This is a test because I’ve only just arrived here.
Would be nice to turn this into a thread of hellos from other reddit Swampies, just to get used to the system.
Welcome to swampies - Hongrom2, Fiona Walker, CGL998 and HouseBadger 😀
I think that is all of you for now.
It does look suspiciously as if ‘the other place’ has not been attacked by the Starmer stormtroopers so far so maybe this site will not be needed just yet but it will always serve as a bolthole if you ever get banned for some infringement or other. Make no mistake though the effects of the “online safety bill” will make themselves known eventually. The mission creep starts with the likes of porn sites and later goes on to cover anything not approved of by the overlords.
I did this a long time ago Liz, I don’t remember exactly when, must be 18 months ago I should think, and one of the reasons I did it was because I had never done anything like it before and I enjoyed the challenge. So I appreciate the thanks but it wasn’t entirely altruistic.
It wasn’t that difficult to do, but there was one thing that drove me mad, and that was the community ‘banner’ (the swamp logo at the top of the page). It had to have a swamp in it and it had to have the words ‘Free Speech’ somewhere. AI didn’t exist then, at least not on my computer, so I had to do some of the work on it myself (which is why it is so bad, I don’t really get on with graphics stuff) that wasn’t the difficult bit though, what was difficult was that they only accept banners of a certain size ie length, height and ‘weight’ (size in Kb) the trouble is that nowhere that I can find do they specify what those parameters are, so I had to keep submitting different logos until I accidentally hit on the correct one. It took me ages to do that.
Welcome to swampies - Hongrom2, Fiona Walker, CGL998 and HouseBadger 😀
I think that is all of you for now.
It does look suspiciously as if ‘the other place’ has not been attacked by the Starmer stormtroopers so far so maybe this site will not be needed just yet but it will always serve as a bolthole if you ever get banned for some infringement or other. Make no mistake though the effects of the “online safety bill” will make themselves known eventually. The mission creep starts with the likes of porn sites and later goes on to cover anything not approved of by the overlords.
I just want to say thank you for setting this up for us. xx
I did this a long time ago Liz, I don’t remember exactly when, must be 18 months ago I should think, and one of the reasons I did it was because I had never done anything like it before and I enjoyed the challenge. So I appreciate the thanks but it wasn’t entirely altruistic. It wasn’t that difficult to do, but there was one thing that drove me mad, and that was the community ‘banner’ (the swamp logo at the top of the page). It had to have a swamp in it and it had to have the words ‘Free Speech’ somewhere. AI didn’t exist then, at least not on my computer, so I had to do some of the work on it myself (which is why it is so bad, I don’t really get on with graphics stuff) that wasn’t the difficult bit though, what was difficult was that they only accept banners of a certain size ie length, height and ‘weight’ (size in Kb) the trouble is that nowhere that I can find do they specify what those parameters are, so I had to keep submitting different logos until I accidentally hit on the correct one. It took me ages to do that.
Anyway thanks for your appreciation.
Bill.
I think your banner is perfect! Besides, I wouldn’t know where to start if it were up to me 😂 Thanks for your perseverance. xx
Good to have options.
It would be nice to see a few more land safely here in the meantime