I miss how things used to be.

I miss how the community was before.

This is just going to be a big ol' personal rant, so if you don't wanna read that, you're welcome to leave. I'm not looking to get into arguments. Nor to defend my opinion, this is just a rant, treat it as such. Don't interact with me if you're going to be negative, I don't want to see it.

I miss how the community was before all the drama with the picture change. I miss how everyone was so appreciative, welcoming and supportive, and how many funny posts there were. I miss how the subreddit was too, the mood was good and it was fun to interact even when the site went down or there were a few issues going on.

I don't see that anymore. It feels like something changed, and I'm not sure how to feel about it.

Lately, it feels like whenever I open the subreddit, all I see are complaints followed by complaints and it's genuinely heart wrenching for me to watch it. I feel like a lot of new people joined, and there's nothing wrong with that. But so many of you are so unappreciative and downright negative, and it shows.

You're not changing anything by doomposting. You're not making the site or the community better by comparing other sites with this one. I get that people got afraid of j.ai's downfall and whatever, but can't you see that by making those arguments and comparisons it only brings more fear to other people? It changes nothing, it helps nothing. All that it does is make people sad and fucking upset over something that didn't even happen. Personally, I don't think the changes with the nsfw pictures were even that big of a deal.

I know that was already taken care of and the drama was settled, but I feel like ever since then it hasn't been the same y'know? I guess I just felt so disappointed with some user's reaction, and I wouldn't blame the dev team if they felt the same.

They are putting so much effort and love into this, and I feel like some of y'all forget that they're humans too. The site is in beta, and they're working so hard to add more fun things for us. To bring us a comfort space in between all this mess. They even update frequently, and I can tell that Shep and the other devs really do care about what we have to say, even when part of the community just whines and makes their job so much fucking harder than it already is.

I feel like some of y'all really do forget that they have their own fucking lives, that they don't stay in front of the computer working on the site every minute of a day and that they don't owe you an explanation of what they are doing 24/7, it's unrealistic to expect that, and I feel like y'all forget that.

It's really upsetting. And I'm not trying to say that it's wrong to express yourself and stuff, you have a right to complain, after all that's how we help j.ai grow. I just feel like it's become too much of it lately, then again, maybe that's just me. Hate screams louder than love, I guess that's it.

That's the end of the rant tho I hope everyone's doing well, having a good day and all. Remember to drink water and eat, see you guys around.