What does it has to do with respect?
Oh come on!! How many backgrounds must be deleted now? Isnât that ashame?
What backgrounds are being deleted dear?
No backgrounds have to be deleted, fam.
Backgrounds and shish just canât be âwidely distributedâ likeâŠthrough a driveâŠor throughâŠlike shared like that, ya know? You can make edits and backgrounds with/for your friends and stuff, nothing has to be deleted.
You just canât take backgrounds from public drives
I personally deleted a bunch of hidden and thatâs it.
Those custom made of Episode assets, hidden or published. Work, time, sweat., all erased with this rule.
Well if you donât want to do extra work - read TOS for exampleâŠ
I wasted a lot of my time on this stuff as well, but I can only blame myself.
Episode hasnât released a specific statement requiring us to go back into our stories and replace backgrounds, yet. However, although this is unfortunate itâs not a new rule and this could have been avoided if everyone just read the TOS.
It definitely sucks, but this is a legal thing. Episode could get in a lot of trouble if they continued to allow users to keep certain drives up at this point and they know it.
Wasnât there actually a thing I think Arlene said that if you have your backgrounds up already, itâs whatever, probably, you might be asked to take it down if it is one of those backgrounds, but âauthors that have used it in previous chapters/episodes/stories wonât be punished for itâ
100% sure I saw something like that somewhere
When reviewers come upon the story which uses anything hidden, theyâll notify author to take it down.
Yep. I know I saw this somewhere too. If they manage to see it, then you might be asked to take it down. But as for now asking people to replace previously used backgrounds is very tedious and ridiculous. So itâs not expected of anyone.
And it is completely reasonable. No one will ban your story. And they donât go around sneaking and looking for them u know.
So yeah, Chill people and be more respectful.
Well, yeah. And they should. Hidden stuff is against the TOS, but as for the other âagh! My stuffâs all gotta go!â No, not all of it. But you should have followed the rules to begin with shrugs
I would like a clarification about the tappable overlays? I honestly dont think it is one of the âhiddenâ stuff like @CoraMae said, it is in beta testing so I think we are safe to use it, but clarification would be nice.
Dont spread unconfirmed assumptions people. It will only make people panic even more.
I donât claime theyâre not allowed. I just assume, since they were not given to us by Episode.
I actually said assumptions
Why, why, why wasnât this enforced from the start?! Why let it continue on for so long? If this had been enforced from the start we would not be in this situation right now.
Because we all know Episode only cracks down on things when thereâs the possibility that theyâll be in legal trouble