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What URL are you seeing those errors on? It works for me on FF for Mac and iPhone. But to answer your other question - no the site isn't functional yet. Other things keep getting in the way of getting it done.

Writing in German is also not allowed on this site. We don't allow things we can't moderate.

Glad to hear the problems have gone away. I changed nothing, so the problems weren't on my end. One possibility was that somehow you triggered the DDOS protection that's in place and got temporarily blocked from the site (my server is on a DDOS-protected network but I'm not exactly sure what would trigger a block). Anyway, good that things are back to normal.

For the record, ^^^ THIS ^^^ got him banned from the site for a pretty long time. Heart disease is the #1 cause of death in the United States. It kills (slightly) more people every year than cancer. The #5 cause of death is stroke. The #7 is diabetes. Obesity is one of the top causes for all of those conditions. So yes, gainer fetish is extremely harmful. Like wanting (or encouraging people) to progress to AIDS, it is a form of self-harm and hence somewhat "suicidal".

They're called gTLDs (generic top level domains). I highly doubt that's the problem. For those that are technical, if you experience the problem you can right click (on a computer, not a mobile device) and choose "Inspect…" from the contextual menu. That will bring up another window. Go to the "Network" tab in that window and then reload the page. There will then be a line for each element of the page that's loaded with bars that show how long it took to load. When you click on a bar there will be a way to tell what caused the delay with that particular element (different browsers display it differently). It's useful to know which line (page element) is causing the delay and what the browser says the cause of the delay was. Here's an example (using Firefox). This is what you'd see when you click on a line, then click on "Timings"… What that's saying is that something (not quite sure what) blocked the loading of the page for ~1/10th of a second (95ms). DNS resolution was instantaneous (because it was already cached). It took 1/20th of a second to connect to the server, another 1/20th of a second to negotiate encryption. Sending the request took no time, and then it had to wait 1/7th of a second to get a response. But again, for most of you none of that will make much of any sense. But if it does make sense to any of you, and you can do that when you encounter a problem it would be hugely helpful to know what you see in that debug window.

Those of you on computers - please try another browser, like Firefox, and let me know if you see the problem there. In my experience Safari is a bit of a weak browser. I run Twitter in 5 different browsers (different accounts in each) and Safari is the only one that has problems. It constantly gives me memory warnings and auto-play of videos just ceases pretty quickly when I'm browsing. It's probably my least favorite browser (Firefox is my favorite.) Based on all your reports it feels like a bad version of Safari got pushed out. Nothing has changed on this site in the time period that's being discussed.

I'm having that problem, with BBRT, but not here. What browser(s) are you using? iPad and iPhone I'm assuming Safari, but how about on your Mac? Have you tried quitting and coming at it fresh? One possibility is that your ISP is trying to snoop on what you do (using a reverse proxy server). When they see I've got security set up here so that's impossible, they may just connect you properly. To test for that, turn off WiFi on your iPhone and connect via the cellular network and see if the problems persist (or use your iPhone to create a hotspot for your other devices so they too use the cellular network). If there's no problem on your cell network, then the problem is with your ISP.

I've heard previously that it's not uncommon to have another STI at the time of HIV diagnosis. Whether that's a causal relationship, or simply both effects of being a slut, I don't know.

I should mention that I was thinking through the whole Mastercard problem with one of the owners of Raw Fuck Club (not Owen Hawk - the other one that very few of you know). Anyway, he was thinking that since the apps (Grindr, Scruff, etc.) satisfy Apple's content guidelines, that they might not be considered "adult content or services". In which case they'd be exempt from Mastercards rules (as is Twitter, despite being one of the biggest porn sites on the planet and taking credit cards for advertising). IF the apps are exempt (that's a big IF), then the web-based hookup sites would have to follow suit and do what the apps do - so all public pictures are PG (or maybe PG-13 if Mastercard allows). But can you imagine BarebackRT with no public dick or ass pics? IMHO, that would just be weird. Breeding Zone barely pays it's own expenses. The money I make mostly comes from my porn sites - e.g. BBBH.com, etc. None of my sites take credit cards. Instead I get my money by referring people to porn sites, and then I get either a percentage of the sale or a flat fee for referring the customer. This is why I've been so slow to get the hookup sites I've been working on off the ground - my porn sites are a higher priority. Some porn sites have tried taking crypto. Almost none of the customers used it when it was offered as an option. That said, if Mastercard goes strict on these new rules and it's life or death for hookup sites, I can see gay guys figuring out how to pay with crypto. And honestly, that's the holy grail for porn/adult sites. They pay crazy amounts in fees to credit card companies that would be gone with crypto. And chargebacks are impossible with crypto. The only downside is I don't think you can do automatic rebilling with crypto.

Exactly! We will get STIs. The question is whether we seek them out and intentionally give them to others. There's a huge difference between unintentionally getting and spreading them and intentionally getting and spreading them.

