#File Hotlinking

[opendrive134]

OpenDrive   https://www.opendrive.com/ takes the headache out of the cloud by allowing you to easily share, manage, collaborate, and access all of your content online. Stay in sync with all of your data and never be without an important file again.

[kafus]

genuinely frustrated and upset about how much using neocities as a filehosting service is being spread everywhere. they disable hotlinking for non-html files for free accounts so it won’t even work properly for those purposes and even supporter accounts are asked not to be used as a file dump host directly by the website. neocities offers a service that no other website provides and that i think is extremely important, but they sure don’t make a ton of money doing it. please, please, do not use neocities as a filehost, they don’t want you to and i don’t want you to either. there is a reason they ask users not to

[hotguycomiczine]

Hi,I’ve been having problems trying to open the zine,it lets me stay on it for a minute and then kicks me to a white screen that says the request expired.do you know how to fix this?

Hello, one of our lovely contributors, @theminecraftbee, has written up a troubleshooting guide regarding this issue! We hope this will be able to assist you and if you have any further issues, let us know!

TROUBLESHOOTING GUIDE UNDER READ MORE!

How to troubleshoot the white screen error.

This is caused by your browser opening the download link as a new tab and viewing it as a URL instead of downloading the zine and saving it to your machine. Itch.io causes that URL to expire quickly to prevent hotlinking. The way to fix this is to save the zine to your machine as a PDF in some way, and then open it from your machine instead of the URL. Depending on your browser, there will be different ways to force this to happen.

Make sure your browser allows pop-ups! Itch itself says this can break the download if not.

Try temporarily turning off your adblock. This can interfere with downloads sometimes.

If on mobile, hit download and make sure the zine is open and currently visible. Then, on iOS, navigate to the "share" button. There should be an option to "save to my files"; do that, then read the zine from your files! (This didn't work well on Firefox mobile for some reason; you may wish to use Safari instead.) (I don't have an Android phone but any similar method of forcing a save should solve the problem there as well.)

If on desktop, make sure the zine is open and currently visible, then, if you're on desktop, navigate to the browser menu and find "Save page as..." Use this to save the zine if it did not automatically download. (On Firefox this is in the top menu; in Chrome you may need to move to 'more tools'.) This should give you a file saved to your machine that you can open and read. (Note: This issue could not be fully recreated on desktop, so there's no solid confirmation that this works.)

[qtcatbox]

Introducing Catbox Spaces! + Server Upgrades!

Hi there!

As we approach Catbox's 10th birthday (jeez I've been at this for a while.), I wanted to share something I've been working on in sort-of secret last year - Catbox Spaces!

Catbox Spaces

Catbox Spaces is a new, paid service I've been developing to help content creators share their content with their followers. It's designed to be a content publishing platform separated from social media sites and payment/subscription processors (as Catbox generally has a more… sensible Terms of Service/Acceptable Use Policy). A content creator who owns a Space can create content packs that can be viewed on the site, with measures taken to restrict downloading/hotlinking of the images. You can also create password protected content packs. This can be taken even further by tying your space in with your Patreon or SubscribeStar account to have access based on pledge tier. The Space is highly customizable too, letting you style it how you want. You can also see view statistics for not just your Space, but individual content packs too. Further planned features include automatic Glaze anti-AI protection, custom CSS (for those that want to get really in-depth with their customization), and more!

Note that the funding and expenses that I incur from this new endeavor is completely separate from Catbox's. Catbox will remain user funded, and user expense driven. Don't worry, I'm not going to become some big corpo. I've just seen what's been happening recently with sites like Imgur, Tumblr, and others heavily restricting NSFW content. I've even been seeing sporadic reports that Mega has been purging folders of NSFW content. That's one of the great things about Catbox Spaces - I'm not a corporation (well, technically Catbox LLC is, but it's just me!), plus, I actually care! Did you know I read about 4 abuse/content reports a day for Catbox? And I handle each one individually. Bet you Mega doesn't do that.

If you have any questions, please reach out to me via email! I am more than willing to answer any questions. Thank you all again for your support!

