This Too Shall Pass

[mynameisben]

I'm not worried about Literotica going away any time soon. I'm confident that Literotica will outlive me, and that's all I really care about. My unread stories and posts can disappear like so much dust in the wind when I'm gone. My legacy will always be that I outlived my debt while avoiding homelessness. (The jury is still out on the latter half of that statement).


Ben

 

[RejectReality]

Literotica is going away just like eBay and Facebook are going away. Literotica has the same advantages that they do - its the biggest site in its niche. Readers come here because it offers the biggest collection of stories and the most new stories. Writers publish here because it offers the highest readership. And because it's the biggest, it can cover its costs more easily than competing sites. It's updated its story-reading front end to support mobile devices, which is now the majority of viewing devices. I rarely go looking at other porn story sites, but a few quick visits don't reveal any that appear to have a mobile-friendly front end. And one of Literotica's big competitors asstr.org has folded.

I'm surprised someone was still paying the bills to keep asstr online as long as they did. It had been barely functional for a decade or more.

 

[jaF0]

Shall we play Taps? Have a 21 story salute? An Ode to the Org?

 

[jaF0]

Must have just gone down since the Wayback has snaps from March 10th.

Always liked their cover image Purple Blanket.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210303110754im_/https://asstr.org/images/pnb.jpg

 

[RejectReality]

A week or so ago if I'm remembering the timeline correctly from a post about it elsewhere.

At least, that's when I heard about it.