It's Luminaire and I'm at my parents house working on something new, so I've got time to answer some questions. I haven't done this in awhile (and I used to do it on video 😭 ) but lets do it. Toss any questions at me, obviously ones that I can answer ;)

Those chocolate chip cookies that have been made in a science lab, they're so soft that it's impossible they're made with real ingredients.

I see the tea shop got asked about a few times on this thread, and I totally understand the frustration. When we had the options, it was meant to be a small little idea and it turned into something much larger internally, and got blocked by a separate system that I was building at the time (which I still hope to have out next year!). and co have been working on the art and direction for it, it just got blocked up by some engineering work for awhile :( I'm really sorry, we want to see it realized too!

A bunch of things! I'm excited about a wardrove revamp right now that I'm working on for a few reasons:

1. It moves the processing of items from the server side to the client side, which means that searching / filtering will be much faster, and cleaner. It removes a bunch of the logic from the server side, which makes it easier to push out new features.
2. There is a new wardrobe feature coming with this :) Something we're excited about!
3. This will be the base for a whole new Subeta, where we have the front end in react (the thing that makes it possible for the wardrobe to be so responsive), which means putting a header/footer in the wardrobe and starting to build features there!

Otherwise, we're working on an entirely new system for the site where users can join together to... do things. It's going to be fun!

I think we've managed to stay open for a lot longer than most other pet sites because we're more than that. We've got a community, which is really passionate and is what I think really keeps the site alive.

I plan to keep Subeta open as long as it's feasible. We're absolutely bringing in way less money today than we were four years ago, but it's still possible to keep it open :)

Maybe virtual meetups! The real life meetups were really conveniently positioned when and I were traveling around with each other, a lot harder to make work now!

Possibly!

Really, buy cash shop credits and refer new users :)

Hahaha none of the ones I made are any good. I've got a lot of favorites on the site now - I think Esther has continued to be one of my favorites, though.

I've learned a lot. Mostly things that we're able to push into the plan to rebuild the site (one piece at a time) starting with a new version of the wardrobe. Gold account users have been testing it, it's much faster and easier and builds the basis for the future of Subeta. I'm really excited for this!

Still a work in progress. This is one of those situations like where a movie gets a new director five times and changes each time, we've changed our idea of what this should be a couple of times from a simple "click here daily" to something more involved.

Probably not!