Очень интересный пост по мотивам всей этой недавней возни про Itch, Steam и запрет порно игр.

Valve and Itch have been in the spotlight for being more or less forced by "Payment processors" to pull certain adult content off their storefronts. The short story of it is Valve pulled a couple of games down while Itch pulled down everything marked mature/adult temporarily and had to sort through their entire library to find certain kinds of content to remove. One of these responses drew more ire than the other, understandably.

I tend to believe this is a factor of how big they are and how much weight they had to swing around to fight back. But that's not really the point of this ramble.

Two of the big things I see repeated over and over in criticism of Itch specifically here:

"Itch should just make their own payment processor!"
"Itch should use one of the payment processors that handles porn then!"
Neither of these are workable, but to understand why you need a weird hybrid background in finance and tech. I happen to have such a background (as much as I loathe the time I spent in fintech). So I've been spending a lot of time trying to express that neither of these are as easy as they seem.

So I'm going to centralize that here.