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                <h1 class="title">Frequently Asked Questions</h1>
                <h2 class="subtitle">And some that nobody asked</h2>
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        <ul>
            <li>
                <a href="#general-faqs">General FAQs</a>
                <ul>
                    <li><a href="#why">Why was this site built?</a></li>
                    <li><a href="#whats-different">What makes this site <strong>different?</strong></a></li>
                    <li><a href="#define-exhibitionist">What do you define as an <strong>"exhibitionist?"</strong></a></li>
                    <li><a href="#why-sex-positive">Why does nonshy permit sexual content?</a></li>
                </ul>
            </li>
            <li>
                <a href="#certification-faqs">Certification FAQs</a>
                <ul>
                    <li><a href="#certification">What does <strong>certification</strong> mean, and what is a <strong>"verification selfie"</strong>?</a></li>
                    <li><a href="#need-certification">Do I <strong>need</strong> to send a "verification selfie"?</a></li>
                    <li><a href="#why-certify">Why the hard requirement to certify?</a></li>
                    <li><a href="#uncertified">What can non-certified members do?</a></li>
                </ul>
            </li>
            <li>
                <a href="#privacy-faqs">Privacy FAQs</a>
                <ul>
                    <li><a href="#private-avatar">Can my <strong>Profile Picture be kept private?</strong></a></li>
                    <li><a href="#profile-visibility">What are the <strong>visibility options</strong> for my profile page?</a></li>
                    <li><a href="#delete-messages">How do I delete direct messages (DMs)?</a></li>
                    <li><a href="#blocking">How does <strong>blocking somebody</strong> work on nonshy?</a></li>
                </ul>
            </li>
            <li>
                <a href="#photo-faqs">Photo FAQs</a>
                <ul>
                    <li><a href="#nudes-required">Do I have to post my nudes here?</a></li>
                    <li><a href="#face-in-nudes">Do I have to include my face in my nudes?</a></li>
                    <li><a href="#site-gallery">What appears on the Site Gallery?</a></li>
                    <li><a href="#site-gallery-throttle">Why can't I feature my photo on the Site Gallery?</a></li>
                    <li><a href="#other-people">Can I include other people in my photos?</a></li>
                    <li><a href="#define-explicit">What is considered "explicit" in photos?</a></li>
                    <li><a href="#photoshop">Are digitally altered or 'photoshopped' pictures okay?</a></li>
                    <li><a href="#downloading">Does this site <strong>prevent people from downloading</strong> my pictures?</a></li>
                    <li><a href="#alt-text">What is <strong>alt text</strong> on photos about?</a> <span class="tag is-success">NEW Mar 10 2024</span></li>
                </ul>
            </li>
            <li>
                <a href="#forum-faqs">Forum FAQs</a>
                <ul>
                    <li><a href="#forum-badges">What do the various badges on the forum mean?</a></li>
                    <li><a href="#create-forums">Can I create my own forums?</a></li>

                </ul>
            </li>
            <li>
                <a href="#chat-faqs">Chat Room FAQs</a>
                <ul>
                    <li><a href="#chat-access">Who can access the chat rooms?</a></li>
                    <li><a href="#chat-support">What are the technical requirements to use the chat room?</a></li>
                    <li><a href="#webcam-support">I can't share or connect to other peoples' webcams</a></li>
                    <li><a href="#chat-more">Where can I learn more about the chat room?</a></li>
                </ul>
            </li>
            <li>
                <a href="#shy-faqs">Shy Account FAQs</a>
                <ul>
                    <li><a href="#shy-restrictions">What restrictions apply to Shy Accounts?</a></li>
                    <li><a href="#shy-cando">Why can Shy Accounts do?</a></li>
                    <li><a href="#shy-fixit">How do I fix it?</a></li>

                </ul>
            </li>
            <li>
                <a href="#technical-faqs">Technical FAQs</a>
                <ul>
                    <li><a href="#why">Why did you build a custom website?</a></li>
                    <li><a href="#open-source">Is this website open source?</a></li>
                </ul>
            </li>
        </ul>

        <h1 id="general-faqs">General FAQs</h1>

        <h2 id="why">Why was this site built?</h2>

        <p>
            This site was developed as a response to growing uncertainty as to the future of available
            social networking sites for nudists and exhibitionists to use. Back in 2018, Tumblr was put
            under pressure and they banned all NSFW users from their platform. In 2020, Pornhub also fell victim
            and deleted 80% of all user content on their site. In 2021, Onlyfans almost fell victim to the same scheme:
            there is a group of anti-porn prudes who are systemically combing across the Internet and
            trying to get the very concept of porn and nudity banned from online.
        </p>

        <p>
            Alongside that story, there is growing uncertainty in general about the future of free
            speech and "safe harbor laws" for social network service providers online. Depending on
            how it shakes out, it may become risky for sites such as Twitter and Reddit to remain
            online if the service providers become liable for content uploaded by their users. It seems
            likely that one day Twitter and Reddit will chase NSFW users away like Tumblr did and it may
            be risky for any new startups to fill that void (Onlyfans and most adult sites have switched
            to requiring photo ID to verify your accounts!)
        </p>

        <p>
            When a site has <em>random</em> unverified users able to post <em>random</em> content,
            you end up with some awful things being posted - which traumatizes site moderators and
            provides hooks for the anti-porn brigade that took down Tumblr to come for your site
            as well. This website was designed for this modern environment, and intends to keep on
            top of things from day one.
        </p>

        <h2 id="whats-different">What makes this site different?</h2>

        <p>
            In the context of the modern Internet we live in, this site does things a bit differently:
        </p>

