Thank you for the kind words about the tree gallery! That feature is exactly the kind of thing I'm excited to build, and I'm glad it's landing well.

On "chopped to pieces": I hear that you and your friends are disappointed, and I genuinely am too. But I want to be careful here because I don't know how else to say this: we just couldn't do it the way we have in years past. It wasn't possible. No amount of wanting it to be different was going to change that. I'm trying to be transparent about where we are, and I'd love for us to be able to talk about it without it feeling like I'm trying to take things away from you. I'm not. I'm trying to keep anything running at all.

I also want to share some context: we've had over 400 trees made public with the new system, over 750 generated, and more than 5,000 gifts given. I know you and your friends are feeling let down, but there are people engaging with and enjoying these new features. Both things can be true at once. On volunteers: I really do appreciate the offer, and I know you're not the only one. But it's genuinely not as simple as slotting people in. We've had volunteer programmers before, and they typically last a few weeks before life gets in the way. What we actually need is sustained specialized work: programming and illustration, neither of which I'm comfortable accepting as free labor.

Even for things like item organization or layer management, the tools aren't separated from user management or the ticket system. There's no "volunteer role" that gives access to just the safe stuff. And because this all lives on the legacy site, making changes to support something like that would take 10x the effort of just rebuilding it on Kumos. I am slowly working on moving these admin tools over (they look absolutely wild, screenshot attached) with proper roles, so it's a "maybe someday" situation.

What we need most right now, honestly, is money. That's the unsexy answer, but it's the real one.

I know Subeta is your home. It's been mine since I was 14. I'm doing everything I can to keep it standing.

Account Search on Kumos doesn't seem to be working properly.

Reported here: Kumos: Item Not Found on hover & Number Owned/Locations error on Item Use

edit: omg I don't know why this thinks I'm staff. I posted on Kumos and edited on Subeta, otherwise I don't know how I did it? please don't ban me :( :( :(

edit2: This edited version is also not showing up on Kumos (...yet, maybe?)

edit3: Yep: yet. It was a buffering issue.