Following on from Monday’s blog post, I think it’s clear that the community wants nothing to do with AI art. The team and I agree. We will be banning it outright.
Thanks for your patience! We’re currently hard at work carefully combing through the site’s code and bolstering our development standards to make sure this never happens again! Currently expecting to be ready to open the site up again on Monday - hang in there!
Our first batch of 250 registration slots will open on Friday 1st March at 7PM GMT, during our next Sheezy Stream! Get there in time to grab yourself a free account (or subscribe now if you just can't wait!)
Hello again everyone.
This morning, we were alerted to a security breach in the site's code. We have since shut everything down to properly investigate and assess the situation. The breach has since been resolved.
🎨 fully supports our wonderful neurodiverse community members, and staff
So it's a pleasure to support Autism Acceptance Week! 🌈♾️🌈
We welcome everyone to join us in sharing your art, and experiences with being on the spectrum
#AutismAcceptanceWeek
Sheezy Art fully supports our LGBTQIA+ comrades!
💛🤍❤️💙🤎🖤❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
I mean, if it didn't, most of the staff here wouldn't be a part of the team
#pridemonth
Yesterday we progressed to Public Beta, allowing members who had an account with us back in 2022 to sign back in. Less than 24 hours later, we are now at over 500 active members! That’s NUTS! You guys are CRAZY! We love ya!!
Sheezy Stats:
3619 Active users and counting
1500+ Artworks in the last 24hs
75 Journals in the last 24hs
13 Amazing Volunteer moderators
7 Admins (gnome wranglers)
5 Swagalicious Technical Volunteers
3 Fantastic Volunteer Helpers (totally not 3 gnomes in a trenchcoat)
1 Sheemz
Quick update for you! Our current plan is to expand Private Beta to our Subscribers on Jan 1st. We’ll do some heavy testing for a couple of weeks and then potentially think about opening up to Public Beta. All very exciting!
24 HOURS TO GO!! Tomorrow at 7PM GMT we'll be opening our first batch of registration slots – 250 to be precise – so grab them while you can! We'll also be giving away 10 Subscriptions live on stream so be sure to join us if you can!
The Mod team at SheezyArt have been hard at work, looking through every image, video, literature and audio file. Helping to keep Sheezy a safe and fun environment
I just wanted to show them my appreciation for all they're doing ❤️
Happy Easter to all our Transgender Siblings
Whether you're still an 🥚egg🥚, or 🏳️⚧️ out and proud 🏳️⚧️
We love you for being you
#TDoV
#Easter
#transrights
The team have agreed to push the BETA launch back by a few days - possibly even a week or two - to give us a bit more time to test everything and make sure you're not trying to sign in to a broken site.
Fear not! We'll be doing a Sheezy Stream on Thursday at 6pm GMT –
We, at Sheezy Art love to see a culture of community and support ❤️
We encourage everyone to comment and discuss each others works!
🚫🤖🚫 There's no algorithm, so doing so is just friendly and fun ^^
We are listening to your feedback, and we know you want more registration slots
Tune in to our stream at 7pm GMT to find out how we want to make things sheezier for you
has filters in place to help protect users from eyestrain imagery, and loud sounds
We know that overly vibrant pictures and noises can be overstimulating, so we work hard to make our website a welcoming place
#AutismAcceptanceWeek
Did you know: If you don't have an account, we have 10 new openings every 8 HOURS. Can't stand to wait? If you purchase a subscription (even for a month) you also get an account to go with it!
We Hear You! – There's no sugarcoating it; mistakes have been made. Our moderation policies have been a little all over the place and perhaps more strict than necessary recently...
The time is finally here for you original members! We're progressing to Phase 1 of our Public Beta – if you had an account on the site back in 2022, you'll be able to sign in starting tonight at 7PM GMT! Come join us on stream as we hit the button!
ALSO - During the next two Sheezy Streams we’ll be giving away FIFTEEN new subs instead of the usual ten to make up for the ten that got missed this week!
This weekend's Sheezy Stream and registration slots opening will unfortunately have to be cancelled, and the site will remain offline for a little while longer while we handle the situation.
Someone told me that making popping noise to myself could be a form of stimming
It got me wondering, how does your stimming present?
