![](https://burggit.moe/pictrs/image/516ac201-1666-432c-8380-18bf952e2cd5.png)
a significantly worse off reputation among those that hear horror stories of “Could you believe I saw ___ on the front page? God only know what they’re hiding behind locked doors for registered members if that’s what they show to the public”
This ship sailed long ago. There’s no point in trying to appeal to those that are intolerant of the existence of fetish content.
Good to have you back, Disa.
If compromise modifications aren’t an option, then I think it’s crucial that we stick with the NSFW patched version as it is. I conjecture that allowing NSFW posts and communities to be seen without logging in will make the difference between this place slowly growing vs slowly dying. I don’t have access to numbers to back this up, and we’d likely need a longer trial run of the NSFW patched version to judge whether there’s an inflection point. However, the “ghost town” effect that has been mentioned is real. People largely will not go through a registration process before they have an idea of what the site has to offer.