Server Upgrades

I've been a little quiet on here regarding upgrades, but I assure you that Catbox continues to grow - both physically and logically! As we've increased in size, so has the need to add additional storage. Some of you may have noticed the brief downtime back on the 26th of January - that was me putting in a new, larger, and much more powerful server for Catbox! Unfortunately I wasn't able to put it into production, but I am aiming to do so either this weekend or next! The new server brings with it new, redundant SSD storage for critical files, as well as a dedicated 87 TB of disk space for user files. Combined with the storage array that's currently attached to the old server, that brings Catbox's total on-premise storage capacity to 162 TB!

[e-rated-beardo]

All right fuck it, fandom brain help me out yeah?

I need your recs for places to host images and other files.

What I absolutely need; non-negotiable:

Allows hotlinking. Otherwise there's literally no point. I want to show things on AO3.

Allows NSFW and does not hide porns behind login walls, age restrictions or any such rubbish. Again, I want to show things on AO3. I sometimes make porn.

Stable permalinks. I don't want to go back and change out every link in a year's time.

Not too tiny size limits. That said, I rarely upload images larger than a few hundred kB apiece. Sound is a different beast, though.

What I want, ideally not negotiable but if I run out of options maybe (ugh) fine:

A reasonable amount of trust that the service will stay online for a long time. I don't want to go back and change out every link in a year's time.

The ability to collect my files in one place, like albums or a personal account, so I can easily find them without keeping a list of URLs somewhere.

The ability to delete (permanently) any of my files whenever I like.

The ability to upload things that aren't images. I have smutty podfics too.

Nice-to-haves:

Delivers files decently fast

Not owned by a gross or untrustworthy company (like Xitter or Meta, say)

Acceptable UI?

This post brought to you by apparently the Internet Archive doesn't actually like smut on their servers, despite not making that clear anywhere in their terms (don't worry, I fucking checked), and what they do when they find smut on their servers is they mark the whole "item" (a bucket of related files) as "adult" and "logged in only" and now every piece of art in Scorn and the Saint-Maker past chapter 18 is an empty box because there also isn't an appeals procedure even if you remove the explicit files from the bucket.

I've been thinking of getting a paid web hotel for my personal sites that's got better terms than my current, and if I get a secondary domain I could host there without doxing myself. But I emphatically do not want to make those decisions under time pressure, and it might be nicer to avoid it entirely. So. Here we are.

[seepweed]

Your site has convinced me to go make a neocities (tumblr glitching paranoia has gotten to me and by god I will be going back to the early 2000s if this place goes down) and oh my god coding is hard. I am in agony. Yes it's going to look very much like your site I am squinting so hard at your html trying to figure out how to do it. This is the worst looking thing I have ever made but there are three buttons that go nowhere now so I'm succeeding mildly at least

OMG PERCY!!! WELCOME TO THE NEOCITIES CRAZE!!! i'm literally so honoured to have inspired you to make a site. funnily enough, i *also* joined neocities after the tumblr-unfunctional-paranoia got to me, albeit in 2022. welcome to coding hell 😎

god, coding is hard. i hope you’re having fun, though. it's such a great hobby, once you're in The Zone. it’s a little like modeling a little clay image... digitally... anyways! i’m here to say: YOU’VE GOT THIS!!! feel free to reuse any code i’ve put down on octagon and PLEASE please please tell me your link!!! i want to look at it (regardless of “how much” is on there).

i’m sure you’re getting the hang on things fast, but since you activated my yapper mode, you now have to sit through unsolicited advice <3

if you’re looking for coding help, https://www.w3schools.com/ is a goldmine, as is https://htmlcheatsheet.com/. also, with CRTL+U you learn something new! ALWAYS investigate nice code to understand how they did that. and https://32bit.cafe/interactingontheweb/ has a lot of good tips for being social off of social media.

general rule of thumb is always: coding is digital arts + crafts. break your website. it’s more pronuctive than always coding in a breeze. never apologise for dropping off the earth and not updating in 6 weeks, 8 months or 15 years. some websites have been unmanned since 2001 and are still running, so don’t worry about it.

furthermore, i need to state that i'm a really bad example of a neocities coder LMAO. i code in the editor, i have 0 offline copies of my files and my form is chaotic at best. my website runs on pure html+css, i don't use javascript (yet) or iframes. most people code their sites in notepad, then run them in a compiler like https://playcode.io/html and THEN they post them to neocities. i am lazy. i do this directly IN neocities. don't be like me. save your page.

