Yeah...

Is Discord down for anyone else?

Nope. When Discord is having issues it's often affecting specific locations much more than others. Hope it's back soon, though.

After playing among us in public lobbies, I have started to lose some of my faith in humanity

Always good to remember that it's not so much faith in humanity you're losing, but faith in children. A lot of them grow out of it, shocking as it may seem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMXRWurZenY

Can we appreciate how Shinra-Bansho made a better yuri story in five minutes than anything that's come out in the past year? If only music videos could get anime adaptations.

Heck yeah still waiting on that continuation.

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Hi! Sorry, the banner message you're referring to is confusing and no longer applicable, but can't be easily changed as of now. The series - and plenty more - is licensed, but that does not necessarily mean all licensed material on the site is removed, or removed immediately. In most cases, we will continue to post new updates based on what the original scanlation team chooses to do. In this case, they've continued working on the series, so we're continuing to host it. In most cases when content is removed by the scanlation teams, it seems that they would prefer to remove the content as soon as it is licensed.

In sum, the banner message is true for some but not all, and when the content will be removed is subject to the decisions of people "outside" the site, so I'm not able to comment on those directly. If you see the banner saying the content has been removed and the content is still there, it's safe to assume it will remain there in the future.

Love them. Hey guys don't be so mean! Maybe Adora finally settled down and got a hobby...

SPEAKING OF SHIPS, do you all remember which one was your first ship? (full yuri works like Strawberry Panic! don't count!) mine was without a doubt KagamixKonata

Kirika x Mireille. I'm sad that I didn't have the foresight to start cataloguing all the old GeoCities fansites before most of them closed...

which do you prefer? Pages of analysis and criticisms going through every panel OR short and concise '"troll" comments?

Frankly, I'm not convinced you've made many posts I'd prefer existed in the first place. There's quite a leap between productive conversation and your general behaviour on these forums. Rather than attempt to engage in discussion, your posts make singular, matter-of-fact statements which serve little purpose in advancing discourse. Many are filled with bile, directed at artists or other users. Content aside, we know the effects your posts have on this thread, and that of Nettaigyo. They serve to reinforce old, tired arguments, and pull regulars down the same ground they've already tread. I'm unceasingly bewildered by those who pay them any time of day. I'll forgive those users, given that they actually attempt to discuss a given story on its own merits otherwise.

You've mentioned in the past that criticism drives more discussion than praise, but it seems your preoccupation with driving discussion comes at the expense of quality discourse. Your words could meanwhile span hundreds of pages with razor-like precision, if they cover these same topics they would be just as tired and uninteresting. Given that the content of your current posts amount to personal pet peeves repeated ad nauseam, I don't see length making the situation any better.

I leave short criticizing comments is because whenever I try to start a long drawn out conversation your moderators always come in and tell me its too much.

As far as I can tell you've been reprimanded once, during a personal spat in which your posts averaged about two lines. You're welcome to correct me if this is a misconception.

Unfortunately, there's no feedback system for us to respond to requests with. Further, we do get dozens of requests per day, the majority of which are images. Images are posted on the site once every 3-4 days. If your request is accepted, it wouldn't be unusual to wait several weeks to see it pop up. Best of luck with them!

(and you'd be especially hard-pressed to find criticisms of popular shows on their respective subreddits).

There's also a tendency for people with negative views in general to be driven out, whether by active moderation or other extremely defensive users. Which brings me to...

The idea is that people who find that a series isn't for them choose to leave after a certain point, because consuming entertainment that doesn't entertain you is rather counterproductive, unless you're getting paid to write a critique or have legitimate criticisms about why something is problematic

While it's a nice idea and broadly true, I think if you look hard enough you'll find active thought leaders with reasonably substantial followings in just about any significant fandom. I recently watched She-Ra and found it to be a satisfying if imperfect show. While gleaning around for content, YouTube was sure to recommend me multiple accounts that have made - and are still making, for a show that ended in May - dozens of videos worth of negative content for it. The type that makes you stop and wonder, why is this person investing their time in a show that's clearly not for them, and why is their audience doing the same? RWBY and Korra also seem to be good examples of this from the outside.

I'd also mention that in cases around this forum, the repetitive negative comments typically echo broader community discussions about the "true" definitions of Yuri, the role of males in yuri stories, or "hot topics of 2020" like bisexuality.

