Worth noting, since the development of FA's Project Phoenix shares a developer (Charmander) with Weasyl.
As Weasyl rapidly approaches it's second anniversary (September 30th!), it seems that they've stalled, with the last "site news" item being about the launch of an IRC network on July 2nd. The last news item to specifically talk about feature/code changes/bug fixes came on
April 20th (Though they did a site policy update a
month later.) The Weasyl Redmine is now a ghost town, with only four updates taking place in the month of
July and in August, a bug report going
unnoticed for the past three weeks.
The lack of updates may be causing people to drift away from the site, as evidenced by these graphs, taken off their public
Graphite setup.
Traffic (measured by connections made to the site because apparently the active sessions statistic is gone) is starting to trend down from a long period of being relatively steady, even appearing to inch up slightly before heading down.
Given the timing of the traffic drop, it's possible that the "
SJW Incident" drove people off the site, but there's no real way to know for sure. I do recall a couple people elsewhere online did express concern over it.
Meanwhile, the amount of content being uploaded to the site is following a similar trend, which has actually become quite noticeable on my own personal submissions feed. It takes a lot longer for an image to move down the list of "new submissions" than it did, say, six, seven months ago.
(The spike at the end is probably because of
this)
It's possible that the expected UI update to FA may frustrate some users and drive them back to Weasyl, and allow them to bounce back, though in the past that has only served as a temporary bump.
