#torrid

Looks from this year. Traveled. Worked hard like usual. Put myself out there to date. It was an interesting year. 🤷🏾‍♀️🤔🫶🏾😊

not a startup. not a "web3 social ecosystem." one person, a couple of servers in a rack, and a stubborn refusal to accept that the good version of this website had to die.

torrid.blog

what's there:

reblogs with the full trail intact. the whole point.

asks (anon too), replies that actually thread, notes you can read

queue, drafts, scheduled posts

DMs

a dashboard that shows posts from people you follow, newest first. that's it. no ranking, no "you might like," no ads. i wrote the query, it's one ORDER BY.

tag muting and tag boosting, so discover shows you what you actually want

an importer that pulls your old tumblr posts across, images and all, rehosted properly so they don't rot

and yes — adult content is allowed. 18+ site, gated at the door. that's not the whole personality of the place, it's just not a thing you get quietly deleted for anymore.

it is small. i'm not going to pretend otherwise — you'd be early. but every site you've ever loved was small first, and the reason they got bad later is that they got big for someone else's benefit.

if you've been keeping a tab open for years waiting for somewhere to go: torrid.blog. come be annoying on the internet again.

Today I hung out with a friend to celebrate her birthday and felt like getting in the spooky spirit 👻