prof-badvibes

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@prof-badvibes

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26, cartoon and video game liker.

Occasional NSFW rechosts, ask me to tag if necessary.

You can find art I made under #bvart!

A low resolution website banner depicting a close-up of Xenia, the Linux Fox's face against a red background. To the right is large, bolded text reading "LINUX" accompanied by smaller text underneath reading "the choice of a GNU generation."

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A deviantART styled stamp containing a photo of an elderly person's face to the right of white text reading "I'm thinking about those beans" with grammar, punctuation, and spelling mistakes. The background is a photo of baked beans.A deviantART styled stamp containing a screenshot of Mario from Super Mario 64, edited to be giving the viewer a realistic middle fingerA deviantART styled stamp containing a photo of a hairless pet rat next to a toy keyboard with rainbow-colored keysA deviantART style animated pixel stamp featuring cropped artwork of femtanyl's mascot. "FEMTANYL" is spelled out in white pixel letters on the mascot's forehead that individually turn red from left to right in a loop
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An 88 by 31 pixel banner of an abstract floating head creature with a liquid eye facing away from the viewer, a closed eye with an eyelash facing towards the viewer, and teardrop-shaped gems coming out of the eyelash. Xhe is accompanied by text reading "Charm will protect you!" and is depicted in front of a purple background.an animated 88 by 31 button. it is a parody of the classic "Netscape NOW! 3.0" button, replacing the Netscape Navigator logo with alternating photos of Laura Les and Dylan Brady's faces screaming, sourced from the back cover of the album "10,000 Gec". The word 'netscape' in 'netscape now' is replaced with a crude scrawling of the word "GECS".an animated 88 by 31 button. along the top is text reading "SPONGEHEAD" in a font from Spongebob Squarepants, colored in black and cohost's plum color. below is smaller Spongebob font text reading "prof-badvibes" in green, with one letter at a time in sequence flashing white. To the sides are Incidental Number 7, a background character from Spongebob, and Eggbug, the cohost mascot, colored to resemble Spongebob.an 88 by 31 button of the transgender pride flag against a gray background next to text reading "trans rights now!"
an 88 by 31 button featuring animated pixel art of Reimu Hakurei from the Touhou series against a gray background. she is pictured next to text reading "powered by Reimu."an 88 by 31 animated button. the button starts showing a blue color, but the point of view zooms out to reveal a blue variant of Tux, the Linux penguin, against a gray background. text reading "Linux powered" appears in the banner to the left of Tux.an 88 by 31 button. it is a parody of the classic "Netscape NOW! 3.0" button, replacing the Netscape Navigator logo with a photo of Weird Al Yankovich's face. The word 'netscape' in 'netscape now' is replaced with the word 'Yankovic'.an 88 by 31 animated button of the Lapfox Trax logo, which is the word 'LAPFOX' in bold serif font with a cartoon fox's head replacing the 'O'. The logo is in front of a rainbow color-shifting grid
A parody of the "Netscape Now!" 88 by 31 pixel button. To the left is a rotating marijuana leaf, and to the right is text reading "Legalize Now!" along with the letters M and J in the bottom right corner.An animated 88 by 31 pixel banner with a yellow-to-green hue-shifting background. To the left is a cropped piece of clipart showing the top half of a newspaper cartoon-styled individual's face looking at the viewer in a goofy way. The clipart is accompanied by text reading "FREE STUFF" in bolded all capital letters to the right.An 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting two photographed women looking up and to the right against a white background. Text reading "GAY WOMEN" in bolded all capital letters can be found to the right, with the word "gay" being larger and emphasized.An animated 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting a sprite of a blinking one-eyed green alien from the Commander Keen games. To the alien's right is text reading "Accursed Farms".
An 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting a rainbow peace symbol to the left of blue text reading "Peace Now!", both against a gray background.An 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting an inverted United States flag with the stars replaced by a 'no' symbol. On top of the flag is black handwritten pixel text reading "ACAB".An animated 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting Super Mario running to the right through a 'window' to the left. To the right is blue text reading "Dave's Videogame Classics".An 88 by 31 pixel banner containing sprites of Kris and Susie from the video game Deltarune. Susie is looking at Kris with a cartoonishly angry expression. Below the two is white text against a black background reading "kris where tf are we."
An animated 88 by 31 pixel banner with a gray background. To the left is a 'window' showing a sprite of a dove against a black background. The dove is shown flying and being covered up by a red X symbol in two alternating frames. To the right is black-and-gray flashing text reading "DEAD DOVE, DO NOT EAT" in all-capital letters.An animated 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting an illustration of Hatsune Miku against a gray background. Miku is blinking her eyes and smiling on alternating frames. To the right is text reading "This site is Miku Approved", with 'Miku' in large, bolded blue letters and 'Approved' flashing rapidly between blue and red.An 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting the transgender pride flag, with beveled edges to give the impression of mild three-dimensional depth.An 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting the blue Sega logo against a white background.
An 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting a screencap of Blender version 1.X, with a classic-styled logo and a wireframe cube in the centerAn 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting the words "download SBURB" next to a logo of a minimalist lime-green house separated into segments. The word "SBURB" is rendered in a bold, cartoony, lime-green font.An 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting the lesbian pride flag, with beveled edges to give the impression of mild three-dimensional depth.An 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting character art of Sonic from the fangame Sonic Robo Blast 2 against that game's title screen background.
an 88 by 31 button of the blue-and-orange logo of the Doom video game series to the right of the Doomguy's grinning Heads Up Display face against a gray background.

Thanks to @framebuffer for my profile picture, @candiedreptile for the Charm button, @softwareangel for the Spongehead button!

