Recommendation for new place to host comic and novel + added review?

[silverraven0]

Is it possible to dm me a comic where there's sexual content like you said if possible? I still don't know how to navigate the site properly.

[Zhengo]

You can find ToS and privacy policy here https://namicomi.com/en/terms/content

[silverraven0]

Oh this one works! Thank you, for some reason the link on the bottom of their help page just doesn't work.

[silverraven0]

Was recommended by an acquaintance, a platform called webcomic studio. Made by a comic Creator.

Somewhat like comic fury where you can make your own site(?), but more 'sleek' looking.

Nsfw is not permissable. Artistic nudity and talks about sexuality is okay or anything not considered arousing. With this I assume the more mature depiction will also not permissable, confirmation required.

Anti AI.

LGBTQA friendly.

You can do one page, spread page or scroll format for your comic.

Saw no mention of monetization on their policy unless I missed it somehow, so this is purely to host your comic.

Unfortunately with the censorship I mostly won't be considering this platform.

[krisadafantasy]

My series is a short GIF animation, so support for that format is essential for me and that's already remove webtoon as an option lol.

I'm considering Comic Fury and Lemoon right now.

[mehulguptaji114]

novelcult has queer specific genres and tags, and allows mature content.

[silverraven0]

@mehulguptaji114 Yup I already checked them out, seems legit enough (except for the many ai covers, but each to their own) tho I'm still looking for more options.Btw since you only seems to talk about novel cult are you one of the staff lol?*genuine question

[silverraven0]

Looking at inkstra. Pretty neat.

No AI.

Yes bl & gl

Can publish in scroll format, comic (left to right) and manga format (right to left). I don't know if they allowed spread pages for comic and manga or if they have limit for sizes and pages.

Checked one of the series and you can scroll left and right to read? Kinda weird looking since I'm not used to this kinda format so it looks funny. Also, zooming in and out is a nightmare. Not particularly reader friendly in my case. If I could I share the video but we can't upload video on the forum lol. Might be my browser tho. On scroll format zoom worked fine.

Actually have a guild page of how to publish and explaining things for new people. Super neat.

Unsure if you marked one pages or chapter as mature, the rest of the series will also labeled as mature and won't be searchable unless you checked the mature rating. Need confirmation.

Specifically saying they will not use your Creation for ai training. I forgot if the other platform said this. So rereading policies is necessary.

There's some safeguard invisible watermarking? I don't really understand it but it's dope?!

Mature and nsfw is allowed though I still don't know how far we can take it.

Unsure if fanworks are allowed.

You probably can earn money with ads tho I might have missed the part where it's explained.

Currently a strong candidate, wish it have novel section as well, still going to look around for a bit.

[claiborneart]

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[silverraven0]

Btw when I saw platform said they don't want sexual depiction of minors, I wonder if 17 X 17 years old or teens with the same age range is also not allowed. (I'm high-key curious)

[claiborneart]

If you look at their ToS, it is not allowed: https://comicfury.com/rules.php

Honestly, I don't think even the porn-specific sites allow that, as it becomes a legal issue

[wolflu66]

I’ve mentioned this in this thread before.
If you don’t mind the smaller user base, you can try the Taiwanese platform CXC.

Its biggest advantage is the high degree of creative freedom. As for the question you asked about whether 17-year-old characters are allowed, I think they are fine on this platform, as long as you correctly mark it as adult content and avoid involving real people or overly realistic virtual characters.

https://forums.tapas.io/t/in-light-of-tapas-closing-here-is-a-breakdown-of-7-webcomic-sites-i-recently-tried-out-please-add-ones-i-forgot-about-and-your-own-experiences-lets-discuss-which-sites-are-worth-moving-to/97168/8?u=wolflu66

[silverraven0]

This question arise because the discrepancy of what can be published on online platform and published books can be different. Saw some published novel and comic where there's sexual act between teens in America from even long ago. So I wonder why it's not allowed in online site but they're allowed on published materials, even pdf files and such.

[silverraven0]

They gave that much freedom? Guess I'll check their policies and platform. Thanks for the recommendation.

[wolflu66]

@silverraven0 The CXC website’s rules are actually quite vaguely written.

But they mainly follow Taiwanese law.
About two years ago, Taiwan amended the law. The new version of the Child and Youth Sexual Exploitation Prevention Act primarily protects REAL minors.
In other words, it only restricts content involving real people, excessively realistic virtual characters, or characters created based on real people as models.

As for other virtual creations (ordinary 2D/anime-style, clearly fictional works), they are regulated under general criminal law and treated the same as adult content.