        <ul>
            <li>
                Only <strong>real</strong> people may join this site. No faceless, anonymous
                throw-away profiles. Everyone needs a face picture on their profile and to
                submit a "verification selfie" holding a sheet of paper to prove their picture
                is them. You don't need to have your face and nude body together in a picture,
                but a face pic as your default profile picture is mandatory.
            </li>
            <li>
                Only <strong>self pictures</strong> are allowed. You must be featured in a
                picture to post it. No "porn blogs" of random content you found online!
            </li>
            <li>
                Unlike some other nudist websites, <strong>exhibitionist content</strong> is
                permitted here. You are allowed to post erections, hole pics, masturbation or
                sexual content (within reason - nothing illegal or grossly offensive). We only
                ask that you <strong>tag your photo as explicit</strong> so that nudists who
                don't want to see that stuff can filter it away. This site is "nudist friendly"
                by default -- opt-in to see explicit content if you like that stuff!
            </li>
        </ul>

        <h2 id="define-exhibitionist">What do you define as an "exhibitionist?"</h2>

        <p>
            "Exhibitionist" may not be the <em>best</em> word but the way I define it is
            basically "sex-positive nudism," or in contrast to the common sentiment that
            some nudists have that says you must "keep the sex <em>out</em> of nudism." For
            example, many nudist websites don't allow pictures that contain an erect penis
            at all.
        </p>

        <p>
            I don't know a better word for it, and "sex-positive nudist" is a bit of a mouthful.
            Some exhibitionists are all about getting their rocks off from being sexual in
            inappropriate public places, 'flashing' poor unsuspecting strangers. This is not
            what I'm about, at all! Consent is sexy, and your displays of sexuality should only
            be for consenting audiences who like to see that stuff. That's why on {{PrettyTitle}},
            you may upload that hot content but just mark it as 'Explicit' so others may have
            some choice in whether they have to see it.
        </p>

        <h2 id="why-sex-positive">Why does {{PrettyTitle}} permit sexual content?</h2>

        <p>
            Some may find it interesting that a "nudist" website allows this stuff at all, when
            so many others frown on it. It may help to describe some of my [the site founder's]
            background and my own journey into nudism, and this question can be answered in
            two parts:
        </p>

        <ol>
            <li>
                <p>
                    I got started into nudism through the path of "taking nude photos and sharing them
                    online" and the initial goal I set out for was to "get a picture of everything I
                    possibly could do while naked," from doing mundane household chores to getting into
                    fully sexual/porn type of content. So, when I was going to build my own nudist social
                    network, of course it had to allow for people like me. There's a whole "sex-positive nude world"
                    on the Internet (we were on Tumblr, Reddit, Twitter, and everywhere) as a whole
                    parallel community to the anti-sex nudists ('classic nudists' or 'prudists' for shorthand).
                </p>
            </li>
            <li>
                <p>
                    Secondarily, simply for being a gay man I would not be welcomed by much of the mainstream establishment
                    nudist community, such as <abbr title="American Association for Nude Recreation">AANR</abbr>
                    in the US. <strong>Many</strong> of such nude resorts have a "no single men" policy and
                    they consider a gay couple to be "two single men." I understand that they want to avoid creepers
                    and gawkers who show up just to ogle the women, but this inherently homophobic policy that the
                    mainstream naturism communities holds means that, if I <strong>were</strong> to build
                    a 'classy' nudism site, I would be catering to people who would not even have me as a member themselves.
                </p>
            </li>
        </ol>

        <p>
            If you are looking for a prudist site, there are plenty of other options you can look at.
            But {{PrettyTitle}} is unapologetically a sex-positive nudist site and we are all consenting
            adults here who can share our naked journey with like-minded individuals online.
        </p>

        <p>
            Keep in mind, the <strong>default</strong> website experience is that the 'explicit' content is
            gated away and is opt-in to see it. Members mark their 'explicit' photos as such, and you opt-in
            to see explicit photos and forums in your settings. This way we might strike a balance and be able
            to support nudists from both sides of the spectrum. But if you find it uncomfortable to know that
            horny people even <em>exist</em> on this site, then we may not be right for you, and we wish you
            good luck elsewhere.
        </p>

        <hr>

        <h1 id="certification-faqs">Certification FAQs</h1>

        <h3 id="certification">What does certification mean, and what is a "verification selfie"?</h3>

        <p>
            This website requires all members to be "certified" or proven to be real human beings
            on the other side of the keyboard. A "verification selfie" is where you take a picture
            of yourself holding onto a hand-written note on a sheet of paper to prove that you are
            a real person (and not just catfishing with somebody else's stolen photos).
        </p>

        <p>
            Certification helps protect our members from harassment by anonymous trolls or automated
            spam robots that plague other similar sites.
        </p>

        <h3 id="need-certification">Do I need to send a "verification selfie"?</h3>

        <p>
            Yes.
        </p>

        <p>
            Certification is required before you can gain access to the greater community on this
            website. Pre-certification, you may only access your own profile page and settings, but
            can not browse the member list, see the site Photo Gallery, or participate on the forums
            until your profile has been certified.
        </p>

        <p>
            Your certification photo is <em>only</em> seen by site administrators and does not appear
            on your profile page.
        </p>

        <p>
            <strong>Note:</strong> there's no need for this to be a nude pic, either. Just
            your face is OK so we can see if it looks like the face pic you're presenting on
            your profile page.
        </p>

