It done.

So I’ve caught up to all the gallery reposting I had planned for other websites, which means I’m ready to start posting the new shit again. There’s not a lot of it ready to go-- but still… I’m ready/able to now. XD

That said, wanted to give a quick overview as best I can of the other art sites and the responses I’ve seen from each of them. Sort of an artists feedback for anyone still on the fence about where to go, etc, etc… :p


Engagement Comparison, Metrics Discussion… IE - Watches and Favorites and Comments
FurAffinity
FA has been my baseline for a while now, just due to being here the longest. Whenever I post here, I tend to get a pretty steady influx of favorites, a few watches maybe, and a couple comments. The biggest variable tends to be content… tame stuff gets minimal notice, porn gets slightly above minimal notice on average, aaaand vore things get the most notice. I don’t have much further to say here other than to put it on the list for reference, because everything will be compared against it.

Weasyl
Uploads to Weasyl, on average receive a handful of favorites from close friends, if they remember to check it… and that is it. Excluding those 2-3 people, posts on this platform tend to receive an average of 1-2 favorites across multiple postings in a day. The occasional, rare, new watcher. The extremely rare comment. Weasyl is a complete deadzone, all but abandoned. At this point, it serves mostly as a backup gallery as I cannot expect any real growth or engagement from it otherwise. Really sad, because I thought it had a lot of potential before it just fell apart.

Inkbunny
The revival of the Inkbunny account seems to be going steadily. It receives a fair influx of activity when I’m posting, not quite comparable to FA, where I have a distinctly larger following, but still growing accordingly to expectations. I’ve made a point of making full use of the gallery format to post multiple versions of content, including a lot of things that never ended up elsewhere (and likely never will). Since this upload spree began, I’ve received 985 favorites and a fair number of new watchers, but I didn’t save that count unfortunately. Comments have also come at a rate mildly comparable with what I see on FA.

Itaku
Itaku is hard to judge. If I have one complaint, it’s how they display your metrics and alerts. It’s impossible to tell what someone “starred”/favorited without clicking each individual notification in a drop down menu too small to show them all. There’s not a lot of easy ways to gauge what’s being responded to well because of it. Even now, looking at it directly, I can barely tell much of anything. The clearest metric I see is that I have 39 followers. Of the estimations I can make however, I would say that on average I get around as many favorites dropping on Itaku as I do on Inkbunny? It’s very hard to gauge, but from what I’ve seen so far, the values tended to mildly sync up? With a slight edge perhaps still to Inkbunny. But due to the smaller audience, nothing is getting more than 3-4 favorites on average? With even the higher end hits not really breaking 10, so far. But then a lot of things just get no interest at all, seemingly. And nobody leaves comments on anything, ever… which is hella disappointing. It’s got a nice enough look and direction, with fair room for growth? But it’s still really lacking in places… as lack of comments makes me feel really… distant? from watchers there.

Aryion(/Eka’s Portal)
As of documentation, I have received 170 Watches and 4878 Favorites since starting posting at this location. Blowing Inkbunny out of the water by a factor of nearly 5, in spite of the fact that, between the two, I have posted significantly LESS CONTENT to Eka’s. And I don’t just mean because I’m leaving out extras and alternate versions… I have focused primarily on posting only the vore content, with a selection of my favorite non-vore things from the 3-4 years of content I started re-posting to these newer locations (at least until getting into the last year’s worth of content, as I posted most of that stuff). But still, Inkbunny had a small existing audience and has had far more content provided to that audience as it grew over the last month or two. Eka’s has still dominated the metrics. My content has clearly gotten an extremely higher response there than anywhere else. I’d almost be willing to argue that growth has spiked harder than I’d have expected of FA. While I haven’t kept the clearest view of the metrics, everything seems to be getting a fair amount of notice and favorites, with the vore content obviously getting the lion’s share of said notice and favoritism… but still. I get a healthy enough handful of comments here too, enough to be on par with FA and Inkbunny. This has been the gallery I’ve felt the most impressed by the growth of since starting this venture. Not the most useful thing to learn if you don’t cater to the vore community, but-- if you do, good lord, get on Eka’s sooner than I did. I just feel stupid now for missing out on all this engagement I could have been having over the years.

Mastodon
Is still not a gallery. But it is interesting… While I can’t determine much about “metrics” due to it being… not a gallery and hard to look up stats in post… it has gotten a fair amount of attention whenever I posted things. I’ve not posted everything to it either, only a handful of things and then more recent content in fair abundance. But each time, there’s a fair bit of response and engagement, some comments here and there, plenty of favorites. The most surprising bit I’m noticing is that, despite being on the vore server, I’m noticing that the most favorites seem to actually be going to… the perfectly tame and silly shit. Which sends me reeling just that little bit-- and makes me happier than any of you realize. In general, it’s still not pulling in numbers and engagement like a gallery would, but… it’s not a gallery. So for what it is, I guess it’s fine? And it’s not twitter, so thank fuck.

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Going Forward,
Now that I have Postybirb running things smoothly for me and speeding up the process of posting to all locations at once, only requiring mild editing and adjustment on Inkbunny and Mastodon, I’ve decided to continue posting everywhere at once. I could set it to post to FurAffinity a week later than everywhere else, but I don’t ultimately see the point in it. It’s not going to change anyone’s viewing habits. Still, I’m inching away from the platform and will continue to deprioritize it until a better alternative manifests. I hope that one day someone will make a site with all the functionality of Inkbunny, but none of the stigma of Inkbunny, and maybe some of Itaku’s folder support? Then maybe I can settle down to rest in a permanent home instead of having to drift all over the place like this.

Regardless, while we wait for something better, I’ll be posting most everything going forward to FurAffinity and Itaku as the “main” galleries, with Weasyl continuing to serve as a “backup” gallery. Inkbunny will serve as the “full content” repository that gets all of the above content and then some, with alts, extras, and more. Because it’s built to handle those things without causing a hassle for me. Eka’s will receive most but not all of my posts, leaning mostly into the vore side of things. And Mastodon will get whatever I feel like sharing there, because it is not a gallery and I can do whatever I want. :p

Links to these galleries and more, now in the header of my profile page. :p


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