I've been here for four years. I know you all might've thought I quit (I burned out on art), but I'm still here, probably against my better judgment. It's been my go-to repository for posting my art throughout the years, but it seems that this time it's all come crashing down, eh?

After a year and a half of radio silence, they finally announced they were going to deal with the two huge problems plaguing the site (constant 502 errors, spambots), and in doing so...I'll keep my language as polite as I can, but wow, what a disaster.

First of all, turns out most of the staff jumped ship, which is probably part of the reason why the whole spambot thing got so out of control. Then they tried to correct both problems as best they could and in the process broke submissions. You tried. Then it went back up, seemed like 502s were gone (insert Crab Rave where appropriate)... then it started getting incredibly sporadic with connectivity. Sometimes I couldn't even load the site to see the front page, maybe submissions from the few I follow. I can forget posting anything new here at the moment (if I had anything to post, that is) since it's a technical mess I don't want to deal with.

Now it's back again, and who knows what kind of mess will await me even trying to post this. The cherry on the cake is that after all this, spambots are back yet again. It's at this point I wonder if I bring misfortune and bad luck wherever I go (given it's almost been one year since Tumblr destroyed itself and I used to be a heavy user of that). Either way, it feels like the last straw for me. Spending a whole month just to get back to square one with an arguably worse-off website? It's enough to make me want to leave...

...if only it were that simple and I had somewhere to post that wasn't my Twitter or my Mastodon.

Let's be real, I quit FurAffinity mainly because things did not feel right over there, and because of bad experiences. I really do not want to have to go back, but unfortunately that's where everyone else is. It leaves me with a terrible dilemma regarding Weasyl: stay here with the spambots and the potentially hit-or-miss submission system, let alone the hit-or-miss access to the site... or abandon it entirely?

I shouldn't have to be in this dilemma.
Nobody should.

(stealth edit: turns out this got posted on the first try.)