alright I think I’m comfortable saying that GAGS is ready to be used! you can find it here:

https://gags-search.xyz/

GAGS (#GWA Advanced Gender Search) is a tool for searching #EroticAudio / #AudioPorn subreddits like #GoneWildAudio and #EroticHypnosis. unlike GWASI, GAGS lets you search for exactly which listener genders and speaker genders you want. for example you could search for only files by trans men or genderqueer people, and exclude all files for men. I hope this will be especially helpful for beings with complicated sexualities and/or genders who can’t just search for something simple like [F4M]

so if you’re interested in that, please give it a try! keep in mind that it might be a little bit slow because I’m using a cheap VPS, and the reddit API is also very slow

please let me know if:

• you use a screen-reader and run into problems screen-reading GAGS
• you’re confused about how to use GAGS (I want to make the UI as easy-to-understand as I can)
• you get an error page when trying to use it, or you can’t connect to it
• it takes more than 30 seconds to load a page (this is way too long)
• you find a security vulnerability
• most importantly, if you like GAGS or it helped you find something good. I would love to know that I was able to help!

I have very limited energy, but if there’s enough interest and I have the energy to spare then I do want to keep improving #GAGSProject, so feedback is appreciated 💙

also, if GAGS was helpful then please consider boosting this post so that more beings can try it. I don’t want to get deluged with traffic or anything but I’d like to help as many beings as possible find hot audios to listen to that are tailored to their gender and orientation

edit: I updated the link from the old one ( https://gags-search.duckdns.org/search_form ) because the old one was causing DNS issues. so if you weren’t able to connect before, maybe try the new URL and see if it works 💙

my therapist sent me something called the DBT Nightmare Protocol and I’ve never been more excited to read about a therapy technique. we need more psychology terms that sound like SCP doomsday contingencies

I have a similar problem with programming languages in unfamiliar paradigms. like I’m used to languages like Python and Lua and (ugh) JS, so when I see a language like C# or Lisp or Haskell all I can think about is all of the features from Python/Lua/JS that are missing or replaced with weird alternative features that look like clumsy approximations of what Python/Lua/JS has

and like I strongly suspect that the replacement features are roughly as good (maybe better?) or that you’re supposed to use disparate alternative features instead. but I can’t put myself in the mindset of someone who uses that language and understands how to write idiomatic code in it so to me it just looks awful. and I’m curious to understand why they aren’t as awful as they look, but not enough to learn a language that looks - from the outside - like a clumsy awkward approximation of Python/Lua/JS

https://akko.chir.rs/objects/0e6485ca-8518-49f9-9f2e-0ecafbfc9c3f

there should be a term for a Chesterton’s fence that isn’t “why is this here?” but “why did they make this so complicated?” because I run into that constantly in the tech world

like “why do I have to learn about the concepts of entities and components in order to use Unity when you could represent the same data and behavior using an object that contains more objects inside of it?” or “why does this unit-testing framework need to run an entirely separate JavaScript runtime inside of Node in order to simply unit-test some code?” or “why is it such a complicated and frustrating task to literally just make a simple GUI with HTML/CSS?”

like I’m not saying that these things are pointlessly overcomplicated, because they probably aren’t. but from the outside they look pointlessly overcomplicated. and that’s frustrating because I don’t want to learn something that looks unnecessarily difficult to understand and use