Susie

Most people pass off Susie as a shadow of its former glorious self, a one of millions of graphics and the number 1 place for graphicsers to hang out and help out. But in fact there really isn't any other place on the community like it. Susie was started many a years ago by Scene favourite Caleyjag as a place to host a mega pack of graphics for CM4 I am led to believe. Its success is largely thanks to Caley and his innovative Coding skills and his sheer commitment to everything he has done. The quality of Sortitoutsi far outstretches most of the scene. It is brandished as the number 1/ biggest site on the scene.

Susie is famous for its graphics or quantity of them rather. All be it this year has been disappointing on the graphics front Susie still cannot be knocked for quality and support from the scene. In a recent discussion on throw-in, another big boy of the scene, about where you go for graphics, Susie was the main place. Almost everyone but staff members of fm graphics said Susie. The other favourite is fm graphics. This shows that despite the rocky year Susie has suffered it still comes on top for choice of graphics.

However I won't lye and tell you Susie is at its peak. It is a falling(not fallen) giant. Earlier on in 2006 the site crashed due to server problems and took a while before it was back up. Years of hard work was lost and effectively only the members were held when Susie returned. Shortly after re-establishing Susie as a stable and working website, webmaster Caleyjag left the site to a former Moderator:- Smithjurd. The manner of the change was admittedly unsure and done behind closed doors. And being the over-involved sceners we are conspiracy theories were flying around as to what exactly happened, this lead to months and months of arguments and shifting of members and staff. The new generation of Susie was in and the old era of Caleyjag, Cleon and others had fallen. This lead to turmoil in the site and since this time last year when the "old era" was still going strong I casually say Susie has halved its visitors. Even more problems occurred mid way through 2006, such as new webmaster Smithjurds new way of working of either too strict of too lenient led to even more arguments between staff and members.

Despite its problems of the past 9 months or so no-one can deny the class that our biggest site has. Considering the fact that Susie doesn't get as many visitors as it used to its forums is full to the brim with graphics. Not so much on the site but you cannot breath for new posts and activity in the graphics forum. It is by far, the centre of the graphics community on the scene. If you were to look around the downloads area of Susie then look at a downloads area of any other site you will find that none match up to that of Susie. Every day a new batch of graphics fly into Susie's books. It just doesn't happen anywhere else.

Away from graphics Susie is also strong on general FM. Its often forgotten about features like the Staff and Player scout can't be found anywhere else. It is a dream feature that doesn't get anywhere near as much credit as it deserves. It is also regularly updated with decent and readable articles from the staff. There was a dry period in the summer of 2006 but after a brief T.W.A.T.S article from Fantastic at Balls acting as a kick up the arse rectified the creativity of the staff. Now the site is regularly updated with pieces.

Unfortunately the site is rarely projected to the scene as a good guy, its always shrouded in conspiracy theories and bad feeling. Not to mention the shocking state of their server. But we cannot get away from the fact that although Susie has past its golden best, it isn't dead yet, far from it.