We'll start

Inkbunny
Weasyl
Itaku
SoFurry
FurryNetwork
FurryLife.Online
Pixiv
Twitter
Newgrounds
Aryion
Deviant Art
Hentai Foundry
Mastodon
Pillowfort
e621
Tumblr

I've been trying to build a comparison table of all these actually, mostly feature comparisons and the like.
There's an old comparison table on wikifur, here: https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Compari.....urry_art_sites
But it is quite dated indeed. I doubt the FA feature list is that out of date though..


Furbitron has activity comparisons, but lacks a few sites.

Alongside the ones you've mentioned, I've seen:
Buzzly
Transfur
VCL
Inkblot
Unvale
Refsheet
Artconomy
Artfol
Artists N clients
Commissio
Ych.art
FurTrack
Derpibooru
FurryStation
HicceArs

But some of those are marketplace sites, and some of them are dead (RIP Transfur)

Oh yeah, and a few folks moving to Telegram, or moving to Discord (the latter is a shame, as it's basically closed off then)

VCL is an archive site, very few artist upload to and not a whole hell of alot of people know of it existence outside us old grey muzzles.

Yeah, it's got some dust on it for sure!

Jesus, I haven't heard VCL since Doug Winger passed away. May he rest in peace.

Oh yeah, PixelFed is another option. It's like Mastodon for Instagram

Oh yeah, and I'm trying to work on some tooling to sync galleries between sites, but yeah
(like a retrospective postybirb I guess)

What is truly needed is a migration tool that will not only transfer uploads (including tags and descriptions), but also contact lists (watchers).

Check out https://furarchiver.net/ and https://github.com/topics/furaffini.....sc&s=stars

Yeah, those tools are neat!
I check out the scene on github semi regularly, as I run faexport.spangle.org.uk but yeah. Feeling a bit misplaced in building stuff to integrate with FA lately.

I wanted to build them a proper api, and wrote up proposal docs for them many many moons ago, but got no reply.
I think they don't actually want to do any actual improvements, or they're working on another stupid tiger team re-write of the whole thing. But I dunno.

It's safe to say that no improvements are truly coming; no re-write, nothing. It's all smoke and mirrors, empty promises with no delivery. The only 'improvements' they can functionally implement are related to policy, not technology.

Anything technological will come despite FA, not because of it. Use what you currently have access to; is it possible, such as using the FA archiver, to build a true migration tool for another site?

Yeah. At least weasyl is open source, so improvements can be submitted to it and stuff.
I've seen a flurry of activity for e621 dev too, but it's a different class of site really. I ponder whether they could add something more approximating an artist gallery interface (a bit better than a wiki page and a search) and take the market. But there's still lots of complication with using their model for that, and I don't think they want that to happen

Oh yeah, I did also spend a while building some system to try and track cross-site profile links, which would help with the watcher finding.. But that spiralled out of control into something too big, and didn't end up working out.

But maybe worth revisiting that idea too.


I dunno, I just wanna build stuff that helps folks, and so I end up with all too many ideas and all too divided time and focus

Transfur is less dead than you think! There's an attempt at a revival going on

"Mastodon" isn't a singular site, it's a bunch of them that connect to each other. Advantage: nobody can take it all down. Disadvantage: harder to understand and individual sites might have their own issues.

There's several furry ones, many of them themed, but they all allow pretty much anything reasonable as long as you put a content notice on the posts. They also all interconnect, so it doesn't really matter much which one you pick, you can interact with everyone regardless. Some I know of that are run by (as far as I know) reasonable people are:

* meow.social (large, general furry)
* hyper.equipment (hyper)
* blimps.xyz (inflation, fat)
* gulp.cafe (vore)
* macrofurs.social (macro)

Most of them don't let you browse much without an account, so they might show up pretty blank on the surface.

I line the names for the 3 middle ones

These new top level domains allow for some fun names. Such as endm.ink.

y!Gallery

It's an older site (though I'll admit it's not a likely contender), but it does accept furry art, though limited to Male characters only and it's submission upload system is well outdated and time-consuming.

