#rolescape

[supersonicman10]

If Tumblr actually shuts down, I’m gonna be real sad

The only other place that seems to be doing the same kind of RP things that you could do on Tumblr would be Rolescape, and I don’t even think that’s even publicly out yet

[midnightactual]

Me: Not really feeling that motivated, but I might peck at something here... Tumblr: yoU hAvE To ManUAlly TRacK AlL YOur ThReAds nOw gLhF Me: Oh. Great. Sure is a shame Rolescape seems to have died.

[antonblastdeluxe]

fuckkkkkkk does anyone have any good alternates for tumblr rp (formatting, text posts, reblogging, sending asks)? I know cohost is like, the closest thing that's probable but rolescape is still in alpha after all of this time :/

[potestmagice]

Whatever happened to Rolescape? People were talking about it like it was the next big thing, but now, it's been dead silent.

[rpbetter]

Everyone out there looking forward to Rolescape, a lot of you have my concerned about its longevity already and it hasn't even gone into testing. So, let's talk about something in brief.

The right way to think about this:

Rolescape has a numerous promising features in the works that will allow you to better cultivate your space. You'll be able to better insulate yourself from drama and muns you need to avoid, have a great deal of privacy, and be better able to deal with problems in a meaningful way.

The wrong way to think about this:

Rolescape is a fix for all of the RPC's problems, I cannot wait to be away from all this drama and negativity.

The right way still keeps the responsibility on you, on everyone in the RPC, to not create, foster, or refuse to stay away from problems. It acknowledges the reality that two of the most awful RPCs to ever exist are the target user base for RS - tumblr and twitter. And it expects only what RS's responsibilities should be (coincidentally, what other platforms should have been as well, but we wouldn't be having this conversation if they didn't abysmally fail there) - providing functioning ways of blocking, filtering, and otherwise cultivating one's space. The behavior is up to you.

The wrong way poses RS as an unrealistically utopian place no matter its user base. These are not alright expectations from any platform, places are going to be what you make of them. The same muns are going to be there, the same problems will come with them. It's great that you're excited to have a fresh start with promising features that allow greater comfort and cultivation, but these expectations I see many of you expressing are only going to result in you putting the blame on RS when you run into the handful of muns you have issues with or discover that purity culture and callouts are everywhere.

Let me repeat: It's great that you're excited to have a fresh start with promising features that allow greater comfort and cultivation.

But I'm excited for RS as well, and I'd really rather not have it bottom-out before it really gets rolling when too many muns rage quit because a new, improved platform did not fix every issue they had with the community itself.

Please:

be excited

support RS with reblogs, donations, giving feedback, and/or joining the team

tell your mutuals about RS and why you're excited for it

join the discord server if you're into that

stay realistic that the site will be in testing when you get to join, there will be bugs and things both added and removed, that's what happens during testing phases

stay realistic that the same blogs and RPC issues will only be moving over to a new location, not ceasing to exist

appreciate that you'll be able to control this environment a thousand times better to stay away from all that, know that you will need to do that

I cannot say enough how relieving it is that Rolescape is happening, it has so many great things that can improve the experience. Every day, at some point, I think, "I wish Rolescape existed right now." But it will not fix the problems in the RPC simply by existing. Do not set yourselves up to be disappointed and angry, and in doing so, set up RS to fail. This is the single most promising RP platform I have seen in all two decades of RPing online, please don't do that.

[judahdesigns]

NEW JOIN LINK

[ambrostikal]

Since I’ve been seeing it go around, I just want to state that I have zero intentions of deactivating this blog! If you see it suddenly is one day, tumblr’s stupidity got to it, and I definitely will remake asap.

[a-tesseractis]

     I LIVED. ‘SUP FUCKERS.

[strykingback]

Porn Bots can you FUCK OFF!!!

[klarsynt-arc]

the tumblr flagging system be like oh a whole gifset of graphic pornography? nah we’ll leave it up. a completely non sexual text post that doesn’t even have icons? yes. flagged!!!

[airxn]

you know, this year will be my 8th year of rping on tumblr, but seeing rolescape and what they’ve done with it i’m like… tumblr… your days are numbered

[theoracleparadox]

I remember the days when if you wrote a lengthy reply in RP or a drabble for someone, they would be so happy for so much length. Nowadays everyone hates all the time and thought put into these things.

I suppose it does get tiring when they don't give the same in return.

[antonblastdeluxe]

Objectively I still won’t leave this site but yeah that adblock on desktop is now staying on forever now.

[potestmagice]

Whatever happened to that Rolescape people were making?

[rolescape]

— ROLESCAPE FEATURE OF THE DAY!

Group Dashboards & Private Forums aka where we are sure lots of amazing threads will be taking place in the future. In the images above you can see how ROLESCAPEs formatting will allow creators to fully explore writing with others in a highly customizable and intuitive environment! It also showcases how customizable formatting your writing can be.  And finally within our last screenshot you can see a preview of what our highly customizable interface will allow site members to do with HTML. Please make sure to stay tuned as we have even more exciting features to showcase. 

— WHAT IS ROLESCAPE?

ROLESCAPE is an accessible, aesthetically pleasing social networking website (and mobile app!) with a myriad of features that the roleplaying community, over multiple websites, have been begging for. Made FOR roleplayers, BY roleplayers, the site quite literally would not be possible without the help of the very community it’s targeted toward.

— HOW CAN YOU HELP?

But there are still things you, the individual, and the community can do for us. Whether it’s donating to one of our sources linked on the blog, reblogging this post, joining the discord server for moral support, or joining the team. Every action counts.

[rpbetter]

RS server requiring exact ages seems questionable to me. Am glad they have a good voice of reason in there though. Good luck trying to keep them from making everything pristine and pure.

Oh, Anon, don't put that on me lmao! I'm only a single, evil, bubble-bursting mun, I can't change the world!

But seriously...thank you, and I will continue to try my best.

Also, yes, I am not going to lie, I was a bit shocked by that requirement. It almost made me back out, with the RPC's freaky bullshit with anyone out of their mid-twenties, I had some not unreasonable concerns about that. What kept me from turning around and going was seeing that there were other people in my age range and older than myself there. I had to scroll up a bit in the introduction channel to find them, and they're definitely not the majority, but they were there.

It's not a choice I would have made, I would have asked people to pick an age range like, 13-17 18-24 25-29 30-34 etc. because I don't feel like exact ages are appropriate unless a legal adult wishes to share that information. An age range still gives you an idea of your users without being that specific. It also still allows minors and adults to know they're interacting and make responsible choices. So, I have no idea why this was chosen, but it did and does bother me. Cannot/will not fault you for being bothered by it as well.

Since it, obviously, wasn't my choice or a choice I was involved in, I just also cannot say why it was made, thus, cannot really give an opinion on what might say.