Letter Boxed

For any Stargate fans, it’s like Tok'ra tunnel generation, I guess. ¯\\\(ツ)\/¯

If you’re unfamiliar with this ancient Finnish tradition, behold the hydraulic press.

You no longer have to risk seeing porn on your frontpage just to participate here! Yay?

The reason I switched NSFW on was to protect you from accidental spoilers. The Lemmy platform does not have a native spoiler image tag yet, and I thought if the whole community was NSFW, then the image blur would apply automatically on new posts, similar to how AutoModerator spoiler tags all new posts on Reddit.

What I wasn’t counting on was app support, or lack thereof. Some apps ignore the NSFW tag altogether, the answers don’t get blurred regardless, so the tag is pointless.

Worse, other apps don’t show NSFW communities at all, not unless you dig into their settings, and they each handle things a little differently. I couldn’t figure out how to get here on some apps at all.

I also think being NSFW lowered our visibility on the platform as a whole. It makes sense that if most people hide NSFW by default, they’d never even know we exist.

So for all these reasons, I decided to uncheck NSFW for the whole community again.

That said, please do continue to mark your screencap submissions NSFW so you get some blur support at least. It may not be consistent across apps, but it’s the best we can do until Lemmy implements a proper image spoiler flair.

Thank you for reading, and I hope this makes the community easier to use going forward. Happy two-solving!

So I tried to enable NSFW-tagging on images so we could hide the answers on the front page…

But apparently that wipes all previous posts from the community. >.<

No warning or anything, just gone!

Oh well. Take two, I guess.

If you post your answer as a screencap, you can now use the NSFW tag to hide the solution on the front page.

If you post as text you can use the ready-made spoiler tag.

Enjoy!