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Hey Everyone! We got some questions regarding this, so, to specify - We are fine with our creators selling their wares on other sites - we understand completely if you would like to test the waters with us while being somewhere else at the same time! We are, of course, also fine with you posting free art and such on other sites as well.  Sponsorion is just a platform for you to use~ - The Sponsorion Team

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Hey everyone! Thank you for all the feedback you gave us this past month regarding the site - we really appreciate it! We’ve noted several future tweaks to the UI that should better fit our users aesthetic desires. For the moment, though, we’re currently working on finishing all operations involving the payment processing system.  Once that’s finished we’ll be starting the alpha tests, and the site in general will be ready for the beta testing phase once that’s complete. In the meantime, please feel free to send us any questions/comments/etc that come to mind! We always appreciate hearing from the community~ - The Sponsorion Team

Hey everyone, Hope you enjoyed the holiday season! We’ve uploaded our legal documentation to the public site: http://www.sponsorion.com/terms-of-use http://www.sponsorion.com/community-guidelines http://www.sponsorion.com/privacy-policy Site browsing is up, we’ll be making some public example accounts over the course of the next week. The site is not currently accepting sign ups (intentionally), guest users only.  Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. You can contact us here or by email at [email protected]! - The Sponsorion Team

Well, this post will be making you happy then! As noted previously, we were considering such a ban. We’ve chosen to strongly support hentai makers / erodevs / etc, and getting involved in politics would be putting us at great risk for something outside of that focus.More specifically, we will not be allowing creator accounts to be used to fund political activism and/or social movements. We will be reasonable when it comes to determining if an account is in violation – no one should be surprised to learn they are violating this rule.

We’d like to thank everyone that informed us [email protected] had stopped working properly - the issue has been resolved.

Hey Everyone, Let’s talk about uploading!  The screenshot-with-blue-”circle”-added is from a recent behind-the-scenes development chat. Namely, I made it to show where we wanted the devs to put the multi-post button. You may have already heard that multiple members of the Sponsorion team have worked / currently work in the hentai comic industry, so it should come as no surprise that we’d be well aware of how important mass uploading / tagging can be! Many of our new users are going to have a lot of old material to transfer over, and we will be facilitating making that moving process as easy as possible. The multi-post function will be of great use whether you’re uploading 10 or 100 posts at once! Yes, there will be per-upload and per-day limits on posting/uploading to avoid abuse, but those limits will be high enough to not effect ordinary site use or the moving process of all but the largest of operations. Site capabilities will also include tagging multiple posts at the same time, of course. We know what it feels like to be faced with updating the tags of dozens of posts one..at...a...time. As for progressing towards the beta, there’s a few more browsing / creator page tweaks left to make before updating the public facing version of the site.  You’ll also be able to see our full Community Guidelines, Terms of Service, and Privacy Policy at that time! See you next week! - The Sponsorion Team

Hey everyone, We had noted previously that our aim to launch the beta during the last week of November was going to be tight, and that it might end up getting pushed back a few weeks.  That scenario has occurred.  At this point we’ve decided to give weekly updates with respect to the ongoing site development; we don’t think it will take much longer but we don’t want to overshoot any more launch dates.  If you have any questions or suggestions please feel free to send us an Ask or contact us at [email protected]! - The Sponsorion Team

THINGS UNRELATED TO ADULT CONTENT WE’RE CONSIDERING NOT / NOT ALLOWING:> One thing we’redebating, that has nothing to do with adult content, is whether ornot to just blanket ban all political movements from using ourplatform. That would make things easier on our ToS, and really hasnothing to do with adult content creators or even most SFW contentcreators.Other things unrelated to adult content we definitely won’t beallowing:> No gambling. REASON: Regulatory quagmire.>No Multi-Level Marketing, Financial Instruments, etc. REASON: Also aregulatory quagmire.> This list is not exhaustive – whenit comes to high risk industries, we want to support adult contentproviders.- The Sponsorion Team

