#payments processor

[ngtskynebula]

Has any of the people looking for alternatives to Stripe and PayPal ever experimented with Paddle? Do mind reviewing it, if you did? 🤔

[unpretty]

So assuming a group of disillusioned programmers wanted to put together a WordPress replacement, what would be necessary features for you to try it?

gotta be easy for a moron to install, either through docker or whatever other one-click installer options are out there

the ability to assign posts to categories and have the next/previous button on single post view only apply within that category

likes/kudos on posts (why did i need to install a plugin for this)

the ability to paywall posts or categories according to subscriber tier

multiple payment processor options instead of just stripe (paypal, ccbill, authorize.net, literally anything that won't ban you for smut lmfao)

the ability to send posts as emails substack-style with category-specific email lists (i don't mind it needing to plug into a third party service for this but right now with wordpress i've got two different third party services duct-taped together for something it seems like it should be able to do out of the box, what the fuck)

comments section that can also be limited by subscriber tier

[voidedjuice]

i dont want to get a mobilepay account

[rimupon]

hii do you do commissions?

I've considered it, but lately I've been way too busy, and unfortunately I take forever to draw, so the prices would be obscenely too high for me to justify. So not at this time, sorry ;;. Thank you for asking tho!

[spacedace]

Just spent an hour trying to sign up for DC Infinite and their billing system is jacked to hell and back and simply would not accept any payment methods on any device.

And like, look I was trying to do this the "correct" way and all that shit. Physical comics are expensive and I've found that I have a harder time reading them in physical format than digital these days, idk blame the adhd. But like, Firefox's VPN is less expensive than their monthly option and I've been meaning to get a virtual machine setup anyway.

All of which to say, it's time to raise the flag methinks.

[titleknown]

So, you know all those bad laws I tell y'all to call your senators to kill? Well here's a good one for you to promote!

Basically, you know how payment processors freak the fuck out if even the slightest whiff of adult content shows up on a website, which has lead to the widespread sanitization of the internet?

Well, this bill, S.293; aims to prevent that crap!

And, it's currently in the Committee of Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, so if your Senator is one of the following, call them and tell them to vote yes on it:

Sherrod Brown, Ohio, Chairman

Jack Reed, Rhode Island

Bob Menendez, New Jersey

Jon Tester, Montana

Mark Warner, Virginia

Elizabeth Warren, Massachusetts (Tell her it would be a start on apologizing for voting yes on FOSTA/SESTA)

Chris Van Hollen, Maryland

Catherine Cortez Masto, Nevada

Tina Smith, Minnesota

Kyrsten Sinema, Arizona (ugh)

Raphael Warnock, Georgia

John Fetterman, Pennsylvania

Tim Scott, South Carolina, Ranking Member

Mike Crapo, Idaho

Mike Rounds, South Dakota

Thom Tillis, North Carolina (Probably not reaching this asshole)

John Kennedy, Louisiana

Bill Hagerty, Tennessee

Cynthia Lummis, Wyoming

J.D. Vance, Ohio (Ugh)

Katie Britt, Alabama

Kevin Cramer, North Dakota

Steve Daines, Montana

If they're one of those right-wing dipshits, tell them it would help them prevent "cancel culture" via socially-conscious payment processors. Because subterfugue towards conservatives is always cool and good! Always!

Also mention that, in a happy irony, this would actually make kids safer by allowing platforms to acknowlege that, yes, people make a living selling well-endowed monoecious horsegirl drawings on their platform, and actually put properly finetuned safeguards in place.

As opposed to now, where they have to dance around it and put it in a grey-area hell so that Peter "Dracula" Thiel doesn't get his seastead in a shoal and ban them, which nobody likes!

So, call 'em if you can, boost even if you can't!

[shaydh]

trying to research stuff and WHY IS EVERYTHING SO COMPLICATED

[r0semultiverse]

So I bought some cheap stuff on gumroad that would have potentially become lost media otherwise. Made an account so that it would stay in my profile’s library. Let’s see if the ban of content retroactively takes this stuff out of people’s accounts or not. I’ll be a guinea pig. Stay tuned into tomorrow & I’ll update this after the 24 hour window is up.

[beardedmrbean]

Finland's infamous online message board Ylilauta has removed advertising on its website over the summer as the site transitioned to a user paying model last year.

"Yes, all our financing is now independent of others," the site's administrators wrote in a reply to Yle.

Ylilauta reported last year that it had 2.5 million monthly users. It has not publicly disclosed the number of paying users.

The decision to remove ads was voluntary, according to the site's management. However, there have been a number of problems with the site's advertising model in the past given some of the controversial content posted on Ylilauta.

Police found casino advertisements illegal

Yle MOT reported last year how Ylilauta paid millions of euros in dividends to its owners in tax havens. The proceeds were obtained, among other ways, by selling advertising space to online casinos.

