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On my end at least.

This place is as empty as a dead mall, and we need this community to grow. Any suggestions?

This forum is is for requesting changes that are restricted to mods.

Please us one thread per tag you want altered. This allows mods to close threads when done.

Aliases

alias artist:example_1234 → artist:example

In the thread, include a link showing us where they acknowledged that identity as one of theirs.

Tag Merging

Include your reasoning for the request — it might seem logical to you but it's not logical to everyone.

alias hand behind back → arm behind back
They mean the same thing.

Tag Profile Information

To add profile information to a tag, link both the artist tag and the off-site profiles or pages you want linked.

artist:example

Twitter | Deviantart | Wikipedia

OCs: Example the Dog, Placeholder the Cat

Tag Categorization Changes

If a tag is improperly tagged, open a thread to have it fixed.

Categories that can be requested, are none, origin, character, species, fanmade content, official content, and spoiler.

sonic ova → origin

Tag Implications

Tag implications should be used sparingly (consider all the variation tags: gender swap, species swap, role swap, etc) except for the things absolutely implied by the tag

omally →
e-123 omega
sally acorn
shipping

This is a pretty significant policy change, and I would like to air it before it's agreed to.

Consider this image:



It's recently a trend for artists to simply screenshot their art programs. (It's faster than saving and usually easier than exporting, anyways.) However, this is also used for a lot of art that is not actually intended to be posted to galleries anywhere, or for sketches that won't get finished and published.

I'm thinking about changing Rule 1 to mention these workspace screenshot WIPs as explicitly outside the realm of what may be uploaded on AMS. To wit, changing:

Do not upload art that is not publicly released. Patreon content, folio content, art packs, private commissions, pictures from private Discord servers, WIPs not intended for publication, adoptables, and other forms of paid content may not be uploaded here.

To:

Do not upload art that is not publicly released. Patreon content, folio content, art packs, private commissions, pictures from private Discord servers, WIPs not intended for publication (including workspace screenshots), adoptables, and other forms of paid content may not be uploaded here.

The governing clauses here are "publicly released" and "WIPs not intended for publication." If you're the artist posting your own workspace screenshots, then you have the ability to post your own workspace screenshots — you can always publicly release your own art. If you're posting some piece of art where it's interacting with the interface by design (e.g., Sonic commenting on the artist), then it's not a WIP, it's part of the design. But it'd keep artists from having to worry about every throwaway screenshot they show their friends.

AMS has had a fundraising page up for over a year… and not had anything to put into it, besides requesting supporting the parent project. During this prealpha period, that's been fine. But the site is growing, registrations are picking up (even though I've never advertised this site…) and new content appears every day. Soon it'll be time to expand the core server and add 1-2 more servers, which means it'll be a bit more than $2/day!

There is one hard requirement which has stymied my personal search: Any services must allow adult content. Smut has never been a focus of AMS, but we definately do not want to have to start splitting hairs over what is and what is not allowed at an arbitrary time down the road, or have to do a literal decimation of our database.

So, I turn to you, the Mobians of mobius.social: What services have you used and can recommend? I am looking for:

• a recurring patronage system (Patreon-style),
• a one-off donation system (Ko-Fi-style), and
• a merchandise system (RedBubble style).

Any and all suggestions would be appreciated.

After some thought, I'm going to be migrating all the character-specific outfit tags to something that implies who owns them. This should make it easier to find in tag autocompletion.

For example: "red halterneck outfit" > "amy's halterneck dress"

Outfit tags that describe a look not evocative of any one character (cowpoke outfit, maid outfit, zone cop outfit, etc) won't be changed.

We're looking for more Sonic-related and Sonic-adjacent sites to advertise on AMS. Fangames, webcomics, community resources; anything you'd want to show off to welcome a new Sonic fan.

Give me your best suggestions!

If you want to come up with a banner, the dimensions should be 700 × 90, and static, not animated.

The icon to the left of 'art.mobius.social' in the header bar.

1/31/2021:

Changed suggested tag list from Equestrian to Mobian.

Changed Equestrian injokes to Mobian injokes for approval/disapproval votes.

If you click 'share' below any image it gives a block of BBCode that includes a link to 'localhost:4000'.

It's probably saving us from a lot of "Meme Approved" uploads killing the server, but we should probably fix video uploads.

If you notice any MLP related content in the site's spaces, leave a message here. Exact quotes help for finding it in the codebase.

Already known stuff:

Capcha.
Default avatars.
Common tag tray on the new post page.
Search help text.
Commission page.