• Registration is now open. It usually takes me a couple of hours or less to validate accouts. If you are coming over from VoD or DR and use the same user name I'll give you Adult access automatically. Anybody else I will contact by DM about Adult access. NOTE I do have spam account creation testing on, but some spam accounts do get through and I check all manually before giving them access. If you create an account where the user name is a series of random letters, the email address is another series of random letters and numbers and is gmail, and the IP you are creating the account from is a VPN address noted for spam, it is going to be rejected without apology.

Our Dark Home - A.I. networking, music uploads, profiles, my own work and erotica stories, and more

Drac Morbis

Drac Morbis

Administrator
Staff member
Our Dark Home — a community built for A.I.-generated art of various kinds!

We are not just a general art site with a plain A.I. corner, while it is the main theme, it also
hosts the darker, twisted end of what these tools can be pushed to make.

What you'll discover:

* Galleries — upload A.I. art, organize it into your own collections, members can like/comment
* Music — upload tracks and create albums, with cover art and a proper player inside the site, members can like/comment.
* The Library — long and short form dark and other fiction from the Adnin, Drac. Features a real page-turning animated reader with per-page likes and comments.
* Forums — threaded, with BBCode, image attachments, and six reactions rather than one bland like. Lots of sub-forums.
* Full Profiles — friends, wall comments, and editable bio data worth answering instead of just a row of dead social links.
* Real-Time IM — private chat with friends using emojis and parsed URLs, instant replies, no page reload.

You choose how dark it gets! The site is open to everyone, and upon first login, you can choose your experience:

* Show me Everything — the whole site, NSFW adult galleries, dark and erotic stories, extreme fetish forums, and more.
* Keep it Tame — adult galleries, adult stories, and forums stay out of sight, completely.

Pick the second and you simply never see the adult side. Not blurred, not behind a warning you have to click past — absent.
This one time choice is saved to your account. Ask the Admin, Drac, to change it later, if desired.

The rules, in short:

* A.I. renders of any kind (see below), any music (doesn't have to be A.I.), and related work and discussion is what belongs here.
* No real photographs of people, period (some of the forum posts allow real pics of animals/pets, but that's the cut off).
* Extreme and dark fetish themes are fine — Artistic nude renders are welcome too (but like I said, you can opt out at first login).
* This is an art site, not a porntube. Pornography for its own sake is not what this place is for and is simply not accepted.

Everything is 100% free, and there are no ads or spam. Site e-mails are minimal and can be opted out of.

You will need an account to look around — all content is member's only.

To you, I bequeath: Our Dark Home - https://ourdarkhome.com
 
Build notes for August 9.



🖼️ The picture viewer, rebuilt​


Opening an image full-screen used to be a dead end: you looked at one picture,
closed it, clicked another, waited for a page load. Now it is something you can
actually browse in.

  • Left click moves to the next picture. Anywhere on the image or the
    space around it. Past the last one it wraps to the first and keeps going, so
    you can sit there clicking through a whole gallery without thinking about
    where the end is.
  • A strip of thumbnails runs along the bottom. Every picture in the
    gallery, the current one outlined, and it scrolls itself along as you advance.
    Click any thumbnail to jump straight to it. If there are more than fit on
    screen, arrows appear to scroll the strip — and only then, because an arrow
    that does nothing is worse than no arrow.
  • The next and previous pictures are downloaded before you ask for them.
    Clicking through a gallery should feel like turning pages, not like waiting for
    a website, and mostly it now does.
  • Arrow keys work. Left and right, same wrapping.
  • On a phone, tap to advance and swipe back. A tap cannot express
    direction, so the swipe is what going backwards is for.

One thing genuinely changed rather than added: clicking outside the
picture no longer closes the viewer, because that click now means "next". Close
is the button in the top-right corner, or the Escape key. I have made that
button considerably harder to miss than the bare × it replaces — it says
CLOSE on it now, and it lights up and turns when you point at it.

The viewer also finally covers the navigation bar. It had been quietly drawing
the site header across the top of every full-screen picture, which I had somehow
stopped seeing.



📎 Forum attachments do all of that too​


Click an attachment in a post and you get the same viewer: click to advance,
thumbnail strip, arrow keys, swipe, the same Close button.

It cycles that post's attachments and stops there. "Next picture" meaning
the first attachment of somebody else's reply three posts further down is not
what anybody means by next.

A post with a single attachment behaves exactly as it always did — no strip, no
cycling, nothing advertising a gesture that would do nothing.



🧭 The forum, made navigable​


The forum worked, in the sense that everything was reachable if you knew where
it was. Five things fixed that.

Breadcrumbs now show the whole path.

