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I'm all packed up and ready to go
10 years ago
Just an FYI for all of my followers. After my last journal a few months ago when I said I was in the process of packing up and moving on from FA, I have now finished setting up an account on Weasyl and have transported the majority of my gallery over there (at least the stuff I think remains relevant).
My account is here: Dodge_Fennec
Following the IMVU buy-out I was interested to see what would occur after the initial 6 month bedding-in period. I read the missive about their plans back in February when everyone was losing their minds and thought it was just as much placating bull as it turned out to be.
The fact that change #1 turned out to be uncensored third party mature-content (I've done my share of mature stuff, but nobody wants granny porn, guys) and pretty much all packed to the brim with malware, shows me that not only are they looking for a fast pay-off, it proved what we all knew already -they don't care about the community as a whole, if they did, those ads would never have gotten the green light.
My concern is that now THAT plan has fallen through, what will be the next attempt? While its good that they conceded to the negative feedback on the ads, the damage had been done already for a lot of people, and this was basically a sign that things can only go downhill from here.
While I have no immediate plans to delete my FA account, I do now have my Weasyl life raft all set up, so if stuff continues to go south on FA, I have a back-up. If we get to the stage of IMVU wanting to start charging for premium membership, or deciding that they do want to try and enforce their entitlement to ownership of Copyright on anything uploaded to FA, then my gallery will be taken down as I have worked too hard to create the content for someone to start taking all the credit because of sketchy Terms & Conditions concocted by greedy lawyers with years of experience in 'legally' stealing stuff from other people.
I doubt very much that I will be uploading much new content to FA. There is already new stuff up on Weasyl that I won't be posting here. I may well change my mind on that one, but I no longer regard FA as a safe place to work from. The ground is unsteady and while I have never felt supported by the moderators or admins, it has not really mattered before now and I could live with it.
So, this is just an advanced warning to everyone.
My next step is going through my list of watched accounts and watchers and connecting with as many of them on Weasyl as I can.
Accounts are disappearing from FA all the time and it's really sad to see but unfortunately necessary.
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TLDR bullet points
-I've made a Weasyl Account
-No plans right now to delete my FA profile.
-That may change if the next stupid thing FA does is stupid enough to push me.
-Dunno if I'll upload stuff here again but am thinking about it.
-Already newer content from me on Weasyl (not too much but any new stuff will definitely go there first).
-Got no faith in FA any more at all.
-Will try to reconnect with as many people on Weasyl as possible.
-Hopefully see the sensible folk over there.
Just thought you should all know.
My account is here: Dodge_Fennec
Following the IMVU buy-out I was interested to see what would occur after the initial 6 month bedding-in period. I read the missive about their plans back in February when everyone was losing their minds and thought it was just as much placating bull as it turned out to be.
The fact that change #1 turned out to be uncensored third party mature-content (I've done my share of mature stuff, but nobody wants granny porn, guys) and pretty much all packed to the brim with malware, shows me that not only are they looking for a fast pay-off, it proved what we all knew already -they don't care about the community as a whole, if they did, those ads would never have gotten the green light.
My concern is that now THAT plan has fallen through, what will be the next attempt? While its good that they conceded to the negative feedback on the ads, the damage had been done already for a lot of people, and this was basically a sign that things can only go downhill from here.
While I have no immediate plans to delete my FA account, I do now have my Weasyl life raft all set up, so if stuff continues to go south on FA, I have a back-up. If we get to the stage of IMVU wanting to start charging for premium membership, or deciding that they do want to try and enforce their entitlement to ownership of Copyright on anything uploaded to FA, then my gallery will be taken down as I have worked too hard to create the content for someone to start taking all the credit because of sketchy Terms & Conditions concocted by greedy lawyers with years of experience in 'legally' stealing stuff from other people.
I doubt very much that I will be uploading much new content to FA. There is already new stuff up on Weasyl that I won't be posting here. I may well change my mind on that one, but I no longer regard FA as a safe place to work from. The ground is unsteady and while I have never felt supported by the moderators or admins, it has not really mattered before now and I could live with it.
So, this is just an advanced warning to everyone.
My next step is going through my list of watched accounts and watchers and connecting with as many of them on Weasyl as I can.
Accounts are disappearing from FA all the time and it's really sad to see but unfortunately necessary.
_____________________________________________________________________________
TLDR bullet points
-I've made a Weasyl Account
-No plans right now to delete my FA profile.
-That may change if the next stupid thing FA does is stupid enough to push me.
-Dunno if I'll upload stuff here again but am thinking about it.
-Already newer content from me on Weasyl (not too much but any new stuff will definitely go there first).
-Got no faith in FA any more at all.
-Will try to reconnect with as many people on Weasyl as possible.
-Hopefully see the sensible folk over there.
Just thought you should all know.
