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I can’t believe we’re back into coats (for the cold as much as the heavy rain). We’re well into June and getting weather more suited to the start of April. I can see why they’ve stopped predicting that this summer will be a hot one.
Activity is still slow, but I should be around more for the next few days so I’ll try to get the momentum going a bit. Part of this will include posting more bonus content.
I’ll try to get something posted tomorrow content-wise. Not sure what it will be, but Friday is a relatively free day for me.
For fairness, I should point out that nudity is legal on UK beaches, and there are many nude resorts here too.
It would be a fantastic achievement. I’m guessing 3 men and 3 women would make it worthwhile. Locations have to be scouted in advance, so that complicates things a little. I can think of a few suitable general locations. We’d also need a 7-seater (at least) or a minibus. I’d probably need some kind of assistant given the much less controlled environment.
Any such group would almost certainly be entirely male.
It’s hard enough to organise a group in the UK. Most beaches in France are clothing optional, but start waving a camera around and you become very unwelcome very quickly. I can’t comment on Spain as I haven’t been there in decades.
I struggle to persuade people to travel a few tens of miles, let alone hundreds (I’ve genuinely had people as me if we can do an experiment session in their house!). In my experience, most people want to fit an experiment session in a day off work or sometimes just a morning, something they can keep lowkey and away from their friends and family. Going abroad for a few days is much harder. Persuading women (who tend to be much more wary of experiment sessions anyway) to travel abroad with a group they don’t know would be a serious challenge.
I don’t understand the “sense of violence” idea. Am I missing something there?
I don’t have any content that is harmful or depicting sexual acts.
I could do that. I think my main worry is regulars on this site complaining that one or the other (or both) are just not appropriate to the subject of this community.
We’re back up to just over 50% now, but things are still going slowly.
I definitely believe more content for patrons is the way to go. And more posts on our Patreon page too.
Which would fit better, photosets from A-M-O-C or strip games from SGC?
Hmmm, hasn’t worked yet.
Lol, would be nice if it did. I still need to find something that does.
Maybe the temperature drop and heavy rain will drive more people inside and lead to more interaction?
Thank you :). I wish more people did.
Everything is growing faster too because of the healthier level of CO2 in the atmosphere.
Sorry, I meant here on the site. The content would have to be in the Patreon-controlled area to influence new Patreon sign-ups.
I’m guessing the easing back of the temperatures makes it safer/more comfortable to get outside naked now?
No?
They started up again today. It doesn’t matter how many attempt they make to crack a password when the username used doesn’t exist!
I’m wondering if concentrating on new content here would help?
I do get a little cheesed off by this “Hottest day of the year recorded/predicted” style headlines. I don’t know if the news people don’t understand seasons but as we leave the winter and head into the summer there is a general trend of getting warmer.
We never see “Coldest day of the year recorded” in early January!
That would be good info to have here.
Looking good!
We were predicted to have 21C here in Wales but my outdoor thermometer only reached 19C (still better than yesterday!).
It’s just not the weather for it. I’ll believe the hot bank holiday weekend when it arrives. The last “heatwave” they predicted a couple of weeks ago didn’t happen.
It’s rained all day today and it’s SO cold!
Well, it seems the ongoing attack went mad overnight (4x increase in password attempts) and then stopped in the early hours. Hopefully they’ve given up now.
Thank you. I certainly feel better for having a little break.
Things certainly quietened down around here. Now I need to get some good momentum going.
The “attack” has been going on for 3 days now, just at a low level so I don’t believe we’ve suffered any service issues. The security systems have blocked a LOT of IP addresses and the attacker seems to be going after two usernames that don’t exist. That’s going to make it hard to brute force a login.
Has everyone gone on holiday?
I hadn’t considered the weather. That could well be a factor.
Things like this and the Master Dare List are usually completely ignored by female community members.
I think I might take a few days off. Social media has been bad recently (why are people SO agressive?), Teams has been awful, life’s been complicated, we’ve lost a lot of subscribers, I’ve still got months of recovery to go, and I’m generally feeling under attack from all sides.
Indeed, especially as I’m not a US citizen, nor have I ever been to the US.
Not enough female members, obviously, but I have to ask in case it encourages more women to sign up.
I’m seeing three registered female members active in the past couple of days. I can’t see the sex of non-members visiting the site, but even if they make up 5%, that’s another few dozen.
Sadly, in most cases, they e-mail/message me from accounts unrelated to accounts here on NE.
It’s not much fun checking my e-mail in the morning to find people telling me to eff off or threatening to report me to the FBI.
