@CJ_Clippy

Futureporn January 2026 Progress Report

What's new

1. On futureporn.net, patron status no longer takes 60 seconds to synchronize with Patreon. Instead, it synchronizes immediately, every time you log in.

Behind the scenes

Winter has been ice cold and I have a bit of seasonal depression. I'm working through it as best I can. Since last month's progress report, I took some time off to focus on self care.

Progress on Futureporn was slim, but I have some stories and some thoughts I'd like to sh...

hello again

I usually post a progress report on Patreon on the 15th of every month. If I'm late, that means something is wrong. I'm three days late this time because I'm a little burnt out, and my mental health hasn't been great.

Long story short, my parent's dog died and I've been sad about it.

I'm continuing work on Futureporn, but I am going to take a few days to re-center myself.

Before I do that, let's talk about the past 30 days and what I've been working on.

Build system improvements

The build system is what genera...

I can't support IPFS anymore.

If money was good, I wouldn't be saying this, but that's not my reality. My money situation is dire, and I need to take action. I've taken down the IPFS cluster and am reclaiming its maintenance cost for improving Futureporn user experience.

This is a last ditch effort to save Futureporn. My debt has become too high and I'm having trouble making interest payments. Something has to change. I have to drastically reduce operating costs.

I don't make this decision lightly. I've been working with IPFS for 5 years and ...

Future.porn Problems and How I Solved Them

Or at least how I'm planning on solving them

This past month has been rough-- a mix of progress, setbacks, and financial chaos. I've made big strides on future.porn, but I've also hit some snags. The biggest one being money.

I've been pouring a lot of cash and energy into improving the site while my income has been trending down. My debt is up, interest payments are up, and my checking account has been in the red. I overdrafted three times in the last 30 days.

In some ways, I'm feeling defeated. I'm overbu...

Futureporn September 2025 Progress Report

Hi, it's me CJ_Clippy, author of futureporn.net and future.porn. Futureporn is a project to preserve lewdtuber history. This long-term project has been running for about four years, and we hope to continue for many more.

Today we have a progress report where I'll go into depth on what I've been working on. future.porn is a redesign of the existing futureporn.net with an emphasis on developer productivity, ease o...

FP August 2025 Update

Hi guys, lots of good news this month.

VOD Migrations underway

Futureporn.net (v1) has the VODs, but future.porn (v2) doesn't have the VODs. We're fixing this issue straightaway, bringing in all the VODs from the v1 site so the v2 site can be more useful.

Upcoming new features

• Automated speech recognition, closed captions

• Torrent magnet links

• RSS VODs fee...

  2025-08-15 20:59:06 +0000 UTC View Post

Vibe Update: Goal Accomplished!

I'm making good on my promises, starting with Lovense vibration sync. To make this work, I trained a YOLO11 machine learning model to scan individual video frames and detect when Lovense overlays appear. Using this information, a .funscript is created.

future.porn is now generating .funscripts for every VOD uploaded, and these funscripts are used during playback while watching video,...

Introducing future.porn

Futureporn 2.0 is here, and it’s better because it’s smaller, simpler, and focused.

https://future.porn

future.porn gives patrons the ability to create vtubers and upload vods. Finally, this isn't just my project. This is our project.

A massive productivity boost

By simply taking 2 weeks off! Refusing to work! Enjoying video games and other hobbies! Who knew there was more to life than just work? (To the patron who suggested I take a vacation--...

Futureporn May 2025 Update

Rebuilding Futureporn—for Developer Sanity, and for the Future

Futureporn's software stack and I have been in an abusive relationship for years, and it's time to sever that relationship and replace it with a healthy one. This means we're going to see some changes in the website appearance and function, with the ultimate goal of returning to a place where it's possible to produce new updates and features.

I'm sharing a bunch of screenshots today of the work-in-progress. Think of this like peering into an active construction si...

FP April 2025 Progress Report

No filters. No holding back. raw honesty time.

I'm burnt out. In the past several weeks, I've wanted to quit more than ever before. I've wanted to pull the plug and walk away, take advantage of the warming weather to ride my bicycle across the country.

But I can't do that, because I'm not satisfied. I haven't accomplished my goals. I haven't built the site of my dreams and if I quit now, I'd regret it forever.

2025 is our year. It's the year we deliver on what we promised. It's the year we build the site w...

