goes like this:im reading through bubbles posts and notice a bunch of people making complaints about a blogger i sorta likedi read through them and while i understand the complaints i still saw something in unstoryi wrote an article about it (re: re: who is unstory) and email it to unstory since i…

source: sourceive been wanting to make this kind of post for a bit but of course a larger blogger got to it first...anywayswhile i do agree with forced account-making on the Large apps, i also think its a larger issue for Everythinglike, everything seems to demand an account and its driving me crazyevery fast food place seems to have a rewards programevery product nowadays seems to demand an app and account to even functionwhat benefit does having an account serve for you, the person???rewards…

so i was reading through my apache logs just nowi like going through and seeing what rss readers people are using since its not fancy or anything enough to return location dataits also interesting to see what bots are hitting my feedunfortunately, it seems like some aggregators have found it somehow? maybe from scraping bubbles or somethingi dont usually mind, since its usually just a smallweb thing and maybe i could get some new readers off itthe one i found today is not. one of those. at…

sourcei may be in the minority but i honestly kind of enjoy reading unstory?like its not super indepth or anything but it is interesting seeing their opinions in their own posts not jabbing other peoplemaybe i just respect the pure confidence they have to express their own opinions, regardless of how well its put togetherthats the kind of confidence i wish i had with this blogim willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, and hope they improve their writing morei dont AGREE with how much…

so my family moved houses a few weeks agothis is i believe the fifth time we've moved in my life somehowi settled in pretty fasttoo fast i thinknow i didnt particularly like the previous house, it didnt really stand out at allit was too late to have any kind of nostalgic factorbut its still weird how little i can get myself to actually care, right?that lack of care is i think contradictially making me feel sadlike i lost that kind of deep attachment to where im livingim just hovering between…

i am no stranger to niche subcommunitiesforums with 50 people max, discord servers small enough that everyone knows each otherthey often come and go, a cycle of me getting too attached and becoming annoying and kicked outthere have been two recent communites that have really stood out, one good and one bad but still standingthe bad is the balatro modding communityor most of it at leastsince it spawned off the modding section of an intensely large serverthere was absolutely no leader or…

source: sourcewelcome back to the like 20th time of me dumping my anxieties on herei think bubbles was hand designed to torture me specificallyim being facetious but like it does hit on so much of what im kinda scared oftheres so many posts on here and it seems like if you dont get any attention within the first like half hour or soits just permanently buried and lost in the sea of people better than youand the classics page DOES NOT HELP TOO it highlights all the "popular" blogs and stuffone…

sourceironic that the third most popular person on bubbles would write something like thiswhile i get the premise of the writing, i think like being remarkable in some way iskinda neccesary to get anywhere in anythinglike sure you cant force people to like you no matter how hard you want tobut someone who doesnt stand out at all is just pouring a cup of water into the oceanand hoping someone will somehow spot itlike sure you might be "good enough" at somethingbut is it enough to really matter…

sourcethis is exactly the kind of thing im awful at and im glad im ironically not aloneand i know im not like a "big" blogger or wtv like the other people replying but likei also kinda struggle with this to anyone whos like reading thisi was completely alone most of my life, i may have had a "friend" for a week or so occasionallybut it never ever went anywherei also didnt end up doing anything besides occasional small programming projectsthere was like a lot of built up learned helplessness and…

sourceso apparently unstory and brennan have been having a debate for a while now and stuffi have a bit of some thoughts that i wanted to maybe say if people wanted to read itfirst of all, i dont think that the statement about looking for love is a "advertisement of the lack of love"like its more just looking for a person to dedicate their love TO and stuffthey absolutely have people in their life to lovedespite my own heavily negative experiences with ssome people i also think that love is…

sourcereplying to a reply is probably stupid buti agree with thisai seems to be about completely ripping out the invisible costs of making somethingthe parts that nobody thinks about but are absolutely required to make something qualitythe endpoint is made up of millions of small decisions that are invisible to everyone butthe person making the thingi wonder if anyone will reply to this and keep the reply chain going lol

sourcenikhil usually posts a lot of stuff that hits close to home for me, and one of my main sources to try and soothe myself a bitthis one just completely broke my mind because it is literally what i feel constantly put into wordsbeing "unable to stand on my own", "doing everything possible to be liked", etci know its a little lame to just point to someone elses work when trying to describe your own problems butif you read this a lot (to the maybe one fan i have) youd know how bad i am at…

another year of artfight is downand this year i have a blog to write about itthis year had a cool gimmick too, there were three teams fighting each otherartfight is pretty simple, you "attack" characters of the other team for points and then they can"revenge" that attack by drawing your own characteralso you get points for characters and quality and stuffsince there were 3 teams, it was a lot less likely to attack someone of the same teamartfight is really really fun for me because theres…

source herebrens made a piece here and likelikei donti kinda get what theyre trying to say but also likeit falls a tiny bit flat being such a big person in the space already and likei dont know iwhat is the point of putting something out there if theres nearly nobody to read itits nearly impossible to have a dialouge with yourselfand like for some people its like impossible to ever stand out enough to get attentioni dont know what i need todo but i want to stop throwing my stuff into the…