I should also mention that the earliest these changes will go into effect will be this fall. And it's possible that Mastercard will change the new rules to accommodate hookup sites before then.

I should add that the sites I'm developing will be free sites. The only site that will take credit cards will be a store where you can buy t-shirts, sex toys, etc. My strategy is to operate on a shoestring. What I've found running Breeding Zone is that you guys are my greatest asset. It's really about creating a community and having the community take care of itself. The "I just joined the site and I'm upset I can't send 100 messages a day" mindset comes from paid sites where you pay for the right to do things. On this site and even more so on my new sites, you'll earn the right to do things. There will be a points system where you get more rights and perks the more you help the site – posting high quality content, reporting things to moderators, etc.

This is just a heads up since we all depend in one way or another on hookup sites and apps which in turn depend on paid memberships… Mastercard is changing the rules (and Visa is sure to follow suit). In the near future any site with adult content will now have to… 1) Validate the identity of all users who upload content. This means you will need to upload government ID to every hookup site/app you use and they will need to validate that the ID is authentic and belongs to you. 2) Require anyone uploading adult content to obtain and maintain WRITTEN consent and age verification for each person in the image. This means to upload a picture of your dick or your ass you'll need to sign a form consenting to both having the picture taken (even though you took it) and having it uploaded (even though you uploaded it). And you'll need to sign a form verifying your ID at the time the pic was taken and save a copy of your ID in your files. You then need to maintain those documents for as long as the pic is on the site. If the pic contains another person, then you need all those documents for them as well. Now it's possible the sites could require that you be the only person in the images you upload and that they have you digitally sign consent and age verification documents at the time of the upload (you will already have uploaded your ID). But what if they have data breach and a hacker gets all that information? Do you really want your name, address, etc. made public along with your X-rated pics? Unless you have an exposure fetish that's sorta a nightmare scenario. This means paid hookup site/app memberships are a thing of the past. That may sound great, but the sites/apps depend on that revenue. And the new rules require they do a lot of work - verifying your identity and verifying the legality of each image you upload. I don't see how they can survive. At a bare minimum they'll stop sponsoring events, membership prices will go up (to cover the additional staff needed to comply with the rules and the members who leave their sites/apps). It's not going to be pretty. For years now the credit card companies have dictated what adult content you see. There is adult content that's legal that they don't approve of that you never see. There's a literal war going on against porn and it's the cause of all these changes. It started a few years ago with states like Utah passing measures saying porn was a public health hazard. (There's no scientific evidence to support that claim). And then they progressed to claiming that all sex work is "sex trafficking" (when that's not the case at all). Then they went after PornHub for enabling sex trafficking when Facebook's issues with sex trafficking are literally like a thousand times greater. (PornHub had major legal issues, but they were with piracy, not sex trafficking.) Then they appeared before legislators in Canada (where Mindgeek is headquartered) trying to get the owners of Mindgeek arrested. (Mindgeek owns most of the straight porn industry, including PornHub, as well as significant parts of gay porn - like Sean Cody, Men.com and Reality Dudes.) The law enforcement folks who were called kept repeating that they're not aware of any laws that were broken and hence couldn't arrest anyone. Then there were calls by the most extreme agitators to actually kill the owners of Mindgeek. (Which sounds a lot like one of ISIS' "fatwahs"). And now the (under construction) home of one of the owners of MindGeek just got burned to the ground by an arsonist, which means the calls to kill the owners need to be taken extremely seriously. In the middle of all that the anti-porn folks have been pressuring Visa and Mastercard to be stricter with adult content. MindGeek deleted 80% of the content on PornHub, XTube, etc. just to please Mastercard. And now Mastercard is going further and getting stricter with adult content. The straight folks don't really care what happens to hookup/dating sites. Most of the dating sites on the straight side of the business are fraudulent (none of girls actually exist - they're all chat bots). And the few legit ones could probably go PG-13. But that's not the case with LGBT+ sites. We're not going to join a PG-13 site. The bottom line here is that sex and porn are political. The reason why I had a very hard line against the pro-Trump folks last fall was because they're the ones going after porn and the gay community. The whole anti-porn thing is wrapped up in the QAnon belief that there's a huge amount of child sex trafficking. The hysteria over that is what's driving all this. I have a niece who feels like she needs to wear a gun on her otherwise her kids will be snatched at any moment and sex trafficked. She's college-educated and both of her parents are scientists. It's just bonkers. But the point is politics matters. Who you vote for matters. Whether you vote matters. Whether you write your elected officials matters.

