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Howdy y'all Raccoon Stars!
As some of you may have seen, I opened a site on another platform!
Please check out my links website http://www.kathielvrc.com/ for more information!
Now, why was this done?
SubscribeStar, while nice for what it is, was actually very limited, and I'll outline the issues I stumbled upon:
-no way to manage the albums uploaded, in fact they're not even uploaded as albums at all, every pic is an individual upload and then they're all tied to the post and nothing else, there's no "content vault" or "storage" to manage, and each post had a relatively small limit to what could be posted, both in size (space and resolution) and quantity.
-the above actually lead to many albums to be cut down in quality and quantity of pictures, since SS doesn't support 8K resolution (it just outright errored out), it barely supports 4K unless I uploaded it all in lossy JPG instead of PNG (PNGs were going over the size limit per post, even some JPGs were), as an example the Halloween Photoset 19 is exclusive to this other platform because it does not fit in SS's post limitations, since it's a whopping 100 photos taken, all at 8K resolution in PNG format, I'd have to cut it all down to 4K in JPG format and only post about 20 or less pictures to make it work in SS.
-no way to manage permissions per post nor per image, you set the ENTIRE thing to a tier, that's all, no way to do a multi-perm setup per tier with specific rules for specific conditions (say, having one set of perms for Tier 1, but Tier 2 has yet another set, etc)
-no way to host entire VODs, which was the reason why I wasn't uploading my VODs to SS, there was no way to do so, unless it was all like 1 minute highlights, and there was only enough space to do it once in a while since there's a total storage limit for videos, which is ridiculously small, not enough for a single VOD, not even enough for 1/8th of a VOD, that's how small the SS storage was for videos alone.
Now, I'm not dropping SS instantly, there will be a grace period that I'll be posting on both (what I'm able, VODs don't fit in SS so those will be exclusive to the other platform, and larger photosets like the Halloween one will also be exclusive to the other platform due to SS's limitations) for maybe the next several months.
Do note, like I have listed on the other platform's announcement poster on my Twitter, anyone who is a current SS active subscriber gets one month free on said platform of an equivalent tier!
So a Tier 3 SS will get a free month Tier 3 there, etc, etc for all the others too, so you can continue there if you want!
Thanks y'all for reading, sorry for the lengthy read, but I felt like I needed to clarify everything about SS VS other platforms, it wasn't just a spur of the moment thing, it was a build up, which was actually making me feel a lack of motivation to work on thingies to post, since some I was thinking about, I just couldn't do on SS without having to downgrade them in some way due to the platform's limitations, or not even be able to post them in SS to begin with.
Thanks y'all for your support and love y'all!
As some of you may have seen, I opened a site on another platform!
Please check out my links website http://www.kathielvrc.com/ for more information!
Now, why was this done?
SubscribeStar, while nice for what it is, was actually very limited, and I'll outline the issues I stumbled upon:
-no way to manage the albums uploaded, in fact they're not even uploaded as albums at all, every pic is an individual upload and then they're all tied to the post and nothing else, there's no "content vault" or "storage" to manage, and each post had a relatively small limit to what could be posted, both in size (space and resolution) and quantity.
-the above actually lead to many albums to be cut down in quality and quantity of pictures, since SS doesn't support 8K resolution (it just outright errored out), it barely supports 4K unless I uploaded it all in lossy JPG instead of PNG (PNGs were going over the size limit per post, even some JPGs were), as an example the Halloween Photoset 19 is exclusive to this other platform because it does not fit in SS's post limitations, since it's a whopping 100 photos taken, all at 8K resolution in PNG format, I'd have to cut it all down to 4K in JPG format and only post about 20 or less pictures to make it work in SS.
-no way to manage permissions per post nor per image, you set the ENTIRE thing to a tier, that's all, no way to do a multi-perm setup per tier with specific rules for specific conditions (say, having one set of perms for Tier 1, but Tier 2 has yet another set, etc)
-no way to host entire VODs, which was the reason why I wasn't uploading my VODs to SS, there was no way to do so, unless it was all like 1 minute highlights, and there was only enough space to do it once in a while since there's a total storage limit for videos, which is ridiculously small, not enough for a single VOD, not even enough for 1/8th of a VOD, that's how small the SS storage was for videos alone.
Now, I'm not dropping SS instantly, there will be a grace period that I'll be posting on both (what I'm able, VODs don't fit in SS so those will be exclusive to the other platform, and larger photosets like the Halloween one will also be exclusive to the other platform due to SS's limitations) for maybe the next several months.
Do note, like I have listed on the other platform's announcement poster on my Twitter, anyone who is a current SS active subscriber gets one month free on said platform of an equivalent tier!
So a Tier 3 SS will get a free month Tier 3 there, etc, etc for all the others too, so you can continue there if you want!
Thanks y'all for reading, sorry for the lengthy read, but I felt like I needed to clarify everything about SS VS other platforms, it wasn't just a spur of the moment thing, it was a build up, which was actually making me feel a lack of motivation to work on thingies to post, since some I was thinking about, I just couldn't do on SS without having to downgrade them in some way due to the platform's limitations, or not even be able to post them in SS to begin with.
Thanks y'all for your support and love y'all!
Its been a blast here but the limitations and not being able to fully do what you want are fine reasons to move on
Thank you Voogie!