Lots of high quality DVDs were added in August 2024 so far. About 443 so far and most of them came out within the past week in Japan!
I also realize too that I haven’t done a good enough job of adding thumbnail previews for DVDs in the past few months.
They’re now available for EVERY DVD added in August! I hope this helps make it easier to decide what to buy or skip.
I know the previews are a bit too massive for cell phone users, but you can always shrink them if needed.
I also added a way to see all the full size DVD covers all on one page. No need to click dozens of titles.
I generally don’t prioritize adding more DVDs for a specific genre. It usually just goes by what looks good or what I think some may like. Often i’ve picked new additions based on what looks good to ME and that’s not such a good idea! I’m up for whatever people like, even if I have zero interest in it. I’ve even added genres like BBW and “Submissive Men” etc. I’d like to add a category for the “Female Investigator” movies.
One genre that does quite poorly is the Mature Woman category. I don’t know why and sometimes i’m tempted to stop updating that area. I love those titles though and that’s all that matters to me. I think one problem is that many who are into that genre prefer them to be even slightly MORE older. Like 50-60. Not sure on that.
You’ll notice that some months there are few new titles in the Lesbian genre. This is mainly because they release so few in Japan these days. I don’t know why this is! Same goes for the bukkake & gokkun genres.
Today is August 19th and I have only one thing to do. That is just do a marathon order processing session. For as long as I can!
I feel like i’ve been given a second chance on the site and don’t want to waste that. I’m working as hard as I possibly can.
It’s weird because on July 20th I had a massive surge of sales/traffic for a full 1 1/2 weeks. It was so nice. I thought the sales increase was due to a technical error I fixed, but now i’m thinking that had nothing to do with it and it was just a coincidence.
The sales boost felt like a miracle because it was right after I had applied for some part time work. So now I can work for only the site full time without needing extra income from an outside job.
Sales are slow again, but I am super motivated and am working hard. Things will be OK.
I also decided to give page caching another chance on the site. This time there is NO chance it will interfere with the shopping cart etc.
Now i’m doing using a software that does full page caching and instead of a 200-300ms TTFB (time to first byte), we are down to 40-50ms sometimes!! That’s by far the best i’ve ever seen. Pages will load super fast now for most people!
You may notice that when browsing pages when logged in, the address bar will display weird characters at the end of the url.
This is normal! It’s a way for our software to bypass the cache for logged in users.
It will display “?swcfpc=1” usually. Totally normal! They call it a “cache buster”!
We can’t cache logged in user content since it’s too personalized and would cause problems.
Page caching basically just speeds up pages for visitors, but it can be tough to get it working right without causing shopping cart issues.
PS Not going to lie. Keeping a site up that offers only physical media is getting to be a real challenge! That is OK!
Here is a list of updates we’ve done for August:
8-19-24: Added 34 DVDs
8-17-24: Added 125 DVDs
8-12-24: Added 179 DVDs
8-3-24: Added 18 DVDs
8-2-24: Added 40 DVDs
8-1-24: Added 54 DVDs
PS if you have an open order, please don’t worry! It’s being processed! Thank You!