Announcement on the Future of Hardcore Husky

After 13 years with Vanilla, I have decided it is time to find Hardcore Husky a new home. Relations with Vanilla have deteriorated so badly that I feel left with no choice. As we all know, the product quality delivered by Vanilla since July has been frustrating and subpar. August in particular was a shitshow, which coincided with my annual fundraiser and impacted it negatively. The frenetic screen jumping and malfunctioning buttons made the site at times unusable.

Currently, I do not see any indication from Vanilla that they wish to do what is necessary to get the remaining flaws fixed. In fact, a manager who told me in July she was taking the reins and would make sure that everything got fixed abandoned the project in September without saying a word to me. She simply stopped responding to emails. It left me reaching out to other departments looking for someone to finish the job. There's more to the story but it's not important anymore. The bottom line is that I prepay for this product each January 1st and I do not wish to go through another 12 months like we just had.

There are certain frontline people at Vanilla that I have worked with for years that I really appreciate. They have always been responsive and helpful.

As it is, we will be making the transition to a new home early next week, either Monday and/or Tuesday. We might be down for a few hours, I'm not sure of the exact schedule yet.

I am very happy with the trial run I did with our new home. Among things that you guysm will like will be the ability to embed X links without having to sit there typing "Twitter.com" all the time. You'll be able to just paste the link into your post and click one button — voila!

I realize that none of us like having routines disrupted and losing the familiar. Especially some of our more autistic and easily-triggered posters. But the past six months have been incredibly frustrating for moi behind the scenes and it is time for a change.

There are always risks involved with leaving the devil you know for the devil you don't know. But Geocities is a trusted name in the business and I like what I've seen so far.*

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*Okay, I'm just kidding about the Geocities part. Just wanted to see if I could induce a stroke from our friend dtd. He's probably writing me an enraged PM as we speak.

I'm actually paying more to the IT guy to wait until the 15th to do this because I didn't want to disrupt our enjoyment of the LA Bowl. So this weekend will be one last Game Thread hurrah with the ol' Vanilla format.

Thank you all who have supported the site as we prepare to enter a new era— in this, our 14th year. Holy fuckall!

Derek / Stalin