also. I’ve been doing this for 3 years. like, on the day for three years actually. here’s how my very first webpage looked in 2022:

anyways. HAVE FUN. MAKE FRIENDS. DON’T FORGET TO BE YOURSELF. SPARKLE ON!!! NEVER HOTLINK! you’ve got this, if you have any questions, feel free to ask. i’m not sure i will be able to answer, but we can try haha. and PLEASE TELL ME YOUR WEBSITE!!! i would love to look at it and in classic neocities fashion, i’d obviously LINK YOU.

and here’s some sites that are awesome :3

The Maximalists. mobile inaccessible, IMAGE HEAVY!

https://ninacti0n.art/ EYESTRAIN

https://olliveen.neocities.org/ EYESTRAIN

https://phrogee.neocities.org/ EYESTRAIN

The Webcartoonists. also image-heavy. also probably not mobile accessible.

The Minimalists.

[machine-saint]

it's not surprising i guess that people were using discord as a general purpose file host but it's definitely a contrast to when i was growing up where hotlinking was generally understood as a noob move and admins would often either block it based on referers or replace it with an imae saying "dont hotlink" or goatse or whatever

[sunny-in-gotham]

A free image hosting solution for AO3 and elsewhere - A Tutorial (mobile-friendly!)

See the demo site made from this template IN ACTION: https://hotlink-archive-template.pages.dev/

This guide is for an easy, mobile-friendly way to host files for hotlinking on AO3 or elsewhere, using github and cloudflare pages.

I've encountered far too many dead links in fanfics and forums simply because a hosting service decided to dump older files, or they decided to change their TOS to no longer allow hotlinking or certain kinds of content (nsfw, fictional graphic content). See Optional Steps for even more options.

This is an easy, barebones way to permanently host images that you don't want deleted unexpectedly or that you can't host elsewhere. (Emphasis on barebones. This will not be a nice portfolio style site. Unless you decide to code that yourself!) You can follow the link above for an example of this type of site.

It is also EASY to upload and use on mobile devices after initial setup!

Tools you will need:

Cloudflare Pages/Workers is a free to use static site hosting service. This will publish your files and make them available online. This will publish your files and make them available online. There is a limit to the amount of data you can upload for free, but you can pay for proper hosting if you want to exceed it.

Github is a code sharing/storage platform. Your files will go here first before being published on Pages. You can edit and upload files through your browser at github.com, or through Github Desktop, a program you install on your computer. There are limits to Github repositories, but they are also generous (suggested 1GB to 5GB per repo).

Basic Setup

1. Create a github account

2. Copy this template repository hotlink-archive-template

Your website will be contained in a repository, a place where all the files and the revision history for your project are stored.

This template repository uses an "Action" (using python) to automatically create a "home" page with an Index of all the files in your repository every time it is updated.

NOTE: I recommend you set your repository to Private. Github's history feature is extensive, so if you have sensitive content or think you might want to delete something later, it will be hard to get rid of it completely once it's been committed and publicly available.

3. Enable Action permissions

In order for the Action script to work, you need to give Actions permission to read and write in your repository.

Within your repository, go to the tab Settings > Actions > General > Workflow Permissions

4. Create a Cloudflare account

5. Create a Pages (or Workers) project and link it to your Github repository

Your Pages project will create the front end of the site where the images will be displayed. You will be able to link those images to other platforms like AO3.

You can create either a Workers or Pages project by going to Add > Pages (or Workers). Name your project WISELY! This name will be your site's URL.

Workers vs. Pages

Workers is subsuming Pages on Cloudflare and now has all the same static hosting capabilities, in addition to its original server-side processing services. If you'd like to, read more about this.

While Workers has similar capabilities, I recommend Pages for this project. Pages has the added bonus of a cleaner URL if you do not have your own domain: “MySite.pages.dev” in Pages vs Workers' “MySite.username.workers.dev”

You will be prompted to import an existing Git repository. You will need to give it access to your Github to do this.

Select the repository on your Github you made for your project, then hit "Begin Setup".

Name your project WISELY! This name will be your site's URL.

You do not need to change any settings on the next page, so hit "Save and Deploy". Your image hosting site will now be live!

The URL will be "https://ProjectName.pages.dev". It may take a few minutes to become accessible.

Now you're done with the basic setup!

How to Add files

You can add any files you want to link to on AO3/elsewhere through mobile, desktop browser, or the Github desktop program!

