Update: Staying Positive & Moving Forward!

Hey everyone,

First off, my apologies if I sometimes come across as overly dramatic or pessimistic—it's a personal quirk I'm aware of and working on. Today, let's focus on the good stuff and steps ahead! I want to thank everyone who has sent support during this difficult time.

What's Happening Behind the Scenes:
- New Payment Provider: Actively working on securing a reliable Mastercard/Visa gateway. Still waiting for third party to give me some good news, they are working on getting an new acquirer.
- Crypto Payments: Building a privacy-focused crypto option to reduce bank dependency and gives us more control.

Upcoming Change:
- Ads: For non-contributing users (no uploads, posts, etc.), we'll introduce non-intrusive ads to support the platform sustainably.
- Content: Forum attachments and nudity will be viewable only to logged-in users, not to guests anymore.

Your Input is Welcome:
- What short-term tweaks or additions would you like to see?
- What long-term changes or additions would you like to see?

Drop your thoughts below, and thanks for being part of the community.

-- Frans

One change I’d like to see is the ability to see what playlists (if any) a picture or video has been added to. Finding someone else’s series with a theme I’m looking for or just like is frequently as helpful/useful as or better than the tag search function.

The ability to exclude tags in the tag search would be nice.
For example : looking for pics with the tag "panties" but NOT "thong" to only see regular panties / Or just simply, exclude say "blonde" or "bbw" for example.

Keep the bikini and beach babes in that category as well as all others. An ass is an ass but if I want to see an ass in a bikini or on the beach, I’d go to that category! How about no tranny pics too?

Prompt users to tag their photos and videos. Lots of good content goes unseen here because not everything gets tagged well.

Allowing users to suggest tags might be a good idea, too, to help that along. Maybe limit the functionality to Premium users so uploaders don't get overloaded with tag requests.

Could we add a fetish category?

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Originally posted by O-rennI

I’d like the ability to filter and/or order a playlist by score.

Accounts of members who intentionally and consistently score low for all images should be removed. I know everyone is entitled to an opinion but if someone averages 1.x from thousands of reviews then I’m not sure why they’re here.

Site could do a better job of removing the duplicates before they’re accepted, the tech exists to do this.

Gee, then does everyone who scores everything a 10 get kicked off too? If you don't like how they score, tough shit! Scores don't mean jack shit here anyway. Most of the photos aren't amateur, and even fewer are porn.

For last few years I have been a once paying member to non-paying member as I cannot easily get a membership (from Australia), as any attempt at payment is blocked by security measures. Last time I paid I had to go through the rigmarole of arguing with my bank to get them to allow the payment to go through as they said there were security risks (it's a payg card I use for online shopping on other sites - if it gets drained through some fraud it'll just be whatever I put in at the time for whatever given purchase ...and its my money ffs). I've since swapped banks but same thing - if I try to purchase a membership with a Visa it gets disallowed and I have to contact the bank to arrange a one-off payment thing.
If you arrange some more secure payments (to be clear, I've never had a fraud or security issue with any payments I have made in the past - all seems legit and secure, just I hate spending all that time waiting then arguing on the phone to be able to spend my own money, etc), great, I'm back to being a paying subscriber. I'd also pay just to avoid ads (so long as it's not some OtT increase in fees). In meantime, best of luck with getting all your work working out for you. It blew me away when I first read your post that this might be coming to an end as it's just you running the show. I always picture sites like this as being run but a large company or something.
As for 'what would you like to see' short term and long term? ...for me it's a case of 'if it ain't broke don't fix it'. Do what you must to keep the site running but the site itself, well, that's just fine. Maybe other categories other than cars. Boys want cars (I actually used the car pics to help research at least two car purchases - to see what the car looks like out in the wild and not some corporate pic), true, but boys also want other gear too. For me it's camera gear, for some it's computer gear, for some it might be food - whatever. Maybe try out some other categories other than cars. If they take off, great, and if they don't, just cancel them.

In response to Orenni (above)... the scoring is subjective and is what it is. I'm very binary with my scoring - if I like, it's a 10, and if I don't like it I don't score it anything, just move on to the next pic. To each their own.

