The short version: I'm still working on this. I hoped I would have it by the end of 2025 but now it looks like February 2026 for a bare-bones implementation.
It's been a while since changes in the legal landscape caused me to lock down my various websites. If you want a little more context, the following links might be useful.
During that time, I got quite a few emails encouraging me, giving their sympathies and understanding, but also a lot of “is it up yet?” Now that we are through the holiday season and we passed the date I gave, I owe everyone a status.
First of all, I'm still working toward opening up my sites. It might be a few more months but I'm seeing rapid progress now.
I wanted to code something that worked. And I tried for quite a few months but got overwhelmed. It was frustrating because while I'm a fairly good coder, I'm also going through a lot of crap with Fluffy, Spawn, and Fork (medical issues, so many F grades, therapy, and other struggles) not to mention family drama, a prescription that creatively knocked me out for three months, and my day job basically taking me hard without even a hint of foreplay.
Somewhere near the beginning of December, I realized I couldn't do it. I keep looking to see if someone else has the right combination of age verification, geo blocking, linking to various patronage sites, and linking to static websites and haven't found one (imagine that).
Fortunately, I have a “not really a friend but an associate” that is a better coder than me and is willing to put the effort into writing something I need for my sites. For the low cost of writing them a private novel, they are going blow their free time and write what I obviously can't. Fortunately, writing porn is something I can do and hopefully I'll be able to post the results to subscribers.
It is promising that after two weeks, they are already way past how far I've gotten. So I think we are on track on getting my sites worked on, but there are going to be a couple rough points along the way. Also, they are a bazaar-style coder whereas I'm more cathedral, so that means changes are coming out faster than my effort to do everything at once. As it currently stands, the initial version will be:
- There will be a dedicated site under curiouscabbit.com where you'll be able to sign up. It will be something creative like “members.curiouscabbit.com” but it doesn't exist yet.
- From there, you should be able to link your subscriber with your account. That is going to let me use Patreon and SubscribeStar act as the age verification to start with and covers my bases there.
- The site will use your IP address to figure out where you are. If you are in a state that requires hourly reverification, you won't be able to use it but you'll be told before you link the patronage site. I understand if you unsubscribe or disable subscriptions until that changes.
- My sites are going to switch back to basic authentication (the dialog box from 2-3 years ago) for login instead of the form. On the membership site, you'll be able to pick your password (which will be different than the one you log into the membership site itself).
- With an hour, your user name and chosen password will work on my websites.
It isn't pretty but we're going to focus on getting “something” working first, then work on polish. In specific, there are a couple caveats:
- Rodo will require subscribers to access until we can implement a separate age verification.
- Email and verifications aren't going to be working, so chances are, if you lose your password, you're going to have to email me from the email you have on the subscriber site to change your password. It will not be a pretty one, something closer to “n68gpbcdB3g8Hx&ATjII6lO.”
- Any geo blocks will be based on location of every IP request in the last thirty days.
Clearly, there is a lot more work after this to make it easier to create accounts directly from the subscriber sites, implement the hourly reverification, and generally making it easier to use. It's also going to be rough, but it looks like it will cover my ass from most reasonable legal threats, give the auditing and backing to do so, and lets us introduce more usable features over time.
On the writing side, I did get a trio of commissions (including the one for barter). So I'm going to work on those over the next month or so when I do unlock the subscriber sites again, they will have fresh content queued up for weekly posting.
Some of this is complicated by Patreon who really hates pausing subscriptions. I can only disable billing for a month and they give no notice of when they turn it billing back on, but I can't also extend by a month without it being open again. Which means occasionally someone slips in, subscribes, and gets charged when I'm trying to get things done. There is also a lot of red tape involved with getting APIs set up, but I do have a manual alternative if that doesn't work.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me or post on the various subscriber sites.
I know that this optimal, but it's the best way I have of getting you back to my stories at the moment.
At the moment, it looks like I should have the minimal, duct-taped version working by the end of February 2026. I'll post again at the end of the month with where we are with this.
And thank you.