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{{define "title"}}Frequently Asked Questions{{end}}
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<section class="hero is-light is-bold">
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<div class="container">
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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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</div>
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</section>
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<div class="block p-4">
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<div class="content">
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<h1>General FAQs</h1>
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<h3>What does certification mean, and what is a "verification selfie"?</h3>
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<p>
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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>Do I need to send a "verification selfie"?</h3>
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<p>
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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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<h3>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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<h3>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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<h1>Photo FAQs</h1>
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<h3>Do I have to post my nudes here?</h3>
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<p>
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You must be comfortable with doing so, yes. On some other nudist social websites, many
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nudists have lamented to me about how often they get messages by anonymous, faceless
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profiles who slide into their DMs and get all pervy and weird on them. While
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{{PrettyTitle}} only requires a face pic and verification selfie, other members will
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feel more comfortable if you post some of your own nudes as well.
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</p>
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<h3>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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<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>What appears on the Site Gallery?</h3>
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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>What is considered "explicit" in photos?</h3>
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<p>
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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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<li>
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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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<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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</li>
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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>Does this site prevent people from downloading my pictures?</h3>
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<p>
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This website does not go out of its way to prevent people from downloading pictures, and
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nor will it pretend to. This is actually a very difficult problem to solve in the year {{.YYYY}}.
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</p>
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<p>
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I <em>could</em> add some JavaScripts that prevent right-clicking on my pages so you can't
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just "Save image as," but this would only deter desktop (mouse & keyboard) users and is easy
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to work around. I <em>could</em> place a transparent image over top of all your pictures like
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Instagram does and if you try and save it, you just get a one-pixel transparent GIF; but this
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is trivially defeated by any novice web designer by just right-clicking, "Inspect element" and
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deleting it from the web page to get at the photo it was protecting.
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</p>
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<p>
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And people can always just screenshot the whole web page - and a web page can't do anything
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at all to prevent that. With mobile phones this is an especially easy and common thing to
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do. Any mild measures this site could take to deter downloading would only provide a false
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sense of security, which is worse than having no security.
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</p>
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<p>
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There are risks inherent with putting a picture on the Internet. This website does provide
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some controls you can utilize as to <em>who</em> will see the pictures you upload:
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</p>
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<ul>
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<li>
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You can mark pictures as "Friends only" and only approved friendships you make on this
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website will be able to see those pictures.
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</li>
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<li>
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You may mark some pictures as "Private" and you grant access to your private photos on
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a per-person basis, and can revoke access to one or all at any time.
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</li>
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<li>
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This website also chooses utterly random URLs for each and every picture, with no
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correlation between the square cropped and full size versions, so users should only
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be able to discover pictures through the normal front-end of this website, subject
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to your privacy controls.
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</li>
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</ul>
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<p>
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Note that your square cropped Default Profile Picture that appears next to your username
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on various parts of this website is always visible to logged-in user accounts. The "full size"
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version may be Friends-only or Private, but the square crop that you chose for your Profile
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Picture is currently displayed to all logged-in users.
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</p>
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<p>
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Additionally, your Profile Page altogether can <em>only</em> be seen by logged-in members
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of this site by default. You <em>may</em> tighten it further and mark your entire profile
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as Private (and only approved friends can see your profile or <em>any</em> of your photos).
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Note that your square cropped profile picture is still visible even so.
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</p>
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<p>
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Or if you are feeling very bold, you may mark your profile to have a "limited logged-out
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view" if you want to share your profile link on another website such as Twitter. A logged-out
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user will see only your Display Name and square cropped profile picture, and be invited to
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sign up for {{PrettyTitle}} to contact you here.
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</p>
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<h1>Forum FAQs</h1>
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<h3>What do the various badges on the forum mean?</h3>
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<p>
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You may see some of these badges on the forums or their posts. These are their meanings:
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</p>
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<ul>
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<li>
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<span class="tag is-danger is-light">
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<span class="icon"><i class="fa fa-fire"></i></span>
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<span>Explicit</span>
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</span> -
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on a forum it means the entire forum is "<abbr title="Not Safe For Work">NSFW</abbr>";
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but individual topics within an otherwise non-explicit forum may also opt in to the
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Explicit tag if its content is border-line. You will not see any Explicit forums or
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posts unless you opt-in to see explicit content in your <a href="/settings">settings</a>.
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</li>
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<li>
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<span class="tag is-warning is-light">
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<span class="icon"><i class="fa fa-gavel"></i></span>
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<span>Privileged</span>
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</span> -
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only a forum's moderators can create new topics in a Privileged forum (such as the
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forum for Site Announcements). Moderators include the site admins, the creator of
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the forum, and any additional moderators appointed by the forum creator.
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</li>
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<li>
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<span class="tag is-success is-light">
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<span class="icon"><i class="fa fa-thumbtack"></i></span>
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<span>Pinned</span>
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</span> -
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these forum posts are pinned to the top of a forum, appearing above regular posts
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on the first page of the forum.
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</li>
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<li>
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<span class="tag is-warning is-light">
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<span class="icon"><i class="fa fa-ban"></i></span>
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<span>No Reply</span>
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</span> -
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topics with this badge can not accept any new replies. Some types of announcement
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posts may start with this badge from the beginning; other threads that are locked
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by a moderator may gain this badge if the conversation was going off the rails.
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</li>
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</ul>
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<h3>Can I create my own forums?</h3>
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<p>
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This feature is coming soon! Users will be allowed to create their own forums and
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act as moderator within their own board. The forum admin pages need a bit more
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spit & polish before it's ready!
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</p>
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<p>
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Some related features with managing your own forums will include:
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</p>
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You'll be able to make your forum "invite-only" if you want, where only approved
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members can see and reply to threads.
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</li>
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You'll be able to choose other users to help you moderate your forum. As the forum
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owner, you'll retain admin control of your forum unless you assign ownership away
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to another member.
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</li>
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</ul>
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<h1>Technical FAQs</h1>
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<h3>Why did you build a custom website?</h3>
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<p>
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Other variants on this question might be: why not just run a
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<a href="https://joinmastodon.org" target="_blank">Mastodon</a> instance? Or why
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this website and not a Discord server or MeWe group or <em>insert off-the-shelf
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free software or hosted web service here</em>?
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</p>
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It certainly would've been simpler to just use an off-the-shelf open source app
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such as Mastodon (a decentralized, Twitter-like app) or similar. These apps though
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have a scalability problem: users with their infinitely long timelines will upload
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infinite photos until your server runs out of disk space and not enough of them may
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donate to cover the costs. And the Fediverse feature (Mastodon is like e-mail and
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users from all servers can like, follow and comment on one another across the entire
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network) is a double edged sword too: all my members would need to tag even their
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"normal nudes" as NSFW or else other servers would ban ours (meaning we have to follow
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rules imposed by the wider Internet community), and conversely it is difficult to
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moderate incoming content from other servers showing up on my users' timelines.
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It's not a good fit for the vision I had in mind.
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</p>
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And on just using a service like Discord or MeWe to host my community: that's still
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putting us in the hands of a corporation which can one day decide to ban all NSFW
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users. Many people run nudist Discords and MeWe groups, but I needed something whose
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fate is kept in my own hands.
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</p>
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<h3>Is this website open source?</h3>
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Yes! The source code for this website is released as free software under the GNU
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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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</p>
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</div>
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</div>
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{{end}} |