All of which is of course not to take away from your structural analysis of how Dynasty's setup may incentivise some of this behaviour.

"I guess you could chalk it down to something like stupidity or denial or instigation or hate-reading,"

Or to enjoying the series overall, while still seeing problems in it, in this case an annoying ambiguity or coyness. People can enjoy things without finding them perfect.

While generally possible and true, there's quite a difference between what you're suggesting and what Gridman is doing, which is more or less low-effort trolling. This is the fifth time he's returned to this particular thread to make this exact point in a dismissive and nonconstructive manner.

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Akira is wonderful, it's so interesting that she's this divisive character. Really looking forward to her continuing to grow.

And Mayuki is ascending to a being of pure thirst.

She is growing too powerful.

But the younger teens joining the program were very open and out, and vocal about it. They came from supportive families, had queer and straight friends who accepted each other and all hung out together, and they could never understand the challenges the older teens had faced. It's kind of weird that there was such a huge gap in experiences with such a small gap in years

This seems - to me - pretty universal, at least in the US. Certainly it's something I've experienced, and seen plenty of anecdotal situations matching the general template. A difference of even 4 or 5 years can make the experiences so foreign you'd be surprised at how few similarities actually remain. It feels like a downwind effect of national politics, with the US fighting over an anti-gay constitutional amendment in 2004, to gay marriage itself being legalized just 11 years later.

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Ought to petition someone to hire her for yuri again.

This page was probably made on April 1st, who knows which year.

This was created May 20 2020 at 4:31 PM

By who, I wonder...

Still one of my favs.

There's a lot that could be said about this one, I'm surprised I never read it.

I love Akuta Fumie, her art is amazing. The first part is really really good, and really really believable, which I was pleasantly surprised by. I much appreciated the level of frustration Tsubaki felt and how often it spilled over into her words and actions. Part of having feelings for someone - regardless of their nature - is hurting them, and their interactions felt visceral in a way not a lot of other yuri stories do.
At first I was worried this was going to be another item cut short by Hirari's ill-fated end, because there's a lot of places to go after that and I trust her like few others. Thankfully it is completed, but sadly it's all played very safe, turning out predictably trope-y and only just appropriately satisfying. At least everyone was happy in the end. For a 2-shot, I guess that's about the best scenario possible. All well's that ends well (I guess!).

I honestly think the best part of this 2-shot (besides happy end) was the dude apologizing for accidentally spreading the rumor..

Yeah that was great and quite unusual.

Going down the list further, it starts to become apparent that history and longevity play a pretty big role, but there are pretty significant skew factors involved, like Pixiv/Twitter manga and translator bias. Something like Christa x Ymir is pretty limited in both history and longevity, but has likely several dozen web doujinshi that boost its placement on the list. Meanwhile, the portion of Nico x Nozomi releases seems to be a clear bias on the part of someone along the scanlation line, as its mere existence was once an afterthought.

Excluding the tags used for manga like Virgins' Empire for obvious reasons, here's a much longer list originally meant to be anything with 30+ releases, but I couldn't do that to Alice Chesire:

1. Nanoha x Fate 310
2. Homura x Madoka 241
3. Maki x Nico 238
4. Kyouko x Sayaka 178
5. Alice x Marisa 157
6. Marisa x Reimu 147
7. Eli x Nozomi 117
8. Christa x Ymir 93
9. Meiling x Sakuya 93
10. Konata x Kagami 87
11. Kaguya x Mokou 70
12. Sakuya x Remilia 70
13. Keine x Mokou 63
14. Akagi x Kaga 62
15. Ruby x Weiss 59
16. Yuyuko x Youmu 59
17. Mio x Ritsu 57
18. Reimu x Yukari 57
19. Shizuru x Natsuki 51
20. Blake x Yang 51
21. Nico x Nozomi 49
22. Hanamaru x Yoshiko 48
23. Kotori x Umi 47
24. Tomoko x Yuri 47
25. Himawari x Sakurako 46
26. Eli x Umi 44
27. Chika x Riko 41
28. Asuka x Tomoko 38
29. Renko x Maribel 38
30. Azusa x Yui 37
31. Claudine x Maya 36
32. Hanayo x Rin 33
33. Luka x Miku 29

I wanted to include links and some statistics, but I got tired. Here's the raw data with nicer formatting including the exact date and time the tag was first used, in UTC-5:

Clickable links since Dynasty can't display them too well:

1-15, 16-25, 26-41

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I love Tovarisch, I've rarely seen people talk about the side characters or even the series in general, so I'm surprised it gets any "hate"...

