do I ever learn?!

cant believe my cat is actually stuck in a tree right now

piggybacking off of what lua said, it's about your intent that actually matters. if it weren't for people like neko, thunderstruck and others, i never would have learned how to do squat. it really irritates me that people have conveniently seemed to have forgotten how they learned to code when it comes to the new generation of people wanting to learn and they go and gatekeep things like resources, or just pretend that they did not or don't right click inspect sites to see how someone did something. it's dishonest and frankly, lame to lie about it. it discourages people who are still learning and it just makes you look like an elitist. 

may I confess that I still read “MLM” as multi-level marketing so I keep reading “multi-level marketing romance” at first without fail

in 10 years i expect we’ll have to continuing arguing abt this 😔

hard agree. to add my own tidbit to the conversation, it is very difficult for me to see a logic reason for people to gatekeep or not share certain codes with each other. every reason i've seen thrown out is as weak as an overcooked spaghetti noodle between my fingertips.

like the biggest one... stealing? from the coding languages i know (html, css, python) and even human language, there are not an infinite amount of ways you can go about constructing things. there are billions of people in the world and there will be inevitable overlap. even if you are the first to construct something, it is likely you will not be the last.

i don't even see anything wrong in copy-pasting strings of code or remembering how to write certain code. the latter is arguably how you learn how to do those things in the first place. if i had to re-learn how to duplicate a technique or functionality code every time i wrote it, i'd ask the gods above to take me home. most code that you're looking for was already figured out. even if i did all of my code from scratch, there is likely one other person out there that did it nearly the same as me.

now, stealing code to take a whole visual design or concept for your own is wrong. sometimes even with proper credit. but that's a whole 'nother conversation.

regardless, shout out to the one of many creators in this community, fizzyelf, for making some of the most revolutionary jcink functionality codes i've found thus far public and free-to-use.

i went to my laptop for this but i highly recommend jcink owners to check out jcodes too as cory has very functional codes useful for rping too. what's great is that he'll literally code you anything you need to adjust to your site

here are some of my bookmarks:

post tags this is good for content warning. it can be finnicky depending on where you want it but cory has no qualms adjusting it as long as you link your site. i had mine modified so that you hover it to reveal the tags





username colors on recent topic list this is for aesthetics but you can style the username further according to usergroup



post bookmarks love this function. haven't styled it properly but it's the star you see in the ss above

topic icons i improvised and used this for topicrow tags lol. even works with images. (you'll have to check page 5 for the specific code that uses the one in the ss)



bunch of coding heroes, all of them

This next gundam kit will fix my mental health I swear just one more kit bro-

a-hecking-men!!!

update, we are finally out of the tree

stupid whopper whopper song.

when a fic you’d otherwise be down to clown for is written in the second person 🥴