The removal of Scanlations from the site to become "legit"

What to be grandfathered in to?

indeed. the integrity of the forums is what concerns me.
but then again, the free, easy to navigate content was one of the things that allured me to this place to begin with. so, idk.

You will have the same access to the forums as you have now.

Well I think censorship is also a concern here. There have been a number of threads that have been deleted/locked on short notice. This can lead people to believe that they're being silenced.

That said, most of these threads are completely redundant and add nothing to the discussion. This might as well be spam which isn't permitted by the forum rules. Discussion of these things should take place in a single thread. But of course people are going to misunderstand.

Yeah, the only locked threads that I've seen are ones that just repeat the same question. There's a thread dedicated to this discussion already: Discussion: Unlicensed Content Removal, so if someone makes a new thread on the same topic, they'll be pointed to that one and the thread is locked.

As long as a post is made before locking that says "Hey this is redundant--go here for all your concerns/questions/whatever, there hopefully shouldn't be any misunderstanding of censorship (yes I know people are dumb).

im more than willing to pay for some hentai to support fakku and get aditional content that we can only get by paying for it, im even ok with a monthly sub fee, thats ok too, but when the content starts to go away, no more doujinshi, and only some ohm, i start to be resistant to change

Sooner or later money will dictate the direction of the site. Doujinshi by nature is copyright infringing, and the scans will surely disappear if the publishers hop on board with distributing through this site. Not all the scans that they removed are translated and available yet, so it isn't a matter of choice, it is a matter of bowing to the publisher.

If the free content is gone, so will many, but those many wasn't likely giving Fakku any money, so the choice of change is about money. They put together a good site and a large community, it is up to them what they do with it.

People say things like this but it's not as black and white as it might seem. Jacob could have given Wani the finger and converted FAKKU to a paywall operation (see Doujin Moe). In this scenario Jacob earns (probably) more profit for himself.

Justification:
- He wouldn't need to pay so many staff members (he's got two localization teams now)
- He wouldn't have to send money back to the artists/publisher for every sale he makes
- There wouldn't be any costs for printing and shipping physical books

If all you want is profit, there are much, much worse things you can do. If people are paying attention they should see that FAKKU is working very hard to produce quality work and good service. That's not something you see from a lot of profit driven businesses. The likes of which believe cheaper = better, because it puts more money in the hands of the people at the top.

Why are there Kancolle doujins if the site is removing scanlations?