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5/9/2022:
 
Part 1 of the Great Avatar Rework has been completed.

This is a pretty significant policy change, and I would like to air it before it’s agreed to.
 
Consider this image:
 

 
It’s recently a trend for artists to simply screenshot their art programs. (It’s faster than saving and usually easier than exporting, anyways.) However, this is also used for a lot of art that is not actually intended to be posted to galleries anywhere, or for sketches that won’t get finished and published.
 
I’m thinking about changing Rule 1 to mention these workspace screenshot WIPs as explicitly outside the realm of what may be uploaded on AMS. To wit, changing:
 

 
To:
 

 
The governing clauses here are “publicly released” and “WIPs not intended for publication.” If you’re the artist posting your own workspace screenshots, then you have the ability to post your own workspace screenshots - you can always publicly release your own art. If you’re posting some piece of art where it’s interacting with the interface by design (e.g., Sonic commenting on the artist), then it’s not a WIP, it’s part of the design. But it’d keep artists from having to worry about every throwaway screenshot they show their friends.

5/6/2022:
 
Unexpected forgetting to unset an enviroment variable downtime of about 2 hours.
 
It looks like some uploads may have been lost in that time.

3/30/2022:  
The About Uploading guide now has a a suggested order of priority of which sites to use in the Source tag.

List of options when submitting a report.

The images used when anonymous users try to upload things

@Mobian #BBDF
 
Thank you!

AMS has had a fundraising page up for over a year… and not had anything to put into it, besides requesting supporting the parent project. During this prealpha period, that’s been fine. But the site is growing, registrations are picking up (even though I’ve never advertised this site…) and new content appears every day. Soon it’ll be time to expand the core server and add 1-2 more servers, which means it’ll be a bit more than $2/day!
 
There is one hard requirement which has stymied my personal search: Any services must allow adult content. Smut has never been a focus of AMS, but we definately do not want to have to start splitting hairs over what is and what is not allowed at an arbitrary time down the road, or have to do a literal decimation of our database.
 
So, I turn to you, the Mobians of mobius.social: What services have you used and can recommend? I am looking for:
 
• a recurring patronage system (Patreon-style),  
• a one-off donation system (Ko-Fi-style), and  
• a merchandise system (RedBubble style).
 
Any and all suggestions would be appreciated.

2/7/2022:  
It’s been a while since we changed the quick tag chart! Surge and Kit have been added, and some sections expanded.
 
Totally didn’t cause a crash upon reboot.

12/12/2021:  
Brief downtime earlier today thanks to log4shell. Used the downtime in order to apply some other updates that had been pending a bit. Total downtime 40 minutes.

3/10/2021:  
Small alteration to rule 1: ‘adoptables’ explicitly added to the list of commercial art that may not be uploaded to AMS.
 
This is not much of a rules change since it already was pretty clear not to put up art from art packs.

2/24/2021:
 
Changed our deployment system in the backend. Also took the opportunity to run some software updates and set up a second backup system; total downtime 1h 15m.
 
Brief explainer: Because we didn’t notice Philomena had a deployment script, we built our own that would run backups, then pull code from the dev repo and reboot. Philomena’s deployment script is based on the server pushing code triggering commands, including the ones that handled such things as database migrations and in-place restarts. Now we should be using Philomena’s deployment code… hopefully.

2/18/2021:
 
In the backend, the backup script has been changed from storing 7 days of backups to 3 days of backups.

2/3/2020:
 
Rule 5.4 has been removed.
 
Rationale: We were a bit too overzealous, and accidentally banned pictures of some important Sonic characters - Maria Robotnik, Princess Elise, and Chris Throndyke among them. A similar rule will be added in the future.

We’re looking for more Sonic-related and Sonic-adjacent sites to advertise on AMS. Fangames, webcomics, community resources; anything you’d want to show off to welcome a new Sonic fan.
 
Give me your best suggestions!
 
If you want to come up with a banner, the dimensions should be 700 × 90, and static, not animated.

2/22/2021:
 
Changes to the quick tag table.
 
Sonic Prime added to the Default filter for spoilers.

@Sonata Dusk
 
Fixed. It was a one-character typo, “-” instead of “=”.

The icon to the left of ‘art.mobius.social’ in the header bar.

1/31/2021:
 
Changed suggested tag list from Equestrian to Mobian.
 
Changed Equestrian injokes to Mobian injokes for approval/disapproval votes.

Oh, here’s a real subtle one - the hover-overs for upvotes and downvotes are “Yay!” and “Neigh!”
 
Maybe “Cool!” and “No good!”

If you click ‘share’ below any image it gives a block of BBCode that includes a link to ‘localhost:4000’.

It’s probably saving us from a lot of “Meme Approved” uploads killing the server, but we should probably fix video uploads.

@Sonata Dusk  
Taken care of.