Greetings - I've seen projects like this come and go over the years and I'm cautiously optimistic for Lorepository. What exactly are your plans for the future? I've got a lot of concerns for how stable the site's future will be, considering how prohibitively expensive image hosting can get. If the people can know how stable you see it being in the future, I can see a lot more giving the site a try, including myself!
I do enjoy the fact that your ToS explicitly outlines what is allowed and prohibited content, and that this is a rare character storage website that openly allows 18+ artwork [and dedicates a section to sapience/capability of consent].
I'd just like to know if this website could likely be alive five, ten, even fifteen years in the future. A site like this is something you have to dedicate a lot of time to, or else you might wind up like refsheet.
More transparency on what's going on behind the scenes would be really epic :)
Apologies for the delay, and thank you for your kind words! We try to be as explicit as possible regarding our ToS, and to elaborate further in our FAQ section where needed.
Our goal is very much for Lorepository to be a site that's around ten years from now. Part of making a sustainable site is having the appropriate support, which is why we've added to our team--we've got two people who have worked on Lorepository from the very beginning, and in the past few months have hired two bug testers and a community moderator to help us flesh out our technical features and monitor our community.
Having both technical and social maintenance together should allow us to grow the site at a sustainable rate--as more users join, the revenue earned can feed directly back into growing our team, which in turn allows us to expand what we're able to offer to the community (more site features, increased community moderation), which in turn allows us to advertise these new features to people who might not have heard of Lorepository before. New users mean more potential revenue, which loops back around to expanding services and our team--and ideally, this becomes a regular growth cycle.
The two staff members who have been around since the beginning have relevant professional experience in user growth and retention. We're hoping that we can apply that experience to keeping Lorepository around for a good long time!
