#ITS ALL OVER THE PLACE

[motivated-breeze]

yes im gonna reveal who the fuck am i infatuated for here, thats me, motivated rodney indeed

based from this tweet that's been in my bookmarks since last year

[rohirric-hunter]

I made an @ellipsus-writes account yesterday and with one day under my belt here are my first impressions.

It's basically Google Docs, but without being associated with Google. You're able to edit documents from any device with a web browser, which is a lot more convenient than the WebDav server I'm currently using.

Things that are less than ideal:

There aren't a lot of customization options. You can switch between light and dark mode, but I would like to be able to set my document backgrounds to a color. Also it would be better if you could change your view layout. Right now it looks like this:

and I would prefer to have these documents in a list, rather than these big bubbles. The bubbles might be cool if you could change their color or add an image background to them, but as is they're just boring white and taking up a lot of space. I have only 12 documents in this folder and it's a bit silly that I can't see them all at once.

2. You might also notice that these documents appear to be in a completely random order. They're actually in the order I last edited them in. I prefer my documents to be in alphabetical order, and this is an option that exists, but a) when switching to this view it for some reason defaults to reverse alphabetical order and I then have to manually select regular alphabetical order, and b) this setting will not be remembered between sessions.

3. I can't seem to get rid of the, "Need help? Chat with us" popup at the bottom of the page. It takes up an annoying amount of space, and I wish it was collapsible.

Things that worry me:

Instead of having a password system, Ellipsus sends you an email link every time you go to log in. There's nothing wrong with doing it this way I guess, since you can access the link from the same device you're accessing the website from, but it kind of just smacks of being different for the sake of being different. Makes me worry about security. Not that I write anything worth stealing.

Instead of having a normal profile system, Ellipsus uses Gravatar, which is some "universal internet account" nonsense that I will absolutely not be using. This probably won't be a huge issue, though, as I don't really plan on using the collaboration tools, so I won't need to make a profile. I wish I could change my email address, though, as I accidentally used the wrong one to make the account. I might make a new account.

I don't understand how all this is being paid for. There are no ads, the account is free, but the hosting is all done by Ellipsus. While text does not take up a ton of space to host, it does take up some space, and that costs money. Are the creators doing it out of their own pockets? Do they have a donor? Will there be donation drives to support it later? Or will they adopt advertisements in the future or introduce a "premium" option where you can pay for additional features? The last one normally wouldn't worry me, but since it is currently so bare-bones I'm a bit antsy. What if you have to pay for the option to have your documents in alphabetical order by default?

Their advertising is. Vague. I put this off for a long time because looking around on their website there was a lot of talk about how you're a writer and super creative and also they'll never steal your data to train AIs, but it was really hard to find a place where it outright said what the product was. This concerns me because it makes me feel like the company has something to hide.

Good things:

It's a platform that does the same thing as Google Docs without actually being Google Docs. This is a powerful pro. I'll probably keep using it for now.

Oh yeah and they don't have an app. A few years ago this would have gone in the less-than-ideal section for me but these days with the way app stores are about user generated content it's probably best to avoid the whole thing. I followed their suggestion to set a link on my homescreen (through Firefox) and it works very well. I was worried it might be laggy (Tumblr was laggy when I used it through Firefox) but it's been very responsive. No server access if you're not connected to the internet, but if you have the document already open then you can keep typing into it and it will update when you reconnect. This is the same way I used Google Docs back in the day and perfectly serviceable in my opinion.

[synthshenanigans]

I love just going through the different HMS related things cause like,

You go from beautifully made angst art to nonsensical memes to depressing fanfics to heart drawn as some inhuman small creature to overanalytical theories about the lyrics to the discord channel thats just the letter 'a' posted everyday i fucking love this community

[shower-man]

MY HUSBANDS BACK FROM WAR

[aries-of-spades]

Nothing like waking up, looking at your work schedule, and audibly saying 'what the fuck brian'

[doomedtokill]

hiii!! when you get this, list 5 songs you like to listen to, publish. then, send this to 10 of your favourite followers

heyy elena, thank you<3

baby i got the death rattle by los campesinos!

dark signs by sleep token

regret by everything everything

2YL by the front bottoms

automatic by half alive

[lemonlikeslimes]

WAIT OH GOD

my boyfriend got me into fucking alien stage j will probably talk about it on here HELP ME

[mostbrilliantidiot]

Whenever I see "men dni" it's like. But what is YOUR line you're drawing on that?

For the purposes of this DNI, am I a man?

Because sometimes I am. But my coworkers would say I'm not. My family would ask what day it is. Many of my friends would make that odd "so so/maybe" gesture.

Or is this DNI just about what's in someone's pants?

Oh now that's some shitty territory there, buddy.

[sapp0w0]

Okok, fine here's the silly playlist pfft :]

[lovedsick]

i   finally   put   up   my   muse   pg   .........

[briskalishous]

Anyone want to talk about the absolute tension in this scene between these two travelers. I mean LOOK AT THIS

HE IS JUST EYEING HIM UP

And here they're just peacefully looking outside

I think I might just rant about MLP for the next few days

[ameeperduee]

🌙 - a line from the last song I listened to. 🍁 - a line from one of my favorite songs. 🔑 - a line from the first song that comes up on shuffle.

EMOJI STARTERS ; || Still Accepting

🌙 - a line from the last song I listened to. Michael Jackson - Tabloid Junkie

"Then why do we keep fooling ourselves?"

🍁 - a line from one of my favorite songs.

Megan Thee Stallion - Plan B

"I'm the only reason that your goofy-ass got bitches" 🔑 - a line from the first song that comes up on shuffle.

Lady Gaga - Bloody Mary

"I won't cry for you"

[reallifemoonmoon]

Why do you have to fill my heart with such joy and then break it?

I literally don't know what possessed me to make an 11 page comic over these sad old men! bon appetit <3

[azvhaalk]

glorious evolution

[carb0n-m0n0xid3]

my tumblr is 100% mouthwashing and inm kinda sad now

its rare i find other stuffs :(

[trekkerac]

Winning is just doing better than your competition