#I HATE WEB 2.0. I HATE WEB 2.0.

[elbiotipo]

The technology of "loading up images in order when you're visiting a fucking website" was common knowledge in the ancient civilization of "1997-2008" and then it was lost forever... nobody knows how it works anymore

[bluespring864]

noooooooooooo rafolearchive 😭 im so sad why cant people on here be normal

That's a very good question. but it's tumblr, none of us has ever been particularly normal i guess (i usually mean that as a compliment, but not quite so much in these cases of constant passive-agressive and sometimes openly agressive behaviour from people who haven't understood 'ship and let ship' it seems). But I'd like to stress again that I do not know why the rafolearchive deactivated, there could be lots of other reasons for it.

[weed-cat]

idk something about getting a paid promotional email from a skincare popup brand called DRMTLGY feels like a parody

[teaandinanity]

Oh. I think YouTube maybe finally made good on that 'if you don't connect this to a google account we WILL nuke it' threat. Ughhhhh.

[wistfulvulpine]

bad news i started downloading my exported blog, completely forgetting this blog has been kicking for 13 years

[theguest2]

everything is a fucking spotify link nowadays

[lineffability]

"Crowley."

Crowley froze, every atom of his body coming to a complete standstill. Aziraphale had appeared out of nowhere, just like that, and he felt like a fly in a spider's web, like he had just run against a glass door that he could not have seen. Oh, this was cruel. He did not turn around.

"Don't even use doors anymore?" He tried to keep his voice level, cold, unaffected. He failed considerably, but the message got across anyways.

"I'm sorry," Aziraphale said, immediately flinching at the words. The first time they were seeing each other again, after-- after that, and his first words were I'm sorry and he was apologizing for not using a door? Aziraphale felt like swearing, but could not. "I thought you wouldn't open if I-- well. I thought this was easier. Like a bandaid."

"Well, you were right. I wouldn't have." Steel was creeping into Crowley's voice, steel around his heart. With a forcing of limbs, he spun around, his gaze piercing through the armor of his sunglasses. Facing him.

"I need your help" Aziraphale said.

"What," Crowley said. He had possibly never put as much meaning into a single word. The glass door turned into a Great Wall. Aziraphale understood. But he was willing to climb.

The angel (oh, a true angel now, wasn't he--not his angel) fumbled, talking with his hands before his mouth even opened. Talking with his eyes, too, but they got lost in translation. Repelled by a black mirror.

"I know this is untoward. I know it's-- But Crowley, I don't have a lot of time."

"Nothing lasts forever, yeah," Crowley spat, hating himself the second the words left his lips. Unnecessary cruelty. Demonic, huh? Worse yet, Aziraphale accepted the verbal lashing. Don't forgive me, Crowley thought.

Crowley looked at him. He was still wearing his suit, there was tartan in it, but it had become polished, the worn edges returned to pristine, boring perfection. He looked prim. Proper. Perhaps this hurt most of all.

"Why are you here?"

Aziraphale glanced upwards. Then he looked intently at Crowley. I don't have much time. Right. He couldn't speak freely, Crowley realized. Of course he couldn't. This was exactly what he had been afraid of, what he had known would happen. His angel in chains. (Yet here he was. Here he was.)

"They don't know I'm here," Aziraphale mumbled, gesticulating weakly between them and Up. "I guess I can divert their attention now, for a bit. Comes with the new powers"--he shrugged helplessly--"but not for long. Crowley, do you know about-- about the-- what they're--"

"Armageddon 2.0? Sure."

There was an undecipherable look in Aziraphale's eyes. "Why didn't you-- well. It's not just. I mean it kind of is--it's. More than that. Crowley, I need you to do something for me."

"No."

"This is important." (This isn't about us.)

"I don't care." (There is no us anymore.)

"You do! You always have."

"Oh not this again," Crowley hissed. "You were an angel once. You can be forgiven. Shut up."

"That's not what I meant."

With two long, angry strides, Crowley closed the space between them. Menace, anger, hurt-- "Then what did you mean?" He spat the words. Like a weapon. (Then why was it a question?)

Aziraphale's face crumbled. He stood his ground nonetheless, not backing away. The angel's anger was less spiky, but it rose to meet Crowley's. It made his next words hit like bricks. "I mean that you love. I mean that you, Crowley, are the best person I know. I mean that I love you."