Futureporn March 2025 Progress Report

The results are in

Previously I was planning on removing IPFS entirely, but I've changed my mind after seeing the results of last month's poll. The overwhelming majority of visitors want IPFS and Torrents, not just one or the other! Going forward I will support both protocols.

Roadmap announced

I've set milestones for Futureporn 2.0, 3.0, and 4.0. You can see the full list at https://gitea.futurep...

February 2025 Progress Report

I'm building the next generation of Futureporn.net to include automated VOD processing, torrent creation, and HTTP live streaming (HLS).

Soon, patrons will be able to upload their VODs to Futureporn and we will build the archive as a community effort.

Building a robust, anti-fragile content management system is a lot of work. In the past month, I've logged 342 hours on Patreon login integration, HLS playback, torrent creation workers, thumbnail generation scripts...

Futureporn Update Jan 2025

Hey guys. January is a great time to reflect and make resolutions. After a lot of thinking, I realize I've spent the past 6 months trying to push an update that is impossible to produce. There were layers of complexity of hastily designed prototypes. There were fragments of bespoke, deprecated integrations. Making a change anywhere meant breaking functionality in five other systems and it led me to an ossified development environment that was pure, bloated madness.

I've been designing for a set of requirements that don't make sense to ...

Futureporn December 2024 Progress Report

Guys I'm depressed. It's winter and many days are too wet and cold to ride my bicycle (my favorite activity). It's only going to get colder and there's going to be more ice and snow. Cabin fever. Some days all I can do is jog circles in my apartment to keep myself from going crazy. I never enjoy this part of the year but I am getting through it one day at a time. Having something to focus on and work towards has been essential, and I'm grateful for Futureporn being that something for me.

For the past 6 months, I've been building up Fut...

Futureporn Nov 2024 Progress Report

Big update in the works! Here's what I've been working on and what's coming down the pike.

The past several months have involved deleting a lot of unnecessary parts to reduce snags and pain points. I've made the difficult choice of switching from Strapi Content Management System to Postgrest, and this means I have to adapt the existing data to be compatible with the new Postgrest system. I'm working through a challenging database migration to make this possible.

The next update will include Stream Archive, a page meant to show wh...

Futureporn progress report October 2024

Hi everyone, it's that time of the month where I post what I've been working on and how things are coming along.

A big focus of 2024 has been improving my skills and knowledge in distributed systems and microservices infrastructure. I'm to the point where I'm confident to start deploying what I've learned in production, but there is one remaining roadblock to be cleared before I can get there. A big scary database migration remains, one that makes changes to the database structure in order to be compatible with the new system.

Th...

Futureporn September 2024 Progress Report

Dreams come true

I occasionally find myself in disbelief about things that have happened. Not too long ago, I was living an aimless life. I knew I enjoyed software development but I kept working jobs that were completely unrelated to my talents. On a long walk after quitting yet another unfulfilling job, I made the resolution-- "I'm going to become a paid software developer or die trying." After about 5 years of working at it, I'm there, and I'm so grateful for it. It's proof to me that hard work pays off, and we can do anything we w...

Futureporn Jun 2024 Update

Bugfixes

There was a bug where visitors received an error when they tried to tag a video. This bug has been squashed, and visitors can create tags.

Upcoming New Stuff

Stream Archive is almost here! (I'm waiting until Monday to deploy the update.) Stream Archive gives us visibility into a VTuber's stream counts. It shows us the amount of known streams, and how many we have archived. This will help us collect them all! 2024-06-15 17:10:34 +0000 UTC View Post

Futureporn May Progress Report

Capital

I spend a lot of time thinking about how I can improve Futureporn. Money is an easy solution I often consider, but lately I've been focusing elsewhere. I heard something from an entrepreneur about three types of capital.

• Financial capital

• Skills capital

• Relationship capital

I may not have a massive budget like other video sharing sites, but I have skills and I have relationships. And the great thing is, I can improve both of those forms of capital without spending an...

Futureporn Apri 2024 update

I got a lot off my chest last month when I wrote about my money problems. I wanted to extend a sincere thank you for listening, reading, commenting, and supporting financially. I'm just a guy here making a VTuber website on the internet and I'm uplifted by what you do. Thank you.

When I'm stressed, I can't do good work. I lose sight of big picture objectives and end up building brittle things. Since last month, my stress levels are way down. I'm focusing on what matters and not sweating the small stuff.

