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So uh.... I want to say, first and foremost, that this journal:

... has aged like milk. God lmao.


My initial reason of departure was the notification update. It was so bad, it tickled my years of worth frustration with dA in general. At the same time I was struggling to find anything in my notifications, I was eyeballing this site called buzzly. So I simply decided to move. And so I did! And it was fun! For two months until things happened LMAO


Since I came back, and some of you might as well make fun of me for it, let me entertain you if you don't know what happened over there:


  • the site had good prognosis, it was community driven and we had one dev, and 3 staff members.

  • since I joined, there's been a few miss steps, but nothing major. I took it as a rookie mistake esp when the site got popular and 4 people to manage it all is rather hard.

  • some more miss steps regarding their upload policy and what they're allowing on site. They were asking if zoo shit and pedo crap is allowed, community said a strong no, staff apologized and confirmed its no bueno on the site

  • I personally noticed the site had two devs now, and 3 staff members. ChStark being the new guy

  • TWO DAYS? AGO the site posted a weird poll titled 'finding the morality compass' (so fucking weird) yet again touching on weird fetishes and straight up illegal stuff, written so vaguely with even worse answers that were very black and white - answers in favor to bad stuff worded like it's a good thing to think and answers against it worded like you're a clown for not being ok with nazi garbage, zoo and pedophilia. (I am dead serious)

  • since that the community started leaving en masse

  • turns out the 3 staff members had their rights to manage the site revoked, they cant do anything

  • their buzzly discord was deleted (it was the only place besides the official blogs where people could voice their opinions and stay in touch with devs and staff)

  • one staff member spoke up against the things happening on their post, and also made a twitter thread sharing all the documents and screenshots how bad the inside communication was. Afaik the staff saw the poll and said its worded badly and tried to fix it and were excited to be posted only to find the badly worded draft is what was published

  • the new dev ChStark turns out to be a cryptobro, and responds to all the concerns with ego saying he can't be banned bc he owns the site

  • the other dev, RedArcanine was outed as a pedo and went MIA on all the social media, including Buzzly. Afaik the site was left entirely in charge of the cryptobroski now as well

  • people panicking, started spamming the main feed with memes. That site is full of 'where to find me' posts and memes

  • because the deactivation feature was never implemented, the best way to be gone is to either email staff (uh..at this point one duderoo I suppose) or get banned

  • many people go for the latter, posting all kinds of weird shit into the main page

  • some people paste text into ChSpark's page, we're talking memes. Don't mine at night lyrics, wiki articles, some go as wild as pasting bee movie scripts.

  • some people went further and started properly beta testing the site, pasting long texts into the upload title. Turns out theres NO character limit in that either. It took me a minute to scroll past to comment section because the title was SO long.

  • people used this and started copying even longer texts, we're talking 80k lines of text into their customizable widgets. It crashed the site.

  • since then a lot of people kept pasting long texts, the site is crashing every now and then

EDIT:

  • Since then cryptodoodsie made 2 extremely idiot polls asking if we believe the other dude is a pedo and if we believe our art will end up as NFT

  • I voted on polls basically saying yep I truly believe that

  • Next day, that is today my account displays error 404 (thanks for helping me dodge the entire process to beg on knees to get my account deleted, turns out all it takes is challenge your ego omg)

  • I can also no longer view the site at all, possibly getting me IP banned

  • I didn't comment or harass anybody so either it's truly bc I voted on the poll, or the crybaby is checking dA or twitter and saw me speaking against their shit very loudly

  • I can still view the site np on incognito, and IP can change so idfk what was the point

  • Tl;dr shit's hilarious!


At this point it's a meme fest. I do not see it coming back even after this is done, simply bc the name has been tarnished. And it sucks, bc it was a nice site! Def less annoying than eclipse, and people in there were very warm and welcoming.

According to crypto guy it's a mere 1% of people that are outraged and the site will be amazing once all the "bad eggs" are gone but I feel its gonna end up like inkbunny. A site full of absolute weirdos. Also I'm p certain it's more than 1% but okay!



Since my big grumpy journal in here, dA has fixed the notification. It's not ideal because we;re still stuck in this garbage slow notification center BUT I can at least see the favs separately, and delete them so I can focus on other notifications that actually interest me a little bit more! Previously everything was meshed together, and it was v upsetting.


I've been drawing lots, posting on other social media I have. So I will be posting a backlog to here shortly!! Lot's of good art so hope you're excited for that (:

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