I lost contact with Foxid ever since the incident, but there were talks about winding down the site and leaving up an archive of sorts. The stories floating around about what happened and the tensions leading up to it are *mostly* accurate.
At this point, I really do not want anything to do with the site or anyone who's still on board with it anymore. Nobody made much use of the site in the last five years and it didn't help that the place was also toxic as all hell. It was even deader than Livejournal by the end, with an active userbase that could be counted on two hands.
Vivisector should take it's rightful place in the forgotten internet deep alongside Portal of Evil and ljdrama.org, both of which were also scuttled by adults who got tired of paying server bills on something that got increasingly difficult to justify as they got older.
The furry community's existing news sites, existing wikis, and (ugh) social media presence can and have made up the slack, like it or not. 99% of the subculture has no desire or use for an old-school Helldump forum of it's own, especially not when Twitter is right there.
I lost contact with Foxid ever since the incident, but there were talks about winding down the site and leaving up an archive of sorts. The stories floating around about what happened and the tensions leading up to it are *mostly* accurate.
At this point, I really do not want anything to do with the site or anyone who's still on board with it anymore. Nobody made much use of the site in the last five years and it didn't help that the place was also toxic as all hell. It was even deader than Livejournal by the end, with an active userbase that could be counted on two hands.
Vivisector should take it's rightful place in the forgotten internet deep alongside Portal of Evil and ljdrama.org, both of which were also scuttled by adults who got tired of paying server bills on something that got increasingly difficult to justify as they got older.
The furry community's existing news sites, existing wikis, and (ugh) social media presence can and have made up the slack, like it or not. 99% of the subculture has no desire or use for an old-school Helldump forum of it's own, especially not when Twitter is right there.