FA gets hacked. It is not a very nice looking website. It came out 10 years ago and hasn't updated it's look one. The community is toxic, the mods are dicks and it is owned by IMVU.

These are just some of the complaints I see about FA on a regular basis, especially when the hacks happen. All of these criticisms are valid, yes, but you know what? FA is fine. It's a good site. I joined FA years ago but have only been active a year, and since I joined I have always felt incredibly welcome and at home here. I have made friends here, I have built a small following here, and I am thankful to everybody reading this.

So yes, FA has some security issues, and they really need to work on them, but FA is not run by professionals, it is run by furries, and I am sure they are trying their best. It is a site where I can find the kind of content I am looking for, and I can post my content and allow people to find it.

Sure I can post my work to other sites, I post to Sofurry, but the community there is pretty dead, and what I write is not allowed on Inkbunny, and I have no idea about any other sites like Weasyl or Furry Network. I don't even post anything to any fanfic sites, as far as I am concerned, FA is my creative home, and I have made most of my friends who are into fanfic here.

The web design is fine, if I am honest, I do not like the new FA, I am comfortable with the old layout, and I like it. Plus it does change and update in minor ways, most of which are great! The community is also fine. Sure you get some weirdos, some submissions or comments I see creep me out, but I have never, ever gotten anything like that personally.

I have always said if anyone ever bothers me or harasses me I will delete their comments and block them immediately, but you know what? I have never actually had to do that, which is great! To me, the community is fine, I have never gotten hate for posting weirder content!

As for the moderators supposedly being dicks? Sure, I have been banned before, but I don't blame the mods for that, I was banned because I broke the rules, which is completely fair. Sure there are all sorts of allegations about FA mods, but I have never experienced any bother with any of them personally, and even if they ARE dicks, have you ever heard of this concept called Death of the Author? It states that an author and their work should be separate, so you can enjoy the work without agreeing with the author, and that author intention doesn't matter, so even if the mods ARE horrible people who don't deserve anyone's attention, they might be, I haven't met them, should that really stop you from enjoying the site?

Besides, I don't have enough clout as a writer to pull people with me from FA, so even if I did quit I would be starting all over again, and there would be no point in that. I like FA, and I don't seem to have the same problems that other people do, so for better or worse, I am staying, and I am going to continue to use it to see art I like, and also post things I write, and I hope some of you reading this are going to stay with me.