It's been a long, rather hot week at least here having needed to be out during the week following the Grumps return at the start of last weekend as you notice it being heavy laden with things to carry around and from the bus stop to home.
There has been some discussion of and the state of "clean" sfw sites for adults who seem themselves adult but girls and boys on the inside specifically the little girl site Girltalk and I do feel the need to talk about some of that.
I think most of us are aware the social media world today is very different than it was around the two thousands and early twenty ten's when many of us started to explore more of what this thing in us was all about and that today the use of Facebook, Instagram, reddit and Discord is more popular than traditional structures one reason sites like Roses, UK Angels have gone and sites like Pdq never got resurrected.
The other is that we're a niche that isn't always appreciated in the wider trans community that focuses more on adult presentation "passing" rather than with classic little girl dresses, gingham pinafores and short tails and a intentional younger than your years look.
We like to present as people we feel we are on the inside.
Because of concerns around privacy, trolling and the like we've always had this dilemma between keeping away prying eyes from posts and how we attract the attention of like minded persons who may not know we exist and from that join in.
There are sites that on paper may appear to accommodate more the adult kid but are more aligned to various things commonly seen as kink, not that I'm kink shaming, and for many of us that takes out of that carefree playful place of the adult child.
It also without criticism of peoples personal circumstances and impact of real life events, been one where moderation and a sense of leading from the front has taken a back seat while the one of kind theme of the site just doesn't easily lend itself to regular software updates which can easily cause blackouts.
To me IF we want a site then it isn't simply a question of taking on the mantle of running what we have, we need to establish what the needs of a site today is perhaps having a site for all adult kids and not just those who are or identify as girls but keeping the overall ethos and for us to promote its use.
At the moment far too much is getting lost in never ending streams of comments that easily discussed at length and explored that are often hard to follow (I struggle with it personally) and is arguably to detriment of GT even if the idea of a "back up" as we had in the days of Yahoo Groups should the main site go down has merit.
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