I agree with most, possibly all of what @BootmanLA said. But just to answer your question and elaborate a bit more… There's an entire section of the site, the Testimonials section, that's all about how reading stuff here has changed guys' behavior. If you fantasize about something long enough you're gonna want to do it. I'd rather this site not be what gets that ball rolling when it comes to chasing STIs and progressing to AIDS. I can't stop it completely, but I can starve that fire of some of its oxygen. And like BootmanLA said - guys who didn't go through the AIDS crisis are woefully uneducated about HIV/AIDS. Hell, even the ones who did go through it weren't so enlightened when it came to accepting the efficacy of PrEP. Simply put, too many young guys don't understand the difference between HIV and AIDS. This comes from the fact that most heterosexuals don't understand the difference either, and sex ed in too many places doesn't explain the difference in effective, memorable ways. I'm hoping my drawing a line and saying fetishize HIV all you want, but don't fetishize AIDS will raise awareness that there is a huge difference in being HIV positive and having AIDS. People need to hear that message. And lastly, the whole "let's spread STIs and get AIDS" mantra is a huge ticking time bomb for the gay and poz community. If it gets widespread we'll lose the support of heterosexuals, our legal rights will regress, and funding for HIV/AIDS research will dry up. And it's possible that funding for care/support of people who are HIV positive will be curtailed. When I categorize the STI/AIDS fetishes as "harm to the community" I can't stress how much that is the root of the issue. I want nothing to do with it, and don't want this site associated with it.

BTW, I moved your thread to the more general sexual health section since it wasn't specifically about bareback fucking. [And note to others - messing up with thread placement in the sexual health forum will not earn you an infraction provided you post a genuine sexual health topic. Despite ARD's comments to the contrary, sexual health has always been important to me. We can be pigs and still care of our sexual health.]

"ARD" made some disparaging comments on Twitter about Breeding Zone… During the discussion (which I give him high marks for keeping civil) at one point he essentially said I was out of touch and should ask around. So that's what I'm doing. Please answer the questions above. Those questions are at the heart of what ARD is complaining about. Your profile name will be visible because this is about real life and what you're willing to stand for (even if it's standing for something behind the comfort of a fictional profile name). Even when the #bbbh hashtag was born there was a disagreement over whether "The Bareback Brotherhood" was just about breeding and the exchange of cum or whether it was specifically a poz thing. The current disagreement is similar to that disagreement except the stakes are higher this time around.

It could be used for ads for clinical trials of HIV medications, etc. It could also be used by conservatives for whatever message they want to sent us perverts.

Google is changing things and migrating away from tracking individual users to putting you into a general classification group based on the sites you visit when you use Google Search, etc. The new group-based system is called FLoC. You can opt out of it by setting your browser to block 3rd party cookies. But most of you either won't know how to do that or won't get around to it. SO… I've changed the configuration of my sites so none of them will be used in Google's FLoC calculations. This is something I doubt any of my competitors are doing for you. But I actually give a shit about your privacy. [I was also one of the first to set up HTTPS, and probably one of the only sites among my competitors to set up HTTPS in a way that your ISP or company can't spy on you - all they can see is that your visiting Breeding Zone (that's mostly unavoidable at the moment), not the specific URL or contents of the page.]

What are your stats (height, weight, age, etc?) Maybe a pic?

There is a member group that restricts access to chem sex threads.

You're in the "Senior Members" group. They're membership groups, not discussion groups.

^^^This^^^ is correct. If you see something that violates the rules of the site, report it. There is no limit on the number of things you can report per day. But the scenario @boy4dad described wasn't necessarily rule violations - they were scenarios that were appropriate for downvoting - "low quality" posts. But to boy4dad's question - downvoting can be abused just like upvoting, which is why both have the same limits. So if you see a rule violation, report it and only downvote it if you feel you've got spare votes for the day. Save your votes for stuff you like or low quality content that isn't necessarily a rule violation.

Ugh! I really have to get busy programming. The solution to all of this is that when you do any post it should ask you if it's region-specific and let you specify a precise area. I've been using Geonames for years now (for other purposes) - it gives hierarchical relationships between geographic regions. So for example I could say my post was about "Mount Morris Park" (the neighborhood I live in), and that would automatically associate it with Central Harlem, Harlem, Upper Manhattan, Manhattan, New York City, New York State and the United States. My idea is that it will run though a quick series of questions that, when answered, means that no one will post in the wrong area accidentally (so fewer infractions will need to be given), and things can be categorized in different ways so they appear in multiple, relevant places. But of course that's not possible with the software that currently runs the site. When I finally migrate stuff you'll lose some features and gain others, but hopefully it will be better overall. But what I described is probably still years away, unfortunately. There's a lot of other stuff that needs to come first.

The change has been made.

The key phrase in what I said was "own or have a license to use". In the example you cite, the person posting probably didn't own or have a license to use. Yes, the photographer has rights (especially if the photo is taken in a public place), but the moment the photo is sexually explicit the model has significant rights as well. So using the example at play here – if the photo of Dietrich was taken on a public beach in the US and he was in a bikini and didn't have a visible penis line (so not sexually explicit), then Dietrich has not right to request a takedown (AFAIK). This is because Dietrich doesn't own the photo - the photographer does. This is why I specifically mentioned watermarked publicity photos from porn sites. They're a form of advertising/marketing for the porn site, and the model probably signed a release acknowledging that they might be used in embarrassing, untrue, fictional contexts.