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Notifications, likes, profile sharing (and blocking)
Hey there!Here is your first update focused on community interaction. It's mostly preparation for keeping users comfortable using the website, and features to expand on in the future. Still some exciting features that will immediately make the site feel much more complete!Notifications, which will notify you for:New subscriberPost approved by modVideo uploaded by user in your subscriptionsNew like... which talking ofYou can now like posts, and these liked posts will show on your profileYou can disable publicly showing likes on your profile ...
Community interaction it is!
Damn, that poll was closer than I expected it was going to be. Seems like community interaction just about edged it from further tag improvements, but it's obvious you guys really want the focus on these two subjects. For the next couple months it'll mostly be interactions, after that I'll go right onto tag improvements!I've just come back from America, staying in Atlanta (if you know, you know), then got ill, and now that I'm slowly recovering I'll get right on developing the site further. Thanks to the mods the moderat...
What needs attention in May & June?
There's still a couple small things to fix and improve on the website, but what should be the next feature that gets focus in the next months?All of these will eventually be implemented, it's just to see what you guys prefer to get attention first!
Three weeks in, extinguished most fires
(note: this post is full of sarcasm)sticker of a tired furry hereHey guys, it's me. What the hell is this craziness?You just keep spamming my mailbox! Every time a new error occurs, I get an email, and let me tell you I haven't been able to find my saved Ebay searches for the past three weeks. How can you guys not just accept I built the perfect website and stop breaking shit?On that note, where are all the tags you're supposed to put on videos? I thought I was clear that my tag system is perfect, not confusing, really nice to use a...
Holy carps it's only been two days
Quick update that I wanted to bring on Patreon and over email, there have been some fixes to the Patreon connection the past few days which worked great for the things they fixed, however one addition is going a little haywire.If you lose your tier for whatever reason on the site, you can always:Browse to the homepageClick "Manage my account"Under "Patreon", select "Update tier" - you should now have your tier back!For those that weren't able to redeem their tier the last couple days, try again! There should be some ...
WE ARE SO BACK
QUICK UPDATE: and you already broke it. I'll get on top of why it's already broken, sit tight!Yep, you're reading it right, the website is back online for you lovely patrons. That means that you do need to always be logged in at the moment, but at least you can upload and watch squeaky videos again!https://tube.inflatevids.xyz/Let's lower expectations though, the current version is very focused on posting and watching videos only. That means there's no comments, no like/dislike, hecc you don't even have a subscription fe...
Small update
So, evidently, the site did not go live on the 19th.I am currently at a convention (read: holiday) where on the way to the con, I found a critical bug that would not allow you to register an account with Patreon. Seems fairly important for the website.It has to do with email verification and the emails being hashed on the user table. In other words: I don't know your email at the time of verifying it (or retrying verification), and that needs to be fixed.There were also some other hitches with builds taking way too long to really be able to...
Payments start up again tomorrow!
Just a quick reminder!Also is this error message too soon, or very on point?
The 1 year offline anniversary(-ish)
It’s been a while since you guys have had a proper update, hasn’t it?In this post I want to talk about what you guys can expect, what not to expect and when to expect it. After that, also some rambling.Important note: payments will be back from the start of January onwardsThe comebackSo far I’ve been fairly vague about what is actually going on. I can however now finally say that we are back on track and regular progress is being made. The basis is there, the moderators are testing the new site and it’s already getting expanded upon. Th...
A bit of hope
Hello, squeakers and looners!Taking a cue from recent events in our sphere, where other people try to impersonate us, we have an actual update for you: Things are actually progressing well for the relaunch of our site!Everything looked very bleak in the past, but by now we got a development flow going, and enough critical mass has been reached to say with confidence that we're back on track!Keep an eye on us here and other official channels: our website (https://inflatevids.xyz), Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/inflatevids.bsky.social), T...
Whoops, payments
As you might have noticed, the site is still offline, but payments went out. Pretty dumb mistake, and sorry about that. There's supposed to be a payment pause until the site is back up. All the monthly IV pro payments should be refunded. If anyone's forgotten and would like a refund, please shoot a direct message.I'll try to keep up with the comments too, but I won't get an email for that.For refunds: please write within a monthNote: refunding yearly patronage immediately blocks access to the patron page. Things is, site should ...
