Pardon me...

I want to preface this post by saying that I completely understand that providing free hentai mangas would make it extremely difficult to keep a site running. Without any sort of money coming in to pay for bandwidth, servers, etc. Fakku wouldn't last a week before it would be bankrupt. Now that being said I find it difficult to attract new people to the site if EVERY SINGLE MANGA that I try and read REQUIRES a subscription. I'm not going to swear because that would be childish. I'm going to state my case and leave this here. A moderator can lock this thread, ban me, whatever the heck they want to do. What I'm saying is that I would like to be able to read SOME manga and then if I decide I really enjoy the site and that I want to subscribe to help with the upkeep of Fakku then I can subscribe to access all the content on the site. The problem I have is that every single manga is placed behind a pay wall that I can't access UNLESS I subscribe. I honestly don't care if you call me stupid, naive, greedy or whatever you want but I'm very turned off when a site has all it's content restricted to subscribers only. Now I will recognize that Fakku has every right to do this but all I'm saying is that maybe we could compromise?
Thank you for reading my post and I hope this will make people think and promote discussion among the users on this site.

Sincerely,
Deadpool,
A hentai fan

I don't have much to say other then to link to the free tag on the site.

Ah! Well maybe my dumb ass should have noticed that tag before I embarrassed myself with that post. Thanks! XD

I think you're misunderstanding something. FAKKU doesn't have a paywall because it needs money to keep the servers running. FAKKU has a paywall because they decided it was time to put money back in the hands of the people who made all this manga happen. Someone poured blood, sweat, tears into their craft and the product is the manga we've all come to love. But us readers in the West have done nothing to reward their efforts for many, many years. That had to change, and so this site doesn't do piracy at all anymore. In fact FAKKU has its own paid employees that work hard to bring us beautiful high quality manga straight from Japan, via legitimate channels. This means over two dozen people have salaries that need to be paid in addition to compensating our favorite manga artists overseas. It's a real business, and that means money needs to change hands. People need to put food on the table.

There has been some talk of free content but we've yet to see anything come out of it. To me that sounds complicated because you have to think about a bunch of extra things. Whose work becomes available for free? How much content should be free? How long should a particular manga be free to read? Do you put advertising back onto the site? Will making it free ultimately drive up subscriber counts? If so by how much? There's certainly more to consider than just doing it. Maybe it's not as complicated as I'm making it out to be, who knows?

Anyway if you have some disposable income I would say just try it for a month. You don't need to remain subscribed and you get access to the entire library of subscription content (note that books are excluded, they must still be paid for separately). You probably don't want to hear that but honestly I don't see things changing just because people want free stuff. A lot of people want free stuff. Even if the purpose is to sample things before you make a purchasing decision, I still think that isn't a simple matter. But under the lens of piracy (let's be real, free manga is usually piracy) try before you buy is still something you can do. Not advocating piracy here, in fact I strongly recommend just giving FAKKU a chance. I really love what they do and I believe that most people will too.