Yeah, thought I might as well make this official, though it's been going on for some time. I'm going to put this matter-of-factly as I can.

I do not like the community site. I never, ever did. I only came here because so many of my friends left the Forums permanently, for some reason, in favour of this place.

I always thought making a blog-like site for TEF was a baaaaaad idea, because it encourages community-first rather than Forest-first, and therefore attracts the wrong crowd. It also makes the community, which up to now had been so precious, small and gem-like, so much easier to find and join. Before, you had to look for the community, because you wanted to, rather than because you felt the community is part of what the Forest is about.

The Community is not what the Forest is about. The Forest comes FIRST.

I personally believe that my misgivings about this place have been proven correct, and tenfold. The friends that I used to have have been lost in a hailstorm of 'droppers-by'. The Endless Forest has been advertised in places that encourage a different type of person, and (in my personal opinion), has become popular with the wrong crowd for the wrong reasons. My fail-safe rule, that an artistic, heavenly, peaceful world like The Forest will always attract the same type of person, is no longer fail-safe. It has been shattered, over and over. It is my personal opinion that the beautiful, beautiful world is lost and can never, ever be found again.

Look at this place. It's a bloody mess. Have you not noticed?

CONCLUSION: I will not be watching the Diary page. I'm not going to be watching my Track. I'm not going to updating my reluctantly-made Updates. If you want to get hold of me personally for some reason, use the Contact form, or come back to the Forums for a while. I will, however, continue to post my Deer References to the Pictures as I complete them, and I may update my Quick Factlist, because it's very good for when you're bored in IT lessons. I will also flick through the Pictures from time to time. I will be on the ToT Forums and the TEF iScribble boards. If there's anything I haven't covered, then most likely I wont be doing that either.