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).