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Just so you guys know what happened… I did an upgrade the software vendor said was "minor" and part of the upgrade process wasn't compatible with how my server was configured. When I had tech support help at one point the upgrade process got kicked off twice. Somewhere in all of that there was clearly some data corruption. I tried my best to resolve the problems, but they just couldn't be fixed, so we've rolled back the back up that happened the night before all this happened (~8pm on Wednesday). Nothing could be posted to the site after the failed upgrade (late morning on Thursday). So about 12 hours of posts and other changes were lost. Ditto for anyone who registered during that time as well. It is what it is. We just move on… If you see problems (you didn't see before yesterday), please comment below… But before you comment, please reload the page or (better yet) close and reopen your web browser.

Nope. Different owners.

I have a TON of unanswered questions about Article 13, but based on my current understanding… It probably won't go into effect for 2 years. My porn sites with sponsor content (e.g. bbbh.com) are completely safe. My affiliate agreements make that content completely legal. The hookup sites I want to build (e.g. bbbh.men & cumdump.network) are probably safe if I'm strict about the nature of what people upload (has to be pics/videos of the person). BUT my plan was to pull in people's content from social sites, etc. EU visitors will need to be blocked from seeing that content. But the social site I'm working on (s3x.social) will have major problems. I'll basically need to block all EU traffic from that site. The question is whether blocking EU traffic will be sufficient. I'm not sure yet. But it's early and my understanding of all this could change completely.

This YouTube video explains what just passed in pretty good detail… This site would be exempt if it were less than 3 years old. All I can can is we'll have to see how things play out. Each of the countries in the EU has 2 years to pass the resolution into law. Hopefully sites like this one can get some type of exemption in that time.

I may have to block all of the EU based on what the EU Parliament just passed… https://www.xbiz.com/news/242985/european-parliament-approves-controversial-upload-filter-directive Basically any site that allows user uploads will have to guarantee that there are no copyright infringements even momentarily. Currently the business model is that copyright holders file DMCA take down notices and the website has to take action on those within a given period of time, and ensure that repeat offenders don't keep offending. Mind you, this is a MUCH bigger problem for Google's YouTube than it is for this site. Ditto for all of Mind Geek's porn tube sites. This site is small and has never had a DMCA notice (that I know of). And we don't have a EU business presence. So I'll let Google and Mind Geek fight this in the courts (or however they fight it). Thing is, they are much more able to put some absurdly expensive solution into place that a small site like this one can't afford. So people, the take home here is YOUR VOTE MATTERS. You folks in the EU elected these fools…

The extent to which this site is subject to EU law is minimal. We do not treat EU citizens differently than anyone else. As has been explained several times in this thread, account deletions are done every few months. The timing of our deletions generally complies with GDPR, which says deletions should be done within 90 days.

All messages like this will be ignored. This is NOT how you get your account deleted.

When I added a drive on the server I forgot that this site had it's files stored in what I moved from an old drive to the new drive. So it was trying to upload to the wrong place and failing. It should be fixed now. Sorry about that.

When I added a drive on the server I forgot that this site had it's files stored in what I moved from an old drive to the new drive. So it was trying to upload to the wrong place and failing. It should be fixed now. Sorry about that.

When I added a drive on the server I forgot that this site had it's files stored in what I moved from an old drive to the new drive. So it was trying to upload to the wrong place and failing. It should be fixed now. Sorry about that.

This problem should be fixed now. Let me know if you continue to have problems. For those who are more technical, the version of PHP was upgraded on the server and the password hashing routine was using a function that had been deprecated and finally taken out of PHP. I've replaced it with a different function call.

Sorry about that guys. This problem slipped my mind. Everything should be OK now.

I'm aware of a problem with chat. Hopefully I'll be able to get to fixing it tomorrow.

Short answer – you can't. But the longer answer is that in a couple years I'll move the content on here to some new sites I'm building. That platform will let you merge things.

I just wanted everyone to know that I've written an importer that can import Tumblr blogs into a social site that I plan on developing – https://s3x.social If you have a Tumblr blog you want to have on the site, send me a PM here. The imports can be huge and for now it's a manual process. (More like a proof of concept). I've imported all of my own Tumblr blogs and it seemed to work. That said, the site has a LONG way to go. I don't even have profile pages or individual feeds. But I'll get there – it's literally just day 1 after a proof-of-concept. I haven't even fleshed out all the details or done any interface work. It seems banning porn hasn't hurt Tumblr's traffic. I worry that when Twitter sees that it will think it should ban porn. That would be really bad for the #BBBH community. We don't really have critical mass anywhere else. So my initial goal is to cater to you guys and grow from there. At least initially S3X_Social will only allow stuff targeted to gay and trans men. Fem content (female, trans fem and cross dressing) will not be allowed. That policy comes out of the experience with the straight forum here on Breeding Zone. I have zero interest in dealing with the problems of straight men (who are the consumers of fem content). With straight men comes sex trafficking, pimps, child molestation, etc. Those problems are FAR less prevalent in the gay (masc) community. In terms of a timeline, I have an industry conference I'm going to in Phoenix at the end of March. I'll want to present S3X_Social there – to get the various porn sites to import their old Tumblr blogs, etc. So by that date it will be presentable as a concept. But a lot of the features won't work yet. There will just be enough so my sponsors can get an idea of where it's going. One thing I will (hopefully) be doing before then is scraping Twitter and Instagram and pulling the posts by pornstars and porn sites. I plan on using those tweets on my porn sites to flesh out pornstar and porn site profile pages. Anyway, I'd love to have some of your blogs imported by that time to show a good mix of content, so definitely get to me if you had a blog on Tumblr.

