Archive for July, 2008
oh no she didn’t…
…oh yes she did. SHE DID!
(clicky click the big text above!)
Y’know, I was just gonna end the post there and then. (Actually, I was also going to talk about how the new layout came about, but that’ll be for later.) However I came across Skye’s blurb on FaeDubh and it really got me there, so I’m gonna do a two-cent-chip-in. Knowing me, it’s gonna end up being a million bucks instead of two cents. =P (And fingers crossed for YM.net’s new look too!)
About a year or two ago that started to change. I’m not sure if I’d fully want to blame the fighting that happened a while ago that “split” the community, but I believe it did play a part. Especially since soon after many began to distance themselves to keep themselves out of the fighting, both in terms of closing their site or just becoming more business-like. I’m probably one of the latter as well.
Woah. I was one of those caught up in the fighting – the AB war, as I personally dub it. And much to my chagrin, I remember detail all-too-well.
Okay, so maybe my then-13.5 year old brain had yet to learn to be more tactful, less naive + hot tempered, yada yada when with others – be it online or offline. But long story short, at the time, I designed something that was less than satisfactory, recieved a fair bit of critique, got a bit flared up, caused a misunderstanding which then led to a bit of a hoo-ha in the then-community (I remember names like Midori, Megori and others.) Then I calmed down; but the damage was already done – someone decided to take my fired-up blog post that was on THIS very site (no, I’m not showing you where and what, people) and gun it down so badly. The same “someone” – or “some people”, actually – didn’t stop there, and that’s where the fighting within webdesigners and everything under the sun grew.
It’s died down now that they’ve stopped; but the shadow of the damage still lingers – whether you agree or not, it’s your choice. That’s in the form of – I quote – “the lack of community. There isn’t as much support as their used to be.” I might be wrong; maybe the dying-out is just all of us who used to be close-knit in the community growing up at the same time, and finding that there’s other things out there than designing – like SATs/GCSEs/coursework, etc. But I think it’s sheer apathy they’ve got – “what’s the use of looking out for other designers if you’re just gonna get slagged off for it?” I was one of the lucky ones, though; when I was attacked during the AB war, Rachel stuck up for me – got slagged off in the process – but I still admire her staunch loyalty till today.
