I guess this is the most appropriate place to discuss FurryNetwork. So...

I haven't been visiting FurryNetwork much after its grand beta opening. I was active in its issue tracker, followed the cub/blacklist drama, but then FN went off my radar. Today I decided to check how it's evolving.

Looks like nothing happened. More so, it looks abandoned. Silly bugs like forgetting serach tags when switching modes are still there. Top art of all time is still the same, Kenket all over the place. Art popular this month seems lackluster, with a few artists occupying all space.

Then I went to the support website aka issue tracker. Literally nothing has been implemented. The same feature requests about pagination, groups, editing files, multiple pages, transparent images (are you kidding me?), friendly file names, nested comments are on top. Last completed "feature" was cub porn ban 2 years ago.

Then I go to the blog. Commissions, commission system, commission reviews blah-blah-blah. Looks like the only feature which has been evolving all this time is this commission thing. I'm confused. This is a sort of feature which is hard to sell. You either need to make furries pay for the service, which is unlikely to happen, or you're doomed to sink money infinitely into it while being blamed for all sins imaginable.

Last check was crosslinking on FurAffinity. FurryNetwork's art pages have been directly linked 9 times this month. For comparison, it's 776 for InkBunny.

So... What's FurryNetwork's status? Is it dead? Being reimagined as primarily a commission service? What's going on?