Sofurry, Weasyl, Inkbunny are the ones I'm aware of

Eh... The "anywhere but FA" crowd don't really strike me as the kind of people who could ever come to a consensus on what the next "Furry Rome" should be even if they tried. Out of the alternatives listed thus far, you're either going to get "social media site that is apathetic to furries at best" (i.e. Twitter), "furry ghetto on a generic art website" (i.e. DeviantArt), "We only cater to a small part of the fandom" (i.e. Transfur), or "We're making our own FA with blackjack and hookers" (i.e. FurryLife.Online), each one having their pros and cons but none that could adequately fill the niche that FA itself has been able to dominate even at its most mediocre.

Special note goes to the last type since a lot of them try to present themselves as the FA alternative, and more than not fail to live up to that mission due to trying to do the whole "like FA, but different" routine even when they're presenting better features overall.

These are all I now and the major short comings I am aware of...

DeviantArt ~ female centric, pro-AI
Behance ~ quality control, no nsfw
ArtStation ~ quality control, no nsfw, pro-AI
Pixiv ~ Japanese graphic censorship
Inkbunny ~ no sexualization of/with humans
Weasyl ~ running but not maintained
Sofurry ~ literature centric
Twitter ~ not a gallery, may end up closed off from European users, account recovery/password reset may not be functioning.
E621 ~ Archive only, quality control
VCL ~ archive only, running but not maintained
Itaku ~ fairly new
Transfur ~ Transformation centric

I'd like to add to what was said about Pixiv, Inkbunny, and E621.

Pixiv - I absolutely don't trust this site. Every time I've used it my computer has slowed down for multiple hours.

Inkbunny - The UI is awful, and the search function kinda sucks. For example, I'll search tags for cock vore, and while it will give me what I want, it will also give me every post with the tag Cock, every post with the tag Vore, and every post that has those words in the title, regardless of tags. This happens no matter how I type cock vore (IE; cock vore, cockvore, or cock_vore)

E621 - Doesn't allow stories / literature on their own (As far as I know). There's a Story_in_description tag, but it requires a picture to be present, so for people like myself who aren't confident in their drawing skills, it's a bit of a challenge to move there, but is where I'm planning on heading regardless.

Well, it looks like Tumblr's an option too. I've already got an account there, but I mostly just reblog silly or horny stuff I like.

weasyl isn't being maintained? there's no mods? or the codebase?

I'm a bit confused by that one too. Seems like weasyl is still being maintained to me. Certainly more so than FA

Apart from the other alternatives already mentioned (including Inkblot and Itaku) - If we're including other social media sites like mastadon instances and Twitter:

Cohost
Pillowfort

Checking on Pillowfort now, I'm somewhat suprised they are still have a waitlist if you aren't able to pay to create an account, though you are able share your page publicly once established.

Cohost seems to be another social media alternative that supports tagging, filters and content warnings, and with the addition of committing css crimes.

I'm just going to stay and see what happens although I'm going through and finding all of the other places that they're on so I can still see their art.

I'm still staying

I hate twitter so much. There's a hundred other reasons, but just from the standpoint of utility it sucks. It's so hard to follow an artist on twitter and actually just see and keep up with their actual art. FA has been my main, for ages, I don't mind going to another site if thats the way the community goes, but I REALLY hope it's somewhere with similar functionality like IB or weasly or whatever.

Just heard another, Furbooru.

What's the plan with this list btw?

PLAN? PLAN?!

World domination

Seems like it would be useful to have a tool that lets you follow artists on multiple sites without visiting every single site independently one at a time. Then there wouldn't be a need to pick just one as the new Main site (and do this whole song and dance again when it goes bad too).

Twitter is just too annoying for me to ever consider, even if the reward is free furry art. I hope that one doesn't end up winning the consensus.

Ive wondered this as well. loads of cool folks i dont want to lose tabs on.