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<h1 class="title">Frequently Asked Questions</h1>
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<h2 class="subtitle">And some that nobody asked</h2>
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<a href="#certification-faqs">Certification FAQs</a>
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<li><a href="#certification">What does <strong>certification</strong> mean, and what is a <strong>"verification selfie"</strong>?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#need-certification">Do I <strong>need</strong> to send a "verification selfie"?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#why-certify">Why the hard requirement to certify?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#cannot-certify">Are there <strong>alternative options</strong> to becoming Certified?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#uncertified">What can non-certified members do?</a></li>
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</ul>
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<li>
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<a href="#privacy-faqs">Privacy FAQs</a>
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<li><a href="#private-avatar">Can my <strong>Profile Picture be kept private?</strong></a></li>
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<li><a href="#profile-visibility">What are the <strong>visibility options</strong> for my profile page?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#delete-messages">How do I delete direct messages (DMs)?</a></li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#photo-faqs">Photo FAQs</a>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="#nudes-required">Do I have to post my nudes here?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#face-in-nudes">Do I have to include my face in my nudes?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#site-gallery">What appears on the Site Gallery?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#other-people">Can I include other people in my photos?</a> <span class="tag is-success">NEW March 8 2023</span></li>
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<li><a href="#define-explicit">What is considered "explicit" in photos?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#photoshop">Are digitally altered or 'photoshopped' pictures okay?</a> <span class="tag is-success">NEW March 8 2023</span></li>
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<li><a href="#downloading">Does this site <strong>prevent people from downloading</strong> my pictures?</a></li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#forum-faqs">Forum FAQs</a>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="#forum-badges">What do the various badges on the forum mean?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#create-forums">Can I create my own forums?</a></li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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<a href="#chat-faqs">Chat Room FAQs</a> <span class="tag is-success">NEW March 8 2023</span>
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<li><a href="#chat-access">Who can access the chat rooms?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#chat-support">What are the technical requirements to use the chat room?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#webcam-support">I can't share or connect to other peoples' webcams</a></li>
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<li><a href="#chat-more">Where can I learn more about the chat room?</a></li>
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</ul>
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<li>
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<a href="#shy-faqs">Shy Account FAQs</a>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="#shy-restrictions">What restrictions apply to Shy Accounts?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#shy-cando">Why can Shy Accounts do?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#shy-fixit">How do I fix it?</a></li>
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<li>
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<a href="#technical-faqs">Technical FAQs</a>
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<li><a href="#why">Why did you build a custom website?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#open-source">Is this website open source?</a></li>
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</ul>
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</ul>
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<h1 id="certification-faqs">Certification FAQs</h1>
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<h3 id="certification">What does certification mean, and what is a "verification selfie"?</h3>
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This website requires all members to be "certified" or proven to be real human beings
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on the other side of the keyboard. A "verification selfie" is where you take a picture
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of yourself holding onto a hand-written note on a sheet of paper to prove that you are
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a real person (and not just catfishing with somebody else's stolen photos).
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</p>
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<p>
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Certification helps protect our members from harassment by anonymous trolls or automated
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spam robots that plague other similar sites.
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</p>
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<h3 id="need-certification">Do I need to send a "verification selfie"?</h3>
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Yes.
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</p>
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<p>
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Certification is required before you can gain access to the greater community on this
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website. Pre-certification, you may only access your own profile page and settings, but
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can not browse the member list, see the site Photo Gallery, or participate on the forums
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until your profile has been certified.
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</p>
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<p>
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Your certification photo is <em>only</em> seen by site administrators and does not appear
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on your profile page.
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</p>
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<h3 id="why-certify">Why the hard requirement to certify?</h3>
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I didn't set out to build "just another social network" that allows for random, faceless, anonymous
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people to sign up - you can do that literally anywhere else. This website was designed
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<em>specifically</em> to get ahead of what happened with Tumblr, Pornhub and other sites
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in recent history. It wasn't just a random whim of Tumblr when they kicked all of the nudists
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and other NSFW users off of their platform -- they were pressured to do so by a vocal minority
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of anti-porn prudes who have been working their way across the Internet and trying to make sure
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that nudists, exhibitionists, porn stars and sex workers have no place at all to exist online.
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</p>
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<p>
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I have been watching how these groups operate. They throw out wild claims that a website like
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Tumblr or Pornhub is running rampant with illegal content (such as child sexually abusive material,
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human trafficking, revenge porn or so on) and use that as a scapegoat to put pressure on a website
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via the banks and advertisers into either bending the knee or shutting down completely. Tumblr elected
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to just blanket ban all NSFW users from the platform, Pornhub deleted 80% of all user content from their
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site, and Onlyfans nearly fell as well (before they decided instead to require government-issued photo
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ID from their members, which I do not want to do).