I have to admit, I’ve never even heard of “DKIM” before. I’ve followed the help on the host website and have apparently set it up now. Let’s see if it makes any difference.
I still only get notifications from my own posts, no-one elses.
(Tumbleweed bounces past)
Now Grok has locked down (no freebies) and Qwen has deteriorated in quality (especially in terms of understanding prompts), I don’t think it’s possible to keep producing these videos with sound until I come up with some way of funding it.
I’ll take that as a no!
Cool. Got them this time.
I don’t have a spam folder, they just didn’t arrive.
I don’t really have server space for that. Most of the videos and photos I receive have to be heavily compressed before I put them up on the server. Also it would mean adding yet another plugin to the site.
You’ll all have to wait until I think of something.
Er… haven’t received any.
Has everyone seen the generated video section (2 pages)?
Could be. The only e-mail notifications I get from the site are for my own posts. I never get them for other people. And it does matter if I’m subcribed to a topic or not.
Having given it a little more thought, I don’t think having another site is a good idea. I’m already spread too thin and maintenance and updating of yet another site is just too much.
For now, I’ll stick with the existing two pages dedicated to the generated videos and tend to keep them off the rest of the site (apart from the intro video obviously).
I have enough work to do without having to get another file converter and do conversions. I should specify jpegs in the requirements.
It’s not just you, Kate (@patreon_47443057). I’ve had a few people (probably 15-20) complain they get no e-mails from the site. It was a massive pain when registration was done on the site as new members had to click on an e-mail link. That doesn’t work if you don’t receive the e-mail. Doing it via Patreon has solved that problem for me.
I’m definitely keeping the forums as the core of the community.
Does anyone remember the groups system (instead of forums) we had when this community first started?
Ah, having had a much more detailed look. What you’ve sent is a file-format neither I nor my laptop recognise as images. (.heic files?)
Could you please send .jpg or .png files instead?
My photo software can’t even load .heic files to convert them to another format.
It’s not just you. A huge number of e-mail services seem to routinely take emails from NE as mass spam, so they filter them before they get to your inbox/spam folder.
1,2,3 and 21 were not there. I got broken links for those. Sorry, in all the page building, I forgot to message you about those.
I think the women visiting the site are not here to see naked men. I think many (not all, obviously) are here to explore the fantasy of being naked. Most don’t want to do any more than fantasise. I’ve spoken to dozens of them over the years and it’s pretty much universal that too much male nudity puts them off (some have described it as scary) and makes them feel unwelcome.
I haven’t spoken to a single woman here who came to see men naked.
Also, watching a male striptease is substantially different to seeing lots of photos of naked men.
I’ve measured it repeatedly across 3 incarnations of the site. An increase in male nudity causes a dive in visitors, and also causes existing regulars to leave.
I should do a poll on this issue, shouldn’t I?
Also, naked women are simply more popular on the site. I’ve been told there are two psychological reasons for this:
1) Men prefer to see naked women rather than naked men.
2) Women prefer to see themselves in the situation, so a naked woman is easier to work with for that.
Many reports from women over the years confirm that women don’t have the same level of interest in naked men that men have in naked women.
Two chicken-like creatures produced a chicken egg. Although if you wanted to differentiate between the chicken-like creatures and the resultant chicken, you’d be hard-pressed to do that.
I’ve got the nagging feeling that I’m missed some photo submissions for the MDL…
The videos were good on social networks (and Patreon) for generating visitors to the site. They certainly also got a lot of views on this site, but didn’t trigger the comments etc. I was hoping for. I’ve tried to keep them on-topic and entertaining (funny, thought-provoking, etc.), but now Grok has begun charging an insane amount, some others have gone and I’m not currently buying credits on any of them, producing videos longer than around 6 seconds isn’t practical.
Maybe I should have grouped them by topic and asked a question with each post to get some discussion going? (Not sure how the purely humorous ones would fit with that?)
I just don’t have the credits to get naked men. Currently I’m producing around 3 videos per day, that gives me 1 suitable video (ie good enough quality) every 1-2 days. Male nudity has a much lower hit rate.
Breast size (rather like pubic hair) is VERY difficult to control. Mostly the AIs ignore you. The default seems to be large-breasted white women with almost no pubic hair. I use the term “average-looking” a lot to stop the usual super-model faces they like to create.
A few people have complained that they are not appropriate to this site and that they don’t like computer-generated content. Given the relatively tiny amount of feedback I’ve had, the complaints have made up more than half the feedback so far.
Would anyone be interested in such a site?
