Alright. Here is what's been going on with Ponychan. I'm been trying to establish a basic timeline of important events. What this means is will be fully defined over time but I figured that at it's most basic would be things like ownership changes and the dates of the various splits and remergers and with a possibility of looking at trends and and an attempt to measure the sites relationships and attitudes within the fandom. That's what I'd be looking to archive but it has become apparent to me that even the basic task of a chronology of the site is filled with drama. I won't be able to avoid it if I want to make a basic list of who left and why of the owners... I'm not just talking about orange either, but take a look at the whirlwind year of 2017 alone.

https://archive.is/sOinO
jan 15
fen co admin of the site, leaves do to issues with Macil, Astra is promoted in his place. 

https://archive.is/Ldz9v
march 12
Macil steps down as admin

https://archive.is/fVJOH
march 15
Fen is back as co-admin

https://archive.is/yda0Y
july 16 
both Fen and Astra step down as co-admins, turning it over to Mikie and The Person Who Posts As Fluttershy

Look at these threads, this wasn't the most stable time. Through it's just concern and sometimes hate being thrown around. Hard to ascertain things beyond that, and I'd want to be fair to even the one who looks the most suspect to me.  Drama isn't off limits of course but dealing with even basic events and site culture is rife with it. I remember catching wind of administrative changes occasionally from gossip elsewhere, but the site seems to only have stabilized recently under the leadership of Mikie. Even then the site has faced a lot of drama, and an evaluation of the administration would be impossible to avoid it. It has constantly has struggled with what it considers to be over the limits on edgy.  A discord server which is populated far left users who took issue with right wing presence and was constantly starting drama  and strangely involved the former admin of MLPchan of all things  Even outside of them the site still struggles with users who are raising more legitimate complaints on acceptability  for Ponychan standards   This is the core of it, though you'd think that the fact there was an entire SFW chan (ponychan.us) made do to this things would be more settled   though from what I remember there was users that the far left hated that were tolerated there.  Other than that  the admin has personal problems and a breakdown once that did cause some controversy. It technically is relevant to /go/ but it veers so much into the personal realm I don't wanna cover it. I have much sympathy for Mikie from what I've seen of him but I still have a few things that cause me to raise questions   My core problem with all of it is that even with context a lot of this goes into a personal realm and he said she said situations. I will still try to make a timeline and evaluations on what the users thought of each admin (a great deal of users saw Macil was power hungry, a great deal of users thought Astra was not very attentive, etc) but I'll have to be careful and think hard of what should be there and what shouldn't. I mean, purely not touching the site's lore would only be censorship in an odd sort of way.

 I'm not even getting into the petty drama involving some idiots and lolcow tier people.