The words dropped like a lead balloon.

There was utter silence between them.

Why were they so close?

Why were his sunglasses so dark? Aziraphale saw only his own reflection. He couldn't bear that, and dropped his gaze. Oh, worse. There was his mouth, mere inches away.

Aziraphale looked at Crowley's lips, really really looked, and there was nothing more, now that he knew about the feeling of Crowley's lips and of his heart, there was nothing more he wanted to do than to kiss him. But he couldn't, he couldn't. Not like this. He needed the next time (he had to believe in a next time, in a time with Crowley, again)--the next time they kissed he needed it to be good and happy and an affirmation. He couldn't bear it otherwise. He would break entirely. He was sure of it.

But still, still-- Crowley was so close. He could smell nothing but him. Think of nothing but him. That weakness again, that soft spot inside him he had never known how to hold down. And with it, Want reared its greedy head. Aziraphal leaned in ever so slightly, felt their noses touch-- and then used all his strength to move away, to pull back. It was not the right time. Not yet.

He looked past Crowley, who might have as well turned to a pillar of salt. Crowley, whose face was a mask he couldn't let slip. The air flickered between them.

There were tears in his eyes when he finally forced his gaze towards Crowley's face, a silent plead to not misunderstand. Please, please. But he couldn't expect that of him. He was pulling away again. But not because he wanted to. No, there was nothing he wanted more than to pull closer. There was nothing more he wanted than to talk to him, to truly talk, to explain and apologize and make amends, but he was bound by Duty and Rules and Watching Eyes more than he ever had been.

This was his rebellion: he lifted a hand, the ghost of a touch, fingertips against cheekbone. The memory of holding on. Of never wanting to let go. Crowley flinched without moving, a shiver of his lips. Aziraphale let his hand drop, briefly, to Crowley's chest, holding it over his human heart. It was beating just like his.

This was his successful magic trick, when it counted: he drew away, leaving a crack in Crowley's steel-clad heart, and a note in his chest pocket.

"I'm sorry. I need to go."

"Of course you do."

"Oh, Crowley. I--" But he did not finish the sentence, knew there was no proper way how. So he said, quietly, softly, "Trust me, please."

And he did. Crowley hated it, hated it so much, but he did, he did trust him despite it all. But it did not erase the hurt. The festering wound. Now what was he supposed to do with that?

With one last pointed look, Aziraphale vanished.

Crowley was alone.

His defenses lay shattered at his feet, and he slowly gathered them back up. He did not mend the cracks. (That's where the light had gotten in.) He cleared his throat. Tried to banish from his mind the look in Aziraphale's eyes, the memory of his lips and of his tears.

And failed considerably.

I love you.

(Touched his cheek, and then his chest, and faltered.)

[this fic is now also on ao3 and being continued there]

[carry-on-my-wayward-butt]

It literally isn’t possible anymore to find Web 2.0 type 2006 era website templates with like… sasuke all over it and way too many links. Everything looks sleek and responsive now. I hate that. I’ve been trying to find a site I used to use for neopets news and pet lookup templates but I can’t even remember the name anymore. that site’s autoplay introduced me to tAtu I wish I could honor it properly.

[carbonated-olive-juice]

tma!sanders sides au bc i’ve been brainrotting over this for the past several days

(@wobblystrawberry helped a lot with this [hiiii])

Remus:

- The Corruption

- the bastard that made me start this whole thing (wanted to make The Stinky Trash Bastard Man, Stinky Trash Bastard Man Squared and it sorta just went from there)

- known as The Duke of The Crawling Rot

- raided the magnus institute with Jane Prentiss (where he meets Logan, they probably start dating sometime in the AU) (both Remus and Prentiss wore raggedy red dresses and Roman got pissy about Remus stealing his color)

- dating Janus and living with him + Annabelle Cane (more on her later)

Roman:

- The Desolation

- known as The Prince of Total Desolation/The Prince of Devastation

- was The Lightless Flame’s attempt to salvage the idea of having a Messiah and all the work that was put into that (a failed attempt at that)

- a lot of “he hurts everyone close to him because of the intensity of his love for them (“also he can’t touch anyone without burning them alive)” going on with him