        <h3 id="why-certify">Why the hard requirement to certify?</h3>

        <p>

            I didn't set out to build "just another social network" that allows for random, faceless, anonymous
            people to sign up - you can do that literally anywhere else. This website was designed
            <em>specifically</em> to get ahead of what happened with Tumblr, Pornhub and other sites
            in recent history. It wasn't just a random whim of Tumblr when they kicked all of the nudists
            and other NSFW users off of their platform -- they were pressured to do so by a vocal minority
            of anti-porn prudes who have been working their way across the Internet and trying to make sure
            that nudists, exhibitionists, porn stars and sex workers have no place at all to exist online.
        </p>

        <p>
            I have been watching how these groups operate. They throw out wild claims that a website like
            Tumblr or Pornhub is running rampant with illegal content (such as child sexually abusive material,
            human trafficking, revenge porn or so on) and use that as a scapegoat to put pressure on a website
            via the banks and advertisers into either bending the knee or shutting down completely. Tumblr elected
            to just blanket ban all NSFW users from the platform, Pornhub deleted 80% of all user content from their
            site, and Onlyfans nearly fell as well (before they decided instead to require government-issued photo
            ID from their members, which I do not want to do).
        </p>

        <p>
            This group wildly exaggerates statistics and misrepresents their finding to push along an agenda
            which is <em>really</em> just anti-porn, period; but the fact of the matter is that <em>any</em> wide
            open public website that allows random people to just sign up and start posting things will always
            technically leave room for those kinds of claims to be thrown around. If a website doesn't require a
            user to verify their face, you'll get bad actors who sign up blank, throwaway accounts (probably hiding
            behind a VPN, too, to conceal their location) and start spreading god awful things on a site and it becomes
            a game of whack-a-mole for site moderators to keep on top of (not to mention the trauma it causes for
            moderators who need to deal with all that shit). I don't want <em>any</em> of that nonsense
            on this website.
        </p>

        <p>
            The certification requirement should help curb a lot of that and bring some other nice benefits
            besides for the other members of this site:
        </p>

        <ul>
            <li>
                It will deter blank, faceless profiles from signing up and then sliding into your DMs and getting
                all pervy and weird on you. This happens <em>so freaking often</em> on other nudist websites and
                nobody likes that - we are here posting our nude pics out in the open and don't want random anonymous
                creepers who won't reveal themselves in an equally meaningful way.
            </li>
            <li>
                It will help keep automated spam robots at bay; a non-certified account will have a terrible time
                trying to discover any user here that they could send their spam to, as the Forums, Member Directory
                and Site Photo Gallery are off-limits to non-certified users.
            </li>
            <li>
                It will keep members accountable: I don't expect anyone would dare upload illegal content here when
                their certified face picture is on file.
            </li>
        </ul>

        <p>
            I understand that certification may be inconvenient for some members. I know there are plenty of people
            for whom it isn't a concern at all. I may be able to work with you on an alternative method for certification;
            see the next section, below.
        </p>

        <h3 id="uncertified">What can non-certified members do?</h3>

        <p>
            Before you have an approved certification photo, you can mainly only access and edit your
            own profile page, and upload a few pictures while you await approval. Your pictures won't
            be shown to members on the Site Gallery until you're certified, and most of the website's
            features (namely, the Forums, Site Gallery and Member Search Directory) are gated behind
            certification.
        </p>

        <p>
            Certified members may, at their own discretion, be able to find your profile page by
            browsing the Member Directory. They may send you a friend request or reach out to you.
            Or, if you happen to know a member's profile URL on this site, you (the non-certified
            member) can view their profile page and photo gallery (depending on their privacy
            settings), send them a friend request or direct message. But basically, it will be
            difficult to discover users to interact with until after you are certified - and
            this is intentional to help guard against spam bots and creepy people.
        </p>

        <h2 id="privacy-faqs">Privacy FAQs</h2>

        <h3 id="private-avatar">Can my Profile Picture be kept private?</h3>

        <p>
            You <em>may</em> set your Profile Picture to be "Friends only" or "Private" visibility
            if you wish to be more discreet about your face pictures.
        </p>

        <ul>
            <li>
                <strong class="has-text-warning-dark">Friends only</strong>
                <i class="fa fa-users has-text-warning-dark"></i>:
                your profile pic displays as a yellow
                <img src="/static/img/shy-friends.png" width="16" height="16">
                placeholder image for people who are not on your <a href="/friends">Friends</a> list.
            </li>
            <li>
                <strong class="has-text-private">Private</strong>
                <i class="fa fa-lock has-text-private"></i>:
                your profile pic displays as a purple
                <img src="/static/img/shy-private.png" width="16" height="16">
                placeholder image for everybody except for people that you had
                <a href="/photo/private">granted access</a> to see your
                private photos.
            </li>
            {{if and .LoggedIn .CurrentUser.IsInnerCircle}}
            <li>
                <strong>{{PrettyCircle}}</strong>
                <img src="/static/img/circle-24.png" width="16" height="16">:
                your profile pic displays as a gradient
                <img src="/static/img/shy-secret.png" width="16" height="16">
                placeholder image for members outside the inner circle.
                <ul>
                    <li>
                        <strong>Note:</strong> only {{PrettyCircle}} members see this info on the FAQ page.
                        Members outside the circle will see the gradient avatar, but be told that it means
                        "Private."
                    </li>
                </ul>
            </li>
            {{end}}
        </ul>

        <p>
            Note that it is <strong>required</strong> that your default profile picture must include your face,
            but with the visibility settings you may limit who will see it if you need to.
        </p>

        <p>
            If you find a member's gallery where they have no face visible in any of their pictures, it may
            be that their default profile picture is just not visible to you, and a notice appears at the top
            of their gallery page if this is the case.
        </p>

        <p>
            If you find a member whose profile photo you <em>can</em> see, and it also does not include their
            face, please <strong>report their profile</strong> to the admin.
        </p>

        <h3 id="profile-visibility">What are the visibility options for my profile page?</h3>