I've reviewed the thread and discussed my thoughts with moderators (e.g. @drscorpio). The thread has merit for a couple of reasons… First, there's at least one person in the thread who commented that they found it reassuring that it didn't just happen to them. It can be really isolating and personally devastating if you think you're the only one who got (or is getting) molested. It's empowering when guys realize that quite a few others went through similar experiences. When I was in college the gay men's support group I was in had a high percentage of guys who'd been molested (about half as I remember). It's a topic the gay community needs to discuss frankly and honestly. Second, the thread challenges the black and white way that most people see child molestation. There are guys in the thread who were devastated by the molestation, and on the opposite side of the spectrum, guys who sought it out and enjoyed it (at which point it's only molestation in a technical legal sense), and there were plenty of guys in the middle as well who had a combination of both experiences – or were just generally rattled by the experience. For these guys it made them see their bodies and their sexuality in a different light. Whether that's good or bad is for them and their psychologist to figure out. But the point is that this isn't a black and white issue. IMHO, it's really bad that our laws are so rigid in how they see things. But generally the thread keeps to only presenting the perspectives of "victims" (even if they were willing victims). It gives no voice to the "abusers", which is totally in line with the TOS I've set up for the site.

FYI… Yes, this is something I'm aware of, but I'm not sure when I'll be fixing it. At some point I'll disable the current chat and have more niche specific chats – general bareback, poz fetish, oral, fetish, etc. (including one for "fem pigs" which you'll probably like). At that point (or sooner) I'll fix the underlying problem – that my new system doesn't check to see if your display name on this site differs from your original profile name (which is retained even after you change your display name). I'll get to it in the next few months, but there's a bunch of other stuff that's more urgent that I need to deal with.

It sounds like a caching problem. You probably had one bad login and your browser is remembering the error page as the URL to go to on logon.

Yup. Reactions are limited. I searched pretty hard and couldn't find the exact setting that controls the number per day. I don't know whether it's per calendar day or number in the past 24 hours, but based on the comments above it seems it's per calendar day. And yes, the calendar would reset at midnight eastern time. Ultimately it's not a bad thing. For starters it's a way to control spam (e.g. disgruntled users down voting everything they see). But it also means likes mean something since they have to be used judiciously. Oh, by the way, while I was looking at the settings I enabled additional types of reactions – Thanks, HaHa's, and Confused… And if you're wondering down votes are negative (obviously), confused is neutral, and all the others amount to a +1. So a like and an up vote have the same point value.

I'm just wondering if any of you are still having this problem? Looking at my daily stats, the % of bots dropped from being regularly around 40% to ~10% about 10 days or 2 weeks ago. I suspect it took Google that long to figure out what "normal" looked like for my sites. Now that it know what normal humans do, it's finding less suspicious activity, which, if true, means fewer of you would be blocked when trying to go to sponsor sites. I should also mention that I checked the code and my code was only blocking people who were rated as the most suspicious. Google's rating scale goes from 0 to 1 with 0.1 meaning "almost certainly a bot". Those were the only folks I was blocking. Given that no one else has posted in the thread I'm assuming the problem solved itself. If that's not the case, please let me know.

Bottom line, you can't prove you own the accounts and this has been the case since before GPPR went into effect since I started accommodating account deletions when GDPR went into effect. In cases where people can't prove ownership of an account, GDPR says I should not delete the account. You've been notified of this both privately and now publicly. I've looked briefly at the accounts and don't see anything in either account that could be used for claiming ownership. GDPR specifically discourages websites from collecting and holding personally identifiable information. So this is a catch 22 that's actually created by the privacy laws. Websites are discouraged from collecting the data that would let you prove ownership and you have to prove ownership to have an account deleted.

We have regional forums here, though none are dedicated to the Caribbean. The Central & South American Forum is probably the most appropriate one. Honestly, given how hostile the Caribbean is to gay folks, and the relatively small population, I don't expect a Caribbean forum to have much activity. If you start getting many threads in the Central & South American forum, I can create a Caribbean forum and move them there.

Did you set your browser to delete cookies when you close out of your browser? Or are you in privacy mode? Both of those would make you login again. You need cookies in order to avoid the logins.

Late last month I installed reCAPTCHA v3 on the new sites I'm developing. All the links go through a script on the new sites, which is why you're encountering the problem with links. Then about a week later I installed it here, but it has a different function here. Let me back up and explain… reCAPTCHA v3 never actually shows you a CAPTCHA. The idea is that it monitors your activity on the site to see if you're doing things that seem suspicious. It's looking for patterns of behavior that a bot would make that a human wouldn't make. It then combines that with what Google knows about your IP (reCAPTCHA is a Google service), and probably some other details, and then gives me a score back whenever I ask for it. So installing it here lets Google see your pattern of behavior and should help them figure out you're human. According to reCAPTCHA, about 40% of the traffic on my sites is bot traffic. Clearly some of the traffic they label as bot is human, which is why you're complaining. The issue is that bots were throwing off my stats, and another webmaster I know actually had some of his sponsors close his accounts because the bots were using his outbound links to find sites to test stolen credit cards. I need to think about what to do. One option is to give you a reCAPTCHA v2 challenge (the "I'm not a bot" things you're probably familiar with). It will be a few days before I get around to doing something. I possibly won't get to it until after the holidays. And just for reference… Men.com is also using reCAPTCHA v3 for logins, though they do revert to v2 when it says you're a bot. Guess I'll need to do the same, unless I think up something else.

FYI… I just did another round of deletions. Took HOURS. There were over 300 that needed to be deleted and I had to check each one before deleting the profile.