Things on the way…

[Ed]

Sorry I’ve been barely here the past few days. Life has been busy but I’ve also been working on something with videos. It’s not ready yet, and I’ve still got a couple of hurdles to overcome, but there’s a significant boost in content (videos) for our Patreon supporters.

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[Martin]

Sounds good. 👌

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[Since1980_v2]

Sounds intriguing. more video content from other sites.

does this mean potential more video uploading capability for Patreons as well?

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[Ed]

No, I don’t have anything like the server capacity needed to allow user video uploads.

Maybe if having more content for Patreons causes a large upswing in support, I might be able to afford to rent more storage space, then more things become possible.

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[Ed]

I’ve worked out the technical details (and posted one video for Community Supporters) so more content will be on its way soon(ish).

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[Ed]

New videos are now being posted for Community Supporters. I will try to keep up 1 video post per week for a couple of months at least, but I’m not guaranteeing anything.

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[John]

You’re not a fan of us posting videos due to space on the site, but if you had a particular challenge, you could invite us to email entries and publish the best as one of these videos.

Saying that, I’m probably dipping out for a bit, really unhappy that the bad penny has returned.

[Ed]

Bad penny?

[John]

I don’t want to say any more, it is possible I misunderstood the person, but I doubt it. The behaviours, not just against me, took me back to a dark time when I was constantly being gaslighted by a then partner.

Anyway I left the group for several months about a year ago.

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[Ed]

I thought you were referring to me (ie that I was the “bad penny”).

[John]

Fairly sure you never went away 🤣

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[Ed]

It looks like I’ve got regular weekly updates for the blog sorted. I’ve been posting videos and a couple of photo galleries and have the next few weeks set to post automatically on a schedule. Over time I will add to that with the aim of getting a few months buffer. This will cover any of those times where I don’t have time to work on the site. Most of those posted so far are for supporters (patrons) and that will remain the case for videos (I need to cover the bandwidth consumption) but I’ll be posting more photo content for everyone too.

On top of that there will be news (as it occurs) and announcements of events like the Vote-Offs, posted as and when needed. Essentially blog updates will run on a minimum of one per week, but will often be 2,3 or more posts per week.

If anyone sees any nudity-related news, please let me know. This could be mass-nude events, research into nudity or law changes around the world on the topic. I don’t promise to post everything, but please don’t assume I’ve already heard of it if I haven’t done a blog post.

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[Ed]

Interestingly, increasing the rate of blog posts has reduced visitor counts. Obviously, those two things might not be related.

However, I am wondering if some of that is because I’ve increased the rate of patron-only posts.

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[Arthur]

@Ed

“However, I am wondering if some of that is because I’ve increased the rate of patron-only posts.”

I think it might very well be that, because I don’t have patron, so I haven’t been able to see the majority of recent videos posted. I do think that I have seen that naked fashion show on YouTube however, but on here they seem to be patron only, so I can’t really say as I have not seen them directly on here.

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[Ed]

I have to put videos and larger galleries (when hosted on my server) within the patrons-only area or bandwidth costs will soar. The community is already running at a loss. Right now, if AMOC and SGC close, this site will close too.

Obviously I’m still posting non-patron stuff but as I’m currently pushing to increase the amount of content for patrons, the balance has to change. The patrons I’ve spoken to all agree that they would keep up ongoing support if there were multiple patron-only posts per month. Without those, they sign up a couple of times a year (as around 3/4 do currently) instead.

Constantly trying to find new patrons isn’t practical. I’m struggling to get enough new visitors as it is.

I want to do more interest and news posts in the blog, but with all the other work, I simply don’t have time to find these articles. I was hoping members of this community would tend to let us know about mass nude events, naked charity events and news regarding nudity etc., but that very rarely happens. It’s another thing that I would expect to improve if we can drastically increase visitors to the site.

I’ve seen clips of the Isis accessory fashion show on YouTube but not the whole thing.

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[John]

I’ll try, I am a member of British naturists also, but am currently having issues with using their website, my fault not theirs, tech ignorance.

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[ptHarry]

Ed: ” I was hoping members of this community would tend to let us know about mass nude events, naked charity events and news regarding nudity etc.,”

Yesterday, I was intending to post about an event I found on eventbrite: Naturism, nudity and life without pockets. You’ll have to search for it on eventbrite because the link doesn’t work here.

It wasn’t exactly a “mass nude event” but a talk from two established naturists.

• Come join us for a day of embracing nature, shedding our clothes, and living life without the burden of pockets!
• Claire and Neil will be presenting in their natural state, providing guests with a first hand insight into social nudity.

It wasn’t clear whether the audience would be invited to “participate”: the FAQ just said

• Do I have to be naked?
  Absolutely not – the event is for curious clothed folk . Claire and Neil will be presenting u

[I presume u = undressed or similar, but that’s all it said].

Anyway, this afternoon I received notice of cancellation and a full refund of the ticket price (a massive £1.79): the venue had double booked the room 🙁

You can still read about it on the above URL which will initially just say “cancelled” but click on “view all details” for the original notice which includes links to the presenters’ web sites.

If it’s rescheduled I’ll post it properly 🙂

 

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[David]

Neil is pretty well known. Was surprised he hadnt shared it on the social media groups he frequents.

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[ptHarry]

If those are naturist groups, then that might have been intentional. There was mention in the cancellation email:

and partly due to the main response audience being naturists (the event was being subsidised as educational outreach to non-naturists rather than a social nudity opportunity).

But a web search for “Naturism, nudity and life without pockets” suggests it was only ever mentioned on eventbrite, which seems strange. It wasn’t even on the venue’s web site. So I’m not sure how non-naturists would have known about it.

My guess is that the double booking was known about soon after it was listed and before posting the event on other relevant sites, but somebody forgot to take the eventbrite listing down at that time.

 

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