- him and Jude Perry are lesbian/gay hostility (also Jude pretty much HATES Roman because he’s quite literally the “replacement” for the woman she loved) but sometimes have their moments of coexistence

- him and Virgil have something going on but it isn’t clear to anyone (including me) what exactly it is

speaking of…

Virgil:

- The Dark

- it was close between The Dark and The End but ultimately I went for The Dark

- ascended to Avatar-hood earliest out of everyone else (at like something between 14-17 idk)

- much more on the human-ish end of the spectrum (main thing is his eyes, i’ll drop the design soon i promise)

- Janus (who’ll i get to next) was like a mentor/older sibling figure for him, and tried to get him to become an avatar of The Web (is still trying to do so) which is why 1) Virgil is still closely tied to spiders, and 2) mostly why Virgil Does Not Like Janus

- Virgil still has a pet tarantula that Janus had given him, he’s tried to muster up the will to kill her or get rid of her more times than he can count now, to cut off his ties with The Web, but he just can’t bring himself to do it

- him and gerry (who i’ve decided doesn’t die in this au and instead becomes a fully realized Beholding Avatar) are close friends and most of their interactions go something like:

“You fell in love with the fucking personification of insanity and lies" "big talk for a guy with a crush on the biggest bitch of a fancy dumpster fire" "fuck you" "fuck you" "so you're trying to tell me you didn't name yourself after gerard way?" "i didnt" "bullshit, i bet you heard 'mama' and immediately took his name" (gerry’s trans in this, i make the rules)

- Virgil used to be friends with Julia Montauk before someone got jealous and tipped her off that Virgil’s an avatar (they get less toxic later i promise okay?)

- also he’s sorta friends with oliver banks, they have these “oh hey, it’s you” acquaintances and sometimes sit down to catch up like:

“how’s it going with your vast boyfriend? (mike crew)” “oh yeah a Hunter cop shot him he had to pretend to be dead while Buried for a bit but he’s doing better now, tea?” “how’s your bf in the red?” “my what.” “y’know the Lightless Flame’s Messiah 2.0?” “MOTHERFUCKING ROMAN??”

Janus:

- The Web

- okay yes The Spiral is literally the fear of deception, and yes Janus is literally called “Deceit” but this fits him better imo

- he/she Janus because fuck it

- as i said, tried to get Virgil to become a Web Avatar, still trying, how well this is working out for her is up for debate

- he is pulling all the strings possible to keep Virgil far away from The People’s Church of The Divine Host as possible (whether this is out of genuine care and fear for how being in a literal cult would affect Virgil’s wellbeing or a want to keep Virgil’s connection to The Dark as possible… that’s also up for debate)

- has severe scarring on the entire right side of her face, how did that happen? basically, Mary Keay wanted to test to make sure the Leitner skin book was real, so she hired janus (who also brought Virgil, and that’s how gerry and Virgil met) to help with that, long story short, she then backstabbed him and tried to skin him alive. janus got away but let’s just say she’s pretty damn lucky Virgil was there to get him to a hospital

- dating Remus (and eventually Logan) and lives with Remus + Annabelle Cane

- Speaking of Annabelle Cane, one day while Remus and Janus were just cuddling on the couch, Annabelle just walked in, said “We’re a colony now”, and set up in the spare bedroom s5 style and Janus + Remus were just like “oh-kay?” and went on with their day

- if you’ve ever seen that one “passive aggressive roommate” song on youtube, that’s Janus and Annabelle. both are the passive aggressive roommate.

- spider limbs from his back as well as the several hands thing because why the hell not, it works

Patton:

- The Eye

- mainly the being judged/having your secrets exposed aspects (because in sander sides he is literally the judge over thomas’ morality, his job is to watch over thomas’ actions and tell him whether or not he’s a good person)

- certain people make eye contact with with him and Know that he Knows all the bad things they’ve done, and feel the compulsion to spill their guts, once they start, they cannot stop no matter how hard they try

- after the fact, his victims find a teddy bear sitting on their bed that always seems to be Watching them no matter where they go

- works at The Magnus Institute, where he meets Logan, who, during his transition to becoming an avatar, was one of his biggest supports, since he was going through the same thing, they start dating after a while, and by the time of the Prentiss + Remus attack, they’re engaged (they both fully ascend only a few months after their wedding)

- [insert patton having a moral crisis because he doesn’t want to be a monster that feeds off of people’s fear but he has to and part of him likes it wow this is reminding me of a certain other Beholding Avatar]

- idk how it happens but he still becomes a father figure for Virgil somehow, i’ll figure out specifics eventually

Logan:

- The Vast

- while i absolutely love Beholding!Logan hear me out. the fear of insignificance works so well here.

