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

But it's doing no good to pass judgment before we've seen anything yet. Yes, we're losing out a lot, nearly everything, but the word is this:



People are just choosing to believe whatever they want to believe before giving it a chance and that's not doing anyone any good. Yes, it was handled poorly, yes it's easy to get upset or frightened by what's happened so far. But if you don't have all the facts don't curse FAKKU for being the bad guy.

@yqii I'd really like to know your opinion on how FAKKU will handle its userbase moving forward from here. Given the current situation it seems like we're going to be losing more than a few people and the magazine hype isn't about to attract newcomers until it's actually here. I'll admit I haven't been browsing elsewhere a lot lately but in my experience I have yet to see a FAKKU Books ad on any other website. I suppose I don't really know where FAKKU draws new users as it is other than by having its reputation / google. When most of the content non-paying users want (just by quantity) is no longer here, those things become much less viable.

And for example, sharing can be a pretty powerful tool. Sometimes I read something awesome and pass it onto the next guy so that they can enjoy it. If there's going to be a lot of licensed content that isn't available for "free" access (if this isn't the case, yay!), that tool becomes rather dull.

I'm sort of under the impression that growth is going to be necessary to keep the future site sustainable > adding more staff > getting more content. If we start to approach the amount of content we have/had it won't be as much of a problem anymore. But for now it's a little worrying.

This needs more emphasis. Some users are acting like he's purging it from the Internet and even our very memories. If you can't or won't buy licensed material you'll still be able to find it, but it can't be hosted here if Fakku is to move forward. Some companies simply won't work with them if they're still hosting pirated material, and honestly I can't blame them.

Like always, we will be releasing all genres regardless of content. It is not limited to vanilla and I have no idea why this idea is spreading around. If you take a look at the books we have released so far this is obvious.

We are removing all unlicensed content regardless of the content and that has nothing to do with the content we will be publishing.

Not deflecting any questions, I don't work with fakku on anything, I'm just a helper. But I do talk with Jake sometimes and from the little I do know sounds like things will be fine, but again I don't know much he doesn't talk about what he's doing completely and I don't ask him either. Even if I did know anything I would just let other's talk about it since I don't feel it's my place to do a "he said to she said sort of thing". If Jake tells me something and says it's okay to talk about it I would, but other then that I just try to keep people from going off of the deep end on this matter.

I just personally don't see the point in freaking out too much about all of this. I know to me it is just porn and I have quite a few other sites and downloaded content that I never really worried about something like this happening. Again I see the potential in what Jake is doing and I like the products being produced so I just promote it because I personally want to see more of what is to come.

I've stated this quite a few times yes this all could have been handled much better, but this is how things are going for the meantime and people can say what they wish just like I can.

Sorry I can't be more helpful and informative, I just don't like to see people irrationally go to the "fuck this site" or "down with Fakku, RIP" or "Jake you suck" because most of the people saying this may have never seen the products being produced and they are pretty dam good ones. I know not everyone is fortunate enough to get them, but if you ever can save enough cash just to buy one book it would be worth it.

Also people are assuming the worst of fakku when they don't know what is to come. I know it's frustrating not knowing what is happening, but I am just idling myself to see what happens. Idk I just can't get mad over something like this, as I said porn is porn to me. Too much fun in it for me to get mad over something so trivial, but that's just me.

For once, we've already been working on the magazines for a while, so we'll have a few back issues for launch. I think it's important to make sure there's value to the service before it goes live. Also, the reason this was just announced as a forum post is because there are still a number of things that we have to figure out. When we have done that, we will make a proper announcement on the front page with more information, but that also means we can't go into details regarding pricing or freebies.

Several users have already made it clear that they do not intend to stick around for this, and that's to be expected. However, like I already pointed out, this is a necessary step. I understand where the frustration is coming from, but we can't magically make 10,000 stories appear out of nowhere, and we can't work as a charity.

What we need is time, and if some users don't have faith in us doing a good job, I don't think there's anything I can say that hasn't already been said to change their mind. Again, I stress that the proper announcement hasn't been made yet, so I hope people are willing to wait for that before making a decision—rather than basing it on wild speculations of us charging $20 per chapter. I'm sorry I can't give a better answer at this point in time, but at least I'm fairly certain this won't cost you $1,000 per month.


Yeah, the whole idea of X-Eros pretty much is to be non-vanilla. There are artists that appear in both magazines, and the stories they do for them are vastly different.

This is the most well-thought out and discussed of the threads I've found, so I'll make my point here.

I come to Fakku. In the future, I will pay for Fakku if I have to (within reasonable limitations), and I enjoy the content, being quite a vanilla fan, but I read other stuff. I am subscribed to Incest, and read all of it that isn't NTR or forced or yaoi or something I personally don't like, because I find that that is where I find the best or most interesting and developed vanilla stories. I don't understand why you would target controversial works first, rather than just targeting either the least popular, or choosing between the most recent/oldest works. I understand why Incest is seen as controversial, being a crime in many of our countries, and I understand why you're taking the stand against piracy and becoming a profitable organisation. I don't understand why you don't have a better methodology for taking these down than "Why don't we remove this stuff starting by focusing on the tags that everyone bitched about last time it was removed?"

And would it be too hard for you to make it so that I don't get notifications for mangas/doujinshis that don't exist?

Fakku's content has always been quite small compared to other sites. So there's no point in "replacing what is lost" when all the stuff that is/was here can be easily found everywhere else.
The difference is that what will be on Fakku from now on will be legal. If they plan to work with other publishers then everything and much more will be available again (even if it's legal). The "replacement" of course will take time, but I don't think it's that much to worry right now. And they already have supporters and have been given enough exposure, both in the wrong and in the good way, so there's no need to worry if they start from the scratch with only legal content.


Pururin plain sucks. Just another g.e/exh mirror who had a lot of potential but in the end failed. Whoever recommended you as an alternative to Fakku probably wasn't serious or didn't know much.
If anything, g.e/exh has the largest free content for now. It surprises there are people that never heard about it.

I'd agree with this. Hentai2read is probably the only one that I can actually use anywhere near as well as Fakku, though, and I've damn near exhausted its resources (it's dead, nothing new on it for ages last I was there). I only found it through Fakku, oftentimes releases would be described as "Commisioned by hentai2read" :P

This is probably my first time posting here even though I have been a member for ages.
And that is because I can't find any more loli on this website.
Is it because Controversial Content not working, or Jacob is succumbing to a few vocal people.
Because this is seriously stupid. It is like berating others for their fetish for bara or guro or BDSM.

hentai2read sucks too.

Maybe before, but I don't think it's the case now, they are taking a differentp ath and looking for new horizons. The only competitor they have now is Project-H in regards of publishers.
g.e-hentai will continue to be the biggest free hentai library for now and hentairules is a site that I haven't visited in ages, but I think it wasn'tas big as to be called a "competence".
So you are either wrong or misunderstanding something.

Locking this thread, here is a new place to discuss these changes.