Here is how to do it on Github.com:

Open up the repository that you made (it can be found at github.com/username/repositoryname). You will see a list of folders and files that are in that repository.

Click into the folder "fan-stuff".

In the top right, go Add file > Upload files and drag in the images you want added. You will need to name the images BEFORE you upload them, as there is not an easy renaming feature within Github's browser interface.

In the Commit changes box, choose a title for what action you are doing. This will help you backtrack uploads if needed.

For example, it could be "Uploaded Batman Art". Make sure it's set to "commit directly to the main branch", then commit those changes. This will upload the files.

Now, if you visit your site, you will see your uploaded image under the "fan-stuff" folder!

To embed/link your image, navigate to your file on your Pages site and copy the URL in the address bar. This URL is what you will use to embed your photo (using HTML or "add image as URL" tools some sites have).

Continue onto More Setup to customize your site and implement more advanced settings. See Tips/Troubleshooting if you're running into problems.

More Setup

Perform site customization/advanced setup with Github Desktop on your PC

Github’s web UI is great, but it has major limitations. I highly recommend that you use Github Desktop during the initial setup, as well as when you want to make major organizational changes to your files/site. Once you have everything set, though, you can use Github in your browser to upload whatever files you want to hotlink at the moment.

Download Github Desktop and “clone” (download a copy of) the repository you made.

This is the best time to rename/rearrange folders + files, etc.

There are other methods in the Troubleshooting section if you need, but Github Desktop is by far the easiest way

see Adding/Renaming Folders for important info on how to properly rename/add folders

see About the Index Page for how to customize your Index pages

Once you’re done editing, “push” (upload) all the changes you made to your online Github repository.

Having some sort of text editor like Notepad++ is useful for editing any code, the automatic color-coding is very helpful. You can edit in plain old Notepad as well, it just won’t look as nice.

About the Index Page

The template repository uses a python Action to automatically create an HTML "home" page with an Index of ALL the files in the folder every time it is updated.

This is particularly convenient for mobile use, as you can upload a file, and the python action automatically updates the Index page.

If you don’t want this, just disable the “create-index” Action and delete the .py files. You can just type in the file locations to get to each file, or you can manually maintain an home/Index page yourself, which isn't hard if you know some basic HTML and can remember to do it consistently.

Also note that if you wish to change any of the content on your Index pages, you must edit the "index.py" file, not the "index.html" file. The "index.html" file gets re-written every time the "create-index" Action is run in order to keep the file index up to date.

Adding/Renaming/Deleting Folders

Disclaimer: This is a bit convoluted because I am extremely unqualified to be working with python OR HTML. There’s probably an easy way to do this, but I don’t have the skill to do it, and most of the stuff here is copied from stuff I found around. If you know a better way to do things, please let me know, it’d make my life easier too!

Adding or renaming folders involves some extra steps.

1. The "index.py" file inside the folder needs to be edited to match the parent folder name.

The place you need to do this is found near the top of the file (highlighted below)

2. Then the outer-most "create-index.py" file needs to be updated to match the new name as well. If you’ve added a new folder, duplicate and adjust the code to match.

The place you need to do this is found at the bottom (highlighted below)

If you don’t need any folders at all, great! Just delete them and their contents! No need to edit any files. (Don’t delete “index.html” or “create-index.py” or “.github/workflows”!)

If you would like to have these folders for later use, leave them as-is and simply edit the index files.

The relevant lines of code at the bottom of "create-index.py" like in the previous step for renaming folders. You may delete this code, or comment it out (using # at the beginning of a line will make it “invisible” to the computer)

Then, add the folder’s name to the “exclusions” list at the top of the "create-index.py" file so that it doesn’t show up on your Index page (highlighted below)

You can also use this same concept to create "invisible" files/folders. Any files/folders included in the "exclusions" list in "(create-)index.py" will not be listed on the Index page, however they can still be found through the direct URL to the file.

On the flipside, this means simply hiding the file/folder from the Index page does not get rid of the file from your site. Anyone who has the URL will be able to find that file unless you remove it, or move its location to change the URL

Tips/Troubleshooting

(Re)name your files before uploading

It’s not possible to rename image/media files on Github’s web UI (it is possible with the local Git program). The "create-index" Action lists out the names of your files exactly, so you will end up with ugly strings of numbers and letters on your Index page if you don't rename them, which is terrible to look at and also plain old CONFUSING to navigate.

