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So! I feel the need to update yall on the state of things,.
Patreon is a good way to support me, but if you want all of my art in it's full resolution, become a donator (through patreon or paypal) and *make sure you join my discord*. I post everything in the donator channels there.
I just don't trust Patreon's moderation anymore, and so I only post the most milquetoast of things there.
I don't post full rez things here b/c they're literally too big for FA, haha. I can only post them through discord with a nitro subscription.
That said: I also make sure to vet people's ages w/ an id check (in a thread that will be deleted) before they're allowed full access to the server. (proof of a donation is needed for the donation channels)
Without this age check, we occasionally had people who were underage just lying their way through--and I am deeply opposed to kids being in adult spaces, even if they think they're ready for it. My server is a place for adults only.
I know that will put a lot of people off and I am okay with that. It's a measure that keeps everyone in my server safe.
(it also cuts way way way down on bot joins, coincidentally. They never make it past the babygate)
...Well, anyway. I just wanted to say, that I post a buncha art and generally open commissions first there. I know the age verif is annoying but I genuinely think it makes the space better.
Consider joining? Or don't. I don't know. I just wanted to express that in this world of dumbass websites n apps blocking and banning everything even vaguely outside the norm, I have a pretty safe server with a decent amount of vetting. You need to be an adult and abide by the rules. That's all.
Anyway.
Happy holidays yall!
I'll be posting a bunch of art soon. Probably. Maybe. I've got a backlog from moving, haha.
See you soon!
https://discord.gg/UWRTxHWUDj
there are some lossy* formats that might give you more flexibility with where you can post if that's something that you want
I recommend Caesium as a free offline compression tool if you want to look into that and experiment, I find that it's very easy to use and hasn't added any time to my work flow
Ideally, it's kind of good practice to lower file sizes on sites like discord and fa as it lowers server space requirements for them anyway
*(unlike lossless, lossy compression incurs some minor data loss that is mostly invisible to the human eye, I rely on it for game dev due to the need to keep filesizes as low as possible and an 80% reduction is kinda worth that very very minor fidelity loss)
I mean, I pay to be able to upload the biggies to discord--there's no other reason I am on nitro besides that I want to be able to pose the big n nice pictures.
(plus, there's a certain comfort in having a couple places where these images are backed up--if they were in a lossy format they might degrade over time. It's a small contributing factor but it gives me some peace of mind, haha.)
the compression just takes the image and reduces the file size without visibly altering the picture or the picture's size by just simplifying the file
it's the difference between this
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachme.....70d1693f5f&;
and this
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachme.....69bec69ccf36ba
one is just a 100kb while the other 600, won't say which
Given that discord is probably compressing your images significantly more than what this does anyway, I would recommend looking into it, just going off of the benefits I've been reaping from it
And I def don't mind haha. I'm the sort that's always looking for new ways to improve my art/processes, so I never mind hearing about what's worked for other artists o:
well as someone who's neutered a lot of art to fit online requirements over the years and hated it every time, learning how to properly use img compression software has been the biggest improvement to my flow this year
I was referring to offline tools like Caesium that massively compress images by algorithmically simplifying the structure of the images themselves.
Can people just like, not assume that I'm talking about something else?
They've been around for ages, the best ones have nothing to do with google, they don't change the filetype of an image; a png remains a png,
they just simplify the arrangement of pixels to reduce how much memory they require for storage, this can affect an image in a very light manner or a very heavy manner, sometimes it introduces artefacts depending on the settings you use, the aggressiveness of it comes down to what you want and need (I choose highly aggressive options as I don't mind the artefacts and prefer to shrink the size of my web footprint and keep my projects as small as possible
Again, I was not talking about google or filetypes or whatever the fuck
they're in locked off part of the server from everyone else till they're vetted so no one else can see/get exposure to the link in order to copy it elsewhere
my mods have no reason to keep these images (and they wouldn't be my mods if I didn't trust them completely, even with my information)
So--basically, I just don't think it's a significant risk.
Also, what does the adult verification actually look like? As in, is it grabbing & posting a pic of an ID and then deleting the thread when approved/denied? (I read the convo with Squig above, but I'm trying to understand the actual risk/exposure...)
Honestly, the stuff that's most exclusive to the Discord are things like commission openings, doodle events, stuff like that. I've been working on a big group chibi picture for a few months now! Its got like 50 people in it, haha.
I do doodles and such sometimes that def don't make it anywhere on the internet proper because I don't think of them as real art. Don't know if that even counts haha.
As far as age verif process goes:
starting it opens a private channel that is only visible to the mods (who do verification) and the person opening the ticket. It's not in an open part of the server.
Mods will ask for an ID proving age (can blot out everything on the ID but birthdate and face) and a selfie with a requested hand gesture (like a peace sign or a ok sign) to prove that it's you and not like, your parents or something
after verification is done, the ticket is closed and the channel it was opened in is deleted, along with the images within
Sometimes it takes a bit for a mod to be online at the same time (the team is like 4 people atm) but it's a genuinely very small and trusted group.
Totally understand if that's too much for you--but it genuinely makes me feel a lot more comfortable knowing everyone on the server is 18+