sourceyes YES YES YES 1 MILLION PERCENT YES ONLINE FRIENDS ARE REALif you happen to be one of the 5 people reading my microblog youd know but likei have an absurd amount of difficulty making any friends in real life everi have exactly one irl friend at the moment, and that was something i kinda stumbled intoat a art jam event at collegediscord might have a LOT of problems, i know, but like it basically saved me from doing absolutely nothing everbefore that i basically never talked to people…

i ironically read this article by antonio on my rss readerand im pretty conflicted on this one!on one hand, i agree that blog customization is fun and i like doing it(i hope my blog has a semi unique style lol)and obv having the recipt that someone read my stuff in the apache log makes me happyand reading it in the rss feed not sending a recipt IS a feature, not a bug, i just dowish that more people would like reach out then i guessbut on the other hand, i see reading an article off an rss…

unattributed wrote about clickbait listsand how theyre damaging to the blogging spacei think the ending is a bit redundant and repetetive buti really do agree that like just filling out a list isnt really expressing yourselfits more of a laundry list, or one of those forms you fill out at the doctorsand can you REALLY tell a single thing about a person by their facts?the "why" of why an item is important is so much deeper than just the item itselfwhether its a silly story or sentimental or…

jottednotes put out this short essay about people staggering their speechand i personally feel called out lolfor one id like to believe my typing styleof like breaking up sentences by newlines helpsit to stand out more and feel more stream of consiousnesslittle fragments of ideas being built up to a larger wholeadmittedly though, its more of a technical issuethe editor i use for these is "ed" since its the only onethat seemed to work under a ruby script under ssh andsince its a line based…

sentfrom me wrote a reply about the discussion of aiand i absolutely agree with itit really does feel like the endpoint of polarization, everyone is eithershouting from the rooftops about how itll revolutionize everything or rightfullypushing back, yes, but the anti ai stuff is equally as annoyingits like people being warned about not smoking, you either already arent smokingand have heard it a thousand times or are too far gone for a random advertto make you drop cold turkey, regardless of all…

about like fitting into a box and having a label you can describe yourself withim reminded of some advice ive seen elsewhereabout how you shouldnt base your identity on hobbiessince it leads to either doing it out of obligationor having to scramble to find a different identifieri think having that fluidity is really important and stuffbeing able to just go with the flow and not worry about thingsworrying about being a "real" artist or "real" musicianwould hepl a lot of people find their own…

for those who dont know, july is when artfight happensits basically like a little web game where you draw other peoplescharacters for points for your own teamand i admittedly get very invested in making drawings for it(25 drawings down in the 5 days its been running so far)af is a more extreme example of something i always strugged with though, andthats trying to have multiple hobbies going at oncelike its tricky to "balance" doing multiple projects and i end upfixating on one for a few weeks…

hi ho sorry its been so long ive been sorta down igwell like not always emotionally down justive been sleeping well enough but im still tiredanywaysin the newsplaystation removing 500 movies from paying customersanother story about lack of ownershipim really starting to get tired of theseripping my own dvds ftwin my lifewell ive been trying to hang out with friends at least a little moremostly rn its just playing video games butits been funive been streaming zeroescape: 999 with gs, and theyve…

this time on stealing links from bubblesjamesg made a post on blogger archetypes (i got explorer and author)and it made me think about personality quizzesand when i start thinking oh boy do i get to ramble(sorry in advance if this is incoherent)but like as someone with a lot of anxiety and not much ability to describe myselfpersonality quizzes and the like are absolutely fascinating and stuff to meas like a way to see what my tendencies make people think of methis one was relatively good i…

i mostly wanted to reply to this one to make the title joke :Panyways, there was a post here that discusses blog post titles and boy do i have thoughtsfirst of all, the prebuttal, i do think *some* people might be submitting their blogs to be more connected to thespace they care about and possibly get some replies and general attention and stuffthe problem might kinda be the sheer volume making it difficult to find the majority of peoplebut anywaysdescriptive titles, i sorta agree, but i can…

im not EXACTLY sure if tumbr counts as small web but its considered a dying platform, it offers native rss support, andthe blog im reading this from submitted theirs to a blog aggregatorso i think it counts ish even if i hate the site itselfanyways, i came across an article talking aboutthe inherent differences of game remakes and movie remakes, and questioning why movie remakes are frowned oni do agree that part of it is simply the lack of evolution in the movie space, since fundamental…

guess this is just going to be done on saturday now igoopsiein the newsi dont knowin my lifeit really does seem like i simply cant let myself be happy sometimes, huhlike if things are going good i just HAVE to find something new to stress on and ruin my entire moodujhh in other news gs and i have been calling more and streaming spike chunsoft games to each other which is funalso summer school is going ok ish besides HISTORY CLASS IS AWFULLblog postsi am not in the mood to do this rn ok i…