Sources of any other profile graphics that weren't made or commissioned by me can be found here:
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prof-badvibes
@prof-badvibes
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staff
@staff

artist alley is now live!

happy monday! artist alley is now live for everyone to see!

we don’t have a ton to say about it other than that we’re really excited about the listings that are there now (we’ve already all learned about a bunch of new stuff just during the preview period), and we’re really excited about the future of artist alley.

this is just an initial release; we’ll have some more improvements and changes coming over the course of this week and beyond. but for now, go check it out! buy a listing if you’ve got something to promote, check out the work being promoted already, have some fun with it.

thanks, as always, for using cohost! :eggbug:

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kaara
@kaara

if you have an idea for a tag please feel free to share it here or to support[at]cohost.org

ideally, please suggest tags for listings you want to buy yourself, not just tags you think would be neat

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bazelgeuse-apologist
@bazelgeuse-apologist

I scrolled alllllll the way to the end, thank you everyone, I ate well today

What's the logic on which entries display in which order? (For example, do more recently submitted ads get shown first?) If there is logic, is there a way we can toggle to view oldest or newest first?

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bazelgeuse-apologist
@bazelgeuse-apologist

Ooh, thanks! Would it be possible to implement "view oldest" and "view newest"? The logic here is that I might want to read the entirety of artist alley, in which case I might want to start with oldest first (to catch them before they fall off) or newest first (to catch ones that have been freshly added).

That being said, I'm not sure on what schedule new ads are added. If it's something like, ads are rotated every week on Monday morning instead of as they come in, then sorting by submission time might be redundant?

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kaara
@kaara

the alley is live, not refreshed on certain days. new ads are added in as they are approved, and removed as they expire.

different kinds of ordering is something we could consider for the future

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kylelabriola
@kylelabriola

Looks great! I think this was a really good implementation of the whole "user ads" idea!

I dunno if you're taking suggestions, but i'd love to be able to control (on desktop) how many blocks appear horizontally. Right now on my desktop I see like 5-6 blocks horizontally at a time. It's a little visually overwhelming, it'd be cool to have a toggle to make it 3-4 blocks horizontally. Scrolling on the mobile version feels a little less overwhelming.

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akhra
@akhra

I assume it's supposed to be paginated somehow? can't find any sort of "next page" or "load more" and it's not auto-loading when I hit page end. when I add a filter there's stuff that's not in the unfiltered view, so I know I'm not just done with the list. Firefox on Android.

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akhra
@akhra

wait actually. okay that's weird. if I launch the app and immediately open artist alley from the menu, it works. if I o
follow the link from this chost, or use the menu while on this page, it doesn't?

(edit: I only tried each three times, maybe it's just low sample size on a more random issue?)

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akhra
@akhra

yep, likewise 20, pretty standard pagination count.

random thought... you don't happen to have the deduplicator userscript? that's why I'm using firefox to begin with, and while I don't see any way it should be relevant, software is the devil so we should check if it's a common factor 😛

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lori
@lori

What would be the incentive to pay for ads in that case? If you're already volunteering to look at the listings you could just go to the archive to see even more listings and people would only be paying once.

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lori
@lori

Vivaldi on Android, ads are repeating when the infinite scroll kicks in, had the same two ads 7 times before it loaded others, saw some other repeats after that as well.

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glitchedpuppet
@glitchedpuppet

i'd personally like if there were a way to view old listings after they expire, as i don't spend a ton of time online lately but do like looking through the ads and i would feel a bit sad to not be able to find something i'd seen before; i have no idea how this thing slots into the vision you guys have for artist alley though

overall though i like it and i'm happy to see it this week, i think it's a good idea and i got to discover some people through it who i'm happy to follow (I didn't realize they were on cohost)

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Setsune
@Setsune

I was wondering as well, I'm not sure if mine could get approved any moment, or if the queue is weeks long. I bought in pretty late (the 20th), but I admit to being a little sad I didn't squeak in with the first batch.

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Setsune
@Setsune

That's understandable. I'll get an e-mail once it's confirmed, right? Or will it just show up if it's fine?

Edit: Just got my rejection. Apparently changing my Itch tags flipped a setting to enable Sensitive Content automatically, which DQed me from getting a SFW listing.

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MarineHaddock
@MarineHaddock

My first one is still under review after 19 hours but my second one was reviewed in under 20 minutes - not sure if they're diversifying (only approving so many of each tag) but it seems like a big difference in processing time

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kaara
@kaara

review is done manually by humans - in some cases if your ad comes in while we're reviewing it could be as short as 10 minutes. if you submit late night on friday when we've taken off for the weekend, it could take a day or two.

payment processing time primarily depends on the payment method, and approval cannot happen until your payment is processed. the main source of any slowness here would be direct bank debits like ACH, but sometimes it can just take a little while.

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waitwotno
@waitwotno

aaand I've reached the end :')
I've checked out a few things and have bought an EP for my car playlist!
So many good people on here.
Someone had commented here for an archive of ads and I'm :yeah: for that too

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waitwotno
@waitwotno

Another thing that comes to mind is that I still wouldn't mind user generated ads in a public place. One of the gripes that I have with ads sometimes is that I tend to visit a page very quickly, so an ad would only register my interest once I had left the page. This means that when I revisit the page, I have to hope the same ad comes up again.
Artist Alley seems like a great way to revisit an ad, especially if you remember parts of it and thus means more chance to browse around.

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Growconut
@Growconut

Just a suggestion, it would be awesome to be able to bookmark artist Alley posts so we can easily flip through this that hooked our curiosity but we don't have the time/money to spend on just yet. Browser bookmarks obviously work but it would be far more convenient.

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