Hello everybody,

One of the principles for running this site has been to keep no "pipeline" and upload content whenever it becomes available. That's an honest approach and it served us well for the past 2 years. The site is dedicated to a niche fetish and frequent updates is not something I have ever been able to provide - you have always understood and respected that. However, that's where the fundamental flaw of this approach shows up: you got no idea how often should you be checking the site, if at all. Since October, when russian attacks on our infrastructure began and blackouts became a common thing, I asked you to bear with me and introduced the bounty system for the interim, which has been performing great since. However, with infrequent updates becoming more infrequent than ever, and no improvement to my working conditions in sight, I feel I can't keep leveraging the trust you have for this site forever.

Therefore, I am introducing an updates schedule - essentially, four dates a year to which I am gonna do my absolute best to have something substantial for you. You can check out the schedule here. Even though quarterly updates does not sound that often, it's pretty realistic given the circumstances the site found itself in, given the overall scarcity of desperation content, given the focus on quality this site has always maintained, and given how it's not uncommon for some other sites in this niche to only update once or twice per year.

I am also doing a sort of a compromise on my previous change - I am bringing back the 3-months subscription period, but not the 1 month one. I recognize that paying a whole lot at once might feel intimidating - especially for a first time customer, and especially with PayPal middleman's fee making the final price 45% higher than it should be. At the same time, the minimal period of 3 months will help me tackle that problem I spoke about earlier - if everyone gets a month subscription once or twice just to grab the good content - who's gonna fund our existence and operations throughout the rest of the year?

Speaking of monetization, as we've entered our 3rd year the focus is undoubtedly on maintaining the existing membership over attracting new one. I would like to encourage your long-term support for this site (ideally lifetime), for a number of reasons:
- It would enable me to focus on the site without worrying about how the economy looks like every month;
- PayPal solution is not very reliable: it already had a long period of disrupted service in 2022; it can increase its fee at will - already enormous one as it is; some day, it can just disappear or shut down altogether.
- If PayPal's gone one day, the only option left would be a 100% monetization through crypto, and I know from experience a lot of you won't embrace it, meanwhile I won't be able to realistically provide another method. So grabbing a longer subscription with PayPal - while the option is still there - is good choice long-term.

Once upon a time in my forums days, I used to have a supporter whose job would keep him out of town for a month or two. He always preferred to pay in advance, so when he comes back he would be sure the whole thing is still around and has made progress. That's exactly the kind of attitude I feel works best for such site and one I'm trying to recreate.

P.S. As a side note on crypto, this days my situation is not as harsh as it used to be and I'm able to check the site at least daily. So right now I should be able to process your crypto payments in a reasonable timeframe.