        <p>
            There are currently three different choices for your profile visibility on your
            <a href="/settings">Settings</a> page:
        </p>

        <ul>
            <li>
                The <strong>default</strong> visibility is <strong class="has-text-success-dark">"Public + Login Required."</strong> Users must be
                logged-in to an account in order to see anything about your profile page - if an
                external (logged out) browser visits your profile URL, they will be redirected to
                log in to an account first.
            </li>
            <li>
                You may optionally go <em>more</em> public with a <strong class="has-text-warning-dark">"Limited Logged-out View."</strong>
                This enables your profile URL (e.g.,
                {{if .LoggedIn}}<a href="/u/{{.CurrentUser.Username}}?view=external">/u/{{.CurrentUser.Username}}</a>{{else}}/u/username{{end}})
                to show a <em>basic</em> page (with your square profile picture and display name) to
                logged-out browsers. This may be useful if you wish to link to your page from an external
                site (e.g. your Twitter page) and present new users with a better experience than just
                a redirect to login page.
            </li>
            <li>
                You may <strong class="has-text-private">"Mark my profile as 'private'"</strong> to
                be private even from other logged-in members who are not on your Friends
                list. Logged-in users will see only your square profile picture and display
                name, and be able only to send you a friend request or a message.
            </li>
        </ul>

        <h3 id="delete-messages">How do I delete direct messages (DMs)?</h3>

        <p>
            You have two options for deleting your private one-on-one chat messages.
        </p>

        <p>
            You can delete <strong>your own</strong> messages by clicking on the "Delete"
            button that appears below them. This deletes your message from <em>both</em> of
            your threads, and (if unread), will not notify them that they had an unread
            message.
        </p>

        <p>
            You can delete <strong>the whole thread</strong> by using the "Delete whole thread"
            button at the bottom of the conversation. This will remove <em>both</em> of your
            chat history with one another and make it like you never exchanged a DM before
            at all.
        </p>

        <h3 id="blocking">How does blocking somebody work on nonshy?</h3>

        <p>
            If somebody on {{PrettyTitle}} is bothering you or you just do not wish to see their
            presence or content around the website anymore, you may "Block" them by going to their profile
            page and clicking on the Block button.
        </p>

        <p>
            When you block somebody, {{PrettyTitle}} draws a <strong>hard line</strong> between your
            two accounts and will make it so that you two <strong>do not see each other</strong> anywhere
            on the website:
        </p>

        <ul>
            <li>
                You will not see them on the Member Directory, you will not see them in the Forums
                (their posts and comments will be hidden), you will not see them in comment threads
                on peoples' photos, or in their "Likes" lists, or anywhere.
            </li>
            <li>
                If you had any Direct Messages with them in the past: your conversation threads will
                be hidden from view on both sides. If you unblock them later, you will be able to see
                your old conversation threads again.
            </li>
            <li>
                On the <strong>chat room:</strong> you will not see each other in the "Who's Online"
                list and you won't see any messages sent by each other in chat.
            </li>
            <li>
                This block applies in <strong>both directions:</strong> you will not see them, and they
                will likewise not see you either.
            </li>
        </ul>

        <p>
            The idea is that if you block somebody, it should look as though they may have just deleted their
            {{PrettyTitle}} account completely and you should not see them anymore and they should not see
            you either.
        </p>

        <p>
            If you find any corner of the site where this fails to happen (and you see somebody who you have
            blocked), please <a href="/contact?intent=report&subject=bug">report it as a bug</a> to be fixed.
        </p>

        <h1 id="photo-faqs">Photo FAQs</h1>

        <h3 id="nudes-required">Do I have to post my nudes here?</h3>

        <p>
            You should be comfortable with doing so, but it isn't a hard requirement. On some
            other nudist social websites, many nudists have lamented to me about how often they
            get messages by anonymous, faceless profiles who slide into their DMs and get all
            pervy and weird on them. While {{PrettyTitle}} only requires a face pic and verification
            selfie, other members will feel more comfortable if you post some of your own nudes as well.
        </p>

        <p>
            It's kind of like nude beach etiquette: no nudist at a nude beach enjoys it much when
            people arrive who refuse to get naked and they're just there to gawk and be a peeping
            tom and perv out over all the naked bodies they see. If you don't want to post any
            nudes here, at least don't act weird or creepy with people here.
        </p>

        <h3 id="face-in-nudes">Do I have to include my face in my nudes?</h3>

        <p>
            You don't have to! I know many nudists are not comfortable with their face appearing
            in their nudes. You are free to post "headless torso shots" or leave your face
            covered or censored. But you should have at least one face pic (as your default profile
            pic) - it can be a G-rated selfie!
        </p>

        <p>
            If you're only comfortable with posting like close-up dick pics, please mark those pics
            as "explicit" -- many nudists prefer to see the <em>whole</em> nude body and don't
            want to see just dick pics everywhere. And don't set those as your default profile pic!
        </p>

        <h3 id="site-gallery">What appears on the Site Gallery?</h3>

        <p>
            The "<strong><i class="fa fa-image"></i> Gallery</strong>" link on the site nav bar goes to the Site-wide
            Photo Gallery page. Here is shown all of the <strong>public</strong> photos uploaded by
            all (certified) users, if those pictures are also opted-in to appear on the Gallery in
            their settings.
        </p>

        <p>
            If you have friends on here, you may also see their "Friends-only" photos on the Site
            Gallery. This way, you don't miss any updates if your friends add a new picture (so
            long as they allow their picture to appear on the Gallery).
        </p>

