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Just doing my part! *Swims in ecchicredits*

Just FYI, I can't connect to the site from Sweden atm. I get a notice that Ecchi is blocked in the UK. I tried using a VPN but was blocked from a few other European countries as well. Had to switch to the US to get in here.

I've found the problem, and I have good news, I fixed it. This is related to the Server OS update this morning. Essentially, what happened is that the upgrade replaced our actively maintained IP geolocation database with a seven-year-old copy provided by the OS package. Because apparently that makes perfect sense. The current database has now been restored, and I've also changed the setup so EcchiDreams uses its own automatically updated copy going forward, which should prevent this from happening again. Thank you for alerting me to this. I will be awarding the maximum payout under the bug bounty programme... Which is in EcchiCredits. :)

Was able to access now from Swedish VPN, but still blocked from Finland and Denmark. So not sure what is triggering it, seems a little random.

Thanks for letting me know! That's definitely not intentional, the block is supposed to apply to UK connections only, so Sweden should be able to access the site normally. The fact that you're also seeing the UK-block notice through several other European VPN locations, while a US connection works, is useful. It sounds like something in our geolocation or blocking logic is incorrectly classifying or catching some non-UK traffic. I'll investigate it and fix anything that's within our control. If the underlying problem turns out to be incorrect data from the third-party geolocation provider, though, our options may be more limited and it might take longer to resolve. I don't want to promise a fix before I know what's actually happening, especially given the legal situation we're already dealing with in the UK. Thanks for reporting it and sorry about the hassle.

On other sites it's not necessary to input a URL along with all those numbers, etc in order to post pics on messages or forums....(Other Site) for example, only has 'insert files' with a paper clip symbol. Any chance you could do the same for anal people like myself?

Apologies, as you will most certainly not want to hear this, but: we do not and will not ever allow direct uploads to posts (In post attachments). I can try to look at ways of trying to simplify this, if its possible. But at the moment the best you can hope for is copying and pasting a link and have it automatically embed the image to a post. Edit: Just realized who you were. Yeah I'm rather anal about people blatantly violating our Terms of Service. Enjoy your ban. Like what? Your 8th at this point, or is it 9th?

Mods can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it's done this way because there's a difference is in how the files are hosted. If you could just upload stuff, then EcchiDreams has to pay for servers to store all those images, and there might be increased liability if someone were to start uploading illegal stuff. If we use links, then EcchiDreams isn't saving that image in its servers, it's just looking at the link and showing what's there. It's the difference between someone cutting a picture out of a book and handing it to you to hold and someone holding the book for you and just pointing at the picture for you to look at. It's no big deal for a few pictures, but once I cut out a hundred-thousand pictures and hand them to you, you start running out of hands and need to buy a way to store them.

You might have to ask one of the moderators for help then as I am not sure x.x

Whenever I try to post my Preferences, I get an error and it doesn't get posted. I think it's because I set my first post to hide in the moderator settings, but it no longer shows up when I make a new post

https://ibb.co/rGPwtLK1 it didn't really fix the issue

Just in case, here you go! https://ecchidreams.com/roleplayer-services/preferences/ Click on that link and it’ll send you to the Preference page! You have to use their Preference to post it as any outside would give you an error.

Dang, nice. You work fast.

When you take <3 and turn it into , or take :) and turn it into ... do you realize what you've just done? There's a reason people prefer old-fashion emoticons over pictograms sometimes, you know... A) Some of the designs genuinely just don't convey the same emotion. Sometimes they interfere with actual text ("B)" doesn't actually become the sunglasses emoji on this forum, but it does on many others, and it can be a big obstruction of text flow). In order to manually correct things back to normal, you've gotta use a custom unicode character called a zero width space to keep them digitally separate without any visual difference to humans. Many older devices and some mobile phones/smart devices lack fonts supporting a wide range of the unicode consortium, meaning that they can render like an awkward little dotted block with some numbers and/or letters inside, or as a diamond with an inverted question mark inside ("�"), instead. (In the case of the zero width space specifically, it might appear as a block containing the characters "200B" inside, since that's the unicode identifier for the zero width space - somewhat like this: (or: (if you use light theme)).) Edit: It seems like my placement of zero-width spaces actually did nothing. It appeared to have done something, but upon returning to the page today, the symbols I cancelled out had been formatted as well. (It's also technically possible that Novear did something to disable the zero-width space in fixing the emoji issue.) I fixed the visual integrity of the post by reinstating the unformatted symbols.

=) :) :D <3 =] I think that fixes it. We'll see how it goes. Most people who use EcchiDreams use their smartphones and most phones have emoji's built into their keyboards, with apps like GBoard and the like. Desktop users can still use ":" if you type ":" followed by a character it will bring up the quick Emoji box.

This is likely baked in IPS; I will see if it can be undone, or edited but I won't make any promises.

Hello and thanks for having this forum to allow our, sometimes, good suggestions and questions. As you probably know, I run several clubs myself and most often they are quite comprehensive in scope and thus needs to be flexible to accomodate how I choose to set things up so my members are able to find what they need easy and quickly. However, even owners of the clubs are not able to move topics around, delete topics and do the more large scale functions. Thus we need to ask staff members to do these tasks for us. I would like to see club owners having more freedom in how they arrange and set up things.

It's just annoying lil me. It's been a couple years and I was wondering if any progress has been made toward a place where I can move threads to the correct place in my group. My TTRPG club only has 2 sections- discussion and roleplay, and I'd like to be able to move threads started in the wrong section. No big deal, mostly just curiosity and my OCD kicking in.

I am hoping to create a roleplay that involves a system which involves cards. Would having an album in the gallery that is dedicated to hosting these cards be allowed? Or would that break the rules? If it would, where else could they be stored on the site for easy access, if anywhere?

@CaryJanJunior - Imagebox is free and works. It's what I use to keep images that aren't a specific character https://imgbox.com/ I hope that helps!

It would break the rules if it was done in the main gallery. If you created a club however, this would be 'Extra Information', information for that club. However if creating a club is off the table, then I'd suggest using a third party image hosting site.

Sometimes someone will leave a conversation and then want back in. It isn’t possible to invite them back in. Is there another way to do it??

Not that I know of... also do you want to brainstorm some rp ? Just asking...

I would love for Ecchi Texts to open to the most recent unread message or the last read one. Currently if you open a thread with 30 pages of responses it defaults to page 1. I get that it’s only one click to get to the last page, but I’d prefer to not have to do that forever if it’s possible to fix! Thanks!

Yes, this is exactly the issue Tem was encountering, and it's something I’m starting to understand better now. The inconsistencies. While the workaround you mentioned works for me too, it’s strange that it doesn’t function the same way from the EcchiTexts index page. As far as I can tell, there’s currently no way to resolve this issue. It would definitely be helpful if there was an option to make this behavior consistent across all views. I have an idea that might work within the current framework, but it wouldn’t be optional, and I’m not sure what the impact would be. Still, I’ll look into it and see what I can come up with. I think we could call it a "Consistency Fix".