First of all, I never encourage panicking over things like this: it is not the end of the world that FA has several days of outage. As far as I can tell, this website was rarely updated for a reason. It's been around... like 20 years total? I believe that any IT intervention must be a nightmare to go through at this point. I really admire the staff investing their time and effort to introduce new (even if they're a standard in many places) functionalities.

I believe the site will be brought back working soon. Shit happens, great they are doing their best. Who ever worked in IT or on projects in business sense should have some good picture of how it could look for them right now. I know, probably this is years of some technological debt but again - FA was project of passion and perhaps X years ago nobody thought about even maintaining it for years to come... that's what I think at least. Not to excuse it all of course, just trying to understand things.

Of course I also do sympathise with all the artists that are frustrated and anxious because of their main source of income getting shaken as the website is not operational in 100% and these few days even before read-only mode must've been stressful.

Other than that... there's still plenty of spaces to follow your fav artists or stay in touch with them if you're just a viewer/fan. Guys, arting for me is mostly a matter of hobby and source of hobby money. But please, do not fuel the panic as your artists also don't need to feel even more bad about the future of things, overthinking matters. I've spoken to several friends who are artists and trust me dudes, it does not help them.

You can still view and interact with me via my bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/vindorsphynx.bsky.social

and discord - vindor :)