        <p>
            When you upload a picture you may opt it in or out of the Gallery by checking a box on
            its settings page. For example, you can upload a Public photo but opt it <em>out</em> of
            the Gallery -- it will then only appear on your profile page.
        </p>

        <h3 id="site-gallery-throttle">Why can't I feature my photo on the Site Gallery?</h3>

        <p>
            In January 2024 we have added a rate limit on how frequently you can upload a new photo
            and have it appear on the site-wide Photo Gallery in order to cut down on "spam" when a
            new member would sign up and immediately upload all 100 of their photos to their gallery
            page.
        </p>

        <p>
            We don't want the Site Gallery to be dominated by large swaths of only <em>one person's</em>
            photos that go on for pages and pages, so you may only feature up to
            <strong>5 photos per day</strong> on the Site Gallery.
            When you have 5 or more photos, uploaded within the last 24 hours and marked to share with the
            Site Gallery, you will not be able to add additional photos to the gallery until you
            wait a day <strong>OR</strong> edit one of those recent photos to remove it from
            the gallery.
        </p>

        <p>
            If you have been throttled from sharing new Site Gallery photos, your options are:
        </p>

        <ul>
            <li>
                To come back tomorrow and upload your new photo if you want it featured
                on the Site Gallery.
            </li>
            <li>
                To edit one of your <strong>5 most recent Site Gallery</strong> photos and un-check
                the Gallery box: this may free up room so that your new upload can be shared with
                the Site Gallery if you <em>really</em> want to feature it now.
            </li>
            <li>
                To upload it anyway to your personal gallery, even though it won't be featured
                on the site-wide gallery. If you <em>want</em> to upload all 100 of your nudes as
                soon as you get your {{PrettyTitle}} account certified, go ahead! You just aren't
                allowed to spam the Site Gallery with all your uploads all at once.
            </li>
        </ul>

        <p>
            <strong>Our recommendation:</strong> take it slow! Share a few pictures per day on your gallery
            until you eventually fill it out. This is also a better way to get engagement on your photos:
            your friends are more likely to "Like" and comment on your photos if you drip feed them slowly
            vs. if you upload your 100 photos all at once.
        </p>

        <h3 id="other-people">Can I include other people in my photos?</h3>

        <p>
            It can be acceptable to include other people in your photos here - for example pictures
            of you and your partner together or you with a group of your naked buddies. However, please
            observe the following rules:
        </p>

        <ul>
            <li>
                Be sure you have the permission of everybody pictured to upload their photo here. I
                don't want any "revenge porn" type content uploaded without somebody's consent!
            </li>
            <li>
                You all must be in <strong>the same photo</strong> together - that is it must be a
                "normal picture" taken on a camera that caught you all in the same frame. <strong>Do NOT</strong>
                upload a "split-frame" picture where you simply combined two wholly different photos side-by-side
                into one image: it is not clear from such a picture whether you two even <em>know</em> one
                another and it's not a precedent I want to see set on this site.
            </li>
        </ul>

        <h3 id="define-explicit">What is considered "explicit" in photos?</h3>

        <p>
            On this website, I make a fairly common distinction between what's a "normal nude" and
            what's an "explicit" photo:
        </p>

        <ul>
            <li>
                "Normal nudes" are completely non-sexual in nature. If there's a penis, it's not
                erect and it's not being grabbed. "Normal nudes" are not close-up pictures that
                focus on the genitals, but tend to be full body shots of a non-sexual nature.
            </li>
            <li>
                "Explicit" posts are everything else: if it includes an erection, or you're
                grabbing your junk, or flashing your various holes, or masturbating or engaging
                in a sexual activity, these all fall under the "explicit" umbrella. If one would
                reasonably consider it to be porn, it's explicit.
            </li>
        </ul>

        <p>
            You are permitted to upload explicit content to your profile, just mark which pictures
            are explicit to help the rest of the community in case someone prefers not to see that.
            You can enable a setting on your profile if you are comfortable with seeing explicit
            content from other users -- by default this site is "normal nudes" friendly!
        </p>

        <h3 id="photoshop">Are digitally altered or 'photoshopped' pictures okay?</h3>

        <p>
            In small doses, modified pictures may be permitted if you consider them to be
            artwork inspired by <strong>your</strong> real photos. For example, the founder
            of this website likes to create "clone pictures" featuring multiple copies of
            himself around a scene together. Some guidelines to follow when it comes to
            Photoshopped images include:
        </p>

        <ul>
            <li>
                You must have several <strong>not modified</strong> photos on your profile
                page as well, that shows what you really look like. If <em>every</em> picture
                on your page is digitally altered, you look like a fake profile and you may
                have your account deleted.
            </li>
            <li>
                You should not use image manipulation to improve or falsify your look. This
                includes Instagram or Snapchat "beauty filters" or using Photoshop to change
                the shape of your body and promote a false image of unrealistic beauty.
            </li>
            <li>
                You should mention in your image caption, if it is not obvious, that the picture
                has been digitally altered so that nobody is confused.
            </li>
        </ul>

        <p>
            Some examples of acceptable use cases for Photoshop include:
        </p>

        <ul>
            <li>Changing or removing the background of your photo (e.g. for privacy purposes)</li>
            <li>
                Minor touch-ups to cover pimples or small blemishes - but do not "air brush" and
                repaint your whole skin tone or smooth over all your wrinkles and present an
                unrealistic image of yourself.
            </li>
        </ul>

        <h3 id="downloading">Does this site prevent people from downloading my pictures?</h3>

        <p>
            As of November 2023, the {{PrettyTitle}} website does discourage the downloading of pictures
            to the limited extent that a web page is able to. We have a right-click handler (long press
            on mobile) where if you right-click on a photo anywhere on the site, you are shown a pop-up
            message to "please respect our members' privacy" and a reminder that it is against the rules
            to download and share images from this site elsewhere. We also have a script that inteferes with
            dragging an image off of the page and into your URL bar or another application which helps to
            protect pictures from being easily saved.
        </p>