Again, thank you for the s...

I'm in finanical trouble

Futureporn is an unofficial, fan-made NSFW archive of Lewdtuber livestreams. Originally started as a ProjektMelody-only library, the mission has expanded to become the Galaxy's Best VTuber Hentai site.

This mission has been fraught with peril. I've been banned from at least 3 cloud hosting providers. I've struggled to scale infrastructure, I'm often unable to meet visitor expectations.

I want to improve. I want to bring people satisfaction and deliver a service that is worthwhile, but I'm struggling. The financial strain has take...

Futureporn February 2024 Update

Backend Progress

It's amazing just how much WORK goes into making a video site. This is not a complaint (I like this work) but I sometimes have to take a step back and appreciate websites like youtube that do incredible amounts of work behind the scenes.

A lot of work has been going into Futureporn's backend. This is the part of the website visitors never see, but it's smooth function is incredibly important for Futureporn's growth.

We've made a lot of progress towards automation and rock solid reliability, but we're not ...

Futureporn January 2024 Update

Thank you for your continued support! I have been fervently working towards delivering new features that have been funded. Presently, I'm working on adding multiple VTubers. 

Here's a sneak peek at the new Streams Archive page. 

This page is meant to display a summary of Futureporn's archive in a compact format. It shows all the livestreams Futureporn is aware of. This includes the date, the pl...

Celebrating Three Years

Futureporn started in December 2020. Originally it was a very simple webpage that could only serve one or two visitors at a time. I went on a journey to redesign and I've been iterating on the website ever since. 

It's been one hell of a ride and I hope to continue for as long as I can. I love the grind, I love the challenge, I love learning new techniques and implementing them. When I started I was completely out of money but that didn't stop me. I believed Futureporn was a site that needed to exist in the world. To my...

Navigating Challenges and Building Dreams

Challenges

2023 for me has been one personal financial crisis after another, and I'm really struggling. I have wanted to give up on so many occasions, but the dream keeps me going.

I need help, but I won't beg. I will work harder and provide more value.

Part of that value comes from reliable data. futureporn-qa is a background task runner I've been developing which combs through every VOD on futureporn, identifying problems and automatically fixing them. I've made great progress on this process. It's one of tho...

October 2023 Update

New features

• Tags & Timestamps have returned
• IPFS Content IDs get a copy button

The plan for second half of October, first half of November

Bugfixes and system reliability improvements.

Futureporn has become quite a complex system. There is a frontend powered by next.js, and a backend powered by Strapi. There's also a pair of IPFS provider nodes powered by kubo, with pinset orchestration powered by ipfs-cluster. Then there's the realtime events system and VOD recording apparatus comprised ...

Gearing up for a multi vtuber future

Hey guys! I'm preparing to release a major update to the website which is setting the stage for a multi-lewdtuber future. This update is a complete redesign of the existing frontend, migrating to a more robust web framework. I'm planning on releasing the update on Monday, September 18th. Here is a sneak peek of that update.

New Features

The update introduces some new pages which will serve as the URL for each VTuber featured. Here are some examples.

/vt/

2023-09-16 06:34:05 +0000 UTC View Post

Futureporn August 2023 Update

A quick update on the past 30 days of Futureporn development, and a look at what's coming next. I got sick and had to spend almost two weeks in bed recovering, followed by a refreshing four day vacation for my brother's wedding. No tangible website updates this month, but there's plenty in the works for a major update next month.

What I've been working on

I am a big fan of reducing complexity. This past month, I've taken the first step at simplifying the website from a bespoke, fragmented clusterfuck of design frameworks and bu...

Futureporn.net July Update

This month brings new backend upgrades that will help Futureporn scale. gw.futureporn.net is back, this time as an IPFS gateway exclusively for patrons. The website's video player will automatically choose this gateway for logged-in patrons when no CDN video is available.

To make gw.futureporn.net exclusive to patrons, I had to make some modifications to the Strapi server parked at portal.futureporn.net. These breaking changes invalidated all patron logins, causing the video player to idle and not load any video. If you experience this...

Introducing Tags & Timestamps

Here it is, the much requested tags update! This feature adds tagging and timestamping capabilities. With this new feature, finding special moments in vods will become easier than ever.

Tags and timestamps are available for everyone to view, while creating tags and timestamps is restricted to visitors who have logged in via Patreon.

A new tag index page, https://futureporn.n...