Do you have any alternatives, were the deleted stuff will remain?

Not at the moment but I will be discussing with one of my moderators about opening up my discord and posting future stuff there.

Have you considered syncing somewhere like weasyl?

I do have a really old weasyl account but I'm one of those people who cannot really maintain a lot of different galleries, hence why I only use FA right now. Even adding just one extra platform is going to strain me.

Have you tried PostyBirb? It makes managing accounts relatively easy.

It's another thing I have to deal with though, which is what strains me. I already use a bulk uploader for FA

Well, good luck then.

I am curious how difficult having an open access Google Drive could be.

But that still has the issue of curating out content you don't want on there in that art dump.

It would cost money to have a lot of gb worth of artwork available

Ahhh. It's over 15GB?

I mean over years it will get past that yes, unless I am constantly clearing it out.

Yeah, I can see the difficulty then.

*looking at my own image archive folder being 50GB - even if half of that is .sai files*

Awesome! Looking forward that, if it does happen.

i cant wait to have to go through thousands of submissions to do that shit myself x_x;

Yup, so much funnnn

I don't think FA is going to change so I hope you can find a better place for your artwork.

If you're interested, other sites you can use include Inkbunny (https://inkbunny.net/) , SoFurry (https://www.sofurry.com/) and Weasyl (https://www.weasyl.com/). With this happening a lot of artists here have been going to Itaku too (https://itaku.ee/home).

Postybirb ( https://www.postybirb.com/ ) can make it easier to upload art multiple places. Hopefully everyone can move their art so it doesn't get lost.

I would wait, as so many of the big controversial changes were the result of one mod who has since been un-modded on the site.

Yes but I also heard of people who have also been banned, I cannot risk that since this is my entire job. I'd rather lose 50 of my artwork than all of the years of struggle to get to this point.

That's news to me. What's your source?

Fuck FA
Fuck the new policy
I say we should all move somewhere else

I'm not happy about it either but my stance on it is half-half. I'm not leaving FA though, things will settle down soon.

It just feels like a massive over reach and abuse of power with how vague it is.
There's also the fact that today is what ever they consider cub. Tomorrow it might be ferals
Then maybe animal genitalia

At what point does it become to much?

Well I mean if they ban either of those my job is ruined and I'll have to stop doing art... pretty much my entire thing is ferals and pretty accurate genitals

Might be good to consider starting to gather an audience from another platform other than FA, not to put all your eggs in one basket kind of thing.

Considering FA is a private company, they can whimsically impose whatever policies they want or even just suddenly take the site down all together.

This is very sad, sorry to hear.
That moment when you realize that FA archive in Tor was made not for any shady reason, but for preserving art despite the efforts of FA administration to destroy it. They knew.

I honestly can't recall a single piece of your art that would violate the new policy, either way yeah.. this entire thing is a shitshow, amusing and sad for a watcher (because so many artists I really like heading to other websites I don't like) and even worse for an artist

I got a lot of digimon and some pokemon that could be considered 'young' judging by the roughness they gave, like gabumon, agumon, jigglypuff, etc... I just finished deleting like 50 pieces...

These sorts of policies are usually vague and subjective to the point of being impossible to determine what it accepts, and even if it's not intentional the people making them generally don't consider it a bug, and may consider it a feature.

Did you submit a ticket to get information on what in your gallery might apply?

Nah, I just got rid of anything that may trigger it.

Am sorry to hear that.

Even if not moving website, this whole debacle makes it clear it's worth existing elsewhere. Personally I'm setting up an account on Itaku.

I'm considering opening up my discord to post my artwork there that cannot be placed here.

There's vigilantes now on the prowl on Twitter calling people who have first stage pokemon the p-word and also calling out people who do feral art the z-word. FA's staff could at the minimum have called for civility and not calling people names but a certain segment in the fandom has been emboldened. Really unsettling times we living.

Such a bizarre decision on their part. Hope it all works out for you.

I love how all these artists get to suffer but those who called for actual pedo content (the 13 yo preg/vore thing) get zero consequences in the fandom.

I was under the impression that this didn't apply to art that was already up?

I heard from one of my friends some artists have been banned already from previous works so I was not taking a chance.