I take it back - I do have a suggestion. I do photography and work with art models. I use this site to look at photos and get ideas and I'm sure there's other photographers here. While I'm sure there's plenty who contribute it could be a thing to have a category/section where photographers actually put up their work under their name - a professional showcase of sorts. Models would have to sign a release but the photos could have a link to their IG or other (or photographers would have to supply proof of that in some form), and same for the photographers. Only issue I could see would be that the models might not want to be part of a ranking system (maybe that could be an opt-in or opt-out function). Just thinking out loud.

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Originally posted by swpahubby72

Could we add a fetish category?

I would like a Butthole category. The Tight Asses is the category I view the most because I Love Asses but I often look at the women's Butthole and snap a picture because I have a serious Hard On for women's Buttholes.

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Originally posted by omuh

The ability to exclude tags in the tag search would be nice.
For example : looking for pics with the tag "panties" but NOT "thong" to only see regular panties / Or just simply, exclude say "blonde" or "bbw" for example.

To go a bit further, proper logical conditionals, like "tag X and Y but not Z".

my thoughts (might sound a bit boring to other users):
don’t let negative thoughts drag you down anymore, Frans — and don’t let negative people bring you down either, especially those on this website who are always looking for something negative! your health (mental and physical) is more important than a pair of tits!

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Originally posted by swpahubby72

Keep the bikini and beach babes in that category as well as all others. An ass is an ass but if I want to see an ass in a bikini or on the beach, I’d go to that category! How about no tranny pics too?

Yeah bikini pics should stay in the bikini category, unless there's something more to it. Like say a woman with only a bikini top, who's not on the beach would probably fit better in "bottomless" or a fully naked woman on the beach could go in "naked" for example, but that's rarer than full bikini pics.

As for trans content, it's not allowed.

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Originally posted by thegrandwazoo

Prompt users to tag their photos and videos. Lots of good content goes unseen here because not everything gets tagged well.

Allowing users to suggest tags might be a good idea, too, to help that along. Maybe limit the functionality to Premium users so uploaders don't get overloaded with tag requests.

I'm a bit torn about that because I've seen so many pics tagged so wrongly that it's obvious some people have put tags on pics just for the sake of making them more visible (like you can't possibly put "skinny" and "bbw" on the pic of a single woman without doing it purposely). But on the other hand, more content being tagged would be a good thing indeed.
Maybe mods could add a few main tags when they accept a pic, but then that increases mod time again (although I'd still love the ability to do that when moderating).

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Originally posted by O-rennI

I’d like the ability to filter and/or order a playlist by score.

Accounts of members who intentionally and consistently score low for all images should be removed. I know everyone is entitled to an opinion but if someone averages 1.x from thousands of reviews then I’m not sure why they’re here.

If the system is still in place, users who reach an average vote score that is so low it can only be trolling have their voting rights removed. But I might be wrong and it's not effective anymore.

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Originally posted by lzzoso

I would like a Butthole category. The Tight Asses is the category I view the most because I Love Asses but I often look at the women's Butthole and snap a picture because I have a serious Hard On for women's Buttholes.

Maybe not a full category as I think the tight asses categories works well enough for people liking butts, but there should definitely be an "asshole" tag added at least since currently there's no tag to look for that (and might as well add "boobs" too since currently the tags only allow to look for boob size but not just visible boobs).

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Originally posted by sk1234

To go a bit further, proper logical conditionals, like "tag X and Y but not Z".

Yep, that's pretty much what I meant!

Also, while I'm still talking about tags. When doing a tag search, have the ability to only show pics we haven't rated (so we only see "new" content to us).

I don't think the tagging framework and approach is working. As has been mentioned, most people don't use it, use it incorrectly, or manipulate it. I think it would be worth looking at migrating to a content calendar model where you had categories (that were more easy to find and search). It would make the homepage more valuable real estate, people could click and go to what they want to see, and not have so many fights with the mods and contributors.

Another issue I just want to bring up is that the amount duplicate content on the site has gotten absurd. I stopped contributing because even though you enable to not see your content, I still see it 10 times because folks are allowed to just recontribute the content and the new thing is for example with videos if I submitted a 1 minute video, they will screen cap it to like 40 seconds and resubmit. It is the same people doing it so the mods have to know.