The advertising of foreign online casinos is prohibited in Finland. The police could have imposed a fine on the gambling promoter.

Finnish police first intervened in Ylilauda's gambling advertising in 2021. Lauta Media, the Maltese company that owns Ylilauta, has denied violating the Lotteries Act.

However, in June it said it would remove the gambling ads to please the police.

"As a gesture of goodwill, Lauta Media will take steps to remove banner ads from foreign gambling companies," CEO John Farrugia wrote in a response to the police department.

Google removed its own ads from Ylilauta

In July, Tivi reported that Google had removed its own Adsense ads from Ylilauta because the forum violated its rules on hate speech and harassment.

Tivi cited the discussion threads exposed by Svenska Yle in June as an example. Ylilauta users had posted pictures of women without their consent.

According to the site's administrators, there are no longer any ads on the site, which also improves the user experience.

Ownership transferred to Estonia

Ylilauta is owned by Lauta Media, registered in Malta. The largest owner is Aleksi Kinnunen, the founder of the forum also known by the username Sopsy.

Kinnunen has owned around 32 percent of Lauta Media through Goldhill Holdings, a company registered in Gibraltar. In May, however, he transferred the shares to Pulju OÜ, registered in Estonia.

The rest of Lauta Media is owned by Halonen Holding, registered in Gibraltar, and Sissonen Capital, Stelbur Capital and Huhtikuu, registered in Finland.

[jpivot]

do u ever take commissions?? i’m just rly obsessed with your deadlock art especially lash 😭💙

theoretically yes but practically no, lol... ive been entertaining the idea of "opening commissions" for years but the planets rarely align for me to do so*.

i also have that disease where i can only do 0% or 120% amounts of effort, with no inbetween. the former is not worth it for customers and the latter is not worth it for me. alas

*tbh i guess you could just ask and we can work something out. the last time i did a commission someone asked me about it and then waited a whole year for me to finally have a window of time appear to work on it. so. thats the type of inconvenient geological time scale i function on

[noisytenant]

there are fools in every field but i really thank god every day that i'm not a professional illustrator. the genAI hysteria and IP dickriding would make me want to explode everyone with my mind

[asagi-asagiri]

Making payment prcoessors allow sex work/porn but debank religious institutions is looking really good.

[yesmissnyx]

Might look into gumroad or subscribestar for people who are jumpy about porn sites but want my premium audio...

Also, subscribestar appears to allow ALL kinks as long as the content is fictional, which...given I like petplay, mommy/daddy kink, and noncon...might be a better option? I just might not be able to post pictures there, unlike NF and LF.

Just thinking thoughts!

[girlyliondragon]

I'm so tired as a NSFW artist on other sites having to tie myself into a tighter social noose just to be able to post smut online.

[draconic-absurdism]

If you follow me on any of my socials you may have seen that I've been struggling to get a payment processor for selling suits. I wanted to move away from PayPal because the fees are sucking me dry (and not even in the fun way)

I tried SumUp, but it was incredibly frustrating and ultimately failed. My account was glitched (stuck in verification hell) so I contacted their support, and they immediately requested a bunch of additional documents to prove my identity. I sent them what they wanted, and then they immediately just decided to... shut my account down with no reason as to why, and no way to appeal. I suspect it may be because I'm a solo freelancer rather than a registered business, but that's my best guess. No matter what the reason, it was extremely unprofessional. Just radio silence after taking my personal bank details and government issued identification. If I didn't know multiple other freelancers who use SumUp, I'd be suspicious they were a front for identity theft or something, with how unprofessional and glitchy the service was.

I've been like "Oh I think I have payment set up now! -Uh actually nevermind its still messed up" all week, and its just as wild for me as it probably is to everyone watching this happen.

My friend (@ terminalvortex ILY bestie) recommended Stripe so I tried that and it seems to work WAY better. It has lower fees, accepts international payments, and was way easier to set up.

My hope is that Stripe will be my permanent payment processor and that I will never have to switch processors ever again.

I was successfully able to get a Stripe invoice paid from my other friend (@ fillycolt), who I will be making custom insect wings for after Anthrocon! (Also, it has been EXTREMELY helpful throughout this entire process, it worked with me through the whole SumUp ordeal, helped me test invoices, and has been incredibly patient, so I'm really grateful for that)

So with that being said, I will OFFICIALLY (FOR REAL THIS TIME I PROMISE) be listing all the paws I've been posting WIP shots of on my Dealer's Den account (linked in my pinned post) throughout the day today. I pray this is the last time I will have to make a technical update about payment, and can just get back to having fun making suits. Thanks for your patience everyone!

[swashbucklery]

OK I just played myself Ode to Joy on the frogs and you know what? It helped.