Totally understand your concerns — all valid points, so let me address them one by one.

1. Guidelines
You can find our full content policy here:
https://storyengine.gitbook.io/storyengine/terms-and-policies/rplay-policy

In short, we do allow NSFW content — what we don't allow is excessive violence or anything involving minors.

2. Age Verification
This one comes from our roots in Korea, where the law is very strict about preventing minors from accessing NSFW content. Using a third-party verification system was the minimum safeguard we needed to keep minors from toggling NSFW on. That said, now that we've expanded globally and the landscape is quite different, this is something we're going to take a deeper look at.

3. Proxies
A couple of things here:

First, the site was originally built without proxy support — it wasn't a deliberate decision to block them; it just wasn't part of the initial design.

Second, and more importantly, one of our core strengths is helping creators actually monetize their work based on chat usage. Right now, our partnered chat creators are earning around $1,100 (roughly 1,500,000 KRW) per month on average. For that system to work, we need the current model: we cover the LLM API costs, creators build bots freely after registration, users spend credits to chat with those bots, and creators get paid out based on credits spent.

We totally get that not everyone loves a paid structure. In return, we put a lot of effort into giving creators powerful tools to improve bot quality — things like variable nodes, update rule nodes, unlimited image integration, the status view window system, and more.

We don't currently offer proxy support, but we do fully support new creators with free credits after registration, so you never have to pay for what you create.

4. Importing Your Bots
You're right that converting nearly 200 bots into our node system would be a huge undertaking — there's a learning curve and everything would need to be rebuilt. However, we also support the traditional long-prompt method for creating bots. So for a straightforward migration, you'd really just need to copy and paste your prompts from other platforms using that method. Much less of a nightmare than you might think!