I'm on the verge of a username change. I have decided to stop using the name "It's a Trap!" and will be using the name "Budgie Bin". I'll still be found under Kaye Devin, I just want to change my username. I have done this on twitter, tumblr, steam, and SoFurry. Next comes the sites I have to actually create new accounts for. After all that, I will be changing my personal web domain to reflect it. So basically, I'm taking some time and thinking to myself, what websites do I really want to stay active on?

So I sat back and really, really thought about if I wanted to make a new account here. I'm hesitant. I've been a member since the very beginning, back when SheezyArt stopped allowing adult art. I've been treating it as my main gallery for years. FA is the place that gets the first update, the sketches, furry and non-furry art alike. First choice on commission slots. Primary source for other peoples' art.

And yet as the years passed I've found so many other galleries that are *way* more advanced than FA. These galleries have active dev teams that fix bugs and add features frequently. These galleries that have features that are now considered standard, and they are things that FA said they would do years ago, but every improvement has been focused on the UI - which, might I add, is still painfully behind the times. These sites will cease to exist if people do not become active, and considering what FA brings to the table, this is a real shame.

It's not a matter of who has the shinier site. The fact remains that FA has been hacked many times before, and as long as you keep using this outdated, poorly-written codebase and focus more on banning fairly-harmless image grabbers and making the site *look* polished, FA will continue to be successfully hacked and abused.

This place just doesn't enthrall me any more. I've barely been keeping up on my watches and I rarely comment on anything. I've stuck to it hoping the site would improve and it hasn't. I may come back in the future, if things have improved dramatically. I'm not talking a shinier UI - I mean you have to start from the bottom up. Give us Ferrox like you promised years ago, and I may consider coming back.

I'll probably clear out most of my gallery. A lot of my old submissions are poor quality.

You can find me at the websites and messengers listed on this page:

>> http://its-a-trap.org/#contact-tab

Best of luck to you and your staff, Neer. I understand the monumental task laid before you. The competition is only getting harder, and you will find that you can no longer rest on the laurels of being "the biggest furry site". People will find and create better places to post their work. If you wish to remain the best, you have to take an effort to implement change. Hire any one of the good, talented individuals that have offered to help you for free and do not alienate them.