When one of my favorite artists publicly considers leaving FA, I'm at a loss for words. Different individuals have different reasons for seeking the nearest exit, but it seems to always come down to one thing: they're just not having as much fun here as they used to.

Sure, FA isn't what it was a decade ago -- nothing is! (The site is now older than many of its current members.) Whatever your idea of "fun" is, is it the same thing it was ten years ago? Things change. We change. Is your life now better or worse than it was a decade ago, and why is that?

Ten years is an eternity in internet time. In my own case, I was barely online at all from 2016 to 2020, and even now I'm not logged on all that often. Maybe the more time you spend online, the more...frustrating everything looks? I dunno. We all have our reasons. Our interests or our life situations change, or maybe we've found a group of people to blame for all of our problems. Maybe we'd rather just spend our time drinking, or immersed in our work or our non-furry hobbies.

For my part, I like FA. I like my friends, and the community, and the (admittedly old school) art I follow. I'm not on the cutting edge of anything. Does that make me irrelevant?