Given the track record of F'ing up, half hearted corporate spokes person speak, only to F up again, rinse and repeat since this website began, ...and the fact my fiancee was treated like garbage by the admin here a few years ago (which I still hold this place accountable for) I have this to say about the "Apology". Words mean diddly squat to a chipmunk like your's truly. I have been burned by enough people who cannot back their words with substance. So I leaned (admittedly the hard way) to not take mere words at face value.

What does impress me is ACTION. The best Apology that staff can provide to the furry community is cut the corporate spokesman style speak along with its meaningless insincerity and let's see ACTION to turn things around. Let's see the staff here bend over backwards, going as far as to put in a metric F ton of sleepless nights to turn FA into somthing that lives up to the claims of being a welcoming, inclusive place, that fosters creativity.

FA is the number one goto website in the furry fandom. Reguardless if you like FA or Hate this website, Fur Affinity DOES have a huge impact on the fandom. We furries come here to connect with one another, enjoy and create furry content, start furry related businesses. If it's furry, usually it begins and ends here. So what the staff do here DOES EFFECT THE FURRY FANDOM AT LARGE!!!

If FA is a dumpster fire full of drama, infighting, hate, internet trolling, witch hunts, inconsistent enforcement of vague rules, that does not only hurt the folks negatively affected by these shortfalls. It makes the Furry Fandom as a whole a less welcoming place to come to and participate in, alienating folks like my fiancee and several furries I know and driving them away losing the fandom their thoughts and creativity. FA's long standing record of faults has been a major contributor to why the Furry Fandom is seen as being over run by drama and toxic individuals. The staff need to acknowledge this and actually work to change things around here. All of the corporate speak is not going to change that fact.

Staff need to take the fact they have a huge effect on the fandom seriously. The best way to do that is actually working to make FA a better place. As much as I tend to be blunt about how I feel about FA right now I want FA to be better and live up being the creative community it claims to be. I want a simple easy to understand rules with CONSISTANT, IMPARTIAL, enforcement. I want staff to drop the corporate spokesman speak and just be open and honest with users. I want a well coded, secure, easy to use website. I want this not just for myself. I want this for the furry fandom because if FA does well, gets better, and actually lives up to it's mission statements, it would make such a positive difference to the Farry Fandom as a whole and maybe help the fandom go a long way to be a nicer place to be.

There is enough problems in this world. All of we furries came to the furry fandom looking for a respite from all those problems. So why should have to deal with the stresses put on to us in the fandom, allot of which is comming from this very website due to a chronic record of screw ups by the staff through the years? The community here has been made toxic and its weakens the fandom as a whole. FA needs to do allot more than apologize. Staff need to start backing their words with action and actually make good on their words. Otherwise this Apology will be yet another rambling of corporate spokesman speak and the toxic envionment here will continue to hurt the fandom at large.

TL;DR, actions speak louder than words. So let's see genuine action, genuine efforts. If the staff here are as dedicated to this site as it's new owner say they are and more importantly dedicated to the Furry Fandom, then let's see it. Let's see how many sleepless nights, blood, sweat, and tears FA staff will have to put in to improve FA and in turn improve the Furry Fandom. Otherwise talk is cheap.