Improve your product, seriously

Like many others, I came onto Kink today to find that the download option has been removed. This is massively annoying and in a way Kink is protecting its copyright by punishing paying customers instead of going after copyright infringements. It's analogous to bookstores revoking the option to buy books, and only offers subscriptions to allow you read books in-store. However, I also get Kink's perspective - going after copyright infringements, especially for the pornography industry, is expensive and time-consuming and could bring about years of legal battles.

HOWEVER, with the lost revenue that Kink purportedly will be able to recoup, I truly hope Kink improves itself. I'm confident that I speak for many when I say that a quality overhaul for Kink is way overdue.

1. Spice up your content
   The quality of the scenes has been on a decline since 2015. The two-year hiatus due to COVID aside, the quality of recent new scenes is a joke. For a BDSM site, the contents have been vanilla, to say the best - a little rope play here and there, period. If that's all Kink will be producing from now on, then it's in a very competitive market. Many vanilla content producers have been adding on fetish / kinky content, and frankly, some already do it better than Kink. Plus, Kink is mediocre when it comes to cinematography and lightly and color adjustments and post-edits. This was fine when the content itself was good. But now, I don't know how Kink would be able to retain its competitive edge.
   
   
2. Respect all flavors of BDSM and don't try to force your vision of BDSM down the throat of your paying customers
   
   All new scenes since the pandemic have been highlighting the fun side of BDSM. While that's what some people would prefer, there are many sides to BDSM, with some that are much more hardcore than "fun". Scenes before 2015 have struck a good balance here, with some more fun and intimate and others more dominating and hardcore. As someone who prefers the latter, I'm not getting my money's worth with the recent scenes.
   
   Also, there was an incident from last year when Kink tagged bisexual content as straight, which made many customers uncomfortable. Kink's explanation was essentially that they believed bisexual is not homosexual, so straight it shall be. If society is not yet ready to treat bisexual the same way as straight and many straight people are not yet comfortable viewing bisexual content, then please don't force it. At the end of the day, Kink is a business that should be serving customers, not an NGO. If distinguishing between all the sexualities is important to Kink, then adding different filters for L, G, B, T would certainly be better than lumping bisexual into straight, wouldn't it?

3. Spend more money on your technology, especially CDN servers
   It's quite ridiculous that I have to point this out, since web is the lifeline of Kink, but the infrastructure of Kink needs a major update. It's the year 2022, and the buffering time makes it seem as if I'm in 2005. Buffering is guaranteed 8/10 times when I drag the progress bar on a video. Even a lot of dubious streaming sites have shorter buffering time than Kink. And the solution is simple, just spend more money on CDN.