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alkora started this website, not dragoneer
a year ago
I don't know why I care, but I feel an irrational need to state this.
I have seen at least four people, and I don't know many, casually speak of dragoneer starting or creating fur-affinity, and he didn't, and it is not clear to me why people think he did, apart from seeing each other saying that and accepting it as fact. granted, the written history is somewhat incomplete and only to be found on some weird off-site wiki page but it generally does not contradict my past understanding.
He was however involved very soon after it started, sooner than I expected, and supposedly became the full owner by 2007, while on Alkora's own page there is no claim of "hey I was a big deal around here once," as if not wanting it to be known. But unfortunately I know.
Maybe dragoneer can be thanked for being passionate about it for a long time, and buying it back, even at a loss, after selling it to imvu. I generally didn't have contact with people who knew him, and otherwise I only ever saw him mentioned in a negative fashion by the people I did have contact with, although by now I don't reckon I have contact with any of them. I suppose I can only hope those reports were inaccurate. I think I SAW Dneer during one of my extremely ill-advised convention attempts in the 2009-2012 period but that was all.
I have seen at least four people, and I don't know many, casually speak of dragoneer starting or creating fur-affinity, and he didn't, and it is not clear to me why people think he did, apart from seeing each other saying that and accepting it as fact. granted, the written history is somewhat incomplete and only to be found on some weird off-site wiki page but it generally does not contradict my past understanding.
He was however involved very soon after it started, sooner than I expected, and supposedly became the full owner by 2007, while on Alkora's own page there is no claim of "hey I was a big deal around here once," as if not wanting it to be known. But unfortunately I know.
Maybe dragoneer can be thanked for being passionate about it for a long time, and buying it back, even at a loss, after selling it to imvu. I generally didn't have contact with people who knew him, and otherwise I only ever saw him mentioned in a negative fashion by the people I did have contact with, although by now I don't reckon I have contact with any of them. I suppose I can only hope those reports were inaccurate. I think I SAW Dneer during one of my extremely ill-advised convention attempts in the 2009-2012 period but that was all.
so many times this site was about to go "under" but it ended up surviving and he's kinda partly to thank for i think. better than having it owned by imvu again, but who really knows
Meanwhile Dragoneer kept the lights on. He even took on a heavy burden to reaquire it from IMVU. That is respectable.
The dude was definitely imperfect, but from what I've heard from people who actually knew him he was basically a good guy.
(although a little of column A and column B)
Everything's a mess.
BUT I am also suspicious of all crowd funding, and plenty of it isn't scams.