You may have noticed our landing page changed to giving a 404 recently – we’re in the process of switching from our temporary host to the “real” host we’ll be using for our business. Once the DNS propagation completes we’ll be setting up the site itself for public viewing. It’ll be as-a-guest viewing, if you're interested in helping us test user / creator accounts please feel free to contact us at [email protected]! - The Sponsorion Team

Thank you for spreading the word! Don’t underestimate the value of getting our name out there, the more people hear about us the more likely they are to check us out.Site development continues to progress. There were some setbacks regarding the gallery system, but we’re getting over that hurdle now.  The plan is to switch the landing page over from our temporary servers to a proper cloud platform later this month, and to replace the landing page with the still-in-development site so everyone can take a look at it as we get ready to go live.  We’re still hoping to launch in the last week of November, but it’s going to be tight and there’s a couple things that must be done near the end that might push it back a few weeks.-The Sponsorion Team

We’ve also been asked if we’re going to allow creators to set up shop on our site while also using other sites. Maybe they want to use us as a backup, or just want to see how it goes before fully moving their operations over. Of course we’ll allow that! We understand completely. Please, feel free to make an account with us and try Sponsorion for yourself once we’re live.  We are confident you’ll be glad you did!

Hello everyone, Sponsorion Team here. This week we’ve decided to dive more into where things are with respect to our launch. Earlier this year we ran into several unexpected complications that set us back a few months, but we’re now on track to complete the site in time for a Fall 2018 launch. We often receive emails from creators interested in the site, and wanted to cover some of the most frequently asked questions here, specifically those involving pledges and payouts: Who pays the fees? - Like our competitor, we’ll be taking the transaction fees from the pledged amount (so if a sponsor pledges $1, they pay $1 and the fees are taken from that). Batch processing will be used to reduce the total cost, for sponsors pledging many creators. Who is your payment processor? - We’re in talks with EmerchantBroker, a very well-reviewed payment processor that specializes in ‘high-risk’ processing. For those unfamiliar with the terminology, “high risk” includes adult content which is exactly the kind of processing we need. What are their transaction fees? - EMB’s initial rate is 3.95% + 0.35c. Over time this will be reduced to 2.95% + 0.35 which is nearly identical to Paypal (2.9+0.35c). The total payment processor fee for us will be 3.95% + 0.45c due to an additional 10c surcharge to use their payment portal technology. Developing our own international-transaction-capable payment portal tech, at this point, would cost roughly 40 times as much as the rest of the site combined.  Future implementation, however, could reduce fees in the future. Will we be able to handle Vat? - Yes. How will payouts to creators be handled? - We’re currently planning on using ACH bank services directly. That’s generally what all the major payout companies do, they’ve just streamlined the process. This means that payouts will be made a few days after the start of each month. Although there are ways we could ensure rapid, any-time payouts from the get-go all of those ways involve fees much higher than the tiny amount banks charge to move the money. Once our company is larger we’ll be able to automate this regardless, even if we have to set up our own system to do it, but at our current size direct ACH appears to be our best option. We’re still looking into this, however; if we can find a service with a rate comparable with Payoneer/Stripe/etc, that explicitly states they are happy to work with adult content, we will use it. Will you accept Paypal? – No. Paypal is extremely hostile to adult content creators, it took our competitor years of operations to get them on board and we don’t know what concessions they had make to Paypal to be acceptable.

Hi  everyone! Things are chugging along, in the meantime we'd like to share some of our design mock-ups! Please feel free to tell us what you think. Some notes:    -Those images are mockups done in Photoshop and might not represent the final product. A website is always evolving and that is true even before launch. - The site will be mobile friendly. We do not want to have to develop a separate app for mobile, we want to focus our resources on developing a single website that is compatible for all systems. The Sponsorion Team

Sponsorion will be a subscription based crowdfunding platform that will help fund and promote artists and content creators from all backgrounds without field discrimination! Following  the recent success of our winter fundraising efforts (you may have seen us on Indiegogo!) we've been hard at work to move the project forward! The website itself is currently in the design phase while the remaining economic aspects of the project are being taken care of. Expect more news soon! - The Sponsorion Team