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Project Phoenix Phailure
In December of 2013 Dragoneer announced that a team of volunteer programmers was going to start work on FA Rewrite attempt #4, dubbed Project Phoenix. The leader of this ragtag team was Zaush. Zaush is a popular porn artist who is best known for being a massive jackass and for being an accused rapist. In PMs leaked during the 2010 YiffyLeaks debacle one of Zaush’s ex-fuckbuddies, Ferality, came to Dragoneer claiming Zaush had emotionally manipulated and intimidated her into having sex with him. Dragoneer told her to keep quiet about it. Despite Zaush’s less than stellar reputation in the community and how catastrophic his hiring would be for PR, Dragoneer saw no issue with bringing him aboard. Many users were upset over an accused rapist becoming a staff member, and a great deal of shit-flinging went on between Zaush's whiteknights and his detractors. Dragoneer said he was neutral on whether or not Zaush was a rapist. Then he went on to say Zaush couldn't have raped Ferality because she willingly drove to his house.
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Behind the scenes things weren't any better. It turned out that two months earlier a user named Myr had approached Dragoneer and asked if he could work on a rewrite of FA's code. Dragoneer approved it. Myr organized a small team and started work on the project, but because he failed to communicate Dragoneer forgot he gave someone permission to redo his entire fucking website.
Myr's team agreed with meet with the Project Phoenix team and collaborate on rebuilding the site. But Zaush was such an unbearable asshole that Myr and Ben abandoned ship within 24 hours of meeting him.
It was also apparent that Zaush was lying about his qualifications.
When it became apparent Dragoneer had hired an unprofessional, under qualified, lying jackass who was happy to chase off qualified volunteers, he tried to pin the blame for Project Phoenix's inevitable failure on Myr and Ben.
The most that came of Project Phoenix was a few front page mock ups. The project eventually died, like all other FA rewrites.