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</p>
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<p>
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This group wildly exaggerates statistics and misrepresents their finding to push along an agenda
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which is <em>really</em> just anti-porn, period; but the fact of the matter is that <em>any</em> wide
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open public website that allows random people to just sign up and start posting things will always
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technically leave room for those kinds of claims to be thrown around. If a website doesn't require a
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user to verify their face, you'll get bad actors who sign up blank, throwaway accounts (probably hiding
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behind a VPN, too, to conceal their location) and start spreading god awful things on a site and it becomes
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a game of whack-a-mole for site moderators to keep on top of (not to mention the trauma it causes for
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moderators who need to deal with all that shit). I don't want <em>any</em> of that nonsense
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on this website.
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</p>
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<p>
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The certification requirement should help curb a lot of that and bring some other nice benefits
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besides for the other members of this site:
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It will deter blank, faceless profiles from signing up and then sliding into your DMs and getting
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all pervy and weird on you. This happens <em>so freaking often</em> on other nudist websites and
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nobody likes that - we are here posting our nude pics out in the open and don't want random anonymous
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creepers who won't reveal themselves in an equally meaningful way.
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</li>
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<li>
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It will help keep automated spam robots at bay; a non-certified account will have a terrible time
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trying to discover any user here that they could send their spam to, as the Forums, Member Directory
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and Site Photo Gallery are off-limits to non-certified users.
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</li>
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It will keep members accountable: I don't expect anyone would dare upload illegal content here when
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their certified face picture is on file.
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</ul>
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<p>
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I understand that certification may be inconvenient for some members. I know there are plenty of people
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for whom it isn't a concern at all. I may be able to work with you on an alternative method for certification;
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see the next section, below.
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</p>
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<h3 id="cannot-certify">Are there alternative options to becoming Certified?</h3>
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<p>
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I understand that some nudists need to exercise a degree of discretion and will
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not want to take a face pic with {{PrettyTitle}}'s name and upload that <em>anywhere at all</em> onto the Internet. For
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example if you are a teacher or work in law enforcement or the clergy and you need to keep
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careful control of your image online because the world isn't quite enlightened enough yet
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when it comes to nudity and sexuality.
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</p>
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<p>
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These are very valid concerns and can be handled on a case-by-case basis. The
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main thing I'm looking for in certification is to prove that you're a real person,
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you look like your pictures here and that you're not a minor. Send a DM to
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<a href="/messages/compose?to=introvertnudist">u/introvertnudist</a>
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to inquire about alternative verification methods, which may include just hopping on a
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quick video call with a site admin.
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</p>
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<p>
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Note, though: this is a social site for {{PrettyTitle}} nudists so you <strong>are</strong>
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expected to post at least <em>some</em> pictures of yourself on your profile page. A face
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pic (at least a clothed, G-rated selfie) as your default profile picture is highly encouraged,
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and the rest of your pics you can leave your face cropped or censored out of. And your profile
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picture can be marked private or "friends only" if you like; see below.
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</p>
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<h3 id="uncertified">What can non-certified members do?</h3>
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<p>
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Before you have an approved certification photo, you can mainly only access and edit your
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own profile page, and upload a few pictures while you await approval. Your pictures won't
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be shown to members on the Site Gallery until you're certified, and most of the website's
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features (namely, the Forums, Site Gallery and Member Search Directory) are gated behind
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certification.
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</p>
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<p>
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Certified members may, at their own discretion, be able to find your profile page by
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browsing the Member Directory. They may send you a friend request or reach out to you.
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Or, if you happen to know a member's profile URL on this site, you (the non-certified
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member) can view their profile page and photo gallery (depending on their privacy
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settings), send them a friend request or direct message. But basically, it will be
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difficult to discover users to interact with until after you are certified - and
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this is intentional to help guard against spam bots and creepy people.
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</p>
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<h2 id="privacy-faqs">Privacy FAQs</h2>
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<h3 id="private-avatar">Can my Profile Picture be kept private?</h3>
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You <em>may</em> set your Profile Picture to be "Friends only" or "Private" visibility
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if you wish to be more discreet about your face pictures.
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</p>
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<strong class="has-text-warning-dark">Friends only</strong>
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<i class="fa fa-users has-text-warning-dark"></i>:
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your profile pic displays as a yellow
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<img src="/static/img/shy-friends.png" width="16" height="16">
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placeholder image for people who are not on your <a href="/friends">Friends</a> list.
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</li>
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<li>
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<strong class="has-text-private">Private</strong>
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<i class="fa fa-lock has-text-private"></i>:
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your profile pic displays as a purple
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<img src="/static/img/shy-private.png" width="16" height="16">
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placeholder image for everybody except for people that you had
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<a href="/photo/private">granted access</a> to see your
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private photos.
