I hear you, and I understand the frustration. Change sucks, especially when you've spent 13 years building a home somewhere. I genuinely get that. But I want to push back on a few things here, because some of what you're saying just isn't accurate.

There are hundreds of threads where I've taken feedback and made changes to the site. Many of them in just the last two months. I've reworked the layout based on what folks have told me to make it feel more familiar. The changelog has hundreds of bug fixes. I'm in the shoutbox and the Discord every day helping people work through issues. So the idea that developers don't care what players say? That one stings, because it's not true, and I think if you look around the forums you'll see that.

What I can't do anything with is "I don't like Kumos." That's not feedback I can act on. If you tell me "I can't find the wardrobe" or "this page is confusing because X," I can fix that. I want to fix that. But "I don't like it" without specifics doesn't give me anywhere to go. Here's the thing that I need everyone to understand: this isn't a change I'm making because I want to. I would love nothing more than to let legacy Subeta run forever and ride off into the sunset. But that isn't an option. Legacy Subeta runs on technology that is, to put it bluntly, falling apart. The database version we're on hasn't had a real update in eight years. The migration to make it compatible with Kumos took months of backend work, and if I hadn't done it, the site would just stop working in a few years when that database hits actual end of life. We're talking about a 22-year-old codebase that was started by a 13-year-old. Think of it like driving a car that's been on the road for 22 years and was owned by a teenager for half of them. At some point, the thing just can't pass inspection anymore.

And it's not just a preference thing. We carry insurance. We have legal obligations around security. "Hey, sorry, we can't keep the site's security up to date anymore" is not something your insurance company wants to hear.

I also want to be honest about something: there aren't "developers." There's me. I have a full-time job outside of Subeta working for state governments trying to keep SNAP benefits from getting cut, which as you can probably imagine is taking up a lot of my energy right now. I'm 35 years old, I haven't been paid for my work on Subeta in over five years, and I keep doing it because I love this place and the people on it. I love that we've built a corner of the internet for people who are different, for people who want to be creative, for artists. That matters to me deeply.

So when I read a post like this that says I don't care? It's really hard. I'm doing everything I can to keep this place alive, and I'm asking you to meet me partway. Come to the feedback forums. Tell me what's broken, what's confusing, what you can't find. I will read it and I will work on it. If Kumos ends up being something you can't make work for you, I'm sincerely sorry about that, because it might mean the end of your time here, and I don't want that. But the alternative to Kumos isn't legacy Subeta forever. The alternative to Kumos is no Subeta at all. I hope you'll stick around and help us make it better.

This is the difficulty! If you look in threads here, a lot of people do find it more easier to use! It's just different from what you're used to!

I hear you on the gift center feedback - it got some improvements and new features, but those changes didn't come together with actual improvements. I'll get those in!

Otherwise, please make a list! There is nothing I can do to save the legacy site, and want to make the Kumos site feel like home, so really anything!

That's interesting, people complain that the text is too big, hahaha. If you press ctrl++ on your keyboard, it should make the text around the site larger!

It's different for all of us, I also can't be running around like that anymore ;)

Please feel free to ping me here in the forums, or leave a comment on profile if you need any help. I really, really want everyone to be able to move over, I know that it'll be really annoying in the short term but hope that I can make all of those lil improvements to make it feel like a new home 💖