- Sep 11, 2024
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I still fully believe that ignoring the behind the scenes changes, the old site was functionally superior in every way.From what I got it's CF who cut access to their services first, and then they notified the host provider so they cut off access as well, presumably because CF presented Iwara as some kind of pedo haven and the host wanted none of that (which I understand, even if people conflating fictional and real content piss me off to no end for a few reasons).
For now it's still unclear whether the host outright deleted everything or just cut access to the server, if it's the latter there's hope nothing has been lost yet. Whatever happens next, let this be a lesson to Iwara to do more regular backups, and to either enforce the tagging system more seriously in the future or to use a community tag system, which works well enough on e-hentai/exhentai.
Yeah we've got a better ui (arguable) but that's mostly it. Years passed and they couldn't manage to reintroduce a single thing the community asked to get back. I guess we've got better forums? Announcement banners? On a video sharing platform?
Meanwhile, the quality selection is still fucked; an absolute fuck ton of creators simply left after what was it - 2021? Because it simply became a job to upload regularly.
Even still, they've had server side issues pretty much constantly since before the update/merge and didn't manage to fully solve them. Whatsoever.
Now, I'm not saying I know best because I sure as hell don't, nor I'm going to pretend that running a site, servers, hosts is cheap and easy but.. I do FEEL like they've enjoyed shoveling at their own feet a bit much.
Now there's cloudflare alleged drama (rule 7 for those who remember this thread's past life) and they've had countless warnings about the tagging system. People BEGGED for mods to moderate tags and for users to strictly tag and force the system. Alas.