08.10.26

 

Last update about my blog codes ♡

Dear dollies, ♡

I really hoped my last update about blog codes would be enough, but unfortunately I feel like I need to address this one more time.

I've decided that I won't be sharing any more of my blog codes from now on.

When I first started posting some of them, I genuinely did it because I wanted to help other bloggers, give people a little starting point and maybe inspire them to create something of their own.

But lately, I've noticed that more and more of my gadgets are simply being copied - including the ones I never planned on sharing in the first place because they were original ideas and took me a lot of time to build.

And honestly, that has taken a lot of the fun out of it for me.

One request in particular really irritated me because someone actually asked me for the code to Sugary Time, my dating sim.

I don't really know how else to say this, but I thought it was quite obvious that this is something I would never share.

Sugary Time isn't a small decorative gadget or a simple little widget. It's my own game that I built from scratch, and I've spent an enormous amount of time designing, coding and expanding it. It's one of the most personal projects on this blog and something I'm genuinely very proud of.

So being asked to hand over the entire code for it honestly felt a little... strange.

I know that not everyone asking for a code has bad intentions, and I also know that most of you have always been respectful and sweet about it. So I really am sorry if this decision disappoints some of you.

But at this point, I simply don't want to keep putting energy into deciding what I should share, what I shouldn't share, whether something will be copied exactly, or answering repeated requests for things I never intended to release.

I'd much rather put that time back into actually working on my blog, creating new things and enjoying the process again.

The blog codes that are already available will stay up.

Over time, I also want to go back through them and clean them up properly so that the tutorials are clearer and the codes work as reliably as possible.

But aside from updating and fixing the existing ones, I currently don't plan on releasing any new gadget codes.

You can, of course, still ask me questions if you're struggling with something on your own blog or need help figuring out a piece of HTML, CSS or JavaScript. I'm not suddenly against helping people. <3

I just don't want helping to turn into giving away every original thing I create.

I hope you can understand the difference. ♡

And I really hope this will be the last time I need to talk about this, because I'd honestly much rather go back to posting cute things again. TT

Thank you to everyone who has been respectful of my work and has used the codes I've shared as inspiration rather than something to copy one-to-one. I genuinely appreciate it.

xoxo,
Lisa