We are (temporarily) offline
UPDATE 19/01/25: We're coming back onlinefor patrons on February 19th at the latest! Read our new post for more details. The post below is for archival purposes.Now that I have your attention, that isn't a lie. InflateVids is currently offline. It isn't how I imagined the 3rd anniversary of going live to go.The website got hacked and defaced last night. The database has been exported and the user table published, which includes data like usernames, IP addresses (for most of you your IP address will have changed by now) but most impo...
Anybody there?
Oh yes, about a 140 of you.Me? Well I've been living my own life for the past half year. It has been busy at my full-time job, which has exhausted me. That time seems to slowly come to a close though.The new "from the ground up" version of InflateVids I keep talking about is slowly getting development. With some outside help, there is already a basis for video uploading and conversion, and on my side a basic website with database communication is... well it's currently in tutorial hell but I'll get out of there eventually.Th...
March Update '23
Hey all! Bet you didn't expect an update just before the end of the month.As some of you who have tried to contact me or paid attention to my presence might have noticed, I have been absent for most of March (and February too, to be honest). The biggest reason for this is that I've had one of my "burned out" periods where I just semi-isolate myself and feel bad for not being more active.Trust has been put onto my moderation staff to handle most of the guideline defying content and I believe it's been going great. Either that...
February update '23
Hi all!Thank you all so much for supporting InflateVids and covering costs for January. In that month some stuff got fixed too: Liked videos now work again (though filters won't work) Thumbnail picker should be working on phones again (and have a default picture selected) Videos got limited to 480p for non-patrons (hopefully temp) Pro patrons get full quality for -everyone- on their own unlisted videosThere is some bugs that need working, I keep an updated list in the Telegram group (https://t.me/inflatevids, for general site discussion, no...
The Jan '23 Update
Hey lovely patrons, old and new!Thank you guys so much for supporting the website and not getting me bankrupt. We still have some way to go for the community to fully support the website, but thanks to an incredible amount of new support, both here on Patreon and outside, it looks like InflateVids gets to live another month.There has been a couple of changes, for starters of course HD got completely disabled for non-patrons (indefinitely), the orange banner got a little bigger (read: double size, hopefully smaller soon) and unlisted Pro tier pa...
Happy new year! And transparency about due invoices
For starters: Happy New Year! I hope you've had a wonderful NYE and that the entire year will be good for you.My new year so far has been turbulent, to say the least. Skipping a big thing in my private/family life, I have also just submitted a ticket to DigitalOcean for an extension on past due balance. Let me explain.Back in September/October I experimented with a new (seemingly) more stable version of InflateVids. It had multiple load balanced servers, more lightweight web server software and a completely reworked website interface (and a...
Two years... what now?
Hey guys! As a heads up, I'll start this post more happy then it will end. What is important to keep in mind is that I'll always be grateful to everyone who has currently or in the past ever given money to this project. You guys are the reason the website has made it to two years and has a chance to make it to three. More about that later.First happy news! Today two years ago I decided to launch InflateVids publicly, after some other sites either restricted squeaky content or just completely shut down. It, incidentally, is also my birth...
Video conversion fixes (and some others)
Hey y'all.Thanks for another month of patronage! Keeping up with the monthly updates, here is this month's.The InflateVids 2.0 launch could have gone smoother, but currently it isn't too bad. Some fixes will be going out somewhere this week which includes the big video conversion fixes. New videos should now all be able to be played on Firefox after this update, and the website won't throttle anymore when processing videos(tm). This is because I yeeted that load onto another server.Other small fixes: pop filters now properly app...
InflateVids 2.0 has been released!
Both the October update and the release of the new website. What a day.Hey y'all, Rick here and hope you have all had a wonderful Halloween! Bonus points if it involved inflatables, balloons or something else squeaky!Past month not much exciting has happened behind the scenes for InflateVids. Some tweaks and fixes were done for the beta website, mostly in the styling department. Not much extreme to prepare for the 2.0 release that happened today.Everything you guys have already been able to enjoy, has now been released to the public. In the...
