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Aug 6th 2024: The Death of Dragoneer and the Future of FA
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Hello everyone,
This may be my last journal for this site depending on recent news.
As of yesterday Aug 6th, 2024, news of the website owner. Dragoneer has passed away due to health issues after surgery complications.
I discovered this news after recently posting some new work.
However, I will be honest. I never knew the man personally but by the community here. He was practically the king of FA.
I was up all night, and I recently joined the FA discord to see everyone come together to mourn his death of stories.
He was a founding father of this site for nearly 2 decades. I joined back in 2006 as a starting digital artist and have much history here.
Though many memories of them aren't positive, I still consider this site my main place to post my artwork of all kinds.
I would rather choose this site over Twitter, Bluesky, Inkbunny, Sofurry, Tumblr, and many other platforms for my work.
Some of my old accounts are still linked here to my artwork when I was young.
It even surprises me that Dragoneer passed away at the age of 44. Only for what seems to still be away from retirement or a person who wouldn't give up.
His words were still positive even after his tragic death. I would say it if wasn't for him. I partially wouldn't be here today.
I am certain all his loved ones and friends are still grieving over this and I hope he finds peace.
But...
This leaves me concerned about other major issues.
For this was not the death of an ordinary man, but similar to a King.
He held the reins of FA on will and determination alone with an administration staff to pick up the pieces.
Questions that kept me up at night. These are questions I have seen before writing fantasy novels.
Who now will take his crown and rule over FA? It won't be the same as how he managed things, of course.
Does FA die with his legacy?
Certainly, the man had a digital Will prepared before going into surgery. He must have had a successor before planned out.
Journals of his dying state during the summer mean he had time to prepare, right?
It is too soon to know what we have in store.
For all our sakes here, I assume he spoke to someone he could trust in maintaining the site.
Yet it is a big place and resources to maintain cost a lot.
Even if he didn't, would his family own the rights to the domain of the site? How would they handle it or would someone new be able to purchase it?
Or worse, is this the end of FA as we know it?
There were many criticisms of how things were run, let alone a few haters here and there.
Yet I believe he was a man who knew exactly what he was doing. He personally bought it back from IMVU only after a year to declare it as an independent site.
A strong community with supporters to help subscribe and followers by the millions.
FA is even a contender compared to DA and was improving with how art was managed.
I even saw Dragoneer's work and he was an extremely talented artist who knew what he liked.
For now, I am going through my old files and saving them just in case of a doomsday scenario.
I suggest this to everyone who reads this. Yet I pray and believe it won't come to that in the next month.
I may find a new site just in case. Maybe start from scratch on a few things.
Yet until then, I still consider FA to be my main home.
Not everything lasts forever, but we must still carry on the memory of those we have lost.
Thank you for reading.
This may be my last journal for this site depending on recent news.
As of yesterday Aug 6th, 2024, news of the website owner. Dragoneer has passed away due to health issues after surgery complications.
I discovered this news after recently posting some new work.
However, I will be honest. I never knew the man personally but by the community here. He was practically the king of FA.
I was up all night, and I recently joined the FA discord to see everyone come together to mourn his death of stories.
He was a founding father of this site for nearly 2 decades. I joined back in 2006 as a starting digital artist and have much history here.
Though many memories of them aren't positive, I still consider this site my main place to post my artwork of all kinds.
I would rather choose this site over Twitter, Bluesky, Inkbunny, Sofurry, Tumblr, and many other platforms for my work.
Some of my old accounts are still linked here to my artwork when I was young.
It even surprises me that Dragoneer passed away at the age of 44. Only for what seems to still be away from retirement or a person who wouldn't give up.
His words were still positive even after his tragic death. I would say it if wasn't for him. I partially wouldn't be here today.
I am certain all his loved ones and friends are still grieving over this and I hope he finds peace.
But...
This leaves me concerned about other major issues.
For this was not the death of an ordinary man, but similar to a King.
He held the reins of FA on will and determination alone with an administration staff to pick up the pieces.
Questions that kept me up at night. These are questions I have seen before writing fantasy novels.
Who now will take his crown and rule over FA? It won't be the same as how he managed things, of course.
Does FA die with his legacy?
Certainly, the man had a digital Will prepared before going into surgery. He must have had a successor before planned out.
Journals of his dying state during the summer mean he had time to prepare, right?
It is too soon to know what we have in store.
For all our sakes here, I assume he spoke to someone he could trust in maintaining the site.
Yet it is a big place and resources to maintain cost a lot.
Even if he didn't, would his family own the rights to the domain of the site? How would they handle it or would someone new be able to purchase it?
Or worse, is this the end of FA as we know it?
There were many criticisms of how things were run, let alone a few haters here and there.
Yet I believe he was a man who knew exactly what he was doing. He personally bought it back from IMVU only after a year to declare it as an independent site.
A strong community with supporters to help subscribe and followers by the millions.
FA is even a contender compared to DA and was improving with how art was managed.
I even saw Dragoneer's work and he was an extremely talented artist who knew what he liked.
For now, I am going through my old files and saving them just in case of a doomsday scenario.
I suggest this to everyone who reads this. Yet I pray and believe it won't come to that in the next month.
I may find a new site just in case. Maybe start from scratch on a few things.
Yet until then, I still consider FA to be my main home.
Not everything lasts forever, but we must still carry on the memory of those we have lost.
Thank you for reading.
