Everyone is mostly on Twitter or Instagram nowadays

Twitters interface is god awful, why in hell do people want to do business there?

Because Twitter is more convenient for a lot of people. Mostly because of push notifications, which FurAffinity doesn't have. And it's more convenient to upload things there.

I have no idea what a push notification is. lol I've never had any problem with FA's interface personally, it's twitter that confuses me.

It's a pop up notification that appears on your phone and makes a sound. Like whenever you get a reply on Twitter.

I end using it more than fa lastly for how easy is upload picd
Despite i dislike you cant post long desks for long desk i post on fa meanwhile more casual stuff i post it there

The activity on both pages for a random pic was around
FA: 100 views and 20 to 30 faves (and like 7minites to put tags and stuff)
Twitter: 70 retweets and 400 faves. 3 minutes and can post 4 pics in a row.
Is a obious diference in reception

Twitter is a more convenient place for them to meet, and FA doesn't have its own mobile app.

Of course, if Musk continues the way he's been going, that's bound to change.

Twitters interface is god awful, why in hell do people want to do business there?

Because it's where they'll find the most people, so they decide that suffering through a bad UI is a worthy tradeoff.

Can you tell me what I'm doing wrong then? Because I post something on twitter and no one even seems to see it.

Twitter runs on an algorithm similar to Youtube - if you're not "popular", you don't get recommended to other people much.

I’m on Twitter and I do like it, but I just miss how great FA used to be. I’m not abandoning my FA since it’s my “home” after I left DeviantArt several years ago, but it’s lifeless.

Twitters interface is god awful, why in hell do people want to do business there?

Not sure.

As plenty of people have said, Twitter mostly. I will say, this site is kind of my only place for art apart from DeviantArt, which is now a shell of it's former self.
I'm waiting for the next art site to blow up that has a decent community.

Unfortunately they're heading to Twitter, a vastly inferior site that only preys on people spreading hate among one-another. People no longer want to hang out on a niche site full of like-minded people; rather they want to reach the largest audience possible that includes contrarians and people who disagree with everything one posts.

Honestly, I can't wait for people to make more sites that cater to niche audiences so people can actually build communities instead of flocking to sites that are full of randos.

Commercialism.

All I get all day long is spam. Most of the art posted is half-finished YCH sketches and other garbage. Almost every journal is another damn reminder of how I can "support" people on Patreon so they can draw whatever THEY want. Very few people still work on actual commissions made to order, and if they do, they refuse to post them publicly. Artists can't even be bothered to write image descriptions, let alone participate with their fans. Too many artists use Posybirb, and probably don't even bother to read the few comments they get.

Lately, it feels like most artists only treat FA like a meal ticket, and most of the VIEWERS have left, leaving artists starved for attention, so they feel Twitter gives them more of the eyeballs they want. I mean, despite the fact Twitter isn't a gallery site and it's a horrible place to view art. FA made this problem for themselves by allowing the YCH reminders to get out of control for months, scared that pissing off artists would kill the site. Instead, they pissed off and drove away a lot of the real fans who came here to have some fun.

On top of that, FA has gone into advertising overdrive, to the point where even if you pay for a membership, you STILL have to deal with the ads, anyway. I'm really, really mad about that. Why would I want more features like proper filters, topic highlights, realtime chat, community highlights, and other fun stuff? Nope. Pay for a subscription, still get ads, and site development is as dead as it was 10 years ago. Yeah, that's going to help a lot.

The site isn't fun anymore. Blame the management.

Amen. I kind of like FA being quieter lately. When it's in active mode, all I see are tons of immature people going around reminding artists who's "Allowed" to upload art on this site and who's not. Now most of them have moved to Twitter just as they have other sites like Weasyl and such, but any site where people are pushing agendas and making it more about controlling art than sharing art is going to be a cesspool for artists.

That being said I still haven't forgiven FA for some of the things they let happen as a result of their decisions while still maintaining a poor UI and limited ways for us to control the content we see. I will never upload my work to this site, but I do appreciate the artists who remember that we draw for fun and aren't just trying to make it about how much they can get from other people's expense.

Man I remember when the furries were the ostracized group who just wanted to have a good time. Now the furries are the bullies. What happened? Are we really nothing but dollar signs and mink fur coats now?

but I will say, Twitter is WAY worse in that regard, BUT... the biggest benefit to twitter has nothing to do with furry art and more do to with finding other things you desire. It's a HORRIBLE site if you want art attention cause the witch hunts are worse than Salem... but I like the photos of wolves I regularly get in my timeline. they bring me peace of mind.

That's what I've noticed, I post stuff and no one seems to notice on twitter.

Well this is news to me, I've never noticed anything controversial happening here..

They never really draw attention to the artists who are ostracized, but I generally maintained a low profile for the past 10 years because of it.

I hear you, personally, I just don't watch artists that do the YCH stuff and nothing else, never bothered me that much.

I try to be involved with you guys, I like the discussion and shared ideas. I go to the trouble of writing huge descriptions to tell story and lore but it seemed like no one would read it. Nowadays I hardly write anything because none of the pictures seem to get any attention anymore.

This is a bad place for me because I draw FOR feedback, it's what I get out of sharing my artwork. If I don't get feedback what's the point of posting it? If everyone has gone to twitter than I might as well be done because no one even seems to know my stuff exists there.

