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As a long-time lurker, in here; I wonder how many of us are just going to quietly "not renew," if the situation persists... As a comic collector of over 40 years and an MCC subscriber of 5, I wouldn't complain to a format change to "Pricing per title," instead of subscription, until output stabilizes... I mean once the nectar starts flowing again, the bees will inevitably be attracted back.

As for the earlier AI comment... Well... You'd be amazed how much open source diffusion models have improved, in the last 6 months even... (0_0) ...Like stuff that will run [locally] on a high-er end laptop or gaming rig... [That's NSFW stuff too, BTW. (-_^)] With good and detailed prompts and flow in say... Comfy UI, you get output that you really have to scrutinize to detect the "AI sloppy-ness" in it. That being said, it's not "Plug and Play." You'll just get run of the mill AI "looks like cheap hentai" slop, unless you put in the work, to set up the flow...

Honestly, AI content that you have a hard time telling IS, in fact, AI content would be not so bad? #AITA? \()/

It's not really clear what the full nature of the situation is. Expanded Universe had seemed siloed from the troubles, until it wasn't. I was thinking to myself the other day, why haven't I seen signs that Daphne is actively seeking new artists to work with, and then I was like, how the fuck would I know, I wouldn't even know where to look.

I'd really like to see the next phase of Starter Marriage. For a while I was thinking that maybe Daphne had resolved to go radio silent until she was in a position to make a triumphant announcement, but it's been well over a month at this point and that seems less and less likely.

I've been a subscriber for who knows how long, but the tighter restrictions may kill the site.  They make artists afraid to do the work that needs to be done so if an artist bows out they become more difficult than ever to replace.  Sucks that this place survived COVID and is now being shut down because others want to control what we enjoy.

EDIT:  So instead of being a sad sack my brain came up with a possible solution.  This will get me lynched, but what about AI art making one panel at a time?  It wouldn't be as high quality as we have come to expect from this site, but it would still be better than nothing.

Daphne, is this truly the end?

My sub just renewed for another three months -- and at the full $49.95, as opposed to the promised $29.95. After something like a decade, I'm seriously considering whether it might be my last for a while.

Yeah seems like the site's winding down.

All good things come to an end.  I think we all know that Daphne works hard, and that no doubt she would love for this site to be making a ton of money and bringing in new subscribers.  MC Comics has been putting out first-rate content for, what, 15 years now?

But the flow of product has almost completely ceased.  I dunno, I wish Daphne the best.  I've been reading her MC erotica since 1998.  But if one is selling subscriptions to any website one does have to produce content.

As a newcomer, I wonder if there is content that has aged out of the archives that could be restored? Or perhaps some of the earlier bonus products could be offered to subscribers in the interim. (Of course I realize that this would not necessarily sit well with those who have already paid extra for this content the first time around. Just a thought.)

I think the distinction between long time subscribers and relative newcomers is worth noting.

398 was added (and backdated) after 399 was made public

it's there June 6 #398

It's worth noting, I think, that since December, only April had as many as four main-book updates. All other months have had three at most -- and now, the even weeklies and biweeklies are only trickling in. IOW, the deficit is growing, not receding.

I get that people retire, that artists sometimes act like artists, that there's a limited number of people with the particular skill and taste for this stuff, that you can only squeeze so much out of people, and that time is not infinitely extendable. I used to be in the publishing business, and I know that things sometimes go south -- sometimes for no reason, but sometimes for real reasons. But this is a lot of south, and we're now six months into it. It's not unreasonable to wonder WTH is going on.

Yeah seems like the site's winding down.

"What are we paying for" seems to be less and less of an unfair question.

I think this boils down to two definitions of users of mcc. Those who are historic and have viewed everything, therefore looking at the latest updates for new content and therefore money well spent vs those who are new (<2 years old) who haven't used mcc as much and still working through backlogs of content. Those gaps are now diminishing which is where a lot of the questions arise, especially after the announcements of "this isn't a permanent issue, but one that will be fixed by giving additional content updates to ensure we hit the missed quota" - i understand Daphne's position, but also news is better than radio silence, we are people at the other end and we understand what she's dealing with. For me personally, a new update to SM would offer a mountain of new content and replayability that is well needed.