- he started working at The Magnus Institute a year or two before Patton (and five or six years before the Prentiss + Remus attack)

- i cannot overstate how everyone in the au thinks he’s Beholding: Jon thinks he’s Beholding, Gertrude thought he was Beholding, Gerry, who canonically has an ability to tell if people are marked by an avatar and who, for the purposes of this au is an avatar of The Eye, thinks he’s Beholding, motherfucking Elias/Jonah thinks he’s Beholding, Virgil, Janus, Annabelle, everyone thinks he’s Beholding EXCEPT Remus, who just knows for some reason (at one point when Patton and Logan got engaged Remus was like “damn patton you’re so committed to the eye, wouldn’t have figured you’d marry a vast avatar.” “a what”)

- to be fair, he was like 0.5 seconds away from becoming an Eye Avatar then BOOM BITCH VAST JUMPSCARE (The Eye is immensely bitter) and is partially Eye-aligned

- when Patton and Logan started dating, Logan just kinda assumed that Patton knew he was a Vast avatar

- after Patton learns, the convo goes something like “but- you work with the institute? how are you an avatar of the vast?” “i still need to eat, patton, and rent in central london is not cheap.”“huh.”

- Logan has a tie that Patton got him after learning he was a Vast avatar, the tie has a blue sky that fades into a deeper blue at the top, has some clouds and birds scattered around, and has a colorful sunset at the bottom, he wore that to their wedding and every day after

- there is healthy communication between all parties when Logan starts dating Remus and Janus as well

- probably levitates elias/jonah over the edge of a building for threatening/traumatizing Patton at some point, Elias had no clue that Logan was a Vast avatar until that moment (self-made blind spot, like the one he had around Martin being a threat)

- Jon and Logan would be friends. they just would.

- Logan’s probably the one who convinces Virgil to go to therapy

that’s most of what i have right now, i will probably continue to talk about these bastards + post the designs

[ddejavvu]

Spidergirl!au

Peter Parker is out patrolling one night and discovers another masked vigilante

He soon begins to notice that spiderman is being credited with her good deeds

today is multiverse monday! send me any au you can think of :)

--

Peter's beginning to hate interviews. They'd started innocent enough, proclamations of adoration from the crowd of fans, a microphone shoved under his chin, common courtesy at first.

But now they're growing to be a pain, invasive and restless. Three people have already reached for the underside of his mask just today, and he'll trap a potential fourth in webs if need be. He's starting to regret letting news anchors urge him off of the rooftops and down into the streets.

"So, Spider-Man," The woman in front of him presses on, mic nearly bumping his chin, "You've done quite a lot for our city lately! You repaired that faulty beam beneath the bridge, you stopped a 4-car pileup, you rain into a burning building for a baby! What's it like being a superhero?"

He shifts awkwardly on his feet, "Well, those first two were definitely.. intense, but I wasn't the one to run into the burning building."

He ignores the crowds confused murmurs, thinking back to the scene he'd missed by five minutes, but had found copious records of on youtube. The video named the vigilante as Spider-Man, but one glance at the hero's body and it was.. not his. The suit was different too, sleeker, more streamlined. He's spent the last three days wondering who you were, how you'd gained powers, and if he was ever going to meet you, so talking about you into a microphone felt strange.

"Oh? Well you've heard it here first, everyone." The woman looks down the lens of her camera, smile dead and voice overly-excited, "There's a Spider-Man 2.0!"

Before she can turn back to pester Peter more, he's up the nearest building and on the roof. He slumps back on his elbows, chewing on the inside of his cheek as he ponders you.

The powers that he possesses are dangerous. It's why everyone's after him, why he needs 'supervision'. And he knows it. He knows he won't abuse them, but he knows he could, and it worries him to think that you're out there running rampant with the same power, but less regulation.

