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To the site admins:

First let me say I TRIED Eclipse when you brought it out and have tried again several more times after that, including recently. It does NOT work for me or for how I want and need to use the site, and if the "original" site is taken away… I don’t know that I can keep using the platform, even if I wanted to.

*Eclipse causes my computer to lock up into a brick. It loads super slow and locks up every couple of pages. My computer is only a couple years old, but cannot run the site as it stands. I don't know what is going on, if it's just too much data or requires high processing power or what, but it's almost unusable unless I buy a brand new computer, which I don’t have the money for. Especially right now, with the whole COVID-19 thing and lack of income. It’s an extra slap in the face to anyone else making do with older models of computer during this time. Literally: almost every thing I try and do (something simple as X out a comment from my inbox) becomes an error-ridden fight. Llama on fire indeed!

*The sorting of folders it garbage. It took an already annoying sorting module and made it WORSE. There’s no drag-and-drop option anymore; it’s just ‘click this dev 9,000 times to move it laboriously one spot at a time down the line’. HOW is that more efficient? How does that make it BETTER? That isn’t an ‘update’ or ‘upgrade’. It’s making an already irritating feature into a nightmare-headache. I like to keep my devs in alphabetical or numerical order, for clarity and neatness due to the type of content I post. I cannot keep things in order at all with Eclipse unless I am willing to devote HOURS a day in order to sort a couple new devs. That’s not progress, in the slightest.

*Accessing feedback is a chore, and not nearly as clear what is actually in your inbox. Right now it gives you a good idea what you will find, but Eclipse muddies those waters. Do you have comments or is it just dA blurbs? Is that a fave or was that just someone blinked at my page? It says it goes along ‘live’, but there have been several times when comments (NEW ONES) came to a dev I had posted and it says NOTHING. No update. I just have to physically go into the feedback area to see if there’s actually anything there or not. It also seems to have no place for any comments I SAVED back on the old dA, to refer back to. I had folders on the side to keep links people sent me or suggestions they gave me. Those are gone in Eclipse. Where to? Unclear. Maybe they are just plain GONE. [They’re still there for notes you save or sort, but not comments.]

*The profile pages are ugly. There’s no other way to state that. They are ugly. It’s not as customizable, it changes sizes of various boxes to be huge in some places (Spotlight, for one) and normal in others. It doesn’t break up the page like Original in that as soon as you go onto a profile, there’s just devs all over and no sidebars that can break that up. Right now on Original, everything has a place and is clearly defined and contained in its place. You have structure. Eclipse has everything all over, stretching the length of the page, and no clear demarcations between one thing and another – there’s no clear lines or boxes or just breaks for any of it. It’s only slightly paler in places, which isn’t clear to the eye unless you look for it. Again, this feels unfinished and plain, and looks more like a bad Beta than a full-release. It’s ugly. I pull no punches on that one. It’s plain ugly to look at.

*The colors! You can either have Eye-Strain-Inducing Black, Retina-Burning White, or God-Awful Green. The green is supposed to mimic the ‘classic’ dA look, but it mostly just highlights the glaring lacks of the new site visual set-up. The Original look broke things up with sidebars, at least, but the new version of it does not. It just showcases how blank the screen is that ISN’T a dev. There’s nothing else there. It’s empty and sterile. It’s boring. If you choose either black or white, that’s not AS glaring, but then you have to deal with the headache or eye damage from looking at it. Black background makes your eyes unable to see or read a lot of the text without squinting or straining (or missing things). White you can read, but the plain white burns my retinas so I have those floaty spots where it’s ‘burned’ that color in. So the only ‘usable’ color for me is green. And as I said, that just highlights how empty, plain, and unfinished-looking the site now looks. It had character before – now the best word for it is ‘sterile’. It’s just not interesting and if I was a new visitor to the site, I would think it was just another ‘stolen art collecting’ website. That’s how it looks. It doesn’t look “professional” to me. It just looks dead.

