RE: Landing Page. Keep the marketing side, after all you've a paid Model. I'd split the Landing Page on non-mobile devices:
----33% Marketing ----|----66% Endless FEDD----|
Could hide Marketing pane after some time / or button.
RE: Paid Subscription. Re-think the model you've got, won't scale (direct wealth-distribution by vote) as it's presented (e.g tipping creators by vote: could be done/seeded by Agents/Affiliates etc), unless I'm missing a twist to this.
You've done the right thing to not accept money atm (while you iron out platform/user issues)