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this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2025
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Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.
The rules are simple:
- The post can be a single image, an image gallery, or a link to a specific comic hosted on another site (the author's website, for instance).
- The comic must be a complete story.
- If it is an external link, it must be to a specific story, not to the root of the site.
- You may post comics from others or your own.
- If you are posting a comic of your own, a maximum of one per week is allowed (I know, your comics are great, but this rule helps avoid spam).
- The comic can be in any language, but if it's not in English, OP must include an English translation in the post's 'body' field (note: you don't need to select a specific language when posting a comic).
- Politeness.
- AI-generated comics aren't allowed.
- Adult content is not allowed. This community aims to be fun for people of all ages.
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porn?
Yes
And only LiveJournal is untouched by time
Deviantart and xHamster are contenders.
added "substack", was surprised how relatively unused it is
Blogs were everywhere. Now they don’t even show up in search results unless they’re recipe blogs with a life story before the ingredients.
Put “cooked.wiki/“ before the url on the recipe with the life story. You’re welcome.
Hah, yep. I use justtherecipe, but thanks, I’ll take another useful tool. I also use Umami, a firefox plugin on desktop.
We started to talk about tweets instead
Surprisingly, Tweet never went that high.
Twitter might have, but I didn’t bother.
yellow is hard to see on my monitor. also i thought the legend said yellow was regret for a second and waas wondering where the spike was on the right
Regret is a good alternate name for Twitter, especially since Musk.
Sorry about the yellow, I just used what Google gave me, not very familiar with trends settings or api.
nah it's just my eyes. probably a lil colorblind
How do I start a blog in the modern day.
Look to something like wordpress.org or writefreely.org if you want to self host. If you want a free hosting platform, weirdly enough, blogger still exists, or you can use wordpress.com.
I created a blog with Hugo (static site generator) the works off a git repo on gitlab (when the repo's updated it regenerates the site).
The only problem is that I don't have anything to say...
A lot of people use substack
No thanks, I don't want to monetize, nor support its owners.
So what would be your recommendation instead?
I've only recently even heard of substack as some sort of social media platform. I'm almost afraid to ask, but what's wrong with its owners?
Traditional way is to just use a WordPress account, and then move onto a paid hosting service of you decide you like keeping up with your blog. No point in paying for something you don't use. Their ceo was a dick with open source stuff, but the website itself is still solid enough to be used to check if its a hobby you want to actually keep up with.
If you want to spend just as much time managing the blog as you do actually sharing things, a raspberry pi, Hugo, nginx, and a lot of time are also an option.
I personally use Porkbun for the .com and hostinger for the backend, and it's been great for the past couple years to host my own wordpress setup.
But actually, I think that makes me oldschool. The new kids are using neocities.
I previously used Tumblr. I wanted to start a photo blog, was researching WordPress.com, but since it's run by the same company anyway, I decided to just use Tumblr after all. Every time the site hickups, I go "certainly, Matt Mullenweg is somehow behind this."
I've yet to post properly on my development blog. If you use GitHub Pages, it uses Jekyll, which has blog support out of the box.
A bunch of markdown files, pandoc, sed, a server (php -S). That's all you need.
Alternatively, asciidoctor to replace markdown, pandoc and sed.
If you want to go fancy, please use a static site generator.
The XKCD of decades past.
Remember blogs? I barely do
I remember when facebook was new there was a Julia Roberts movie about a lady who made a blog about cooking every recipe in a cookbook and the vibe at the time was "you can get famous too if you just blog well enough!"
If that movie was made today it would be about a woman who made tiktok or Instagram shorts of making those recipes except it's those seizure inducing quick edit style videos and she's wearing something revealing and making eyes at the camera as she weirdly fondles the ingredients
Rollover: Plus the reaction in the Tumblverse is always 'repeatedly get hit by a dog and fall down the stairs'.
I feel like North Carolina is somehow responsible for this.