[Locked] Changes to Fakku - First and Final thoughts and feedback

With the recent changes to fakku going, for want of a better word, "official", I thought I'd share my personal feelings on the matter, as I believe feedback is the key to improving all things.

Now, I personally have no issue with the path Fakku is trying to take, I recognise the damage piracy can cause and I respect the choice to support the original content creators and take the legal path. I am aware of the difficulty in bringing japanese anime and manga, and by extension, hentai, into the western world, due to the misguided perception within the industry that there is no valuable market outside of Japan. When this is the case, it falls upon piracy to prove that there is such a market, and having done so, move on to legal provision of content, and this is where Fakku is at now, both in its own right and as part of an increasing realization by the japanese anime/manga industry that there's value in venturing outside its own boarders. And part of me is glad to see such trends.

However, I have issues with the consequences of these changes to fakku, and I believe many users share these gripes. My foremost concern is the removal of content which has been labeled 'controversial', and this is a concern shared by many. And it should be a concern to the site as well. Subscriptions and payment will of course drive some people away, but what people are really looking for in a site like this is that it has everything they want in one place. The reason many people don't use crunchyroll, myself included, is not the fee but the catalog. Cruchyroll has a lot of anime, but there's a lot it doesn't have too. People want a one stop shop, its why supermarkets became so common. it doesnt matter how much we like Fakku or Crunchyroll or supporting offical channels, if we keep having to use other sites for certain things eventually we'll find one that has everything and stay there.

Personally I'll be looking around for other sites which have monster girl and other controversial hentai. I might still visit Fakku occasionally for my vanilla browsing but more likely I'll soon find some site with everything and I'll never think twice about visiting Fakku again.

And while this content removal may not have been permanant, unfortunately Jacob has been extremely vague on the topic and so the damage is done, faced with uncertainty many people have chosen to leave and likely wont return.

Appologies if this is a duplicate thread, but as this is my first and likely last post on here I don't really care if its a duplicate.

Goodbye and Goodluck

Jacob said he'll be publishing what the magazines published, regardless of what category or tags it woudl include. So yes, you are correct, there will be 'controversial content' in the future. But the future of the content of Fakku is dependent entirely upon the content of the magazines being published in Japan that are partnered up with Fakku.

If they don't publish Monster Girl, or Loli, or Incest, or Tentacles or NTR (which I totally agree with), then Fakku won't publish anything with those tags either.

With the previous model of Fakku, the site did not rely on official channels which would publish things with some amount of political correctness in mind. The official channels that Fakku will work with will not create or publish such a wide diversity of content that Fakku used to get. So Fakku might be getting more content published on the site each month (which I doubt), but the diversity of the content will be very limited.

In all frankness, I suspect that the content on Fakku, a year from now, will be something like 90% vanilla, non-controversial content, with the remaining 10% split up amongst the various controversial tags.

Oh, I'm certain Fakku will get a little bit of everything, the issue is the time frame of doing so. They have to delete all of their current content before even interesting the other publishers. How long will it take them to replace the lost content is the major issue.

Let's use figurative numbers; let's for example, say there are currently 1,000,000 uploads on Fakku right now, both illegal and legitimate. Now, let's be generous and say that only 75% of this is pirated/not-official. That means 750,000 articles must be deleted before they can go legitimate.

In the meantime, sure, there are still 250,000 articles, but that's 250,000 articles divvied up amongst a wide range of categories. Of course, every article has multiple tags, so there's lots of crossover, but the people who, say, want to read NTR are going to have a significantly smaller pool to draw from than those who like vanilla.

Especially going forward in the future. As it stands, Fakku has a, mostly, "safe" lineup of publishers, so there won't be a lot of 'controversial' content published, at least in the immediate future. At a rate of 40-60 uploads a month, how long will it take them to replenish the lost content?

Keep in mind, I'm being seriously generous here. I'd imagine the numbers are closer to probably 90% or even higher of the content on Fakku being pirated as I doubt most of the stuff before Fakku started uploading was actually done so by the authors.

