[Locked] Choosing not to continue past Jan-Dec Trial Subscription

(Posting here because I'm not allowed to post in the Subscription forum even though I have access to it)

The biggest reason I chose not to subscribe is because of the limited type of available content. Despite the obvious popularity of Vanilla, the majority of subscription content is divided up into specific tags which rarely include vanilla. This may be by artistic discretion, but it’s not what I/others like and choosing not to view relatively niche tags means not viewing a lot of content. There is a severe lack of variety.I skipped content I did not like such as these tags: Cheating, Anal, Forced Rape, Futanari, Netorare and Non-H where everything else would be fine. I don’t care if that makes me a pussy, I don’t like what you like.
A beautifully drawn woman getting fucked by a 400 pound landwhale/60 year old? No thanks.

Also, another big issue is that the content that I really liked was too short. The color uploads were around 6 pages and the average black/white upload was 16 pages. Buying a Fakku Book at full retail price for $15 which has 200-250 pages has better value than a month of subscription uploads at $13. I can at least look forward to the artists books.

A medium level issue I had for why I ended the trial before subscription is because I was able to go through four months worth of content within the trial period. This wouldn’t have been an issue if there was a backlog of content I could fall back on in previous months. The subscription content now is the equivalent to a small tag before the unlicensed content wipe.
Achievement: “User has 100+ Favorited Uploads” Not really. Can’t find 100 within tag I like now.

Another medium type issue is that there are subscriber uploads of content that were already posted on Fakku, but censored. This is artificially inflating the size of the subscription content pool and is deceptive for long time Fakku users. About 20% of the early subscription content uploads are reuploads. Although It’s not a problem if you have amnesia or selective amnesia.

Small Issue: Non-H in my opinion is filler and shouldn’t have to be subscription only. Beautiful artwork on it? Yes, but I used to come to Fakku for the hentai. Out of the ~20 pages (possibly 30?) of subscriber content it appears to be consistently uploaded as ~10% of the content.

Small issue: Fakku tags have images of unlicensed content I like(d). I do not like constant reminders of what I can’t view anymore because unlicensed content doesn’t exist anymore. For any new Fakku subscribers this wouldn’t be an issue aside from confusion who the images depict, but for older viewers it’s a constant reminder of a nostalgic Fakku.

The reality of the situation is that a lot of people aren’t choosing to subscribe for one reason or another whether or not you don’t choose to accept that.

“That’s just your opinion.” Well, I got a stats for you Maddox.

On the Fakku Alexa Rankings, the majority audience is in the U.S.(37.2%) where Fakku dropped from ~5,100th position to ~8,400th position within only 6 months.
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/fakku.net#?

Average time on site from 12 minutes down to 4 minutes since January 2015.
Average amount of pageviews for each user from 30 down to 15 pageviews.
http://www.worthofweb.com/website-value/fakku.net/

I could post more stats, but the majority of you have stopped reading by now.

Neg the topic, post a venomous response, you’re wasting your time if that’s how you think you can convince someone/others to subscribe.

I mean't December-January. God damn it.

This is simply not true. The majority of subscription chapters and books are vanilla. Fakku, currently, does in fact have a issue with variety but it is not lack of vanilla.
But in truth my opinion on this issue is absolutely irrelevant, you felt the content is what exactly what you wanted and you decided to cancel your sub. That's a valid reason as far as I'm concerned and anybody who tells you you should pay for a service you don't feel it's worth it is letting his love for the site get the better of him.


The service is rather new and they are currently only doing 2 of the Wani magazines, we will get more magazines in the future and it will without having to pay more for it. So this won't be an issue in the future.


That is incorrect. Of all the chapters officially released by Fakku so far only 3 or 5 had a Fan Translation to it previously.


Non-H doesn't make up 10% of the content. And it's also part of the magazines that Fakku are translating, it doesn't cost you any extra to read those chapters and some people like it. Soon we'll have the ability to ignore tags so you won't even see the non-h content if you block that tag.


That content exists, just not on Fakku anymore. Fakku is a 100% legit site and I for one am glad it is that way.


The drop in stats is absolutely normal. Fakku had a majority of users that were here just for the free content, now that it's gone they left hopefully not for good.


I don't understand this kind of mentality at all. Why are you set on not being convinced by anyone without even listening to their arguments first?

What does that have to do with anything? We removed all unlicensed content from the website which would obviously cause a huge drop in traffic and ranking across the board. In fact, it's going to drop even more than what Alexa is currently showing (and that is okay). Alexa ranking does not show how successful we are, in fact it doesn't show anything valuable at all. Plus the fact that you linked to one of those random website value generators further shows your lack of understanding, so I'll try to clarify.

To simplify this, we were previously receiving over 1 billion pageviews per month. If 95% of those users leave we would still be left with 50 million pageviews. According to the data you cited one user contributes about 450 pageviews per month (but we'll round up to 500), meaning if we lose 95% of our previous traffic we'd be left with 100,000 users who stuck around and most likely chose to subscribe. And that would be a massive success.

I'm sorry you weren't happy with what we are currently offering with the subscription, but comparing it to what was previously on FAKKU (all of which was unlicensed and by some measures illegal) is a stupid comparison. We intentionally made a decision that will hurt us in the short term in regards to traffic, but in the long term we will build up a base of dedicated supporters who believe in what we are doing; creating a long term sustainable market for Japanese artists to release their work outside of Japan.

We are going to achieve all of this without changing our release cadence much from what it was before when we were primarily hosting scanlations. Previously you'd only ever see a few pieces of content uploaded to the website each day. In fact the first year or so FAKKU was online I specifically only uploaded one piece of content per day. But because that had been done over the span of 10 years it amounted to a large catalog of unlicensed material. all of which was removed.

I intentionally pressed the reset button on FAKKU. For all intents and purposes we are treating ourselves as a brand new website, with new goals to achieve and new metrics to hit. The subscription gives you around 800 pages of new content per month which is about 4 books in total (this is in addition to the actual books we release). Each month that new content is added to all of the previous content, so every single month you get around 800 new pages of content + everything released prior. The subscription becomes more and more valuable as time goes on. All of this while directly supporting the artists we have been pirating from for the past 10 years.