Forums / Category / Forum / Thread

They used to skip the category entirely, so you could be three levels deep with
nothing on screen saying which section of the board you were in. They also
appear again at the foot of a thread, under the last post and above the
reply box — a long thread scrolls the top ones out of sight, and the bottom is
exactly where you have finished reading and want to go back up.

A thread row is no longer one enormous link. The entire row used to be a
single clickable block, which meant the only thing you could do from a listing
was open the thread. You could not visit the author's profile. You could not
even select the title's text. Now the title is a link, both usernames are links,
and the space between them is just space. The row still highlights as you scan
it — it simply is not the thing you click.

A thread you are part-way through opens where you left off. Click the
title and you land on the first post you have not read, not back at the top of
page one. Threads like that carry a small Go to new tag so it is clear
the title is about to do something different from usual.

There is a New Posts button. One at the top of the board and one on
every forum, and behind it a page listing every thread with something in it you
have not read — each row saying which forum it lives in, each title dropping you
at your first unread post. The one inside a forum is scoped to that forum, with
a Whole Board button to widen it.

And a New Thread button that covers everything. One control at the top of
the board, opening a menu of every forum you can post in, grouped by category.
It does not appear at all if there is nowhere you may post — a button leading to
"you cannot post here" is worse than no button.



🪪 Hovering a username tells you who they are​


Point at any member's name in the forum — in a thread, in a listing, on a reply
— and a small card appears: their avatar, whether they are online, their role,
when they joined, and their post, image and gallery counts, with buttons through
to their profile and to a private message.

It waits a moment before appearing, so sweeping the pointer across a page of
names does not fill the screen with cards, and it stays up long enough for you
to move onto it and press something. Tabbing to a name with the keyboard opens
it too.

If you are on a phone, or if the script fails, every one of those names is still
an ordinary link to the profile — exactly as it was.



💬 Every tooltip now matches the ones in the header​


The icons along the top of the site had a proper tooltip — cyan, in the site's
own typeface, with a little arrow. Everything else on the site had whatever grey
box your operating system draws.

There were about seventy of those. They are all the good one now.



👤 Profiles: the same numbers, once each​


There was a row of statistics above the profile tabs — images, galleries,
tracks, forum posts, friends — and the tabs underneath were already counting
themselves. Forum and Friends appeared twice, one line apart.

The row is gone. Every number survives on the tab it belongs to:

  • GALLERIES - 5, MUSIC - 6, FORUM - 20,
    FRIENDS - 11
  • The image count moved inside the Galleries tab, beside the heading, reading
    something like "5 galleries · 69 images" — images are not a section of a
    profile, they are what the galleries contain.

The dash between each tab and its number is violet, which is the only colour on
the site that does not already mean something. Cyan is ordinary, gold is
pinned, amber is locked, magenta is staff, green is presence, red is
destructive. A separator means nothing at all, so it needed a colour that means
nothing at all.



🎨 Small things​


  • Creating a gallery from inside a category. When you are browsing one
    category, there is now a Create Gallery in this Category button beside
    the usual one, and the form opens with that category already chosen. It hides
    itself on "All", where there is nothing to inherit.
  • An empty category says so and stops talking. It used to offer you a
    link to go and create something. There are two buttons doing that a few
    centimetres above it, so now it just says No visual records found!
  • "Danger Zone" is now "Delete Account" in account settings, and the
    panel no longer prints its heading and warning twice, which it had been doing
    since the day it was built.
  • Cancel buttons are coloured before you hover them. The site has two
    button families and they disagreed: one showed its colour at rest, the other
    stayed grey until you pointed at it, so a Cancel next to a Post looked like a
    different kind of control depending on which screen you were on. They match now,
    and a Cancel still reads as quieter than the thing it backs out of.
  • The emoji picker fits. It was showing a sliver of scrollbar over
    nothing at all — the panel's height limit and the emoji catalogue's natural
    height happened to be the same number to the pixel, so it sat permanently one
    rounding error away from scrolling.



📢 Announcements say who they are from​


An announcement from me used to arrive as a bare sentence with nothing to tell
it apart from any other notification. Each one now carries an attribution line
underneath it, in green:

— Drac, Site Admin and Creator

It is worked out when you read the notification rather than being stamped into
it when it is sent, so the wording can be corrected afterwards and every copy
already sitting in every inbox follows along. Moderators and any future admin
are signed from their own role, automatically — one shared editable line would
sign somebody else's announcement as the Creator, which is precisely the thing
this line exists to state accurately.

Announcements also no longer fade once you have read them. Everything
else still does. An official notice is the one kind of message worth reading
twice, and it was being dimmed to sixty per cent alongside "somebody liked your
picture".



That is the lot. As always, if something here reads as broken rather than as a
decision, tell me — half the changes above started life as somebody saying "why
does it do that", and the forum section is entirely that.
 
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