Hey Bassbum60,
Thanks for your post. That's a lot of fair questions and I'll try to answer:
20 chapters a day is ridiculous, I read that often and have already had the block today, I would only contribute if a large proportion was going straight to the author, your basically getting people to write stories for free then profiting from it. It raises a few questions,
Like why should the paying readers be paying for the non paying for the readers time on the servers and stuff?
That's essentially how most free-to-access platforms work. The people who use the service most heavily are the ones the cap touches, and a smaller number who choose to subscribe help keep the whole thing running for everyone else.
What do the authors get out of it since your making money from they're content they are creating for no pay.
This is the point that's come up most in this thread, and it's genuinely on my to do list, although I can't at this point give timings. For authors who do want to earn, we have our Earners program which pays commission. Anyone can apply and we encourage authors to do so.
At what point do you just make the whole site a paid club ?
This isn't something we're planning to do. Free reading isn't being phased out — it's the majority of what's on the site and I want it to stay that way.
Could you not advertise like porn websites advertise ? The content is 18+ anyway, it would be a much better way to make profit then to charge for what should be free content.
We've tried advertising in the past but it's just not worked. The mainstream ad networks won't touch us, and in any case they come with tracking, malware and other privacy problems that I'm not willing to put the community through. We've also tried web model banners, but most girls just tend to do this for a bit of extra cash and there isn't enough in it to keep us going. As for porn banners - well we're not a porn site and most have objected quite strongly to this in the past.
Have you looked into other ways to profit instead of extorting the writers for theyre content just to profit, or pay for. "running costs"
If it's truly just for running costs why don't you just give us a 20 chapter limit then, pay like however many cents it costs per page to view. We credit our account then you subtract the cents it costs per page if that's the true reason.
This is a fair suggestion, only for the people in this thread it won't change the underlying sticking point: pay-per-page is still paying, just measured differently.
On 'extorting writers' — I want to push back gently there, the cap is on overall platform use, not a toll on any one writer's content.
Why have paid employees if the website can't sustain they're income already. I understand expanding why don't you make another dating website, or a specialised adult video and photo content website. This is a forum for people into feederism stop making feederism something you have to be rich to be apart of
I'll say this much, because it matters to me personally: I've run this as a free platform for over 20 years, back when there was almost nowhere online for this community to exist at all. So "stop making feederism something you have to be rich to be part of" genuinely lands — because that's a big part of why I built this site and why I'm still here. That's exactly the thing I'm trying to protect, not undo.
Thanks for taking the time to write your comments, it's genuinely more useful than you might think.
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