Hi everyone
I'm glad to see many familiar faces (((((((((magic carpet, sick puppy, dream chaser, digital love))))))))) and some friendly new ones I"m just getting to know.
As for the previous cross-forum bashings- let he who is without sin cast the first stone. lol, won't be me that's for sure. I'm willing to forgive and be forgiven and leave it in the past. I have felt welcomed here. I think the site ppl develop attachments to is the one they first made their home, made friends. After awhile it isn't just about the band or the site layout, its the friends you come to see.
I miss the old Zootopia, not the politics etc, but my old Albums section, the Heart and the Zoo Bar, the friends I made there. I have also been both surprised and impressed with Interference and it has quite grown on me already. And I love the emoticons- lol we even have a drooly one. I will keep the good memories from the old Zootopia and make new ones here in our new U2 home.
The 'new and improved Zootopia' is sad. Sterile, inefficient, and lacking in ....well everything. The level of conversation over there has taken a nosedive along with it, not that I'm innocent myself. Too disheartened to post in what used to be the Albums folder I moderated and is now a barren ...nothing, I didn't contribute much in the way of positive energy myself (kudos to magic carpet for his adorable dancing kitty though, that always made me smile). I still kept checking back in though to see online friends I'd grown attached to, til last night I decided I'd had enough of the remnants of our former Zoo when one of the former moderators put up an absolutely appalling 'joke' about a mutilated cat.
The new Zoo is like witnessing some type of Lord of the Flies deterioration fraught with poor technology and uncaring, uninvolved moderators.
I think its time for us to move on and we've been offered a new beginning on this site. I'll climb back down off my soapbox now before someone knocks me off. (lol is Cat here yet?) Just kidding if you are ((((((Cat)))))))