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People occasionally ask me why I don’t update this site as frequently now. The answer to that question comes in two parts, so if you’re curious to know you can read on below. If you don’t care why and just want to keep reading, you can do so on Tapas, Webtoon or Patreon! Keep in mind that if my comic ever vanishes from your preferred platform, you can find it here on my website.

So, to answer this question, the first thing you’ll need to know is that everything related to Moonshine is managed by one person. Scriptwriting, illustrations, lettering, upload management and scheduling on multiple platforms, packing orders and dropping them off at the post office (for the webshop), bookkeeping and accounting, convention sales, and any customer service related to the purchase of my comics and merch. This is a lot of work. Some roles have been added over time, printed books for example used to be sold through a PoD-service before one complaint about sexual content led to the shop being shut down. This despite the fact that “erotica” was an available category on the site. So now I have to run my own shop and do all of the management related to it. The shop also increases the labor that has to go into accounting and tax related work. In order for one person to have time to do all of that, it needs to be that person’s full time job. For it to be a full time job, work that leads to revenue needs to be prioritized. This means content creation, shop management and upload management for Patreon, Tapas and Webtoon have to be prioritized. These things alone take a good chunk of time, but they help maintain the comic, as Patreon support, ad revenue, early access revenue, shop revenue and new readers all are financially essential to keep the comic running.
This site is not included in that priority, because there’s no ad revenue to be earned on here. On the contrary, I actually pay money every year to keep the site up. Right now I intend to keep doing so because it’s an essential backup in case the comic gets wiped off any platform due to any change in terms of service, or any potential political demands (the US, for example, has a lot of influence on the way online media is able to function). If Moonshine vanishes on your preferred platform, you’ll be able to go right here and keep reading it, even if you don’t have Patreon or the physical books.
But due to the above reasons, this site is deprioritized for now. I update it when I have the time to do so.

The second part of the answer has to do with the circumstances under which this site was created. When I made this site, censorship demands had peaked on webcomic sites. I was required to censor male nipples, women wearing bikinis, and so on. Full censorship from the chest down if my characters so much as hugged in bed while one of them had their shirt off. The censorship was so extreme that the comic became nearly unreadable. On one site I fully gave up on even trying to upload certain scenes because it felt like a constant struggle with their unclear requirements.
I made this site so that people who can’t afford to use Patreon or buy the books can still enjoy the comic the way it was intended.
A few years went by, and the censorship demands softened. Shirtless men are allowed to exist in the comic again, without the comic being flagged. This is beneficial because it means readers can conveniently read the comic on Tapas and Webtoon again, not having to skip platforms. It also benefits the comic financially through easier access for new audiences, and various revenue streams on those sites.
The downside is that the new censorship requirements are time consuming to abide by. The visual edits take time to do. Sometimes entire pages have to be restructured to fit the guidelines in a way that’s still somewhat readable. Webtoon also requires verbal changes, Tapas doesn’t. The verbal changes can be quite invasive to the dialogue (for example, I’ve been told a character can’t say “yes, more” during an intimate scene), so besides having to abide by requirements that are more demanding to apply than lightsabers would be, I also have to create two different versions for the two different sites. Some people on Tapas pay for early access, so it wouldn’t really be fair for them to suffer the consequences of Webtoons’ censorship demands.
This takes a lot of time, which means I rarely have time left over to update this site when I’m done adjusting the comic to fit the guidelines. I have to get right back to creating new content, scheduling uploads and managing the webshop.
This site is censored differently (with lightsabers) so for this site I have to make another, third extra version, just for this site. If I upload the same version here as on Tapas, there’s no point for people to read here while the Tapas version is still up. So this adds another block of labor that lessens the opportunities when I actually have time to update this site.

If you want to keep up with the comic, I recommend that you use Tapas, Webtoon, or Patreon if you feel generous. This site will update when I have the time to update it, but it’s a low priority as long as other sites still function well. If your preferred platform shuts this comic down, you know where to find it!