#AutismAcceptanceWeek
Can I get a Sheemz plushie? 🙏
We're looking to find out if anyone else is willing (and able) to buy a super cute plush of our one and only Sheemz. Please let us know your level of interest in the form below. I certainly have 😉
It's that time of year again where we remind you that
🏳️🌈 We're here 🏳️🌈
🏳️🌈 We're queer 🏳️🌈
🏳️🌈 And we're not going anywhere! 🏳️🌈
Oh! Except to Annecy, later, from the 9th to 15th
We will be going there 😊
#pridemonth
Global population is around 8,000,000,000
bout 1.7% of people are Intersex
That means about 136,000,000 Intersex people
That's more people than lives in the UK and France combined!
Or Two Fifths of the whole of the USA!
💛💜💛
Sheezies, Sheemsters, and the Internet at large, we have a gorgeous selection of paintings, all suggested by our wonderful community ❤️
Stay tuned to this tag
#SheezyShares
to see some of the communities favourite Traditional Paintings! 🎨🖌️🖼️
Congrats to the winners of today's sub giveaway! But if you missed out on the win, we also offer subscriptions from as little as $3 a month 👀 (and you don't even need to cross your fingers for the chance to get one!)
Today's crash gave us a bit of perspective and, after some thought and internal discussion, we've agreed to postpone Public Beta for Original Members until February 1st at the earliest. Registrations will open a week or two after that, providing we're happy everything is stable.
Please bare with us as we work to place preventative measures in order to ensure this doesn't happen again in the future! Keep an eye on our BlueSky or Twitter accounts for updates on the situation.
Today is a very good 🥚 Friday 🥚 We're giving out ANOTHER 10 SUBSCRIPTIONS to lucky winners in today's stream at 7pm GMT on TWITCH. Enter in the form below for your chance to win!
🥚 Just in time for Easter 🥚
We're dropping brand new quality merch onto
#Redbubble
. Stickers, Totes, Mugs, Notebooks, Face Masks, Phone cases, -deep breath- Magnets, Pins, T-shirts. My gosh, the list goes on! Head over now!
Sheemz sells sea shells by the Seafoam 🌊
Starlight, Stardust, won't you shine a Sheemz tonight 🌠
Comment your profile, get yourselves a hitlist, let's have a fun time with
#ARTFIGHT
!
@theartfight
If you're struggling to access the site right now, don't panic! We're scaling up to a more speedy server and the move is in progress! Should be done in a couple hours or so :)
WEATHER PERMITTING 😅
We're going to have a Sheezy Picnic
Come join us for chats, and drawings. Bring some food and drink for yourselves
Come and go as you like ^^ It's all casual
If you're new to the site or fancy a refresher, join us on stream later! We'll be going over a bunch of features, and will be answering any questions you may have (as long as they're not feature requests 😅)
ALSO – did somebody say Subscription giveaways??? 👀
We want to be explicitly clear; the site is definitely still in BETA. And that means there will be bugs! You'll probably see the error page a good amount - don't fret! We have a GitHub page where you can report any crashes you experience!
The problem was fairly widespread, affecting a number of pages across the site. Some user data was leaked via the pages' source code – we have sent emails to those potentially affected.
If you could dip your toes into a new art medium, what would it be?
💻 Digital 2d? Marble Statues? Crochet? Clay? Photography? 📷 There's too many to list
Always be conscious not to dox yourself online, by revealing where you'll be
On an unrelated note, Ry and Dax are attending Annecy between the 9th and 15th of June!
If you don't want to wait for the registration slots to be open
Consider a subscription to Sheezy via Ko-Fi, Paypal or Patreon
As low as $3, and you get a heap of benefits as well as an account
We've patched the security hole and have been painstakingly scouring the code to make sure everything is nice and tight. Our moderation team has also been hard at work reviewing our rules and ratings ready for our Brand New Tagging UI!!
An Asexual Analogy:
Some people like to box, a lot. Some people like watching boxing online, or sometimes in person. Some may enjoy thinking about boxing. Some people shadowbox. And some people don't like to box at all.
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Happy New Year! We're excited to announce that - our beta testing domain - is now live! Subscribers can request access to our closed beta and, providing all goes well and nothing buckles, we'll be progressing to public beta within the next few weeks!
Not long now
If you've not signed up for a chance at a free month of sheezy subscription,
Sign up below, and join us on Twitch to see if you're one of the lucky ten