new art blog progress

made a tremendous amount of progress with tegalog in the last 24 hours after i made a clean install on the new host! \o/

(tegalog is a JP microblogging software made out of cgi scripts. it's essentially the best of tumblr + dreamwidth smushed to be used for personal artist's blogs, and i'm migrating my old site blog previously on wordpress to this).

here's a screenshot of the (live) gallery view with artworks back from my 2008-2011 deviantART years.




120 posts have been re-posted in the migration as of this moment, which is roughly halfway through. some observations while i've been methodically posting:

* i remain shocked at how ... fast to pick up. it all is. it just works. the gallery view (seen above) makes it beyond simple to navigate chronologically or sort by tag/category. the blog view is just your basic blog view, and it has "readmore" functionality that is in all honesty easier to incorporate than dreamwidth's. i'm genuinely tempted to move my text dreamwidth posts to this platform because both image & text uploads are painless. if tumblr or dreamwidth goes down, it's an enormous relief to have a genuine backup that's self-sustaining.

* there is RSS feed functionality, which i'll make live once when everything's transferred (including the domain name). other perks are scheduling posts, setting multiple admin levels so a small doujin circle can all use the same site, doing every kind of html/css customization under the sun, embedding, NSFW flags to blur those images. i promise i'm not trying to be a shill but damn if it isn't the thing i've been looking for all my life.

* I've been able to re-word most public-facing JP text into english for easy accessibility. the (private) admin panel's a different story but honestly, the documentation's easier to navigate than some actual english documentation. i'm not a ~elite programmer~ by any means but it's been pretty easy to fiddle with the settings as long as you have google translate in the next tab. kudos to whoever wrote it.

i meant to draw more this weekend but it says a lot i'm this excited over something as mundane/boring as reposting old artwork.

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damn wow you can really tell when i was in a bad place mentally art-wise right around 2019-2021 (reuploading everything, seeing it in gallery view). it's not even in the number of pieces done, it's the (lack of) fucking around and finding out, exhausted timidy, almost.

i am so glad in hindsight i forced myself to take that year long hiatus and deleted twitter. instant change. best decision past krad ever made <3

edit: i am genuinely kind of cracking up here. it is a direct 1:1 for 'how crass krad gets' in terms how happy i am drawing wise ;w; (no wonder the depraved thirsty gunter sideblog has been so good for me).