As some have noticed, there's been a pretty large exodus over here to Weasyl from FA due to recent events. I don't think I need to go into them again, everyone's heard of them.

Like I mentioned in my FA journal after FA's week-long downtime, however, even if those accusations are somehow false, there's plenty of other reasons to use Weasyl over FA.

As an example, Weasyl is much more responsive to issues and generally transparent. If something goes wrong with Weasyl, I usually find out about it from their twitter accounts before I find out for myself. Weasyl is also much more up to date. It had a working search engine right out of the box! It looks much nicer, too. Sure, Mr. Z is leading a FurAffinity 'rebuild' project, but let me be frank.

Even if the accusations against him are false, his track record as a developer is already pretty well proven and looks like complete and total @#$!. He managed to chase away the only people who had any idea of what they were doing, and is trying to develop the new site in a language he does not understand. The fact the administration let him do this and supports him virtually unconditionally does not exactly instill confidence in me for this "Project Phoenix". It's going to be the seventh or eighth miserably failed attempt to upgrade FA since I first became a member of the site almost a decade ago. Even if it is completed, in its proposed form it still lacks some of the features that users have been aching for - it's a vanity project for Z, completely out of touch, or even worse, willfully ignorant of what FA's users actually desire in a much needed update.

So what am I trying to get at?

Even if you're one of those people who don't think the accusations against Mr. Z are 'a big deal', keep using Weasyl. It's a better product then FA at this moment in time, and the administration at FA have generally shown that they are in no big hurry to actually improve the site or address the vast multitude of issues behind it. If improving FA actually was a top priority, we wouldn't be waiting on a site revamp eight years later. Years of donations, volunteer support, and patience has rewarded FA users with... a barely functioning search engine. The community needs to show FA that they can't keep taking our support for granted.