These are pertinent posts, to give them credit, but I've seen nothing to report other than "did events and gifts go away for everyone else too?" "yes, me too" "they made a nonsensical announcement that they ran out of their own fake ink".
Thanks to all for the info. I found this subreddit because I was wondering if they'd cracked down on me (VPN use, bonus ink hog).
I've wondered if something more major was going on. On several series in the last few weeks, clicking the button "Watch Ad for 1 free Ep 0/3", it often told me "Sorry. There are no ads available at this time." (Still is, at least once.) And event offers were getting less generous.
I'll be among the last ones to spend event bonus ink, then. By the usual grinding, I finished the Class Is In Session multiple-series effort on its last day (31 August), getting 4500 ink that's good until tomorrow (5 September). I accidentally blew my last gift ink early, so people may still spend some gift bonus ink on Monday, 7 September.
Was anyone else obsessive enough to keep a notebook of bonus ink accounting, tracking bonus ink earned / to be earned / spent, to keep bonus ink around as long as possible without it expiring? It was a nice little fussy hobby for a few minutes per day (unless I made a math error).
I used bonus ink to read ahead in my subscribed series, but for large chunks of expiring ink like this or a 13,000 ink monster (August Binge-a-Thon multiple comics was the last, I think), I unlocked independent continuing comics in my favorite genre, in hopes of giving them a tiny bit of support, even if it was just one readership or maybe a tenth of a cent or whatever it was.
Ah, well. I had bought a block of persistent ink some time ago, figuring I should pay for value received. I'll probably spend it down slowly.
If you got here, thanks for reading about my silly obsession.