>may I ask why you are advertising with rival sites? As in western BBS's.
>Stick to linking with japanese bbs's
Heyuri is a Japanese-inspired BBS, likely the only one who cares about Japanese net this much - and Japanese BBSes we take inspiration from don't care if the sites they link with are operated by 12-year-olds or was empty prior to advertising. I don't view any of them as "rival"s, it's just that some of them decided to be hostile to Heyuri and we may delete/lock their discussions to not result in further dorama.
If BBSes that advertise themselves on Heyuri are "inferior" anyways, none of our own users would migrate to them. It's worth mentioning that in the recent townhall, we decided to only allow BBS sites to advertise if they have Heyuri ads on their sites too, meaning any non-Heyurizen users they will get will see Heyuri's ad on such sites , so at the end of the day, it's only beneficial for us.

That being said, I don't rly actively seek to link with Western BBSes anymore since most of them sux anyways, and spent today working on pages to link with Japanese sites (I've updated https://heyuri.net/index.php?p=japanese & created https://heyuri.net/index.php?p=japanese2 ). Though, it's depressing how much of the links I come across have died so recently