[Locked] FAKKU State of the Union 2016

Can there be a process for artists to upload some home made content? An indie page if you will?

Would of personally waited until you had a larger selection before purging. But I guess you guys had a deadlines.

I would really like to support Fakku further by becoming a subscriber, but hey, I don't even have the possibility to do so. It's not like I can't afford it, it's just the payment options.. erm.. I mean, the payment OPTION issue. I don't have a credit card, you see.

Free content was removed in one single moment. Additional payment options are to be implemented somewhere in the future. Nobody knows when exactly. Until then, this all has rendered the whole website useless for me. That's a pity.

Nope. There will be a free reader when the compainies/artist and jacob hammer out the details.



I believe if you have your own work, just pm jacob or his email and he will see if it uploadable.

Agreed. Again, I'm shocked that they had it as long as they did.

Whether Hentai artists are starving for money or not is a completely different matter. The point is is that these artists should be paid for the work they put in. Just because someone has a lot of money doesn't mean they don't deserve to earn money from their labor anymore just because they have a lot of it. It's a matter of getting paid your dues for the work you put in. You wouldn't really like it all that much if you put hours and hours into your job only to not get paid at the end, would you?

Subscription guarantees that as long as FAKKU is providing the content that they promised to supply customers with, (which it seems they've been on point, so far) customers who have subscribed will pay a monthly fee to read them. With a move as big as FAKKU has made on New Years, ad revenue would be unreliable at best. Cutting all of their old content out of the picture means they've lost a large portion of their audience that usually came here for the old content. You'd also have to hope that FAKKU's remaining audience would also want to constantly come back for new content daily, which as most people who have posted (and are against the subscription policy) on this thread expressed that they visit the website anywhere from weekly to monthly at most. That's not good enough for a website were they to depend strictly on ad revenue and book sales. Ad revenue was okay to rely on when FAKKU didn't have large business costs to worry about. Now that they do, they have to find a stable source of income, which subscriptions became the answer to.

As for the price to content ratio, well what do you expect? They can't keep any of their old content since that would severely hamper or outright destroy FAKKU's reputation as a legal business, making it near impossible to obtain deals from other Japanese artists, and FAKKU's subscription-only content started 6 months ago. They aren't going to have thousands of H-mangas available already. Prices also can't be negotiated at this point because credit card companies charge adult businesses much more than other businesses. Although, I do hear that there may be changes in the future in terms of prices and payment options.... don't quote me on that though since I ain't no FAKKU employee or anything. Hahaha!

Basically, lots of choices FAKKU has made were based on circumstances that forced them to do so.

- Take down notice from Wani requires FAKKU to either shut down their site completely or do what they're doing now, making a business relationship with Wani, which allows them to still exist.

- Both the new business relationship and the take down notice also requires FAKKU to delete any unlicensed content that they have on their website. Keeping any unlicensed content on the website can spell disastrous consequences.

- New business costs forces FAKKU to find a more stable/reliable form of income to ensure website's ability to stay afloat. Subscription method comes on board.

- Subscription prices must meet the business costs of the new relationship with Wani, being able to pay FAKKU employees, and tackle on the extra cost that credit card companies give to adult businesses.

All I'm glad about is that FAKKU actually has a chance to thrive this way. The other choice would have spelled the end of FAKKU immediately, and we wouldn't even have a forum to have this kind of debate with.... or maybe we would, I dunno. The point is is that FAKKU still exists! Whether you're glad about that and the choices that FAKKU had to made, or were made for them, is up to you.

On the favorites page in the upper right hand corner is an export button to get your favorites list as a JSON file.

Except you can export the list.

Json files can be read by any word app.

I just want to clarify something: stopping piracy has never been a factor in any of our decisions. Our books have been DRM-free since the start because we knew that's what our customers would want, even if that made them easier to pirate. If we had gone for a more tradition subscription service, where you only get the current month's magazine, then I'm sure downloads would have been an option, because you would essentially be buying the individual issues. The current service gives you access to the entire library as long as you have an active subscription, and downloads don't fit into that model. Once you're able to purchase magazines, it'll be a different story.

Finally, I'll elaborate on the price some more. I might have missed a post somewhere, but I have yet to see anyone motivate why they think the price is unreasonable without either comparing it to Netflix—a service which at launch limited your streaming to 17 hours for $17/month—or by comparing us to scanlation sites—many of which have no expenses besides server costs and mainly rely on their users to contribute content. After the fees that come with working on adult content, we're right now asking for the same price as buying these two magazines in Japan, while providing them translated, uncensored, and offering access to all older issues. Once we add a third magazine to the service (something we're already looking into), buying a subscription will be a better deal even when you include the fees in the calculation.

I fully understand that not everyone can/want to spend this kind of money, but the pricing is far from absurd.

So I have been a Member of the Fakku community for longer than i care to remember. I have no Problem with you wanting everything on here to be licensed and I have always been able to find the most random of things... (Ranma 1/2 , Blue Gender, FLCL,Basket Fruit, etc. even a great amount of Funta) but with the " Great Purge of 2016 most of that is now by the wayside, hopefully some of the things loved can return while i begin to enjoy the new content from Japan and from our own community artist.

My next Major dilemma is online payments. while I know online payments is the way a lot gets done now I am a big sticker about who gets any of my private info and as such keep online payments to the bare minimal. but since i love this site I guess i'll give it a try.... though i wonder what Security Rating your severs are

They don't store your info and the payment is on the credit processor's system. CCbill i think.