InkBlot Newsletter: Tip Jar, Commission & Subscription Service, Meet Instar!

InkBlot launches a new sub service called Instar this April 2023! Tips, commissions, subscriptions & more!

Hi everyone,

We are proud to announce the launch of Instar, a subservice within InkBlot that will handle tip jars, commissions, subscriptions and digital purchases.

It was a kickstarter promise back in 2021 to have a service like this and we are excited to finally launch it. This will be integrated into InkBlot so that you only need one place. This will take TIME as we are using this initial release to gather feedback about the system, how to handle the processes and more before integrate. We do NOT want to interrupt the flow of InkBlot and rush to integrate Instar.

You can learn more about Instar here. Waitlist inside as well, MUST be an inkblot user. Roadmap and Docs on Instar will be updated in the coming week.

Development regarding InkBlot has been going, we have released about 3 updates within the last two months before we are focusing on just solely the infrastructure revamp. We need to make InkBlot faster, and more stable, so to sacrifice a 2-3 weeks to focus on this is something we are doing.

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Membership Drive

We super excited about the support we've been receiving the last few months! A member of our community reached out to us & proposed a fundraising idea, which we’ve now brought to fruition: An Art Drive!

This is our FIRST ANNUAL DRIVE! We are a creative community site and want to provide a creative way for our community to be involved in helping build and keep InkBlot around for the long run! This drive would help fund InkBlot for a year without the worry of stopping development!

LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEER ARTISTS TO HELP (deadline of Feb 28th)

Looking for Membership Drive Helper/Moderators

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Partnership with Black Card Members Org

We are happy to announce that we are now officially partnered with Black Card Members!

InkBlot will have exclusive account rewards to BCM members on InkBlot & helping to promote BCM's mission to uplift & empower BIPOC creators within the creative community! Stay tuned for great things!
Check out BCM Here

Content Guidelines: Simplified & Clarified

We have heard enough feedback from our community to update our Content guidelines for a even more clear and simplified wording.

Please review the Content Guidelines at your earliest convenience.

We also simplified and clarified our Filter System and use of Content Warnings which you can read about here. We acknowledge that new users are trying to understand how to use InkBlot and we wanted to make things easier and more clear!

Thank you to those that gave us feedback. We will continue to improve our Filter System for better UX.

Help Center, Changelog, Roadmap, & Status page

We have moved our feedback board, help center, and changelog to new tool site that will cut down 50% of costs for all three tools.

Changed our status page to Instatus to provide better experience.

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Volunteer Positions/opportunities available at InkBlot

Community Events Helper | Membership Drive Moderator | Membership Art Drive Volunteer Artist

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We are proud partners of:

A community space for empowering BIPOC creatives within the creative community!