Oliver Moss

I seem to keep answering the same questions about Discord again and again, so I thought I'd make a post. I am no Discord expert. I was a stubborn hold out for a while. I've never modded one. Still, here are some basics in case this is useful.

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From my Cats of Portland Gallery. Click for moar cats.

Because I've been on this platform so long, it's hard for me to not follow netiquette that is now 17 years out of date. Looking at /latest on this platform, large uncut images are not unusual. I'd still cut a gallery of more than one image, but I've been posting large pictures for years.

Ironically, this platform is better for large images than facebook, reddit, tumblr, twitter, mastodon, pillowfort and pretty much every other social media platform. I can post big images and take up lots of screen real estate. I wont speak for other artists, but for a photographer like me, this is fantastic. My landscapes especially shine. My personal website is set up to give a 'tumblr, but wider' experience. Here is a good example.

The narrow-center-column sites are designed to be mobile-first, but my website and my DW blog also appear just fine on any phone I've tested it on. When people view on a tablet or computer I get the extra screen real estate.

Anyway, I am rambling because I've seen some very dated advice about how to use this site handed out to the newcomers. I'd encourage new people, or people looking to revamp how they post, to look at /latest ... but not at work because wow porn blogs have been importing themselves here. Looking at /latest (Link to /latest) is a 'proceed at your own risk' experience. But I just looked at /latest to get the link and found some lovely WinterIron art that I need to go comment.

tl:dr if this platform gets the momentum that I hope it will, the culture here will be something new, not a recreation of the days when I was using dial up to connect to Juno.