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                <h1 class="title">Frequently Asked Questions</h1>
                <h2 class="subtitle">And some that nobody asked</h2>
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        <h1>General FAQs</h1>

        <h3>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>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>

        <h3>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>

        <h1>Photo FAQs</h1>

        <h3>Do I have to post my nudes here?</h3>

        <p>
            You must be comfortable with doing so, yes. 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>

        <h3>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>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>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>

        <h1>Forum FAQs</h1>

        <h3>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-gavel"></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>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>Technical FAQs</h1>

        <h3>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>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>.
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