I’m assuming, if there were any faulty links, they would have been found by now. I think I checked everything, but it’s hard to be absolutely sure.
Let’s hope having a fully working results table will encourage some more people to get involved and try out the dares.
I miss creating those videos. They were fun.
I’m wondering if it would be possible in future to create another website which features the videos and sends some of the generated traffic back here?
Sorry for the delay here. I’ve been working on the Master Dare List results pages, so I haven’t given this much thought. The MDL is finished now, so hopefully my brain will be a little more creative soon.
There much be other useful and practical resources we can include on the site.
I’m pleased to announce that everything (I think!) has been transferred to the Master Dare List. If I’ve missed anyone or any photos, please let me know.
The system seems to work quite well. The one place it does fall down is when we add more dares to the list, I will have to modify every single results page to match. That could take a while.
7 participants done, so far. Let me know if you find any broken links. Thanks.
Thank you. I’m pleased you’re going to give more dares ago. Hopefully it will help encourage other people to take part too!
I’m finding most mornings when I check into the community, I see 1 or 2 other people also online. Thinking back to earlier this year, I was often the only one here at 8-9am (UK).
Also, we are clearly forming a group of regulars, which is great to see.
Thank you. I just wish I had more time to work on it.
I’m most of the way through my recovery time now, so very much getting back up to speed (which really helps). When I’m finally taken off all the medication, I hope the on-going brain fog will go away too.
The top three participants on the results table now have working (I hope!) results pages. Things should accelerate as I work down the list as there are fewer photos to transfer and links to set up for each.
The pattern seems to be: a bot/person finds a crack in the security and creates a bunch of users, assuming that at some point that crack will be sealed. They won’t draw attention yet as that will encourage the security problem to be addressed. Instead, they hope the new accounts will blend in. Then, slowly over time, they can use those accounts to post adverts or scam inside the site. Delete one account and there are others waiting dormant.
Our advantage is that being a small site, the sudden surge of new accounts usually gets noticed.
I deleted the 11 “members” who signed up yesterday, all on the same e-mail domain. Of the 8 I saw online, 4 were at least people I already knew from the site (so not spammers).
Yes, either start a new thread or continue existing conversations (of which there are many!). We used to have a live chat feature (in the bottom right corner of the site) but that was a total flop.
The forums are supposed to be the centre of interactions on the site, but obviously there are pages and blog posts where you can comment to. I’d only recommend DMs with people you already know from other interactions.
No complaints, no technical problems. I’d rate that as a success 🙂
It’s eight users now! WOW.
Okay, let’s drop that idea then.
I’m looking for what resources might be interesting or useful to members on this site.
That’s precisely what I was attempting to find out!! 🙂
Regular visitors may notice that the standard 3 forums has just reduced to 2. Hopefully this will focus activity in a smaller area and make it easier to work out which forum to post in.
The number of visitors has been increasing steadily for the past two months. I haven’t seen any sudden spikes but any efforts to draw more people to our community are incredibly welcome. Thanks!
It would be good to get another competition going but we need to get some female participation AND I need to find an easier way to run it without causing me 2+ weeks of heavy workload.
YouTube so rarely embeds nicely.
Probably yes, but I can’t claim to have seen more than 1% of the movies out there. And I mean mainstream cinema releases, not pornos.
If you have a Windows account or a Microsoft account, you already have a Teams account. I’m not suggesting DMs for login or signup problems. That’s what I use Teams for.
I’m trying to avoid adding any more plugins to the site. Ideally I want to reduce them.
Can you see the age-verified forums (ie 5 forums instead of the default 3)?
Cool. Now I need to work through and build all the other pages.
Yes. I can only show nudity in the age-verified parts of the site.
Thank you 🙂
No. It would need to be inside the age-verified section, obviously, but I think it could be done.
However, I agree, there probably isn’t enough interest.
I’m sure a lot of us would love to see that.
I’ve been asking if it’s worth it for a long time now. I still keep going though.
Every time the law changes here in the UK in a way that affects this site, it’s always negative. It’s depressing. We keep adapting and complying but I fear it’s only a matter of time before the government squashes us completely. There are rumours they plan to ban VPNs or add some sort of mandatory ID requirement for them. I suspect that will kill the online adult industry in the UK (we might see physical media make a return!).
That’s kind of my feeling on the matter but I have been wrong before (many times before!).
That would depend on if we are going to do another Vote-Off.
I’m already building the pages.
I’ve just tried visiting on my mobile and it seems the site works MUCH better in landscape:
The first adjustment I’d make is to decrease the columns from 3 to 2.