On the other hand, you'd smashed through hot glass to rescue an infant. That was pretty heroic, in Peter's opinion. So he lays there, at a crossroads. You're either dangerous, or saintly. And he won't know which unless he observes you. When he sets off towards home, pointedly ignoring the crowd still beneath him, it's with a mission in mind: find you, watch you, figure you out.

[verycoolguy1917]

Might write an actual blog post about this at some point but I hate how huge and unwieldy frontend development has become for even the simplest tasks. Just kind of sucks that we have to force web browsers to be these massive applications that do everything under the sun rather than having separate but efficient and easily manageable client programs for things like video, audio, forums, microblogging, etc. I think one of the bigger failures of Web 2.0 has been the fact that we don’t have open standards for the server-side presentation of various types of application info that can be easily consumed by client software that’s decoupled from the backend. Phone apps seem sort of like a half-step in the right direction, but having to download and learn the UI for six different apps that functionally do the same thing is tedious and stupid. Obviously capitalism is the problem here but hey, a man can dream.

[the-seelie-court-official]

screams. the no-icons-update finally hit for me so it is time to Fix It. G-d i fucking hate how tumblr absolutely HAS TO jingle shiny keys in front of investors to the detriment of literally every single UI element

i fucking hate web 2.0. i fucking hate "web 3.0". when this site goes down i hope we can all find each other on greener pastures.

[end-of-violence]

2024ラップ②

G.T. / Dog Out a Pup

Babyface Ray / Money On My Mind

Babyface Ray / Shy Kid

Babyface Ray / Glory

Sada Baby / Flight Back

Damedot / LIE TO MY FACE

Los / Above The Law

Peezy x Nice / Harlem

42 Dugg / Win Wit Us

YN Jay / I Ain't Done Yet

ShutupShy / Still Lit

Chief Keef / Runner

Ballout / Big Glo Flow

Lil Migo / Hello Kitty

Baby Jamo / 6 Foot Chaser

QuisActive / Order Up

Paco Panama / Ezal

HavinMotion / Vibe 2

Skino / FDM

Traphard Swagg / 2 in 2

Lil Wet feat. Wizz Havinn / Sexii Redd

Wizz Havinn / Loco

Wizz Havinn / Tunka Truck

BossMan Dlow Ft. GloRilla / Finesse (Remix)

ATM Tana / Keep Movin

Fatpocket / Live From The Trenches

C Stunna & Skrilla / Curtis Jackson

J1 & Kickkone / Squeeze

Tyte, Trigga500k / Motion

Loe Shimmy feat. Luh Tyler / Aretha Franklin

Loe Shimmy feat. Veeze / Dirty Soda Junkie

ALLBLACK / R.I.P. DRAKEO

Carns Hill ft Knucks X Youngs Teflon / COLOURS

アルバム

Chief Keef & Mike WiLL Made-It / Dirty Nachos

Chif Keef / Almighty So 2

Ballout / No Radio

Lil Flash / Did You Miss Me or You Ain't Care?

D30 / Snakes & Vultures

Junie3x / Way 2 Late

GloRilla / Ehhthang Ehhthang

Woodboy Gee / King Hawk 2

Medhane / Double or Nothing

MIKE & Tony Seltzer / Pinball

Bandgang Lonnie Bands / Antimedia

Bandgang Masoe / Wst

Drego & Beno / True Story

LOM Rudy & Allstar JR / Casino Bag

Damedot / PURPLEHARDT

Ace Cino / 5 Letterz

Payroll Giovanni / Have Money Have Heart - EP

Jugg Harden / Detroit USA

Jugg Harden / Get the Blicky 2.0

Prince Jefe / Tunnel Vision

Prince Jefe / Warwoundzz - EP

Shaudy Kash / The FABUR EP

Wtm Solid / Bigg

Wanski / Back From the Dead

Los / Last In Love

Rio Da Yung OG / Rio Circa 2020

Bfb Da Packman / Forget Me Not

Baby Money / H.I.M. (Hutsle In Me)

Trdee / The Greatest

J1hunnit / Nevermind, I'll Do It - EP

Mack Nickles / Quit While I'm Winning

World Tour Mafia / Tourmania 2

WTM Scoob / Scoob Wav

Pretty Brayah / Unstable

CoffeeBlack & WTM Scoob / Love at First Sight?