(I’m not a legal professional; this is just my understanding based on news reports and discussions with AI.)

[danwad25]

Hey there!

So the LTR and RTL and vertical reader formats are chosen by the creator! If it's a manga then the user scrolls from RtL, comics are LtR and then webtoons are vertical. At the top of the chapter page there's a toggle that allocates the images into any of those formats that the reader wants to use, sometimes this may lead to some strange looking reading experience (such as if you put a webtoon series in LtR or RtL format). I accepted that that would look strange, but I tried to at least make it look as neat as I could while allowing any format to be available.

Zooming is very awkward to handle on mobile, I have custom zooming logic for LtR readers and RtL readers, and vertical formats allow normal webpage zooming functionalities. For desktop I added a small magnifying glass to hover over text/images that can be toggles by right-clicks on the image. I know it's not perfect, but I'm still trying to refine it, that's proven to be trickier UI work than I initially thought.

BL & GL are allowed, nudity is allowed, strange fetish content though can be removed at Inkstra's discretion typically if it's deemed unhealthy for the platform. Nothing outright illegal is allowed though. The main thing is that the individual chapters or the series (if a plurality of chapters are gory/sexual) need to be marked as age-restricted properly so that this content doesn't get mixed in with the non-adult catalog.

The invisible watermarking is something that I had on there, but I removed it since it was a bit finicky. I need to re-do it and make sure it works better. Basically it's piracy protection, I can scan images uploaded to piracy sites to see if the work was stolen, and who stole it.

Fanfiction is allowed, but if a DMCA request lands on my front porch I'm not in the best position to fight it, so keep it fair use please. I cannot promise that it would remain up though versus other types of content.

I have removed monetization for now since I'm working a career outside of Inkstra and I'm the sole owner/developer, I cannot give it the business needs that it requires for handling monetization. As to not make money off of other people's work I've even removed ads from the site entirely (I had adsense enabled at one point). In lieu of that I've made it possible for creators to add links to their socials that are on their profile and show up in various places, and links to KoFi and Patreon in particular create a 'Tip jar' that can be seen by readers if they choose to support creators personally.

Also I plan on adding webnovels hopefully by next month, I have created a 'social feed' system that was going to be the backbone that I leverage here for creating the webnovels, I just have to make modifications to it.

I think that addresses most of it, if I skipped anything or if you want to know any other information, feel free to reach out.

[silverraven0]

Thank you for the answer @danwad25 !

I mainly use my phone browser because I don't have pc, so yeah reading with rtl and ltr format felt really weird there and the zoom didn't work that well, so I did get a little disappointed.

Also what if a series only have a bit of mature content eg. Racism (for story purpose), some violence (but nothing gory, think of a fistfight that resulted in injury), slightly sexual (maybe around pg15?), and triggering contents.Does marking just a chapter or several will result in the whole series getting restricted only in the 18+ category?

What if there's a single gore moment in a series that usually pg13, and does tagging it making the whole series directly moved to 18+ section? (You already explained it but I'm making sure I didn't read that wrong. I prefer to be clear with the rules )

Regarding nsfw content, nudity is allowed but does straight up sex is allowed? If it's allowed do we need to censor them partially? Same with gore content, does it need to be censored in a way? (Aside from marking it 18+)

[conventurecomics]

I moved to neocities i'm in the testing phase now my site will look different once its live
https://conventure-comics.neocities.org/

[danwad25]

So I try to put as few limitations on content as possible so people can put up their authentic work so I'll sum it up like this:
Inkstra has discretion to hide/remove content that is illegal, hide/remove NSFW content that shows people that are young or appear young (loli stuff for instance), and hide/remove fetish content (case-by-case basis, there have been very weird things that I have seen).
NSFW content otherwise is allowed but MUST be tagged appropriately to keep it away from non-NSFW content.
If a plurality of someone's series is NSFW, I recommend that they mark the series as NSFW, otherwise they can mark individual chapters as NSFW when things get spicy or excessively gory. I also allow the authors to set content warnings per chapter, it'll show if the chapter has drugs/sexual themes/gore/etc. If I personally think that someone hasn't marked their work appropriately, I may personally label their series or chapters as NSFW.

I don't have a sorta in-between area right now though like a teenage setting, I mostly rely on "Is this NSFW or not?" and then let content warnings control the rest and allow readers to decide if they want to proceed reading or not. When creating a series there's a place that let's the creator set the audience (all ages, teen, mature), but it's not really used much in any algorithms currently, it was mostly for future expansion as needed.

[silverraven0]

Okay thank you once again for your answer