I've been her for six years now, and I realize that many of you have been here longer. I've seen various controversies and drama that have cropped up over the year. I've weathered through those storms along side many of you and remained.

I have never really been bothered that this site wasn't pretty, flashy, or had lots of shiny things. It *worked* and there was an established community which was the important thing. But this recent meltdown has been the final straw. While this site *worked* the current events have demonstrated to me that this place runs about as well as a $500 RV that burns to the ground on the side of the highway halfway between points A&B, while you stand helplessly on the shoulder with a spent fire extinguisher. What the management decides to do from here out I don't know. If all they are going to do is proverbially patch it up with duct tape and give it a wash and wax that's not enough. It will still be that fire damaged RV. It's time for a new one.

I think that there is only so much that this community is willing to endure here and I can see several possible outcomes. These outcomes include the eventual slow march to irrelevance if it continues as-is with more patches and quick fixes and the real possibility that the corporate owners may simply decided to shutter it completely.

That said, I will no longer be actively posting here, although at this point I will not be purging my account. I will be moving over to these three sites and my twitter, so feel free to follow me at one of them or all of them. I don't know where I will become most active, but for the foreseeable future I will be cross-posting future submissions and journals to those listed.

https://beta.furrynetwork.com/good_shepherd/
https://www.weasyl.com/~goodshepherd
https://good-shepherd.sofurry.com/
Twitter: shepcrafts

While I may be planning my exodus from here I don't expect all of you to follow suit. I do recommend that you at least consider joining me and all the others in at least setting up accounts with alternate services. If my second outcome listed above comes to fruition, some day you may go to login and find that everything is gone.

Feel free to respond to this journal with your preferred alternate account one either of the services listed above and I will give you a follow there.

Thank you and good night
~Good Shepherd