Certified Trapper / Trappernese

Yung Threat / Inlilahkitrust

Tae Dawg / Ooze World Order

Lil Gray / Gray

Skino / Youth Madness

Paco Panama / Southside Sopranos

HavinMotion / Motion

HavinMotion / Trappin In Beverly

3o$oma / Jedi Temple - EP

ST6 JodyBoof / Riding W Boof - EP

3coMMa$ / Heavy Rotation 3

KP SKYWALKA / Back To Granny's

Yung Maaly / Clutch Almighty

Situation Slim / Draggin & Havin

EBK Lulmaxx / Do It For Maxx 2

EBK BCKDOE / BlueMoney Music

EBK Lulmaxx / Product of The J - EP

GS Ash & EBK BCKDOE / 3 Doe's Down

GS Ash & SSRichh33 / 3300 Degrees

GS Ash & SSRichh33 / The Redacted Files 2

GS Ash & OsosubkaK / The Joy of Creation

KT8Deuce / Portlands Most Valuable Ghetto Juvenile

KT8Deuce / Aye N***a

adfrmysb / Forever Hate - EP

kpkeeparoll / Born a Steppa

Mozzy / CHILDREN OE THE SLUMS

J. Stalin / Me vs Me 2

Yhung T.O. / AFTER THE FAME

Yhung T.O. & Lil Sheik / Ballin Like Tutu

ALLBLACK / ROUND 1

Big Sad 1900 & MikeMadeThe808's / The Separation

Doddie Savage / Mr Blitz'em 2

Fl6ixer / Web Ya Block

キーフ2024

[polyamorouspunk]

Heyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Was out with mountain boy last night and 1. I learned how to say ‘i love you’ in latin (te amo) and 2. Very much questioning the whole arospec thing because of this boy. Cause for the first time in my *life* the feelings have lasted more than 2 weeks. Its been 2 months. HOLY SHIT IVE BEEN DATING MOUNTAIN BOY FOR 2 MONTHS

But yeah. And also like. As of last night its like *new feeling unlocked* like I’ve had butterflies but I’ve never had butterflies to the degree that Im *still* having butterflies over something 24 HOURS later. And like. That could also just be from being in the middle of a flare that my emotions just are not regulating correctly but like. I feel like I just unlocked emotions 2.0. So maybe I am the actual rare case of ‘you just haven’t been with the right guy yet’ which is infuriating but also I *like* these feelings

But also on the whole chronic illness front - WE FUCKING HATE IT HERE and Im downing ibuprofen like its candy (that is a joke for those that need told). So if my brain could just stop having the 404 error causing both thinking and motor skill problems atm that would be great

Uuhhhhh OH! And therapy is now once a month instead of every other week so I guess thats a plus

Those are my life updates bro how are you?? I miss chatting with you I feel like I never have time to be on here anymore

*answers like a week later* whaaaat I always have time to chat haha 😅😅

Well I’m glad you feel that way! I know personally I can only feel that way with people I’ve met irl even if it’s just meeting them once. I love that feeling though, I’m always chasing that high.

It’s been two months 😭 where has the time gone

I love my best friend to pieces but hanging out with her and her husband was soooo. For someone who’s “autistic and touch-adverse” homegirl SURE did a 180 on that. Third wheel for a week straight 😐 I support her not conforming to social norms even when it’s embarrassed me in the past but like. Boundaries. When you are with someone else. I always made sure that I was never super PDA or hung up on my ex when we were dating because I never wanted to make someone feel like a third wheel and uh. Yeah that’s why.

I just started my meds back up, I’m back on Prozac after my hiatus from taking meds. It reached the point where I’m like “okay yeah maybe my meds were doing SOMETHING even if they weren’t WORKING exactly so MAYBE I should go back on them and be a LITTLE less crazy”. I intend on starting therapy back up. I have free therapy through work, probably Better Help, but it’s probably better than nothing. I already know my data’s on the dark web from all the times my bank account has been hacked so I don’t need to worry about them selling my personal info 😅

I was planning on graduating this semester but that’s not happening :) so next semester it is.