Anyway, this is all the stuff I found on my small sojourns into it, each of which ended in near-enraged frustration. I found it so user-unfriendly and glitchy that I RAN back to Classic dA. I’m sure I will find LOADS of new things to hate when forced to go whole-hog into it, and maybe it means my time here is actually finally done. I wish there was a real competitor to dA out there than I could jump ship to, but I may just have to try and finagle something on other sites out there to have a better experience. I know I’ve talked in the past about leaving dA due to changes and ‘updates’, but those have been nothing like this. This is a fundamental overhaul of the entire look and usability of the site itself. If I cannot use it, and it’s nothing but a headache and anger-inducing, why force myself to use it? Because there’s no alternative? Maybe it’s LESS angering to try and get creative with other sites that do exist than with one that clearly doesn’t care about its users and just wants to do what its bankrollers want to do, whether that works not. They don’t want feedback – not really. They want to hear you love it and if you hate it you’re dismissed as a change hating whiny baby. I grant them there is always some of that, but this? No. There’s a great deal more than just ‘change hating’ to this. The new site just DOES. NOT. WORK. It’s a bad Beta being passed off as a final product. I don’t doubt a lot of time and work went into it – but that doesn’t make it good. It just may mean you’ve invested so much into it you’re willing to keep going even if it’s bad.

    If you got this far, thanks for reading. I know it was a TL;DR slog.

((Anyone that knows of a good art site alternative, please let me know. I only can name a couple, and neither is exactly right for me. [FurAffinity is a non-starter, Tumblr can kiss my butt, and ArtStation is more for actual professionals. Imgur may work with some creative contortioning, but is there anything else?]))

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**Kind of an update/repost of the other journal for this. XD
I would love to finish ALL possible combinations for breeding all the multi-species hybrids we have out there, but I have a LOT less free time anymore in which to design them all myself. I've done a couple, here and there, but at my current pace, it will take a year or more for me to ever finish XD So if you want to try designing some of these guys, that would be awesome! I'll cross them off the list as I get to them, and don't worry if more than one person does a design for a particular hybrid -- the more the merrier, as it gives me choices and allows me to maybe meld the things I like from several to make a whole I can love :3

**NOTE: For speed and ease, I tend to simply re-draw the designer's art for use as art officiating the hybrid. If this bothers you and you would prefer me to NOT do so, please say so up front on here when you link to any designs you submit. This prevents you getting annoyed that I did what I did, and prevents me having to do double the work to then re-do a hybrid I already did. Makes life easier for both of us if you speak up at the start, is all ;) (Wink) Thanks!

**ALSO NOTE: Some on the list people have already submitted suggestions for; they're on this list because I need to keep track of what is still 'pending', and of course any other suggestions are still welcome! Nothing is final until it is ;D

TWO-WAY HYBRID LIST:

Fangor X Wingnut
Fangor X Lecherpede
Wingnut X Wraith
Moorama X Goreboar
Moorama X Jujubeest
Moorama X Feliray
Jujubeest X Goreboar
Goreboar X Feliray
Ugugli X Goreboar
Goreboar X Critiquill
Ugugli X Critiquill

THREE-WAY HYBRID LIST:

Fangor X [TimberfallXDeadark]
Ugugli X [GCT X Thwump]
Goreboar X [Timberfall X Durj]

FOUR-WAY HYBRID LIST:

Moorama X Goreboar X Jujubeest X Feliray (all equal portions)
Okapiraffe X [Fangor X (Timberfall X Deadark)]
Gimmeer X [Ugugli X (GCT X Thwump)]

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I got tagged by the loverly :iconpolarliger:

Rules:


- Answer the questions given by your tagger, and then give 12 of your own.
- Choose 6 - 12 people to tag.
- Legitimately tag people, there is no "I can't tag" I can't read this. It has a line through it. *faints*
- You can tag back