        <p>
            You can see this in action by attempting to right-click, long press, or drag the image below:
        </p>

        <p>
            <img src="/static/img/shy.png" width="48" height="48">
        </p>

        <p>
            However, a motivated individual can <strong>always</strong> circumvent these kind of restrictions
            and download a picture if they really want to. There is no technical measure that a website can
            take to prevent this entirely: because at the end of the day, they can always just screenshot the whole
            entire web page which is especially trivial and common to do from mobile devices.
        </p>

        <p>
            There are risks inherent with putting a picture on the Internet. This website <em>does</em> provide
            some controls you can utilize to limit who is allowed to see your picture in the first place, to
            those who you think you can trust not to download your picture:
        </p>

        <ul>
            <li>
                You can mark pictures as "Friends only" and only approved friendships you make on this
                website will be able to see those pictures.
            </li>
            <li>
                You may mark some pictures as "Private" and you grant access to your private photos on
                a per-person basis, and can revoke access to one or all at any time.
            </li>
            <li>
                This website also chooses utterly random URLs for each and every picture, with no
                correlation between the square cropped and full size versions, so users should only
                be able to discover pictures through the normal front-end of this website, subject
                to your privacy controls.
            </li>
        </ul>

        <p>
            It is <a href="/tos#downloading">against the site rules</a> to repost other members' pictures
            without their permission. If you know that a member has reposted your nudes, please
            <a href="/contact?subject=report.user">report them</a> and let us know!
        </p>

        <h3 id="alt-text">What is alt text on photos about?</h3>

        <p>
            <span class="tag is-success">NEW: March 15 2024</span>
        </p>

        <p>
            When uploading a photo to your gallery, you can write an "alt text" description of the photo
            to help with accessibility for the visually impaired. The alt text will appear when hovering
            a mouse cursor over an image, in the lightbox modal on the Gallery page (where a photo appears
            in full size over a dimmed background), and beneath the photo on its permalink or comments page.
        </p>

        <p>
            It is highly recommended to describe your pictures with alt text. Not only does it help
            {{PrettyTitle}} to be more inclusive to members with disabilities, but it can also just be
            a lot of fun to write text descriptions of your nude and sexy photos!
        </p>

        <p>
            If your photo includes any text that is relevant to the meaning of the photo (such as a selfie
            of you standing in front of a nude beach sign), the alt text is a good place to transcribe the
            text so that it is accessible to members with disabilities and it can be read aloud by their
            screen reader software or similar.
        </p>

        <h1 id="forum-faqs">Forum FAQs</h1>

        <h3 id="forum-badges">What do the various badges on the forum mean?</h3>

        <p>
            You may see some of these badges on the forums or their posts. These are their meanings:
        </p>

        <ul>
            <li>
                <span class="tag is-danger is-light">
                    <span class="icon"><i class="fa fa-fire"></i></span>
                    <span>Explicit</span>
                </span> -
                on a forum it means the entire forum is "<abbr title="Not Safe For Work">NSFW</abbr>";
                but individual topics within an otherwise non-explicit forum may also opt in to the
                Explicit tag if its content is border-line. You will not see any Explicit forums or
                posts unless you opt-in to see explicit content in your <a href="/settings">settings</a>.
            </li>
            <li>
                <span class="tag is-warning is-light">
                    <span class="icon"><i class="fa fa-peace"></i></span>
                    <span>Privileged</span>
                </span> -
                only a forum's moderators can create new topics in a Privileged forum (such as the
                forum for Site Announcements). Moderators include the site admins, the creator of
                the forum, and any additional moderators appointed by the forum creator.
            </li>
            <li>
                <span class="tag is-success is-light">
                    <span class="icon"><i class="fa fa-thumbtack"></i></span>
                    <span>Pinned</span>
                </span> -
                these forum posts are pinned to the top of a forum, appearing above regular posts
                on the first page of the forum.
            </li>
            <li>
                <span class="tag is-warning is-light">
                    <span class="icon"><i class="fa fa-ban"></i></span>
                    <span>No Reply</span>
                </span> -
                topics with this badge can not accept any new replies. Some types of announcement
                posts may start with this badge from the beginning; other threads that are locked
                by a moderator may gain this badge if the conversation was going off the rails.
            </li>
        </ul>

        <h3 id="create-forums">Can I create my own forums?</h3>

        <p>
            This feature is coming soon! Users will be allowed to create their own forums and
            act as moderator within their own board. The forum admin pages need a bit more
            spit &amp; polish before it's ready!
        </p>

        <p>
            Some related features with managing your own forums will include:
        </p>

        <ul>
            <li>
                You'll be able to make your forum "invite-only" if you want, where only approved
                members can see and reply to threads.
            </li>
            <li>
                You'll be able to choose other users to help you moderate your forum. As the forum
                owner, you'll retain admin control of your forum unless you assign ownership away
                to another member.
            </li>
        </ul>

        <h1 id="chat-faqs">Chat Room FAQs</h1>

        <h2 id="chat-access">Who can access the chat rooms?</h2>

        <p>
            The chat room is available to all <strong>certified</strong> members who have public photos
            on their profile page. <a href="#shy-faqs">Shy Accounts</a> who have private profiles or keep
            all their pictures hidden are not permitted in the chat room at this time - but they may get
            their own separate room later where they can bother other similarly shy members there.
        </p>

        <p>
            The chat room supports webcam sharing and so we only permit non-shy people into the
            room so as to put our minds at peace - that whoever is watching your camera at least
            has a public face picture on their page.
        </p>