So if you're uploading on mobile or through Github on browser, name your files with easy to remember and distinctive filenames before you go ahead and upload them. This makes everything much easier, and it makes your Index page look nice :)

My website isn’t updating when I edit my Github repository!

Check to see if your Pages is retrieving from the correct branch, and if it has automatic deployments enabled.

Can’t see your Github repository when trying to link it on Cloudflare?

Check your Github applications Repository Access settings. Go to your ACCOUNT Settings > Integrations - Applications > Cloudflare > Repository Access

Index action is failing!

Go back to step 3 in Basic Setup and check if you’ve given Actions permission to read and write. If that’s not the issue, check to see if you’ve set up your "index.py" files correctly. The folder names should correspond to the parent folders, and the "create-index.py" file in the outer-most folder should have the correct folder names at the VERY BOTTOM.

How do I rename a folder (or move a file) in Github’s web UI?

It isn’t possible to directly rename a folder in Github’s web UI, doing it using Git on your computer is the most foolproof way to do it. But there is a way (except for media files).

Go into the folder you want to rename and select a file such as “index.html” and enter the “edit” mode.

Go to the file name and backspace until you can edit the parent folder name as well. This will create a new folder with the new name.

You’ll have to do this to every file in the folder until they’re all in the new folder.

Unfortunately, you can’t do this with media files like png/jpg/etc, because entering the “edit” mode on a photo “breaks” it somehow, and bye-bye image :’) (Don’t worry if this happens, just don’t commit the change or roll it back in your history).

Optional Steps

Make deployment (semi-)Manual

You can play with cloudflare and github to make deployment of your site a manual step you have to trigger, instead of automatic with each commit (default setting). This is a safeguard in case you accidentally make a change or delete something from your github, it won't affect your website.

Deploy w/ Branches

You could do a semi-automatic deployment with a "Production" branch on your github that is separate from the branch you edit. This creates an extra step before anything is published on Cloudflare. A safeguard against accidental changes/deletion of sorts :)

Go to Settings > Build tab > Branch Control

Choose your Production Branch (MAIN or CLOUDFLARE) and enable (or disable) automatic deployments

If you choose MAIN, every change you commit to MAIN will be published to Pages

If you choose CLOUDFLARE, any changes you make to MAIN will not show up on your Pages site until you Pull from MAIN to CLOUDFLARE

To Pull changes from MAIN to CLOUDFLARE, go to your github repository

Above your files on the Left, you will see a toggle to choose which branch you are on.

Choose Cloudflare. There will be a message like "This branch is 7 commits ahead of, 2 commits behind main." Click "2 commits behind"

Click "Create a Pull Request". Then click "Merge Pull Request". If everything is correct, this should trigger a build on your Cloudflare

Deploy w/ Github Actions

Or you can create a manual command that you have to enter on github to trigger a deployment on cloudflare. If you're paranoid about anything happening to your site due to a mishap on the Github side, this is a safe choice. Unless you manually trigger the command, your Pages site will be completely untouched no matter if something happens to your repo.

This can be done in many ways, I think the most straightforward is with Deploy Hooks (maybe in conjunction with Actions if you want to make it mobile-friendly), and might be a bit complicated, but not too hard to figure out with some Google-fu.

Here’s some links I think will be useful (note: I don’t use this method, so these haven’t been tested)

Manual trigger action tutorial

How to configure Github webooks

Storing Locally instead of on Github

Although this guide is written with Cloudflare's Github integration in mind, particularly for easy online/mobile access, you can also keep your files locally on your PC and directly upload your assets onto your Pages project. This gives you full control over what happens to your files. (Keeping backups is a good idea. You can still use Github Desktop to do this, just keep your repository on your PC.)

Simply clone/download the repository as it is, customize it as you like, and create a NEW Pages project on Cloudflare, using "Direct Upload" to upload your files

Once you have connected a Pages project with Github, there is no way to change the deployment method to Direct Upload or vice versa. Direct Upload is also not available for Workers.

One thing that will NOT work the same is the "create-index" Action that only works on Github.

