This Strip is Not Safe For Work!

like actually, why? i used it a lot yet never actually found out why

I have wondered the same thing.it was so much fun

In short, because the creator no longer cared for the site. Similar to a lot of drawing sites like Panel Jam, it was largely untended to! Jamdaddy tried to shut the site down but didn't due to the strong vote of the community that it stay up. During the pandemonium, Peyo created Panel Chutney to have somewhere else to do what Panel Jam did! However, there is a possibility that this helped make Jamdaddy choose to shut down Panel Jam, since this site was basically doing what Panel Jam did but generally better at least from a technical perspective! Peyo also, despite being less active here, is not absent and checks in every so often and will respond to emails and the like, fix bugs, and everything else. So don't be afraid to reach out to him, or an Admin or something, if you need to! ^^ Also fancy seeing you Dobby!! ^^

paneljam is back tho, so it's not true he doesn't care for the site

`nooz` That depends on his reason for the shutdown. Overall, he was not giving the site much attention. I mean, even before shutting it down he was basically absent for at least the couple years I was on. (Peyo, while busy, is quite easy to reach!) I'm not saying I didn't enjoy Panel Jam, and it's neat to hear it went back up too, but to be completely honest, the setup here is a bit... better? At least, I remember drawing on Panel Jam being sorta difficult.

Been hunting down the thread around one of the first time hearing the site shutting down https://www.paneljam.com/forum/threads/ask-me-anything-929ee965-04b8-4e1d-be75-08d7eccc927a/ "It really has been! I've been busy. I got married, I have a baby, and two business... life is good but I'm definitely 'time poor'. I'd like to spend a couple of hours per month simply smoothing out bugs and the like..." I'd just assume the 3 years while it was gone was more of the same of him not having the time to dedicated to paneljam, dude's got a life outside of this ya know, family and all, so I don't really like framing him negatively because of this

it was a stealthy come back too - Nov 26? without a thread here I would have never known 🤔

`nooz` I'm only framing it a touch negatively since the site had glaring issues which he ignored. Of course you can have a life, and that makes a lot of sense. But the site didn't protect minors safely, was overrun by trolls, and still had significant bugs (jams that wouldn't end, drawing tools that would break, site lag etc.) I don't begrudge him for it, but the site was basically a train wreck and I think it was a responsible decision to shut it down due to his lack of adequate time. My hope is that with the return of the site he can put a bit more time into it and hopefully make the site a safe place to use ^^ But to clarify, I don't think he's awful as a person, just that the site wasn't handled adequately when it was up last time.

true, I'm glad its back but I definitely hope he'll implement something about the issues you brought up