So...Inkbunny? Has anybody even heard of it?
14 years ago
www.inkbunny.net , Any of you guys know much about it? I'm constantly looking to expand my audience and was wondering what you all thought of the site or if you even knew what it was. I don't want to join another snoozer of a site like Artspots or something as stupidly named as Furry Art Pile. I'm on DA but that site's fairly bloated and tough to carve a niche into, even FA's kind of that way too... plus I'm no huge fan of the administration here...
Think there's room for it to grow?
Think there's room for it to grow?
Seriously though, that FA import feature seems really handy. Plus I already prefer FA's setup to DA's, so if this is even better...worth considering further.
To be honest, IB feels a lot more professionally done that FA does.
And that fills up my metaphor quota for the week!
I really prefer IB to FA, but FA has the momentum of a 10 ton rock rolling down Mt. Everest. Everyone signs up here because everyone's already here. IB is still growing, and has the stigma of being "cub-friendly." They have a kick-ass search/filter system, though, so it's easy to ignore anything you don't want to see.
The "killer app" feature of IB was the ability to sell prints or digital downloads directly to fans on the site, but the whole payment kerfluffle made that a problem. They've set up direct-donation to artists through PayPal for now, but they're still working on setting up a direct-payment system for purchases again.
In all fairness I have a huge watcher head start on FA. So hit count comparison is rather silly there.
All in all inkbunny is far superior to FA. they wont kill your freedom of artistic expression to the extent FA has. The reason there's a large amount of cub art on inkbunny is because FA banned it and displaced loads of fans and artists of cub art, sonic art and other "underage character" art. If people would get over their phobia of other people's freedom of artistic expression, inkbunny's art should balance out in time with other subject matter. inkbunny certainly isn't a site made purely for cub art.
I've talked to the owner of inkbunny and they seem to be a very kind and down to earth person. the site it's self is better built, better maintained, more friendly mod-ed, faster, smoother running, prettier to look at and easier to use. I can upload bigger music files there than FA, which is good and most important of all, inkbunny treats it's adult users like ADULTS.
The stance of the site is, if you don't like a piece of art, don't look at it. That's what the filters are for.