WetShaving
This is a community of enthusiasts, hobbyists and artisans who enjoy a traditional wet shave: brush, soap, and safety or straight razor. We are a part of the WetShaving community found on Reddit, Discord, and IRC.
New subscribers welcome!
Please visit our wiki, which is always and forever a work in progress.
๐ช Check out these alternative front-ends for this server:
https://gem.wetshaving.social/ - a nice modern interface
Our sister Mastodon instance is https://wetshaving.social/.
๐ช Track the uptime of our various services here:
https://uptime.selfhost.ing/status/wetshaving
๐ช Community Rules
Rule 1 - Behaviour and Etiquette
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Be Respectful. Do not bully, flame, or harass others.
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Malicious comments are not allowed but heated discussion and salty banter is okay.
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Low effort replies and complaints about content will be removed.
Rule 2 - Content Guidelines
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Mail Calls, Simple Questions, and SOTD posts belong in the recurring weekly threads.
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Posts must have sufficient content to generate a meaningful discussion.
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Images, links, or videos must include additional text that summarizes the topic.
Rule 3 - Reviews and Disclosure
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Use [First Impressions] in the title if your experience with the product is limited.
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Use the [Review] in the title if you can provide comprehensive details with enough familiarity to answer follow-up questions.
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Disclose how the product being reviewed was acquired (e.g., PIF, loan, or purchase). If the product was provided to you directly by the maker or vendor free of charge or at a discount, you must disclose this fact even if the item will later be returned to the maker or vendor.
Rule 4 - Advertising
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Vendors are to keep marketing within the biweekly Deals/New Products threads.
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Non-vendors may post topics about products if it will foster a compelling discussion.
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Do not solicit donations or share fundraisers without mod approval.
Rule 5 - Inappropriate Content
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All NSFW/L content must request mod approval and be flaired appropriately.
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Non-shaving related NSFW/L content is not allowed.
Rule 10 - Moderator Discretion
- The rules may not apply perfectly to every situation. The mods have final discretion.
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04/21/2025
Brush: Wolf Whiskers "Gianmaria" w/Maggard 26mm Synthetic
Razor: Union Razor Cutlery 5/8 Full Hollow (2)
Lather: Australian Private Reserve - Raconteur - Soap
Post Shave: Australian Private Reserve - Raconteur - Aftershave
Post Shave: Dove - Men+Care Ultra-Hydra - Cream
The above SOTD was formatted by a new project that has consumed me for way too long the past couple of days... I saw something online about something called "Baserow", and it sent me down this path. It's a neat piece of kit that combines a database and a simple front end. So, I put my shaving items into the database, and created a dropdown picker that gets formatted into the standard format.
It's complex and was frustrating to set up, and I have work to do to make it more mainstream (like adding a field for a SOTD picture, blade uses, etc.), but it's at a good stopping point for today.
In the future I'd like to refine it and look into how to make this a template that other people can use. Right now you could go to baserow.io, open a free account, and get to work making your own, but I'm telling you... it's a process. If I can figure out how to make a template that people could import, it might catch on. ShavingInCT maintains https://wetshavingdatabase.com/ and he mentioned that maintaining the SOTD function is a bit of a burden. This has potential, and has some benefits over the WSDB.
Behind the scenes it presents itself as a spreadsheet, but also has database type filtering, sorting, etc. For example, I like to keep track of all soaps that have come and gone (even smushes), but once they're gone I can mark them as "killed" or "sold", etc. Only things that I still have (which are marked as "In Den", get shown in the dropdown menu.
This link might work, but no guarantees if you want to check it out. This only gives you access to the SOTD picker, not the database and all that stuff (which is behind a login). https://sotd.selfhost.ing/
Congratulations! It's not exactly an editor plugin, but it's a start ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ
@[email protected] โ where's your project for computer-assisted SOTD creation?
It's, uhmm, BETTER! than a plugin.
I can access it from anywhere in the world which is good since I travel for work.
I just cobbled together auto-increasing blade count on a per-blade basis, so...
I think it counts if you can frame a browser as an internet editor.
Q.E.D. @[email protected]
ShaveDjPT.wetshaving.social is in the works, check back in 1 to 5 years
!remindme 5 years