Thanks, I wasn't even aware of this to be honest, I'm sure when this New Owner becomes more accustomed to the site, how it's run and the people on it things will smooth out. It's a community based platform so the site would kinda fall into ruins if our thoughts and advice are not taken into account by this Owner. I stick by Zeus in having faith for this new person, I am however very disappointed by the lack of communication. To This New Owner: Communication keeps this site going. If you are not open and honest with this community, we will find it hard to trust your good intentions. We are all people, do not be afraid to treat us as people but do not treat us like cash and coins.
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"Thanks, I wasn't even aware of this to be honest" - i too wouldn't if i had not looked random into the chat section a while ago. that's why i wanted to let other users know about it because zeus seems to think the community don't should know about this.. zeus didn't tell the community about it..,so i do (with this post).. :/
This makes me nervous
@cycy Thanks for the information
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Quick question: Will the New Owner introduce themselves?
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that's the problem. no one tells us anything. zeus said the new owner want's to stay anonymous till he "warmed up" with the site etc.. but it's all rly weird and odd. we getting like no informations at all about anything.. even days after the change of ownership.
the only thing we know for sure is, that the new owner put popup ads on fs.. and removed it then after people said they don't like it (so users don't leave the site). so basically.. for me it smells like a cashgrab :(
And the fact they have to "warm up" to how it works and the users means very clearly that they aren't a part of funsub, they aren't current users, they have no loyalty or connection to the site.
even when its someone familiar with a site takes over it almost never goes well. Usually ends with it becoming too different and making the user base feel alienated. This will probably be much worse as they aren't part of the community
Dang bruh did this new owner just get here or how long has he been here?
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it looks like he is here a while now.. there happend to be changes on fs like the popups etc.. and thats basicly the new owner doing stuff. i linked a thread.. the start of it seems to be likely to be the starting point. but we can't be sure because no one tell us anything about it.. that's the problem here
Also they aren't removing posts that blatantly break the rules, so either they aren't reviewing reports or they just don't care. Neither is a good sign.
There will be kinks to work out obviously. Why is everyone jumping to the conclusion that the site will end? Give it a chance. When users mentioned the ads were too much it got fixed right away. Give the benefit of the doubt, maybe it will stay the same or improve
Users threatening to leave over ads followed by the ads being removed tells us only that the new owner wants not for the userbase to leave. Nothing else can be assumed from this information any assumptions of benevolence are merely baseless speculations especially when time and time again its been shown that uownership changes to the unassociated tend to lead to problems. I've been burned before youll forgive me if I'm now wary of fire.
I'm definitely wary, but I'm going with the wait and see tactic, at least for the time being
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@jay2327 when you buy a site and see that people don't like something you do, you too would revert the change to don't lose traffic and users. that have nothing to do with being nice / bad. that's not rly a argument for or against the new owner imho.
Ive been here for a couple years now i dont want the site to die despite my past with yall i still have a good time on here. I mean ima leave here in 3 months but i dont want my goodbye to happen yet
yeah im going on my mission so ima not have access to any of this for 2 years and i doubt when i get back yall gonna be here anyways so yeah im fine no stressing just dont wanna say goodbye early yet.
I deleted my account last year because a lot of hate was going unchecked and just didn't want to be apart of it anymore. When I visited again and saw two ads before I could see the first post followed by an ad bar that stayed at the top while scrolling, I knew @Zeus and @chronos had made some changes. @bethorien They are so intrusive and I understand you guys want more revenue from something you put so much time and effort into but hear your community out. Good luck to all of you guys, it's been a wild 4 or 5 years and I wish you all the best!
Honestly I love this site to pieces but the addition of ads has caused me to start looking elsewhere. This used to be the only place where I could find clean funny pictures without ads rammed into my face but now it just like any other. The ad at the top that literally gets in the way of some actions on mobile and the pop up that seemed to come up on every screen. I'm fine with ads but these ones seen to follow me when I wish I could just scroll past them.
I'm sad. I've been here since the beginning and I sincerely hope this isn't the end. I'm kinda losing tumblr too, another site I use to express myself. It would kill me if I lost both
It was so unfortunate in a way bad things had happened on FS recently. As a guest of this site for a few years, may I suggest something?
We are people not machines, and people make mistakes. It seems to me that neither the previous or new owner of FS are with professional management capability.
There are worries from community that the website may cease to bring joy (ad. issue) or may bring data leak/sale issue.
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I personally have faith in new owner, as I believe judgement is not going to bring things further (just my belief).
However, I would also encourage the new owner, if he/she has read this, to show up to us as soon as possible.
