About the current situation

[Alley]

As the person that triggered this chain of events, I strongly believe the community deserves a clear and honest answer as to what just happened.

For the better part of the past two years, I have been regularly warning administrators, developers and people that care that as I was getting more and more responsabilities at work, my time for Discovery was equally shortened. For most of the past six months, I have been in a situation where I would have to spend each weekday evening and almost all weekends dealing with discovery matters. As you can suspect, this can only work for so long until it simply cease to be feasible. I have therefore no choice but to withdraw from Discovery development, administration, management and essentially any responsability in order to force a long due (and long requested on my end) transition of responsabilities to people with more time to happen.

King Boo, whom was supposed to be the second tech admin has accepted a year ago to bear the mantle of handling the administrative aspect of the game box's renting. As most of you know, this has led to a soon complete silence until the forum crash incident, in which he suddenly resurfaced as Discovery's savior and promised to be active once more. He was trusted on this and you have seen the results of this trust. For the past months, way before I started calling him out on his false promises, King Boo has outright refused to communicate with any member of the administration team despite he was seen playing Overwatch for several hours at times. It is simply disrespectful to refuse to even take a minute out of a gameplay session to simply state an intent.

As I am no longer in any capability to fulfill these duties properly and no solution was in sight, I ended up having to force things to happen and for the relevant people to have no choice but sit down and work together on a plan for the future of this community. Thus far, it seems to have done the job as progress is being made. I however do hope this wake up call will reach the ears of those it is meant to shake up, but also that it will reach you and make you think hard about everything you did up until now for Discovery and what you can now do for the better of this community. Discovery is what you, together, shape it to be. It can be a great community if you work hard at it. The question is then, do you care?

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Alley was right.