I've been using adblock for years.. this site has ads? lol

I usually share my stories with personal friends on telegram/discord. Just dump the wall of text on them cause I know they'll read it. It's kind of like in middle/high school you have that one friend on the bus you always sit with or at the lunch table that you could talk to for hours about your cool ideas and they're the only one who cares and actually shares ideas back.

No one's really being creative for fun anymore. it's just all about profits mostly and it shows in how ideas are insulted if they're not something people can profit off of in some way (attention, fan art, etc). So that's why that has been in a huge slump, but long as you have one or two good friends who really care about you and respect your work, that's all you need. It's just the cyncical nature of the world lately, and only really getting worse, but you'll find at least one person you can talk to about anything without judgment. Like Douglass, Dexter's best friend. https://dexterslab.fandom.com/wiki/......_Mordecai_III

I was gonna blame it on all the idiots and dead-heads who run websites. If you recall, the state of our country isn't exactly well,

GOOD

I don't think it's necessarily dead, its just not much of a strong social media. It's primary focus is a gallery, everything else is secondary. I moved off of Twitter when it imploded under new ownership and prefer Mastodon, but even there is still a tad quiet (imo)

Well thanks for the suggestion, maybe I'll check out Mastodon

It's a very different place than Twitter, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. It's a bit of a learning curve at first, but once you find an instance that best suits you, its a far more enjoyable place than the old bird site

This is the only place i can actually upload art, and i dont really upload anything to twitter i rarely use it aside from trying to contact rp accounts with minimal success

Could be jobs and such, Either people getting involved in a job, working longer hours that leave them unwilling to go to FA or become concerned about their own cash flow, which is becoming a more widespread issue nowadays. This goes for both audiences and artists (who can both be the lure and be the traffic on the website)

Either way, I’m happy with FA, being able to see stuff from you and more amazing artists is good enough for me :)

it makes me really sad to see the decline of good art websites. not a fan of twitter or non art focused social medias. its harder to find peoples actual art and if i follow them i have to deal with endless tweets i just dont care about.

Artists have moved to social media like Twitter because that's where most of the general population have gone. It sucks and I fucking hate it.

I remember thinking this site was dead back in 2014 when I first used this place. I agree with everyone else, Twitter really has taken over most forums and galleries just cause how easy it is to use plus I think theres a perception that you can get more exposure for your work there though its debatable whether or not its good exposure which leads to commissions or just people liking and leaving, I belief the latter.

Just keep meeting new users whether you can.

Idk about everyone else but I have about 4x the following on twitter than I do here, and way more engagement on my posts
but I hate it there lol

Can you please share with me your magic? Because I created a Twitter, posted some drawings, and no one knows they exist.

A lot of people on Twitter are monsters who've nothing but contempt for they don't agree with and what they don't understand. As cold as this sounds, it's a good thing you barely get any traction on Twitter, Half-Dude, because there isn't a doubt in my mind that you'd be treated very terribly on there for the kind of art you make. People on there are mistreated simply for making regular NSFW content, so you'd absolutely get destroyed for your convertible-girls.

I feel like it's better to be on more niche sites like InkBunny and Pixiv. Not only are they actual art sharing websites, but they're more focused since they each cater to a specific kind of person. Twitter is a place with zero focus where anyone from anywhere can come across what you do and say, which can and will always lead to chaos.

It's unfortunate FA's not like it used to be, but I think you're better off either staying here, or going to the sites I mentioned. Because, believe me, you're going to suffer from a lot of headaches and heartache if you try to make it with what you do on Twitter. What you do is amazing and unique, but on Twitter, unless what you do is as generic and as inoffensive and as "normal" as possible, you're going to get bullied for it once a fairly huge amount of people find it.

And I'd rather that not happen to you, Half-Dude.

I get where you're coming from, but at the same time it honestly kinda hurts that you want to bottle me up and not let me try to expand my audience out of trying to protect me. I'd hope you'd have more faith in me to cope with blowback than that. You know I had to deal with it here when I first joined up.

But then again I wouldn't even have to look for other avenues if people here weren't giving me the silent treatment, even if a picture doesn't do anything for you, just a generic "good drawing" comment or something is better than nothing. When I just get no response it makes me fee like people aren't even looking at what I put up.

I do have faith in you, Half-Dude. I always did, and I always will. And you're right, while you've done well here on FA, you'll only limit yourself by staying on the one website. I gave up on Twitter because I've got fetishes the majority of the people there don't agree with, and I grew tired of being seen as a bad person, just because of the art I drew.

And being forced to endure getting treated and talked to like I committed crimes and constantly explain why what I'm drawing isn't bad to people who don't really care to understand because they just want someone to hate and exploit isn't what I signed up for when I started posting my art online.

I can't force you to stay away from Twitter, so if you want to give it a try, go ahead. But there will inevitably be people to whom you mean absolutely nothing, and they will see and treat you like a freak for what you do. And it's something you're going have to learn how to deal with if you want to go far on there, for I know so many artists who've either come to be scared of drawing certain things, outright given up, or attempted suicide because of how they've been treated on Twitter.

But I know deep down you're strong enough, Half-Dude. I absolutely know, indeed.

Yeah dude, I feel FA isn't the same as it used to be before.
Still like the site, since I feel more comfortable uploading NSFW art here, but damn!