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</li>
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</ul>
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<h3 id="profile-visibility">What are the visibility options for my profile page?</h3>
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<p>
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There are currently three different choices for your profile visibility on your
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<a href="/settings">Settings</a> page:
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<li>
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The <strong>default</strong> visibility is <strong class="has-text-success-dark">"Public + Login Required."</strong> Users must be
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logged-in to an account in order to see anything about your profile page - if an
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external (logged out) browser visits your profile URL, they will be redirected to
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log in to an account first.
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</li>
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<li>
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You may optionally go <em>more</em> public with a <strong class="has-text-warning-dark">"Limited Logged-out View."</strong>
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This enables your profile URL (e.g.,
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{{if .LoggedIn}}<a href="/u/{{.CurrentUser.Username}}?view=external">/u/{{.CurrentUser.Username}}</a>{{else}}/u/username{{end}})
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to show a <em>basic</em> page (with your square profile picture and display name) to
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logged-out browsers. This may be useful if you wish to link to your page from an external
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site (e.g. your Twitter page) and present new users with a better experience than just
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a redirect to login page.
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</li>
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<li>
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You may <strong class="has-text-private">"Mark my profile as 'private'"</strong> to
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be private even from other logged-in members who are not on your Friends
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list. Logged-in users will see only your square profile picture and display
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name, and be able only to send you a friend request or a message.
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</li>
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</ul>
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<h3 id="delete-messages">How do I delete direct messages (DMs)?</h3>
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<p>
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You have two options for deleting your private one-on-one chat messages.
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</p>
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<p>
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You can delete <strong>your own</strong> messages by clicking on the "Delete"
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button that appears below them. This deletes your message from <em>both</em> of
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your threads, and (if unread), will not notify them that they had an unread
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message.
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</p>
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You can delete <strong>the whole thread</strong> by using the "Delete whole thread"
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button at the bottom of the conversation. This will remove <em>both</em> of your
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chat history with one another and make it like you never exchanged a DM before
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at all.
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</p>
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<h1 id="photo-faqs">Photo FAQs</h1>
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<h3 id="nudes-required">Do I have to post my nudes here?</h3>
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<p>
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You should be comfortable with doing so, but it isn't a hard requirement. On some
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other nudist social websites, many nudists have lamented to me about how often they
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get messages by anonymous, faceless profiles who slide into their DMs and get all
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pervy and weird on them. While {{PrettyTitle}} only requires a face pic and verification
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selfie, other members will feel more comfortable if you post some of your own nudes as well.
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</p>
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<p>
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It's kind of like nude beach etiquette: no nudist at a nude beach enjoys it much when
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people arrive who refuse to get naked and they're just there to gawk and be a peeping
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tom and perv out over all the naked bodies they see. If you don't want to post any
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nudes here, at least don't act weird or creepy with people here.
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</p>
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<h3 id="face-in-nudes">Do I have to include my face in my nudes?</h3>
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You don't have to! I know many nudists are not comfortable with their face appearing
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in their nudes. You are free to post "headless torso shots" or leave your face
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covered or censored. But you should have at least one face pic (as your default profile
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pic) - it can be a G-rated selfie!
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</p>
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If you're only comfortable with posting like close-up dick pics, please mark those pics
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as "explicit" -- many nudists prefer to see the <em>whole</em> nude body and don't
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want to see just dick pics everywhere. And don't set those as your default profile pic!
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</p>
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<h3 id="site-gallery">What appears on the Site Gallery?</h3>
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<p>
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The "<strong><i class="fa fa-image"></i> Gallery</strong>" link on the site nav bar goes to the Site-wide
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Photo Gallery page. Here is shown all of the <strong>public</strong> photos uploaded by
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all (certified) users, if those pictures are also opted-in to appear on the Gallery in
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their settings.
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</p>
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<p>
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If you have friends on here, you may also see their "Friends-only" photos on the Site
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Gallery. This way, you don't miss any updates if your friends add a new picture (so
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long as they allow their picture to appear on the Gallery).
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</p>
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<p>
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When you upload a picture you may opt it in or out of the Gallery by checking a box on
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its settings page. For example, you can upload a Public photo but opt it <em>out</em> of
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the Gallery -- it will then only appear on your profile page.
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</p>
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<h3 id="other-people">Can I include other people in my photos?</h3>
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<span class="tag is-success">NEW March 8 2023</span>
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</p>
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It can be acceptable to include other people in your photos here - for example pictures
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of you and your partner together or you with a group of your naked buddies. However, please
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observe the following rules:
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<ul>
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Be sure you have the permission of everybody pictured to upload their photo here. I
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don't want any "revenge porn" type content uploaded without somebody's consent!
