What was the name of the story? I can’t recall.

what's even the point of deleting... they had made their money already... i really wanted to read the rest of the story

soooo besfriend’s author was just a S word all along? a shame cause the story was getting interesting… thank the gods i have never subscribed to their crowdfunding

thanks for letting me know, I also had this question as well.

sorry if I'm wrong but I suspect that the author makes money and then withdraws them. once I subscribed when I finished reading the chapters, they delete and pass they paypal subscription to $ 3, Often this author disables comments so be careful. I think they are just to collect money.

As said by alegnax below, I also think that those stories were actually having the same author eventhough the username were different. I remember that a few weeks (or maybe months) earlier there was also a story that suddenly disappeared.

The similarity that these stories have is that these stories have crowdfunded status and belong to stories with category [M]. The first few chapters that DO NOT have the [M] tag can be seen by all users. But when the chapter started to have an [M] tag, users were asked to follow the crowdfunded for early access (let's be honest, people who read fanfics definitely like [M] stories so many users join the crowdfunded).

As a free user, I usually wait 1 week to be able to read the chapter but what I realized from these stories is that when it's almost 1 week, the stories disappear. I'm not going to accuse the author but it can be seen that there is a pattern here which you can figure it yourself :)

I have noticed this as well. I think those two stories actually have the same author.