So using a hypothetical 90%, out of the 1,000,000 million articles (theoretically) on Fakku, only a mere 100,000 articles will remain to be chosen from.

I asked Jacob to reveal his numbers earlier in this thread (I believe it was this thread). The reason is because I'm not sure if he's crunched the number himself, or if he has, so he could be brutally honest with the community about how much content will actually be left after The Purge.

If Fakkue is forced to delete the vast majority of it's content, it doesn't really matter what it's plans are, the community will move elsewhere. They are, essentially, wiping the slate clean, starting over completely from scratch and hoping the community won't move to another site based on future plans, hopes and promises.

If the content isn't there, than neither will the community.

I want to see the numbers. I want Jacob to face reality. I want to know the actual, or even estimated, percentages of how much content will be lost, and how much will be remain. I want to know how long, given their best estimates (best estimates as we know it will take longer because nothing ever works out perfectly) it will take them to replenish their lost content.

If the loss of content is too high, the community will move on. If the time frame of replacing content is too long, the community will move on. He's already going to lose a significant number of users simply due to the pay-wall, but how many more will he lose because of the missing content and time frame?

This decision of his could, very likely, result in the death of Fakku and his hopes for the site will be destroyed because of it. I am, of course, being extremely pessimistic about this, because I, for one, think it's better to plan for the worst and hope for the best. Because if the best doesn't come, at least you're prepared.

The issue with this? Other sites blow balls. Either their user interface is bad, their search engine/tagging system is bad, their filing system for content is bad, or their servers are bad, or a mixture of the above.

For example, I tried using pururin the other day because, dumb me, I thought, "It can't be too bad making a switch from Fakku? Can it?"

Trying to read one doujin was an issue in frustration. It seems every 4th page or so, the server would slow down to a crawl and take forever to load the next page. Forever as in, ~7 minutes at the longest wait time. I know it had something to do with their servers because everything else was working fine. I could load up and flip through Fakku no problem, watch YouTube, even stream some Twitch feed (I was testing if my connection was carpping out, but it wasn't). Then, often enough, it would give me something like a 404 error and I'd have to hit backspace and then try and load the page again.

Let me tell you, having to stop and deal with that crap while fapping is not conducive of enjoyable session of sinning against the Catholic church.

But is the amount of content produced by the publishers Fakku is partnered with, or courting for partnership, able to replace the amount of content lost in an appreciable amount of time?

This is the issue most of the people who claim the content will come fail to grasp. If it takes 4 years for Fakku to replace the lost content, then people will have moved on by then. Especially if the lost content is locked behind a paywall that eventually gets moved to free content, or free with ads of some sort.

It does not matter if Fakku will continue publishing a diverse selection of manga, if the quantity of the selection isn't fast enough to replace what is lost.

No one is worried about vanilla, because vanilla is everywhere. But your monster girls? Loli? Incest? That's a mite more rare. Some of it is rarer than others, but no one has as much content to draw from as vanilla.

So the problem is, that the diversity of future publications will not be completed in enough quantity to satisfy the users of Fakku. Those of the controversial crowd who stick around hoping to get a bone thrown their way every once in awhile will be suffering from a most righteous case of blue balls while doing so. Fakku may eventually bounce back and have a wide selection of work to choose from again, but it's going to take years, at the current estimation of 40-60 per month, to do so.

How many thousands of issues are being lost in this purge? It's probably vastly easier to count the number of licensed manga, than unlicensed.

If you, or anyone else, responds with the claim that those who've lost content can just get it anywhere are missing the point. Think about that. If the point is to make Fakku the leader in hentai industry and it's exposure into the western world, then it will fail as a leader if it's userbase has to go elsewhere to get what they desire.

If a significant percentage of the people have to leave Fakku to get the hentai they want, then the whole point of Fakku is wasted. You cannot lead the industry if you have no one to follow you.