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You all must be in <strong>the same photo</strong> together - that is it must be a
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"normal picture" taken on a camera that caught you all in the same frame. <strong>Do NOT</strong>
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upload a "split-frame" picture where you simply combined two wholly different photos side-by-side
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into one image: it is not clear from such a picture whether you two even <em>know</em> one
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another and it's not a precedent I want to see set on this site.
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</ul>
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<h3 id="define-explicit">What is considered "explicit" in photos?</h3>
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On this website, I make a fairly common distinction between what's a "normal nude" and
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what's an "explicit" photo:
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"Normal nudes" are completely non-sexual in nature. If there's a penis, it's not
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erect and it's not being grabbed. "Normal nudes" are not close-up pictures that
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focus on the genitals, but tend to be full body shots of a non-sexual nature.
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<li>
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"Explicit" posts are everything else: if it includes an erection, or you're
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grabbing your junk, or flashing your various holes, or masturbating or engaging
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in a sexual activity, these all fall under the "explicit" umbrella. If one would
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reasonably consider it to be porn, it's explicit.
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</ul>
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<p>
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You are permitted to upload explicit content to your profile, just mark which pictures
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are explicit to help the rest of the community in case someone prefers not to see that.
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You can enable a setting on your profile if you are comfortable with seeing explicit
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content from other users -- by default this site is "normal nudes" friendly!
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</p>
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<h3 id="photoshop">Are digitally altered or 'photoshopped' pictures okay?</h3>
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<p>
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<span class="tag is-success">NEW March 8 2023</span>
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</p>
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<p>
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In small doses, modified pictures may be permitted if you consider them to be
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artwork inspired by <strong>your</strong> real photos. For example, the founder
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of this website likes to create "clone pictures" featuring multiple copies of
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himself around a scene together. Some guidelines to follow when it comes to
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Photoshopped images include:
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</p>
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<ul>
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<li>
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You must have several <strong>not modified</strong> photos on your profile
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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.
|
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</li>
|
|
<li>
|
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You should not use image manipulation to improve or falsify your look. This
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includes Instagram or Snapchat "beauty filters" or using Photoshop to change
|
|
the shape of your body and promote a false image of unrealistic beauty.
|
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</li>
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<li>
|
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You should mention in your image caption, if it is not obvious, that the picture
|
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has been digitally altered so that nobody is confused.
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</li>
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</ul>
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<p>
|
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Some examples of acceptable use cases for Photoshop include:
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</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Changing or removing the background of your photo (e.g. for privacy purposes)</li>
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<li>
|
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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.
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</li>
|
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</ul>
|
|
|
|
<h3 id="downloading">Does this site prevent people from downloading my pictures?</h3>
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|
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<p>
|
|
This website does not go out of its way to prevent people from downloading pictures, and
|
|
nor will it pretend to. This is actually a very difficult problem to solve in the year {{.YYYY}}.
|
|
</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>
|
|
I <em>could</em> add some JavaScripts that prevent right-clicking on my pages so you can't
|
|
just "Save image as," but this would only deter desktop (mouse & keyboard) users and is easy
|
|
to work around. I <em>could</em> place a transparent image over top of all your pictures like
|
|
Instagram does and if you try and save it, you just get a one-pixel transparent GIF; but this
|
|
is trivially defeated by any novice web designer by just right-clicking, "Inspect element" and
|
|
deleting it from the web page to get at the photo it was protecting.
|
|
</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>
|
|
And people can always just screenshot the whole web page - and a web page can't do anything
|
|
at all to prevent that. With mobile phones this is an especially easy and common thing to
|
|
do. Any mild measures this site could take to deter downloading would only provide a false
|
|
sense of security, which is worse than having no security.
|
|
</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>
|
|
There are risks inherent with putting a picture on the Internet. This website does provide
|
|
some controls you can utilize as to <em>who</em> will see the pictures you upload:
|
|
</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>
|
|
Additionally, your Profile Page altogether can <em>only</em> be seen by logged-in members
|
|
of this site by default. You <em>may</em> tighten it even further and mark your entire profile
|
|
as Private (and only approved friends can see your profile or <em>any</em> of your photos).
|
|
Note that your square cropped profile picture is still visible even so.
|
|
</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>
|
|
Or if you are feeling very bold, you may mark your profile to have a "limited logged-out
|
|
view" if you want to share your profile link on another website such as Twitter. A logged-out
|
|
user will see only your Display Name and square cropped profile picture, and be invited to
|
|
sign up for {{PrettyTitle}} to contact you here.
|
|
</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-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 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 & 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
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at <a href="https://code.nonshy.com/nonshy/website" target="_blank">code.nonshy.com/nonshy/website</a>.
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If you're a developer and would like to contribute bug fixes or new features to
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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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