Monday, February 23, 2015

The Good, the Meh, and the Ugly

The (Very, Very!) Good: Suddenly, both Hailey Pixley and Loki have reappeared! Loki is back up and running at the same digs as before, and you can find Ms. Pixley herself at her new blog.

Edit: I had archived all of Hailey's old caps, and you can download them here: part 1, part 2, and part 3.

The (Unsurprising) Meh: Despite plenty of ideas, I still haven't finished any new caps.

The Ugly: Today, I received the following email from Blogger:


Dear Blogger User,
We're writing to tell you about an upcoming change to the Blogger Content Policy that may affect your account.
In the coming weeks, we'll no longer allow blogs that contain sexually explicit or graphic nude images or video. We'll still allow nudity presented in artistic, educational, documentary, or scientific contexts, or where there are other substantial benefits to the public from not taking action on the content.
The new policy will go into effect on the 23rd of March 2015. After this policy goes into effect, Google will restrict access to any blog identified as being in violation of our revised policy. No content will be deleted, but only blog authors and those with whom they have expressly shared the blog will be able to see the content we've made private.
Our records indicate that your account may be affected by this policy change. Please refrain from creating new content that would violate this policy. Also, we ask that you make any necessary changes to your existing blog to comply as soon as possible, so that you won't experience any interruptions in service. You may also choose to create an archive of your content via Google Takeout (https://www.google.com/settings/takeout/custom/blogger).
For more information, please read here (https://support.google.com/blogger?p=policy_update).
Sincerely,

The Blogger Team

(c) 2015 Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043

Damnit! This is likely going to kill Blogger as an effective platform for the TG captions community. I don't have much content (or many viewers), but there are many cappers who have years of posts and thousands of caps who will likely be needing new homes. Tumblr is still an option, but what stops them from following Google's/Blogger's lead? DeviantArt is another way to go, but their admins seem trigger happy on suspending accounts when any too-sensitive/too-prudish viewer starts flagging.

Does anyone have any better ideas?

Update: Disqus integrates well with Tumblr, so that might provide an improved replacement commenting system. It also allows the site admin to import comments from sites like Blogger (as well as backing them up and/or exporting them from Disqus).

6 comments:

  1. Hello, I love to read captions, and I really do appreciate you archiving the Tights Spot site that was closed down. I would like to know if you archived any of the following sites that closed down: Coerced Into Dresses, In Nylons Now, or Rebecca's World? if not do you know where on the net I could find the captions and slide shows from these wonderful sites?

    Thank You for your help

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    1. I'm glad to have been of help with the Tight's Spot caps. :)

      I don't have anything from Coerced Into Dresses or In Nylons Now (didn't even know about them), but I should have nearly all Rebecca's World download/archived. I'll round them up and see if I can get them posted this evening.

      FYI, I just ran across Fem/Fluxx literally last night. At first glance, at least a couple of the PDF megacaps there would seem to be some of Ms. Molay's work, or at least a very similar successor.

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    2. OK, it's taken longer than I expected because I didn't realize just much there was: 5.95 GB(!!!) I've started uploading it in chunks...

      All the JPG captions
      1st half of the PDFs: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, part 8, part 9, part 10.

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    3. Hello Josie, Thank you for posting the slide show files from Rebecca's site and the location of another site with the same type content. Do you have more content to upload or sites to go to for more slide shows? If not thank you very much for taking time to do this. Reading tg or forced feminized captions is one of my favorite hobbies.

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    4. Sorry, my Internet access has still been intermittent, and it's a bit slow (DSL) when I do have it, but there is more: part 11, part 12, part 13, part 14, part 15, and part 16.

      I'll try to get parts 17-26 uploaded as soon as I can.

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