        <h3 id="chat-support">What are the technical requirements to use the chat room?</h3>

        <p>
            The chat room seems to work the best on the following combination of devices and
            web browsers:
        </p>

        <ul>
            <li>
                <strong>Firefox</strong> and <strong>Chromium</strong>-based web browsers
                on <strong>all desktop-like operating systems</strong> including Windows, Mac OS
                and Linux. Chromium-based browsers include Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Opera,
                Brave or others that are based on the open source Chromium browser.
            </li>
            <li>
                On <strong>Android</strong> devices, all <strong>Firefox</strong> and <strong>Chromium-based</strong>
                browsers are generally working quite well.
            </li>
        </ul>

        <p>
            The chat room and video sharing generally works well on the above devices. Below
            are some that are known to have issues with the chat room at this time:
        </p>

        <ul>
            <li>
                <strong>Safari on Mac OS X</strong> usually works for the text chat portions
                (entering the room and chatting), but webcam sharing doesn't seem to work (either
                broadcasting or viewing others' cameras).
            </li>
            <li>
                <strong>iPhone and iPad</strong> (all web browsers) have difficulty logging in to
                the chat room at all. Chrome or Firefox do not work on iOS, either - because under
                the hood all web browsers on iOS are just custom wrappers around Mobile Safari,
                which doesn't like my chat room right now. So unfortunately, Apple mobile devices
                can not use the chat room.
            </li>
        </ul>

        <h3 id="webcam-support">I can't share or connect to other peoples' webcams</h3>

        <p>
            First, verify that you're using a <a href="#chat-support">known supported device</a>
            when accessing the chat room. Generally this means you're running a Firefox or
            Chromium-based browser on a desktop computer, laptop, or Android device. Webcam
            sharing does not work <strong>at all</strong> in Safari on Mac OS, and portable
            Apple devices such as iPad and iPhone do not work with the chat room at all.
        </p>

        <p>
            If you are on a supported device, check out the following information about how
            webcam sharing works:
        </p>

        <ul>
            <li>
                When you click on the "Start webcam" button, your browser should prompt you to
                share your webcam and microphone and then you should see your own camera feed
                on the page above the chat history panel.
                <ul>
                    <li>
                        If you do not see your own webcam, check your web browser settings
                        and verify you gave permission to <code>chat.nonshy.com</code> to
                        access your camera.
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        Any device with a camera should be able to <strong>at least</strong>
                        get far enough to see your own camera feed on the page if you give
                        it permission to access it.
                    </li>
                </ul>
            </li>
            <li>
                For sharing your webcam to others (for them to open your camera, as well as
                for you to open somebody else's camera and watch them), this currently requires
                a <strong>peer-to-peer connection</strong> between your device and the other party's.
                <ul>
                    <li>
                        This uses a technology called
                        <a href="https://webrtc.org/">WebRTC</a> and it <em>usually</em>
                        works in most cases. Even if both you and the other person are behind
                        firewalls on your respective networks (e.g. behind a home WiFi network
                        that performs Network Address Translation), you can usually establish a
                        peer-to-peer connection and share video regardless.
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        Sometimes, the network conditions on either end of the connection do not
                        permit a peer-to-peer connection. This can happen in some corporate or school
                        networks which filter and block unauthorized connections.
                    </li>
                </ul>
            </li>
        </ul>

        <p>
            A couple of steps you can try and troubleshoot this issue include:
        </p>

        <ul>
            <li>
                Try logging on from a different web browser. For example, if you are using Firefox
                and you can't open somebody's video, try switching to a Chromium browser and see if
                it works better there.
            </li>
            <li>
                If there are many people online, try opening somebody else's camera. It may be the
                case that the person you were trying to see is behind a network that doesn't allow
                you to connect in, but it may work to open somebody else's camera instead.
            </li>
        </ul>

        <p>
            If all else fails, it's unfortunate but at least the text chat functions should work at least.
            Some big video apps like Zoom or Jitsi Meet tend to work better because, if you can't establish
            a peer-to-peer connection, they will fall back on using a proxy server to transmit your video
            through to the other party. The {{PrettyTitle}} chat room does not have such a proxy server --
            because the bandwidth can get expensive to carry video across! Only peer-to-peer video sharing
            is supported at this time.
        </p>

        <h3 id="chat-more">Where can I learn more about the chat room?</h3>

        <p>
            Please also see the <a href="https://chat.nonshy.com/about">Chat Help page</a> which gives
            a tour of the chat room interface and some additional information about how to use the chat room.
        </p>

        <h1 id="shy-faqs"><i class="fa fa-ghost"></i> Shy Account FAQs</h1>

        <p>
            One of the things that {{PrettyTitle}} wishes to avoid is the dreaded "blank profile"
            that slides into our DMs and gets creepy and weird on us. You are encouraged to participate
            on this site and share at least one public photo with the community. You may opt to have
            only "G-rated face pics" on public and nudes on private, or keep your face on private and
            share some body shots with your face cropped out on public - but share at least one good
            picture on public.
        </p>

        <p>
            When your profile page or photos are <em>all</em> set to Private or Friends-only, you will
            be considered to have a <strong>Shy Account.</strong>
            A Shy Account can still interact on the forums but will have limited options to
            interact with non-restricted ({{PrettyTitle}}) members.
        </p>