Not only does Serenata have good taste, but also good predictive abilities, too! Here's the top 10.

Love Arata Iri so much, this is such a perfect series. Though I do wonder if it won't end within a couple chapters? Reveals and development are suddenly happening so rapidly, I'm not sure what would keep this going on longer other than the murder mystery having quite a bit more plot than expected. Perhaps it would be most satisfying for them to get together to end Volume 2, and leave the future volume(s) for fleshing out and building on what's turning into a nice foundation. One can hope.

Though it'd be hilarious if the Prez was actually a murderer and the Miko forgives her for it, because nothing says 'Come Rain or Shine' like sticking with your girlfriend while she's on the run for homicide.

You're funny!

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What a great mom. Kine was too smooth, though. She's like that player who manages to get every girl she's after, even when they know how it'll end up.

I... really wanted to enjoy this, but the EXTREME amounts of unnecessary fan service kinda killed my interest.

Have you read manga before? This is a very light amount of fanservice for the genre. I didn't actually notice it

Can confirm as someone who almost exclusively reads yuri and josei that it's very possible to find the amount of fanservice in this "significant," even if it's the sneakier kind.

Hey, I don't think anyone was particularly ignoring you. More likely, they didn't see your post or had some other reason for not responding. You'd be best off looking for Hifuu manga here. They may not be yuri, but they're certainly relevant to the site itself so I don't think anyone should have an issue with that. Sadly I don't currently have anything to contribute. Good luck finding what you're after!

drhelsing

Your behaviour in the above posts is...beyond unacceptable. Don't do it again, and consider this your final warning if you choose to behave in this manner again. You may refer to the Forum Rules for further information. Thank you.

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All right, since this is clearly a topic that will continue to permeate the forums forevermore, I guess I have to clarify my previous statement. From the Forum Rules thread:

1. First, and above all, remember that everyone is here to have fun and enjoy yuri together. Being overly aggressive, insulting, and generally a jerk to other commenters is against the rules. So don’t do it.

At this point, Jeanne Mathison and KasexYamada, you are both carrying on accusations and targeting of Lilliwyt that fall under the latter parts of this rule.

Any poster is welcome to dislike any other poster. Any poster is welcome to comment on the behaviour of any other poster. Lobbing unfounded accusations at other users and continuously stirring the pot of pointless personal drama from 4 days ago is not welcome.

Lilliwyt, not every sleight towards your person needs to be addressed, and dragging on these discussions by repeatedly defending yourself in this manner is unhelpful. If you feel someone is treating you unfairly and refuses to drop the issue, please alert me as outlined here.

Anyone else is also always welcome to reach out regarding site matters via email or Discord at Orange Pekoe#0863.

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It is with sorrow that I've come to realise we have a pervasive problem with hard feelings permeating among different members and different groups of members. So pervasive that it seems to apply to a significant portion of new and regular members, perhaps even a majority. Of course, having personal views of others is completely acceptable, but allowing those views to come to the surface on a consistent basis appears to be a significant negative for discussion in general.

This particularly applies to Rule 1. Originally thought of as a guideline towards an appropriate atmosphere, we are confident now that its use as just a guideline is failing that purpose. While we always consider the context surrounding rule violations, this particular problem is only getting worse. As such, we'll continue applying the rules at our discretion, but we will no longer tolerate repeated instances of misconduct. Additionally, I'd like to remind everyone that being disrespectful towards any single user is also a violation of Rule 1. We will not be tolerating such behaviour in the future.

What's the procedure for reporting trolls/spam in a forum thread?

Late reply, but necessary and we'll add this to the master post of the thread in the coming days. We'll be following this thread more actively from now on, so any reports of misdeeds are welcome here. For more private matters, I am always available for contact regarding the site via email or on Discord at Orange Pekoe#0863. If for some reason you have trouble dm'ing me, you're also welcome to join the Dynasty Discord Server and highlight me (@Orange Pekoe) in any channel therein. Thank you.

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The heart is a nice touch.