No kidding, that render is on-point. I legit thought this was an actual recording before I expanded the thumbnail. Thanks for sharing.

It'll be sad to see you go, but perfectly understandable considering everything that's happened. Just opening the instance alone and governing it for as long as you have is already an amazing amount of effort, so I hope you won't lose sight of that in spite of all the challenges.

Definitely hope you take some time to take care of yourself as you step away from here. Best of luck with finding someone to take over.

I can think of a few favorites lewd games that do #1 or #3, but #2 kinda blurs together with #3 anyway for me.

What's more of a distinguishing factor is how integrated it is in the main gameplay or story. Games like SUBVERSE were really a disappointment to me since the majority of the sex scenes were in exchange for "friendship points" that you earned from grinding battles.

I usually prefer games with frequently weave sex into it, like having sex frequently to seduce guards or even incorporating it into combat itself as a part of the challenge.

I'm all for team kitty for the titty. 🍈

However, I feel the cat should be tied to the pussy instead of the dog, but that's probably just me, haha

My preference is to name the character and artist directly somewhere, usually in the title. It also works for searching when put in the description too. As long as you actually name the character/artist somewhere, it should work. Thanks for posting and asking!

If I had the time and energy to do it, I'd probably build a sauce bot to look it up and write it out automatically, but I'm lazy.

Thank you~ I've updated my sidebar to refer to the correct rule number when reminding users to not post any instance-wide banned materials like underage or non-con content etc. etc.

Looking forward to the docs page getting built out progressively to help navigate some of the nuances around some of the more "gray" rules that are harder to adjudicate on. It's a lot of work, and I'd imagine no user will read it right off the bat, but it'll be helpful to refer them to when making those judgement calls and referring users to when they (hopefully) accidentally post banned content. The thought and depth of the work is very appreciated.

I just want other people to post and share more stuff, yeah. I built my collection off of seeing what other people like, but the return is pretty poor right now especially when I could just go to Reddit for everything instead.

Looking at analogous subreddits for comparison, people don't comment much other than praising works they particularly like or hornyposting about how sexy a set of tits are, so that'd be the most I'd expect here, which feels unlikely when 2-4K upvotes there nets maybe 2-3 comments.

It's mostly me posting in !paizuri@lemmynsfw.com, with votes on the posts being either on the cusp of or just barely into double digits for a 400-ish subscriber community. The rough part is that while the number of subscribers continues to grow, the number of people posting and commenting has not. I exchange at most 1 comment or so from time to time with 1 other user.

The slow but steady subscriber count growth keeps me from giving up and stopping, but I wonder when I'll start to see engagement from more than just me. I'm thinking of trying to encourage more low-effort engagement, like [DISC] posts where people can comment with links to doujinshi with related content, but haven't committed to it yet.

Anecdotally, growing and maintaining a hentai-oriented community feels pretty challenging. The instance as a whole is generally IRL-oriented, looking at Local+Active (which isn't a bad thing, esp. w/ the OC posters!). Other hentai posters have either left in search of or been banned for posting content they'd ordinarily post elsewhere. While the reasons are understandable, I think it creates some barriers to visibility and posting in hentai communities.

EDIT: The UX around GIF/Video posting also seems to suck enough for me to not post any to avoid people just seeing still frames instead of an animation, but that's seemingly more of a Lemmy problem than anything to do w/ this specific instance.

I picked up Kaiju Princess during the Steam Winter Sale and was surprised at how well they dressed up a simple cohabitation/management simulation. There's nothing super notable about the gameplay, but the interactive sex scene + CG-based scenes were reasonably well-illustrated.

My only complaint is that I thought the scenes were superhard to unlock because I only got a handful of scenes from start to beating the main story. Turns out that some scenes auto-play on unlock (like the relationship rank up scenes) while others are simply unlocked and need to be selected from the Scenes menu. That was definitely different from what I'm used to.

Peeping Dorm Manager was also really good, but also light on content, though what's there is gold. They did a good job of streamlining what is usual a tedious process of tracking NPC schedules by giving you an automatic "quest log" that tracks new pieces of information as you discover them. It's a bit of a grind to get resources at the start, but it's super easy once you get items that makes it more efficient to grind.

I brought up two of the newer random accounts on the Mod Coord chat on Element since some of their posts were hitting !hentai. This would make for at least four accounts so far that I can count:

1. @0FEAC1B46BE2EA09 - (Banned?) posted a few posts with nonsense titles and wonky obfuscated links
2. @0FE66A4B6C020906 - (Banned?) posted the same images (again, nonsense titles)
3. @0D5C3D7BD3F7D503 - (Banned?) created a ton of new communities
4. @0FAC249F80845370 - the latest?

Not sure if it's a bot or not, but their posts and behavior don't seem like they're very engaged in making or contributing to a healthy community.

That's the only one I use if I want a quick stream of something, yeah. SakuraCircle is great for DDL/Torrents of newer soft-subbed H-anime, but doesn't always pick things up. Nyaa is for everything else, but is torrent-only.

The FMHY section on hanime has a ton of other alternatives I haven't tried.

The artist is WaterRing, iirc. Good stuff! More cute than lewd for my tastes, but always nice to see.

Yunaka is right! Source for first by しゃむ and second by Wakatak accordingly.

I wanted to post some Yunaka recently too but didn't have anything I hadn't already posted.

Hi, image 2 and 4 look like they were AI-generated which is against Rule 4 for this comm. Could you remove/replace them or confirm that they are not AI-generated?

Otherwise, thanks for posting! I might upload a few in the same theme. :P

Thanks for posting. Art seems to be by kairunoburogu for anyone else looking for more.

Seems like it's fine to me? Any idea if it's possibly your ISP or if it's anything you've done?

She needn't worry. The feeling's mutual~

I don't see it being a benefit in communities in that I mod (hentai, paizuri, tentaclehentai, and hentaigif), so I'm not personally keen on it but I can see why larger communities might want it. I'm no longer as hopeful that a more active hentai-oriented community will develop here, so though I voted "No", I'm a little apathetic about the choice now, personally.

From what I recall, some users use downvotes for more than just spam, like disliking things. This creates a problem when people browse the Local feed and downvote stuff they don't like even if they aren't even subbed to that community. This impacts niche communities and their posters/creators who would get more downvotes from people seeking more mainstream content even if it would otherwise fit that community.

If the goal is just to ward off spam, then unless reports aren't enough, I'd keep downvotes off.

A more well-known all-rounder favorite would be Evenicle with a very compelling cast and reasonably good gameplay.

A few honorable mentions:

• Ambrosia, for providing a relatively large world full of ways to lewd the female protag nun
• Imperial Harem, for the excellent voice acting in an interactive game
• Re;Lord series, for a fun twist on real-time battles with clothing break
  • The third and final game in the series is not yet translated

Thanks for sharing! AI generated content goes against rule 4 here though, so you should remove your third image.

I also recommend sharing some of the tentacle stuff over at !tentaclehentai too~