My mom wants to come back up next summer and my best friend and I have been trying to plan matching tattoos and we talked about getting them up there where I got them last time so maybe I’ll see you then! Sick New World already sold out so I guess that plan is a bust 😅

[pictureamoebae]

hey there, hope you're doing well! i was using gshade for a while and wanted to switch back to reshade. i just wanted to give you a heads up that i went looking for 4.9.1 and it looks like reshade moved their old downloads (possibly to discord?), their forums appear to be gone, etc. what a shame! i hate that discord has become The repository for stuff like this :(

Hi!

It’s a shame the forum is gone because a lot of common questions were answered there and easy to find. It’s a lot harder to navigate discord and find old stuff. It would have been nice had it been archived at least.

EDIT: the ReShade forums are down because of a problem with the servers/website. They’re trying to get them back up. In the meantime, if there’s a forum post you want to access that you find via google you can use a web archive site to see the archived version.

As for old versions, all old versions of ReShade have been and continue to be hosted over at mediafire. You can find whatever version you want there.

You’ll have to remember to search for the correct shaders over at github like normal when using older versions because the installation process automatically downloads the newest shaders and not those that were around when your chosen version released.

There’s often a lot of confusion about this. Remember, the above isn’t always a problem if the shaders haven’t received any major updates between your chosen version and the newest version.

Shader creators don’t need to update their shaders for every new version in the same way Sims modders have to update their mods after every game update. The same shaders work between ReShade 4 and ReShade 5 for example, and definitely between 4.0 and 4.9. It’s just whether there have been any major rewrites of code that you need to be aware of, but that’s rare, and usually only happens between major releases that alter the fundamental way ReShade operates (eg between 2.x and 3.0 etc).

If you do install all of the newest 5.6 shaders with your 4.9 installation they may well all work fine and you shouldn’t notice any differences in how things look. You probably only need to go and find the old shaders in that situation if it throws any specific errors or if you notice something very wrong with how something looks, but it might be enough to replace just the individual shaders giving the problems.

For versions older than 4 you are going to want the shaders associated with that major version number (any shaders created during the lifetime of version 3 for any version of 3 etc) because there were some rewrites of shader code and how it communicates with ReShade in between those big updates.

As always, back up everything all the time. It’s a lot easier if you have backups of your preferred version of ReShade, as well as the shaders you know work, than it is to go searching for them again if you ever want to go back to them. I have backups of everything I’ve ever downloaded and/or installed going back to ReShade 0.18!

Fun fact: one of my favourite colour grading shaders was created at least as early as for ReShade 1.0, was slowly ported to 2.0 and then to 3.0, and has received no updates since. I’m using it quite happily with ReShade 5 and will probably always be able to use it without further porting as long as ReShade doesn’t completely rewrite how shaders work again.

[honestlyvan]

As someone who doesn’t use Twitter and hasn’t used it since 2016, at this point I feel like every even slightly Twitter-esque (let alone overt Twitter-esque) design choice Tumblr makes gets yelled about because People Really Just Fucking Hate Twitter whether they realise it or not.

Which, like. Fair ‘nuff. I also hate Twitter, which is why I don’t use it. But nobody ever really gives these design decisions any time to percolate on this site in favour of kneejerk “they changed it and we hate it” reaction. Public likes are not new. Multiple tabs on a dashboard (some of them not things you opted into seeing) are not new. Having to block ads with external tools is not new (and it’s a big deal that photomatt said the words “ad blocker”, like, you couldn’t get that shit on any other profit-driven site, everyone is too scared for their precious monetisation)

The new sidebar, also, I think is pretty ugly right now but it’s probably going to go through a few iterations. I, personally, really wish they’d put the search bar literally anywhere else (maybe group search and discovery together IDK I’m not an UX designer) and I think accessing sideblogs has been too complicated for a while now, but none of those are the same as “this looks like The Other Blue Site”.

Like I’m not a graphic designer. I am certainly not a fucking UX designer, and I think those people are either all nuts or all geniuses. I’m pretty sure the new layout is being extensively heatmapped rn, and what changes it’ll undergo are gonna be done based on that, based on comments that are along the lines of ‘this change would make me more productive’ and less on “WEEEEEH CHANGE IT BACK CHANGE IT BACK CHANGE IT BACK”. 

Your animosity towards change is not meaningful user experience information. You misclicking on shit more *is*. If this layout is really *that* bad and terrible, Automattic’s research tools will demonstrate it as such. The developers now are actually much better versed in Web 2.0 design, for better and for worse.