Itch.io founder Leaf Corcoran has announced they’ll be re-indexing free NSFW content on their storefront.

While the discussions and battles with payment processors (in this case, Stripe) are still ongoing, Corcoran promises to slowly re-introduce paid content as well in order to “confidently support the widest range of creators in the long term.”

In the meantime they will be implementing a new “content warning” system for store items tagged as NSFW. This will require all creators to tag their creations as such if the description fits.

Leaf Concoran has said the following in regards to the Stripe update:

For those who aren’t aware, Stripe is one of the payment processors we’ve used since our early days. They have provided the “Pay with card” option on our checkout page for over 10 years.

We spoke with Stripe yesterday about their content policies. They confirmed that they will not be able to support adult content that fits the following definition: “content designed for sexual gratification.”

Stripe asked us to pass along the following message to our users:

“Stripe is currently unable to support sexually explicit content due to restrictions placed on them by their banking partners, despite card networks generally supporting adult content (with the appropriate registrations). Stripe has indicated that they hope to be able to support adult content in the future.

We are in the process of talking with other payment partners to accept card payments that Stripe is unable to process. We disabled Stripe payments last week on pages identified as having ‘adult NSFW content.’ Now that we have a more specific definition from Stripe, we may review that initial list for potential re-introduction. However, our long-term plan is to implement one or more new processors to avoid putting the platform at risk.”