It is understood that you, the new owner, may wish to get more time greeting us. Maybe you are just one conservative being. However, there is already now a trust issue. Hiding from an issue is always the worst solution, and the longer it takes the more damage it will eventually cause.
Have a nice day all.
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NEW OWNER
SHOW UP THIS WEEK
PLEASE
PEOPLE WILL START TO PEAVE BY THE DOZENS
What is unfortunate is, I totally understand why the new owner would justifiably want to hold back to get a feel for the dynamic ect of the site/community. Which is why Zeus should have made this announcement and said that himself so the owner wouldn't be put on the spot. Yes, whoever it is has made mistakes, but they're human, it happens. The old owners should know the community enough to give us that courtesy.
What is unfortunate is, I totally understand why the new owner would justifiably want to hold back to get a feel for the dynamic ect of the site/community. Which is why Zeus should have made this announcement and said that himself so the owner wouldn't be put on the spot. Yes, whoever it is has made mistakes, but they're human, it happens. The old owners should know the community enough to give us that courtesy.
Oh, dang, look at all this love I'm getting. ;)
Text posts are the laziest form of posting, and most of them seem to be stolen from FB, which is reason enough for ditching them.
Hun, if you don't like the just keep scrolling, downvote if you want, but they aren't nearly as irritating as guest trolls. If we banned everything a few users hated, you know you'd be banned AGAIN. Personally, I got nothing against you or your MLP habit, but others are dead against you, do if they had their way you'd be out as well
@cycy I am also done with the website and have to focus on other things, I have deleted my account. Wish you guys all the best als take care. Ich wünsche dir persönlich nochmal alles gute und viel Erfolg, war echt cool dich kennengelernt zu haben -Defau0lt
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oh, sorry to hear that.. i really liked your stuff you posted & commented :)! if this don't works out soon i'm too gone.. :/ i wish you the best bro!
Dang, and that's only that we know of. Others may have left without announcing or bothering to delete their account
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This is truely the death of Funsubstance :(
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Well, shit.
I guess it's back to racist ass IFUNKY for me
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I've been here 4 years now, it's gonna be horrible to see this gem of a site die.
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We don’t really know anything about this though, it’s a shift yes but why claim it to be “the end” so soon?
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@folk_the_lore because (for me) it looks like a total random buyed funsubstance to squeeze the last money out of it and then shut it down after. the first thing the new owner did was putting more ads online.. so in other words.. his first interest was cash. he and zeus didn't seem to care about the community, otherwise they would have just told us that there is a new owner (soon). it's just a smoke and night action.. and they don't even give us more information after we found out about it.. that smells all fishy like hell. how we should trust them after what they have done? why i should trust someone who is not part of the community and just is interested in money & not in the community? a website owner should care about his community, don't let them sit in the rain.
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Okay that’s completely fair, so let’s all just hope for the best then? Zeus has had our backs for years and it all does seem sketchy but the best we can do is wait and see
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well, i do wait a few days.. if we till then don't got clear informations about wtf is happening, i delete my account. i really love funsubstance, but what's happening currently is just "not cool bro"..it would be sad when some random dude makes changes to FS and destroying the community by doing so..
quite a lot of people care seeing as 1 has already deleted their account over it and people that are actually an ingrained part of the community are upset and musing at the idea of leaving
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I wouldn't amuse the troll with an explaination, it's just hate mongering.
(1. 2. and 3. is a quote from bethorien's text inside the link above. thanks @bethorien )
@cycy Thanks for the information
the only thing we know for sure is, that the new owner put popup ads on fs.. and removed it then after people said they don't like it (so users don't leave the site). so basically.. for me it smells like a cashgrab :(
We are people not machines, and people make mistakes. It seems to me that neither the previous or new owner of FS are with professional management capability.
There are worries from community that the website may cease to bring joy (ad. issue) or may bring data leak/sale issue.
———
I personally have faith in new owner, as I believe judgement is not going to bring things further (just my belief).
However, I would also encourage the new owner, if he/she has read this, to show up to us as soon as possible.
It is understood that you, the new owner, may wish to get more time greeting us. Maybe you are just one conservative being. However, there is already now a trust issue. Hiding from an issue is always the worst solution, and the longer it takes the more damage it will eventually cause.
Have a nice day all.
SHOW UP THIS WEEK
PLEASE
PEOPLE WILL START TO PEAVE BY THE DOZENS
Text posts are the laziest form of posting, and most of them seem to be stolen from FB, which is reason enough for ditching them.
Not sure why you'd bring up a bs banning, but ok.
@bethorien thanks
I guess it's back to racist ass IFUNKY for me