Regarding the future of the project. (READ!)

First of all, a little rundown for those who still don't know what happened yet:

- NoTextToSpeech, a youtuber made a video about the Discord server, full of lies.

- The server got raided by his audience, mostly teenagers and kids.

- The server was SFW, but it still got banned by the sheer pressure of being a 'public case'.

- All users in the discord got a 24h mute and an horrible badge on their profiles with something like "you have been in a server dangerous to children" or some crap like that (private).

- Now what everyone is here for:

I got many suggerences: making a new server, making a server somewhere else like Matrix or whatever, making a Telegram channel, making my own website, etc...

But I will tell you guys something... I'm really tired.

I feel TIRED, its like finally losing a 2 year long battle.

I feel SAD, All my effort to gatekeep the game from bad actors and minors, was in vain at the end.

I feel DEPRESSED, I see myself very close to just throw away everything and start from scratch.

I feel STUPID, Because not too long ago I was already thinking on making the server private and only leave those who already were inside.

I feel really ANGRY, When someone's rent is due, they can just destroy a random server over nothing in just 5 minutes. But in the same 5 minutes, a lot of my effort went to waste, its not fair.

and I feel GUILTY for people's discord accounts too, and for supporters.

I love making this game, so I will continue working on it, but I dont want to make or manage a new server or any other place for the community.

Yeah, the server was a lot of fun, very chill place for everyone, no politics (most of the time haha), cool fan art, update and stream notifications... we made a lot of friends.

These last 72 hours were my hardest in years, I don't want to experience it again in any form.

One can just endure certain amount of death threats and insults over nothing in such a small amount of time without giving up.

MAYBE in the future there may be a private server for supporters + some friends. But not right now. -

- What about the game and supporters?

Free version: I will make the itchio public again eventually, don't know when. But I will upload it to other sites.

Supporters version: the links for the Android, PC/Linux and Mac versions will be in a Pastebin or similar, and shared to supporters here.

Supporter requests and Fanbox tiers: I will finish all due supporter requests, but I won't continue doing them next month, I will change the Fanbox tier's descriptions. Make sure to read them before continuing supporting me next month! I will send some newsletters to current supporters regularly during this month to make sure everyone reads it, and nobody gets "robbed" next month. This may be my job and my money, but first, is YOUR money, and that's something that has to be respected no matter what.

- Other minor details/changes:

- This means more free time, so I will end up working more on the game, and hopefuly, drawing other stuff too for everyone.

- Work in progress images of the games will be posted here on Fanbox on private posts for tier 2+ supporters. (SFW)

- The "DMF's Mega Folder" will get a new backup and linked later, but not here, that goes against Fanbox's TOS.

- I will continue streaming on Pomf like I usually do.

ALSO

Thank you everyone, thank you all for suporting us so far, either with money, or with your kind words, I had many private messages these days, so, sorry If I forgot to respond to some of you, I tried to answer everything here.

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2024 - Oct - 06 UPDATE:

I'm now on UniFans, it has a lot of pros over not just Fanbox, but many other platforms too:

There are other "cool things" like having a mobile app, and having an ACTUAL text editor and not whatever Fanbox has and such but I guess I didn't cared to add it to the list.

The site is still young, and will slowly get more functionalities, and hopefuly more payment methods too for you to chose the option with the smallest fee.

You can check it out and follow for free here: https://app.unifans.io/c/dmf_dev

2024 - Oct - 12 UPDATE:

Aaaand now the itchio page is gone too, look for F95Zone for good, virus-free updates, always up to date.

I'm working on my own platform now. More news soon.

2024 - Nov - 16 UPDATE:

Now we have our OWN website with all the news, FAQs, downloads, and info you need!

We are free, baby!! https://cathornerogames.com