Be the pirate you want to see.

Some may say it's April Fools but actually the PC police got their hands on the site and now we can't have a Yuri tag anymore. This is so sad.

Goggled Anon posted:

I wonder if we should give this series its own set of pairing tags like Virgins' Empire has?

So far there's been some disagreement over how often those should be used, but - as I'm not currently following this - I'm certainly open to hearing its case?

Wow. Well on the plus side, the site is actually super usable with the Directory + ctrl f. For most things anyway.

juanelric posted:

Is this the only change this year?

Well someone broke the search function too but I can't tell if that's supposed to be a joke or not...

In the words of a great person, this is literally 1984.

It's a good cliffhanger isn't it. There's no April Fools' joke here except that it's on permanent hiatus. Haha. I'm so sad

Yes, we know the search function is broken. Let's just pretend it's a really meta April Fools' joke and leave it at that. Yes, tag suggestions are currently down as well, and we're aware of this too. (Seriously, we're looking into it as quickly as we can.)

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After seeing this panel, I can't help but imagine this font as the girls communicating in fighting game combos. She looks so mad, must be an infinite.

I wish we had more Pirate stuff on the site...

Xoral posted:

How does Dynasty maintain itself? Where does it get the funds to keep servers running? Who's maintaining the site? How do you guys protect yourselfs from copyright issues?

I've been using this site for years, and I'm just amazed that it's still running and so well. Love y'all~♡

The servers are maintained by a benefactor known as GOD. The site is maintained by a small group of folks, with the daily experience primarily handled by myself and drpepperfan. On the forum side you'll also see Alice Cheshire and Nezchan doing heavy lifting. We're all just volunteers who do this for our own satisfaction. We comply with any requests that license holders have, and have been very grateful for the level of grace that (most) license holders have granted us. I think that answers everything? Love you too, take care.

Dynasty Thingifier, it's great. Thanks Alice.

rudtud posted:

As someone who loathes April Fool's...I have nothing good to say. I just want the real Chapter 5 as soon as its available.

it's okay, the next chapter would have been delayed with or without this silly joke

Might even go faster now that the word is out. Hope someone buys that poor starving editor some food.

Gonna be tough to top.

Where's the Shoujo Ai tag?

All right. Between here and the Discord, it seems roughly everything on this topic has been said. This thread will be locked, but I'd like to clarify a few things.

1. The removed doujin will remain removed. There are other sites that host it, we don't believe it is a significant loss to our catalogue. I understand the feeling of having content removed - even content one didn't read - will always feel disproportionately negative, compared to content added. However, we do not believe that is a reason unto itself to change the decision that was made.

2. Other content mentioned that may share the term "trap" will be reviewed and considered carefully before any further action is taken. We do not intend to alter individual translations we had nothing to do with to fit our ideal. It is highly likely that some minor content will be removed. I will emphasize only once that it is not unusual for content to leave the site, unusual though these circumstances may be.

3. Rule 1 of the forum rules states: "Being overly aggressive, insulting, or generally a jerk is against the rules. Hate speech, racism, sexism, etc. By the same token, do not refer to trans people and/or crossdressers as "traps." I felt there were some misconceptions about how that particular part of the forum rule read, so there it is. (Please note that Discord has its own set of rules.)

Everything is always subject to change, and what I've written here will surely hold true to that as well. If you wish to continue this discussion for whatever reason, there are other places to do that. Thanks, take care.

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With a very special day right around the corner, I couldn't help but recall Troid's excellent April 1st release back while Stretch was running. I'm kinda bummed that it's not on the site anymore, and that there's no series nowadays any similar joke works for...

Thanks Malibu. You're a hero.

8 months! That's a long time. Yeah, we had a whole bunch of technical issues last year (and in 2019) that made addressing changes like this very difficult. As you might imagine, there's a huge backlog as a result. Rest assured that they'll be addressed when we're able to get to them.

Friendly reminder that as far as the forum goes, rules 1 and 11 are very pertinent to this topic. For the time being, I don't really have anything to add beside that.

Yeah, I actually found this way more true to character than the earlier chapters. Their relationship was basically always in this weird, playful place. I don't mind it staying there for now.

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I found the whole chapter a bit stilted, but I do quite like the insecurity depicted. Very rare, and very real.

Okay, I'm on board with this. It's kinda dumb, but I like it.

Well the story is what it is but the composition is really intense and frenetic. This is definitely a piece you can lose yourself in.

This is top tier phewww