A follow-up from my post the other day about whether I should start allowing self promotion.

Opinions were mixed and I considered suggestions such as a weekly/monthly pinned post. But there were more objections between comments and upvotes, so obviously most people would rather there be no promotion at all here. So nothing is changing.

You can recommend well-known apps, but "I made this" or "A friend made this" is not allowed. The exception is if you are actually a dev of a popular app, we have at least two who have my permission to talk about their apps.

This decision is also specifically to spite the dev who just sent me a long message saying "I think you should allow promotion, here's why, and btw here's my app." I don't know why you thought that was a good idea.

In case you need a reminder about the rule, here is the entire thing-

You can recommend well-known apps, you cannot promote one you've created.

Promoting/soliciting is not allowed at all here because it clogs the sub. Not even if someone asks for app suggestions and you think your app is a good match.

Hinting toward promotion (not sharing a link, saying "DM me for info," pretending it's not yours, etc) is not a loophole.

Breaking this rule will earn you a ban since you couldn't be bothered to read even one rule.

(Photo removed bc for whatever reason it just looked really weird after blurring our faces 🤷‍♀️)

There's a character minimum it turns out, so a little more about this I guess. The characters in the picture frame come from the Tibetan, Bamum, and Ornamental Dingbats Unicode blocks. I'm ensuring that I make frequent Print to PDF file backups (not the Google Docs PDF export) to lock in the specific glyphs pulled automatically from various system fallback fonts so that my art isn't distorted or destroyed with time, and only ever directly editing this file on one device. Eventually I'll have to start a new file if I ever change devices or my system fallback fonts change.

Hope everyone's having a lovely day and getting some good writing done 🎔