1. The zombie apocalypse happened! whats your weapon and where do you go to stay safe?
Uh. I don't... know? Like there are so many different types of zombies out there and some are like laughable but some are VERY MUCH NOT? Which type is this apocalypse? UNGH. I don't even. I choose a buttload of napalm. yes. Napalm and an airplane to deliver it with. THAT'S MY WEAPON. Yes. I guess I go to like um... a bunker in the middle of nowhere where zombies don't go because population density is low. YES>

2. If animals took over the world, what species would you serve and why?
I would serve the blobfish, because no one else loves it, and if it got intelligent enough to be angry about how unloved it is, I would rather be on ITS side than be its enemy. I will flunky the blobfish. 

3. whats your favourite web comic?
I don't read any? So... none?

4. you just got mugged, and when running away, the thief lost his/hers phone. its logged into facebook. how do you have your revenge?
It would be tempting to be a jackass and like just mess up this guy's life, wouldn't it?

5. your favourite movie?
V For Vendetta. ;D

6. whats your dream job?
Minimal work. Maximum pay. 

7. If you could live anywere on earth, where would it be and why?
Somewhere in Ireland. I have no idea if I would actually like it there and possibly I'd actually hate it, but it always looks so pretty and GREEN. 

8. what would you choose between being strong, beautiful or smart?
Let's be smart. Then I could make lots of money and be rich and then other people wouldn't care about my lack of strength or beauty. I COULD PAY THEM TO CARE. 8'D

9. why did the hen cross the road?
To find a warm home that did not involve forced ovulation, infanticide, and/or sharp axes.

10. salt, sweet
 or sour candy?
Sweet. Chocolate is my nemesis.

11. Some crazed creep is banging down your door while screaming obscene rants about how you need to reproduce with him in order to save the world. (your gender dont matter, he's crazy and he still want your flower) eletricity is out and so is every single phone in the house. what do you do?
Call animal control. Then wait it out with home protection armory ;D

12. if you could live in any fantasy world, what would it be?
Discworld. It would likely be pure horror and I'd die real quick, but I'd be in awe when I got turned into a human-pancake within five minutes.

MY QUESTIONS:
1. Why is a what?
2. Who be do that, and if so, will it make it out ALIVE???
3. Can you spell I?
4. If you can't spell I like that, how do YOU spell it when you have need to use it for medical purposes?
5. Is melon legal where you live? If melon is illegal, describe why and how it was labeled a Tier 3 combustible in your particular section of the street.
* What is the difference between a duck?
8. Is your piggy bank green or the number 12?
7. Which letter is your favorite? Please explain in no less than 1000 words exactly why it is your most special friend.
9. If you could be a tree, what leaf shape would you favor, and how would you attract bees to your sweet pollen?
10.2. How high can you count without pausing for breath? At what number exactly do you actually pass out?

I tag:
 
I'm sorry, I don't speak English.
Except I tag :iconwildheartthewarrior:. Because she looked. 

NEVER look, man.
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I would love to finish ALL possible combinations for breeding the player hybrids, but I have a LOT less free time anymore in which to design them all myself. I've done a couple, here and there, but at my current pace, it will take a year or more for me to ever finish XD So if you want to try designing some of these guys, that would be awesome! I'll cross them off the list as I get to them, and don't worry if more than one person does a design for a particular hybrid -- the more the merrier, as it gives me choices and allows me to maybe meld the things I like from several to make a whole I can love :3

**NOTE: For speed and ease, I tend to simply re-draw the designer's art for use as art officiating the hybrid. If this bothers you and you would prefer me to NOT do so, please say so up front on here when you link to any designs you submit. This prevents you getting annoyed that I did what I did, and prevents me having to do double the work to then re-do a hybrid I already did. Makes life easier for both of us if you speak up at the start, is all ;) Thanks!

LIST:

All done! Huzzah!

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