I been checking the fan archives of the old and classic site that really help expand and regulate adult-fanfiction; writing.com. I was lastly on the site 2 days ago before the site claimed its certificate expired, and it was out of cookies. What? What the fupp?! The team renewed the site license and letting me on there for a good 4 minutes for me to talk to the devs to stop being asshats before the site "mysteriously" had a 504-error prompt. I lost all flippen' interest and love for the site as it was too easy to predict that the devs on that 12-year-old site got greedy and went free-bigotry. They claim the traffic was too much, but that's a fupping lie as I personally checked the ad revenue, and it was 2% above average for any normal site to get ads. I will miss that site from time to time as I personally don't want to waste money on an adult site when any corprate job I get, them asshats in corpo IT will exploit me for my fetish behavior. I added a lot of vore fics and bbw porn on those old interactives, with a lot, and I mean a LOT of different emails. From what I can gather from 3rd party reviews that still look at the website, *sigh*, either the devs bought the secrecy of the reviewers to silence their vile greedy practices or the site is owned by some bigTech company that is using the site to mine cryptocurrency as what I remember from 4 years ago, there was a tab that turned one of your windows into a crypto-miner and just EAT so much of your memory that you needed to buy new USB's and mem-chips WEEKLY!!! I know some people on this site were victims of the fallen site and can't enter the site unless you had paid membership that went above 10.99 per month with the ugliest amount of storage to put your stories, interactives, polls, etc. It's quite literally hopeless, as if some fans did buy the site to restore it to its former glory for adult-content, somehow it will be more rigged to deny the fans ANY porn material?! Who wants to talk 'bout it?
Technical issues might occur on any website from time to time, may it be by accident or human error. Hosting a site with a significant amount of visitors costs some money. If site moderation is paid, that would likely be even more expensive. Advertisements don't pay very well, especially when the site offers adult content. That said, I don't like the effects resulting from the issue. Even though users might not be happy with the situation, it doesn't mean they can copy other authors' work without their permission. And even if there is permission to republish, the source material often features underage content. Thus, the issue results in a notable amount of rule violations.
I've actually started working with the author of one of my favorite Writing.com stories to move his story over to CHYOA since Writing.com is dead.
