[Locked] Front Page Overflowing With Book-Purchases?

A site that was created for hentai piracy, growth because it, most it's users did come for it, and now is using the power that piracy granted them to make business. I don't think that's wrong at all (piracy for lack of availableness isn't a bad thing) , though I would recommend to don't have a harsh opinion against piracy as it would be highly hypocrite, but rather it should be for the side of "piracy have a time and a space, and it isn't the time for some books anymore". Jacob has expressed that sentiment fine, so that isn't a problem (everything is fine in my opinion), except of course for those who don't read Jacob often and rather read some users hateful opinion against piracy (neither from here or on other places).

Ay, being a hypocrite to get what you want ain't that bad...only the hypocrites with no potential or ability should be dimissed (But that's natural selection, so it's obvious).

Edit: Oh yeah, nothing related to the point you're making Nyara. Just feeling a little bit poked. We hypocrites have feelings you know! :D

This I agree. But so far, I don't see such hypocrisy from this site, I just want to point that out.

What I don't agree is when people complain that Fakku prioritize stuff that is not free over the stuff that is free. I just don't see the logic behind that.

Then clearly you have done well expressing it, why does it take 4 pages and days of arguments for people to express it, assuming they have the same opinion as yours?

If you are talking about a way to separate paid contents over free contents, then it is fine. These people here talks about how things are immoral, paid users does not have privilege over free users, yadada etc.

By now, the three new books have done nothing to hinder my way around Fakku! with the way Jacob decided to disperse it, and we're talking about something with equal representation as any other upload, since it's translated by YQII and the Fakku! team, it should be on the front page like anything other thing translated by Fakku!. Now, to be disgruntled just because you clicked on a paid upload is a poor excuse for not looking around before clicking (can I blame a site when I accidentally clicked on an ad because I wasn't looking? No, that's dumb). For new users, the matter of comfort is then reduced, since they've just been here (they won't leave at first click, even if so that would have been a good riddance), and surely they'll have the brain to figure out "Oh, there's a line that said "puchase-required" and a different outline, etc." We already agreed on a compromise, there's no need for moral talk.

P.S. I SEEE YOU!!!




I didn't get what the hell they were on about, but as I said, the argument is dead and uneccessary, any point made about it is just trying to swayed the disgruntled into accepting the outcome.

Well said

"The ends justify the means" isn't moral, just as simple as that. Even if your cause is highly moral it isn't OK, because amoral means always distort the end in that case. Now most people doesn't bother with morality that much, so it's a common philosophy. Oh, this have nothin' to do with Fakku, anyway, like I said, Jacob has not expressed hypocrisy so far (the contrary, in fact).

If hypocrisy is ever expressed it would be nasty. How you can try to appeal to people to be moral and buy the product rather than pirate it, when your product was brought by amorality ways in the first place? Answer 1: You can't. Answer 2: Lie, and make your lie convincing. Answer 3: If you changed your mind it's fine, make a new platform with new resources from the scratch rather than using those granted by something you're making a war at. Answer 4: Tell people you're a faggot, but then tell them they are more faggots than you are, so they should support you anyway to get new products. Bonus (works with any): Offering options not available elsewhere (it works even if it's for a limited time).

[size=10]Why not have another button on the bubble that says "Buy this now!" with little comments like "Hot Buy" or something.
Extensive work but I think making the "books" selection a different colored bubble even would be nice. A tinted pink/red? Sorry if this was already a suggestion.[/h]

Sorry, missed this.

Most of what you had to say was on point. The only thing I want to clarify is that Wani issued(quite correctly) any take-down notices, even to Fakku, so while we decided the best way to deal with the tightening legal restrictions through fair and honest business we don't begrudge pirates or the sites who cater to them. There will always be pirates, and that does unfairly put the responsibility of the companies and user who pay to keep those companies a float, but we recognize where we got our start, there is still love for the free community, we just need to balance that with profit to keep Fakku alive. I do believe 3 releases at the top of the page that releases 4-5 things a night as balanced.

I don't mind the most recently released books being on top, it makes sense they want it to sell. I think they should stick with the Punikano and Renai sample release methods where they just released the entire book once it was complete instead of the chapter after chapter method they are trying now. Might help with people having to see the FAKKU releases mixed in with the free stuff.

I would like a simple setting in the User Preferences for deciding whether the purchase books are shown or not on the entire site.

We do wanna split books up into one-chapter galleries though for many reasons (chapter specific tags, allowing people to comment on certain chapters, tie in to magazines once we start doing that, etc.), so as I mentioned earlier in this thread, the option was to put up 40 galleries on the font page on December 1st.

I wanna clarify one thing here while on this topic. Releasing all three books in one go on December 1st was never really an option, because they weren't completely done at that point. I understand that if given the choice between "everything now" and "chapter-by-chapter spread out over a month," you'd pick the first alternative. However, our choices here were either doing what we did, or start pre-orders on December 1st and release them all late December.

Looking ahead, our long-term goal has since the start been 3-5 books per month, or in terms of chapters, 40-60 galleries, so I personally think it's a better idea to spread out releases. Plus I feel like it invokes a somewhat similar feeling to that "Woo! Free stuff!" feel I get from PSN at the beginning of each month; by the time I'm playing Binding of Isaac for "free," I've forgotten that I payed $50 a few months ago.



Something people need to understand is that we're just starting out here, and this isn't a major company where each employee has one task they specialize in. Some people probably think I spend eight hours a day translating, when in reality, I'd say it's closer to 1-3 hours, and the rest of the time I do other things—mostly editorial work. We've already said that we're going to address this issue (for example by giving payed content a different background), but other tasks are higher priority at the moment, such as talking to the Japanese publisher and artists to get more books.

Complaints from customers (such as not being able to access the book they payed for) are usually addressed within a day, or even hours if it's during a work day. Complaints like this don't get the same "drop everything and get it done" treatment though. In that regard, paying users get priority, but I don't think that's unreasonable.


Finally, we appreciate any feedback we get. I don't think anyone from the staff has replied with a "fuck off" to anyone. A lot of the changes you can see in our newer releases or the current version of the site is based on feedback we got back in September when we released our first book—and some of that feedback came from parts of the internet where their critique wasn't the least bit sugarcoated. The reason I haven't said anything in this topic for 2½ weeks is that, to be honest, nothing new has really been said since then that I didn't already covered in my earlier posts. This post by Jacob is still relevant.

Also, I'm sure I'm not the only one who has Christmas shopping left to do tomorrow, so don't expect anything major in the next week. Merry Christmas!

I don't mean to sound arrogant, but allow be to be brief:


New galleries end up on the front page, no matter the content.


Because it was implemented recently for our books, and probably isn't ready for the public (uploaders) yet.


Again, few people doing many things, and this is not a priority.

Someone probably already suggested it but maybe put a coloured border or icon to say that it has to be purchased. That'd be a relatively easy way to fix it without having to code an extra sidebar or anything. Plus, it would catch the attention of would-be buyers.
Having to read "Publisher: FAKKU" is a bit troublesome and I'm sure most people only look at the thumbnails and tags which stand out more than anything else.

Right now there are no plans to change the front page.