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Alright, Enough Already!!! >_<
a year ago
Let me start with this: I am very upset and still processing the death of Dragoneer.
This is definitely going to take time for all of us, and of course going through the traditional five stages of grief.
But in those stages, I would like to ask all of you reading this journal: Is there anywhere - and I'm asking this quite seriously - just where in these five stages is there supposed to be panic, anxiety, or just plain running around like a chicken with its head cut off?
I mean is this like....what...the millionth time that I've heard from other furs "OMG the site is going to shut down!!! The engines canna take the strain!!! The sky is falling, the sky is falling!!!!" Etc.
...Its bad enough that this happened, but to add insult to injury, this?!?
Let me be very clear about what I'm saying here: This site/webpage is not going to go belly up overnight. It didn't the last time when the Cloudstrike issues occurred; It didn't happen when FA got bought by IMVU, and then repurchased by Neer; hell, it didn't even happen during the whole "Y2K" crisis either! (Ask your parents about that one kids, or I can tell you all about the Blizzard of '76, whichever comes first :P)
I am sure that the other mods -must- have some kind of system/plan in place in case an event of this magnitude were to happen. What's more, aren't we all freaking jumping the gun here? I realize that this site means a *lot* to a lot of furs (including yours truly) both financially and emotionally...with that out of the way, however:
Seriously: jumping ship right now is, quite frankly, a slap in the face to what Dragoneer built. And yes, I will also not deny that I said before, I butted heads with him back in the day as well. That didn't stop him from reaching out to me when my dad passed, when he could have just ignored to what I was going through then outright. That's something that I will never forget, and us pangolins have loooooong memories.
With that said: Yeah, not moving from here, period. Whatever happens, happens, but I'm staying the course.
This is definitely going to take time for all of us, and of course going through the traditional five stages of grief.
But in those stages, I would like to ask all of you reading this journal: Is there anywhere - and I'm asking this quite seriously - just where in these five stages is there supposed to be panic, anxiety, or just plain running around like a chicken with its head cut off?
I mean is this like....what...the millionth time that I've heard from other furs "OMG the site is going to shut down!!! The engines canna take the strain!!! The sky is falling, the sky is falling!!!!" Etc.
...Its bad enough that this happened, but to add insult to injury, this?!?
DEEP BREATHS EVERYONE, PLEASE!Let me be very clear about what I'm saying here: This site/webpage is not going to go belly up overnight. It didn't the last time when the Cloudstrike issues occurred; It didn't happen when FA got bought by IMVU, and then repurchased by Neer; hell, it didn't even happen during the whole "Y2K" crisis either! (Ask your parents about that one kids, or I can tell you all about the Blizzard of '76, whichever comes first :P)
I am sure that the other mods -must- have some kind of system/plan in place in case an event of this magnitude were to happen. What's more, aren't we all freaking jumping the gun here? I realize that this site means a *lot* to a lot of furs (including yours truly) both financially and emotionally...with that out of the way, however:
Seriously: jumping ship right now is, quite frankly, a slap in the face to what Dragoneer built. And yes, I will also not deny that I said before, I butted heads with him back in the day as well. That didn't stop him from reaching out to me when my dad passed, when he could have just ignored to what I was going through then outright. That's something that I will never forget, and us pangolins have loooooong memories.
With that said: Yeah, not moving from here, period. Whatever happens, happens, but I'm staying the course.
Still, I remember you back from the mid 90s. Seeing how we've both lived through Yerf, Furnation, VCL, fchan, DA, Sheezyart, and so many others we can't name, I think we can agree that it never hurts to be prepared.
What's more, there seems to be a hidden benefit to this. This has really woken up the community, and spurred them to reinforce the other avenues. To share links to other places, to share emails with each other. I certainly am going to try and converse more with the fans and commentators on my pieces, there are potential friendships there to be gained.
I'd go as far to say this might actually actually strengthen the community as whole, making it even more close-knit.
Very well said here, was addressing this on Bsky earlier.
reactionary stuff needs to stop
Weāve all had enough
Support and work and patience and compassion are needed right now
No oneās interested in the hype buzz shit
Vix
:p
Why abandon a ship that isn't even sinking yet?
I didn't leave Fur Affinity when I was told to do so by one
ignorant jerkass more than a year ago, I'm not going to leave
now either, just because some people don't have anything
better to do than confuse people with needless fearmongering
about a doomsday coming for this website.
When it comes to both processing Dragoneer's passing (along with the possible grief
from that) and the future of Fur Affinity; one day at a time and with the focus
on the day we're living right now. While there's nothing wrong in being prepared and
having back-up plans just in case, fearmongering helps absolutely no one.
On the contrary, it tends to just make things even worse.
Let's leave the case of running Fur Affinity and figuring out its future to the mods
and hope they will find the right solution. In the meanwhile let us make everything
we can to keep this site going on until the very end, no matter when that end is.
I am sure there's a contingency plan for FA.
I'm definitely not going anywhere.
If Dragoneer didn't leave a will or any relatives to take care of this stuff, the city/town will take over the heritage and they will sell it off.
What I do know is that site staff have said via Discord that the site is fine. I'm preferring to take their word for it until proven otherwise. I have everything I've ever posted her backed up in multiple places which is just common sense.
It's kind of the main issue I and a lot of other people had with how he ran things. There wasn't a lot of transparency as far as what was happening with FA goes, and 'Neer was more than happy to take a lot of credit for what others did. Not saying that to speak ill of the guy. That's just how it was. If he'd talked about staff more and maybe had more Q&A sessions, interviews, posts about who was in charge of what and what they were up to I don't think people would be as worried.