Sextpanther sent out another message to adult performers who use their platform, and it’s not looking good. The platform known for sexting will no longer be offering SMS services. Any messaging now has to all be done through the app.

Dear SextPanther Models,

On Monday, November 7th, a service provider suspended our account without warning due to a sampling of messages that violated their terms of service and acceptable use policy. The suspension resulted in a service outage that affected SMS text messaging, phone, and video calls. That same day, our development team took immediate action and quickly pushed a fix to restore phone and video call services while we worked with our legal team to submit an appeal to reinstate our account.

On Friday, November 11th, the service provider reinstated our account, but informed us that messages can no longer contain objectionable or prohibited content. While these terms are intentionally gray, their compliance team specifically stated that sexually explicit messages sent via SMS text now fall under prohibited content. This severely limits the two-way SMS text functionality we developed for use by models and users. Given this reality, it is necessary that all SextPanther messaging be transmitted through the website or app.

We will continue to adapt and innovate as a company, and our primary mission to be the best adult messaging and communication service in the industry remains the same. Our decision to move away from SMS text messaging was not easy, but in order to provide a positive experience for you and your clients it is important that we eliminate the future risk of another service disruption. By removing our dependency on the telecommunications industry and their increasingly restrictive rules, we can refocus our attention on improving and enhancing web and app-based features.

While this certainly is a turning point for us, we’re confident that these changes will result in a better overall experience for everyone involved. We will continue to communicate future changes with our community of models as we know this affects the way you all use the platform and earn money.

We appreciate your understanding and remain committed to delivering upon our promise to do what is best for the long-term sustainability of the platform.

Sincerely, The SextPanther Team

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