I have made a "create-index.exe" that will execute the "create-index.py" files in the exact same way as they would work with the Action. You do not have to install python for this to work (if I did everything right). Simply run "create-index.exe" whenever you make a change and want to update the "index.html" files

Remember, this is EXACTLY THE SAME as the "create-index" Action, meaning you have to edit each "index.py" file when you rename folders, add a folder, want to exclude a file from the Index page, etc. (See Adding/Renaming Folders for how to do this)

Find me on Bluesky. Or if you have a problem, open an Issue on this project :)

I'll try to answer your questions as best I can! But really, I am the most amateur of amateurs and figured this all out using Google, so I might not be of much help ^^;

I also recommend Squidge Images (an offshoot of Squidge.org) as a fairly trustworthy alternative. However, Squidge Images does have some additional rules that Squidge does not, and what crosses the line is at their discretion.

I also posted this over on AO3!

[abberantmachine]

oh, huh. Okay.

I was looking for the original post for a while talking about Neocities file hosting and where it says explicitly that you need an alternative place to host image files. Because I couldn't find what exactly OP was talking about for ages and I wanted to be very clear on what the explicit policy was for that.

The link leads to this article on hotlinking.

basically it doesn't say that you can't host images on Neocities, just that, you shouldn't use it to dump files that are going to be primarily hot-linked to by other sites.

in fact

"You're still better off hosting the images on the site's own server." kind of implies if you are indeed using Neocities as the primary site host is it better to use it for that ends.

I feel like there might have been some miscommunication going on here with the way people talk about putting image files on Neocities directly...?

[opendrive134]

OpenDrive   https://www.opendrive.com/file-linking-with-opendrive   has also taken File hotlinking one step further by creating the ability to set a ‘per download price’. This allows owners of original content to distribute their work or services across the web through direct links, all while using a PayPal account to receive funds paid.

[sephesisweek]

Sephesis Week 2024 is Officially DONE!

Posts will continue to be reblogged to the main account until this Sunday, so it's fine if you're running a little behind! The Archive collection will also remain open for submissions until that time, so make sure your work is added before it closes on January 14th.

Sephesis Week will return January 1st of 2025, with the prompt list to be revealed November 13th, 2024. Here's to doing it all again next year!

As a special thank-you to everyone who took part, Sephesis Week organizer @getvalentined has created a set of "badges" for all participants to use in profiles, to print off for personal use, and to repost on your own social media to let everyone know about your contribution to the event!

I Participated in Sephesis Week 2024 ▏ For anyone who filled at least one prompt over the course of the event. This event literally wouldn't have happened without you!

I Completed Sephesis Week 2024 ▏ For anyone who filled seven prompts total over the course of the event. You did it! You climbed the whole mountain!

I Did Sephesis Week 2024 (and I was super spicy about it) ▏ This one is specifically for creators whose prompt fills were on the adult side, whether truly explicit or otherwise. Sugar is nice, but we all love some spice!

Standard Size: 1000x1000px (for small prints and reposts)

These can be printed off up to 3x3 inches in size without losing clarity, allowing you to pin them to a joyboard, run them off on adhesive material to make your own stickers, use the files to make your own buttons—the sky is the limit! These are also the best size to repost on your own social media without looking particularly grainy, so if you want to share your badge to celebrate your participation, use one of these files!

EVENT GUIDELINES ▏ FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ▏ DIRECTORY

See other resolutions and suggested uses under the cut! ↓

Small Size: 200x200px (for profiles and webpages)

Note that tumblr doesn't allow hotlinking of images hosted on their platform, so you'll have to save these and host them somewhere else if you want to show them off somewhere! If you don't have access to your own image host, you can embed using the code from the following links:

I Participated in Sephesis Week 2024

I Completed Sephesis Week 2024

I Did Sephesis Week 2024 (and I was super spicy about it)

(These links may eventually break or run out of bandwidth, so using your own image host is still recommended!)

Full Resolution: ≈2500x2500px (recommended for larger prints)

I Participated in Sephesis Week 2024

I Completed Sephesis Week 2024

I Did Sephesis Week 2024 (and I was super spicy about it)

At their native size, these files are about 8.5 inches (21 cm) square at a resolution of 300dpi; there are a lot of options on what to do with these files, so it's entirely up to you.

NOTE: These badges are provided for personal use by participants of Sephesis Week 2024 and may be resized or given minor color corrections for theme matching. The badges may not be copied, traced, or otherwise modified, used commercially, added to machine learning datasets, fed into image generators of any kind, utilized in any form of blockchain technology, used to facilitate any kind of harassment, or for any purposes unrelated to this event.