Beta rollout & Patreon billing change
To start: this billing change won't affect current patrons. You will still be charged on the 1st of every month. Only new patrons will now be charged on the day they joined, which also means you wouldn't pay double if you pledged on the last day of the month. Patreon finally fixed this issue! Hooray!On more on-topic news: The beta has had some issues, together with the new database also having some issues getting going, but most of these seem to have been solved and the beta is slowly getting ready to be released to a wider audience. Th...
Reconnect your Patreon account
Hi everyone!Seems like the new system did a big oopsie and wiped the status off of a lot of you Patrons. Obviously this isn't supposed to happen, but it sadly has.Thankfully it is a pretty easy fix, but one that I can't do myself since it requires re-authenticating your Patreon account, which is through the usual way on this page: https://tube.inflatevids.xyz/settings/general - This also means that you need to re-authenticate before being able to access the beta website again.If your Patreon account is still connected to your InflateVid...
InflateVids Beta - it is here!
To use the beta website you will always have to sign in with an account linked to Patreon and have an active patronage. If you haven't yet, you can link your Patreon and InflateVids accounts on https://tube.inflatevids.xyz/settings/general - it is the giant orange button on top.Access the beta site on: https://beta.inflatevids.xyz/There is a lot of work that went into making this version of the website, and I really do hope it was worth it. There is a couple new features (see previous posts) and some improvements, like the filters now actua...
Beta update
So I didn't get the beta website ready for release within the week, but hopefully this weekend you'll have access to the beta website! Sorry for the delay!- Rick
Ready to see the beta site? - September '22 Update
A puppy is a lot of effort.Hey everyone! Thanks for continuing your patronage.Last month I have been working a little less but focussing on getting the beta website ready for launch to you patrons. That means getting it ready to run with the "production" database and adding a restriction to only allow logged in accounts that are linked to an active Patreon account access.This has mostly succeeded. The biggest issue is the new way of filtering content. Instead of doing it by category, in the new version there will be specific checkboxes ...
Beta site for Patrons soon! - August '22 Update
A lot has happened since the last update. My list of things to write is quite some lines long, so let's get into it.Just to be clear, this stuff isn't live yet on the website! It'll be live on a patron exclusive beta website soon.Filter video popupsIf you have filtered certain content like inflatable popping, you will now get a content warning if you still end up on a video that contains it. Looks a little something like this:Videos now filtered everywhereThink channel pages, recommended, playlists and even subscription lists. Shoul...
Working on important features
InflateVids will soon be catching up to 21st century communication
New website update - July
Ye alright, monthly updates I should be able to do.Over the past month I have experimented more with developing the website on multiple servers and been slowly rewriting all of the features you are already used to (dislike counter visibility, Patreon integration, etc.).Hopefully somewhere in September I'll have the new website ready for some patron testing before releasing it to the wider audience somewhere in November or December. Maybe in time for the second birthday of InflateVids?Either way, also quick thanks again for all of the suppor...
Why is InflateVids so slow?
For starters: Hello many new patrons! Even though I did expect a couple people more to contribute to the Patreon campaign, I didn't expect this amount of support. We aren't quite there covering the bills yet, but you are definitely making a difference! Make sure to link your Patreon account to InflateVids at https://tube.inflatevids.xyz/settings/general. You gain access to all video qualities, and it will remove the Patreon banner when you are logged in (sorry it took me a little while to fix that @ older patrons).InflateVids has, as yo...
This was 2021. Happy new year!
Hi lovely patrons!What a year it has been for what started as my little hobby project at the beginning of this year.After having launched for just two weeks when this year started, the website had a couple hundred registered users, about the same amount of videos and basically no comments. Just 2 months later, in March, the website had over a 1000 users, 1200 videos and hundreds of comments. Now that is insane growth.In the beginning the website had some good development. Remember the whole dislike thing, now with options to hide the counter or...
