Well, today is the 10th anniversary of when I decided to open my own page here on FurAffinity. I probably would never had done this if it weren't for my mate  sapphirethemewtwo having an account here (shi joined a few days before I did). Anyway, as for my time here on FA, there have been ups and downs.

The good...

> It was not long after I joined FA when I started to get artwork made by others with my characters in them. It was also here where I met a couple of new friends, namely  pandafox and  kitsuneyoukai (who isn't really on FA any longer*). There have also been a couple others on FA who I've grown to like over the past several years, such as  milachu92 and  zenia. There have also been others who I haven't mentioned that I've followed since my days on the TJA forum. Some of them are still active on FA, but others have left for other places.

The bad...

> There have been times where FA has changed policies on what is acceptable on their site that caused me some problems. There have been a number of stories that I've had to remove from here and post on places such as Inkbunny or SoFurry in order to avoid running afoul of the moderators. To be fair, it is their site and I can see why they don't want certain things here, but it's still annoying to spend all that work on a story only to find out that I have to remove it. In fact, there were a few stories that I had to remove from FA that I do not have backup copies of. So, unless someone happened to save them while they were up, they're lost forever. (Granted, thanks to Sapphire, I did manage to salvage a couple of those stories.)

The "could be better"...

> Site reliability...Over the course of my time on FA there have been a number of times where the site has been down (either because of some upgrade or because some douchebag decided that DDoS'ing the site would be "funny"). In some cases, when this downtime happened, FA would be down for days or even WEEKS at a time, which gets very annoying after a while. Granted, in the last couple of years, things have been much better than they were the first couple of years I was on FA in this regard, but the downtime still gets a tad annoying.
> The "tag system", or more specifically being able to block certain things that I don't want to see...When I first started looking up furry artwork in the early 2000's (long before I joined FA), there were plenty of images I saw that I wish I didn't. Now, in some cases, I've gotten used to the images that once made me feel a bit uneasy and they don't bother me any longer. However, in other cases, there have been some things that I've seen online that I never want to see and will never change my mind about. Inkbunny has a tag system that I really like, if there's something in an image that I don't want to see, I can just block it by keyword and I don't have to see it ever again. It would be nice if FA could have something similar to this. In fairness to everyone reading this, I won't say what kind of material I don't want to look at...after all, everyone has different feelings about different things and you may like something that I don't or vice-versa. However, those who know me well enough can probably guess some of the things I don't like seeing already.

Anyway, I think that's all I have to say for now. I'll talk to all of you again soon.

*: Technically, I've been following Kit ever since I first saw his early work on SoFurry (or Yiffstar, as it was back in 2007). However, it wasn't until I started following him here when I became friends with him and his sister.