[toyhou-se-drama]

Agree with the back up anon. I'm just there like "you mean, you don't have back ups in at least 3 different places?". Always back up your stuff! Save them on your PC/phone/tablet, make a private Imgur gallery, use File Garden, make a private Discord server where you can dump (no hotlinking though) your stuff! If you can invest in an external hard drive or a USB stick etc. then consider it. I'd make a tutorial but alas, I avoid talking in the forums. Maybe I'll get a throwaway account for that...

🦫

[kiunlo]

im genuinely so fucking pissed off that filegarden was blocked by telstra like. it was the ONE place i knew about that i could host .cur files for FREE which let me use .cur cursors on my website and also my tumblrs. and i switched to using filegarden to host many of my images for flight rising dragon bios because i realised using neocities to hotlink stuff wasn't allowed. but now i'm thinking i might HAVE to go back to using neocities if filegarden isn't unblocked because i might not have much else of a choice unless there's something else out there similar to filegarden that won't also be fucking targetted by telstra. what a load of fucking BULLSHIT!!!

also if you're seeing this post please look at this post which details how to report the website as safe to telstra if you wanna help out.

[lighthouse-app]

Image Update

Lighthouse just got an update to upload images to your alters' pages. Here's the caveats:

The image cannot be more than 2MB.

The image should be a gif, png, jpg, bmp or webp.

The image will be cropped in a square to the top center part.

Images are stored in a way that doesn't allow hotlinking. This is because the image itself isn't actually stored as a file.

You can clear the uploaded image on the "Edit [name]" page.

This uploaded image shows on the alter's page, their archived page (if applicable), and their forum posts.

[zahri-melitor]

hey do u have any other side blogs on tumblr

Yes, but not in the way you mean. I have one I use for file storage to allow me to hotlink images to places that don’t have native storage. I don’t have another where you can find my insights on other topics.

[yourheartisstrange]

Below you’ll find my rules, I’d appreciate if you took a minute to read through them! (〃＾▽＾〃)

Material Rules

Please credit me if you use any material I have made, by either linking back to this tumblr (@yourheartisstrange), my graphics website (strangeheart.neocities.org) or my personal website (summerkaptilo.neocities.org)

If you are taking from the Strangeheart website, please do not hotlink and save the files to your own webspace. I have a habit of deleting and reorganising my folders without warning and it’ll break your images

Please do not use my material on blogs or websites with bigoted or otherwise inflammatory content. Use on blogs or websites with 18+ or otherwise NSFW content is fine

Personal use only!! I do not allow commerical useage of my materials

You may use my material on any site you wish, so long as credit is given

You may use my material for anything you'd like, so long as credit is given

The only exception to the above is to not redistribute my material, for example graphics compelation websites

While not exactly necessary, a like or reblog of posts with graphics you use would be appreciated.

You may make minor edits to my materials (example; changing the colours slightly), but only for personal usage and you may not redistribute your edits

Resource Rules

While credit for my resources is not necessary, I would still appreciate a link back either to this tumblr (@yourheartiststrange), my graphics website (strangeheart.neocities.org) or my personal website (summerkaptilo@neocities.org)

If you are taking from the Strangeheart website, please do not hotlink and save the files to your own webspace. I have a habit of deleting and reorganising my folders without warning and it’ll break your images

Personal use only!! I do not allow commerical useage of my resources

Resources are available with the intent of being used to created new graphics with them. As such, I would prefer them to be use for this purpose rather than just as is

You may use my resources to create most forms of content, such as blends, icons or even memes.

Please do not repost or redistribute my resources or otherwise claim them as your own

While not exactly necessary, a like or reblog of posts with resources you use would be appreciated.

Please don’t use my resources to created bigoted or other inflammatory content.

Request Rules

Please only send requests when they are open. Requests sent when my status is closed will be ignored.

I create graphics, web material & resources for fun in my spare time so it may take me a while to get to your request. Please be patient.

Please be polite when requesting, aggressive or otherwise rude comments will be ignored.

I reserve the right to turn down your requests for a variety of reasons.

I currently am only interested in creating graphics and resources for fandoms I am either a member of or am at least familiar with. This might change in the future, but for now this is my preference.