        <h3 id="shy-restrictions">What restrictions apply to Shy Accounts?</h3>

        <p>
            The limits placed on Shy Accounts are:
        </p>

        <ul>
            <li>
                The <i class="fa fa-image"></i> <strong>Site Gallery</strong> will only show you pictures
                of people equally as shy as you are. That is, you may see your own pictures and those of
                Friends you have added, but you don't see public shares of {{PrettyTitle}} people
                who aren't your friends.
            </li>
            <li>
                <strong><i class="fa fa-envelope"></i> Messages:</strong> you may slide into the DMs only
                of other shy members but you can <strong>not</strong> initiate DMs with a {{PrettyTitle}} one who is not on
                your Friends list. At their own discretion, they may initiate a chat with you and then you can reply to them.
            </li>
            <li>
                You can view anybody's <i class="fa fa-user"></i> <strong>Profile Page</strong> but you
                can <strong>not</strong> see a {{PrettyTitle}} account's Photo Gallery unless they are
                your Friend or have shared their private pictures with you.
            </li>
            <li>
                You can not join the <i class="fa fa-message"></i> <strong>Chat Room</strong>. You guys
                may soon get your own chat room, though. Many of us {{PrettyTitle}} nudists would not
                enjoy our webcams being watched by blank profiles.
            </li>
        </ul>

        <p>
            The idea is to keep the shy members isolated from the non-shy ones. We nudists are sharing
            what we can and we don't want creepers to be ogling our nudes and not sharing anything in
            return. If all your pics are private, you look like a blank profile to us - and you will be
            kept with the other blank profiles until you choose to participate.
        </p>

        <h3 id="shy-cando">What <em>can</em> Shy Accounts do?</h3>

        <p>
            There are still a lot things you <strong>can</strong> do with your <strong>certified</strong>
            but Shy Account:
        </p>

        <ul>
            <li>
                You can still participate on the <i class="fa fa-comments"></i> <strong>Forums</strong> and meet new friends
                that way - by contributing to discussions, ideally.
            </li>
            <li>
                You can send a <i class="fa fa-user"></i> <strong>Friend request</strong> to anybody and if they accept you
                can see their Photo Gallery and pictures appear in the Site Gallery.
            </li>
            <li>
                You can send <i class="fa fa-envelope"></i> <strong>DMs</strong> to other shy people like yourself, and reply
                to DMs that were sent by anybody who messages you first.
            </li>
            <li>
                You can browse the <i class="fa fa-people-group"></i> <strong>Member Directory</strong> and view public
                profile pages and send friend requests to whoever.
            </li>
        </ul>

        <h3 id="shy-fixit">How do I fix it?</h3>

        <p>
            Leaving <strong>Shy Account</strong> territory is easy:
        </p>

        <ol>
            <li>Don't have your profile page set to <strong>private.</strong> Only logged-in, certified members can see your page, anyway!</li>
            <li>
                Have at least one <strong>public</strong> picture to share with the class. Ideally, it will be your profile picture that
                shows your face, but we'll settle for a good headless body shot. We're all sharing our nudes here, we'd like it if you
                participated as well.
            </li>
        </ol>

        <p>
            If you are new to all of this, here are some ideas how you can manage your
            photo gallery to have at least one <strong>public</strong> picture to share:
        </p>

        <ul>
            <li>You could have a single, "G-rated" face pic as your Public profile picture, and have the others on Friends-only or Private.</li>
            <li>
                You could upload all your "G-rated" face pics as Public, and have nudes (with your face cropped out if you need) on Friends-only
                or Private.
            </li>
            <li>
                You could have a non-public profile pic along with "anonymized" nudes on Public, full nudes w/ face on Friends-only, and
                sexual stuff on Private that you unlock on a per-person basis.
            </li>
            <li>
                You can <strong>opt-out</strong> of the Site Gallery by un-checking the Gallery box on the upload page. Your public
                photos then would only been seen if somebody clicks <em>through</em> your profile page to see your gallery.
            </li>
        </ul>

        <h1 id="technical-faqs">Technical FAQs</h1>

        <h3 id="why">Why did you build a custom website?</h3>

        <p>
            Other variants on this question might be: why not just run a
            <a href="https://joinmastodon.org" target="_blank">Mastodon</a> instance? Or why
            this website and not a Discord server or MeWe group or <em>insert off-the-shelf
            free software or hosted web service here</em>?
        </p>

        <p>
            It certainly would've been simpler to just use an off-the-shelf open source app
            such as Mastodon (a decentralized, Twitter-like app) or similar. These apps though
            have a scalability problem: users with their infinitely long timelines will upload
            infinite photos until your server runs out of disk space and not enough of them may
            donate to cover the costs. And the Fediverse feature (Mastodon is like e-mail and
            users from all servers can like, follow and comment on one another across the entire
            network) is a double edged sword too: all my members would need to tag even their
            "normal nudes" as NSFW or else other servers would ban ours (meaning we have to follow
            rules imposed by the wider Internet community), and conversely it is difficult to
            moderate incoming content from other servers showing up on my users' timelines.
            It's not a good fit for the vision I had in mind.
        </p>

        <p>
            And on just using a service like Discord or MeWe to host my community: that's still
            putting us in the hands of a corporation which can one day decide to ban all NSFW
            users. Many people run nudist Discords and MeWe groups, but I needed something whose
            fate is kept in my own hands.
        </p>

        <h3 id="open-source">Is this website open source?</h3>

        <p>
            Yes! The source code for this website is released as free software under the GNU
            General Public License. It is programmed in Go and the source code is available
            at <a href="https://code.nonshy.com/nonshy/website" target="_blank">code.nonshy.com/nonshy/website</a>.
            If you're a developer and would like to contribute bug fixes or new features to
            the website, see details <a href="https://code.nonshy.com/nonshy/website/src/branch/main/CONTRIBUTING.md" target="_blank">here</a>.
        </p>
    </div>
</div>
{{end}}