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How To Move To Weasyl
11 years ago
FA's formatting is horrible, if you want an easier to read version you can get it here: https://www.weasyl.com/journal/2489.....move-to-weasyl
We've been getting a lot of questions from people who hate FA but are worried about leaving because money/starting over/etc. If moving is something that interests you, here are some tips we've used in moving to other sites in in the past:
1. Post your submissions to weasyl first. We would do so up to a week before posting to FA, but a few days is also good. In the comment of your FA submission, state that you upload art to weasyl before FA. If you post a lot of art (a post a week or so) you can always have something new in your weasyl gallery for people to come look at. It helps new people to see that you actually do have other content on here.
2. Post cropped thumbs to FA and leave a link in the description (or write right on the art) that you can view the full versions on weasyl. This is one of our faves and has worked super well for advertising our comics, which are all hosted outside of our gallery.
3. Mini Kiribans this one takes a little more effort, but kiribans can be fun to do, especially sketches exploring things you are interested in! You can see an example of how to make a kiriban that includes everyone (not just the watcher of that number) here: https://www.weasyl.com/journal/2219.....weasyl-kiriban
4. Give these tips to your friends Helping others to leave the abusive relationship that is FA can also help you. The more artists who come here, the more watchers will follow and the less reason people have to stay on FA. You don't need to link back or credit anywhere, just spread good advice you may have for people! If we all help each other out, we can make this a very real thing.
5. Open commissions and giveaways on weasyl first Giving users first dibs on art on weasyl first will create more incentive to be here. Eventually, the offers won't last long enough to even get to FA.
In doing things like these, we have been able to afford to leave our main base of operations for commissions behind for greener pastures without taking hits. Commissions also used to be our main source of income and it can be scarey, but do not fret! There is always a way out :)
More very good tips that I did not include here because they are already here: https://www.weasyl.com/journal/24818
Tools for moving your galleries: http://projects.weasyl.com/
Tools for moving your watch list: http://projects.weasyl.com/soft/
Some benefits to starting over: http://mommashaus.tumblr.com/post/7.....new-website-to
If this doesn't interest you, feel free to move along <3
We've been getting a lot of questions from people who hate FA but are worried about leaving because money/starting over/etc. If moving is something that interests you, here are some tips we've used in moving to other sites in in the past:
1. Post your submissions to weasyl first. We would do so up to a week before posting to FA, but a few days is also good. In the comment of your FA submission, state that you upload art to weasyl before FA. If you post a lot of art (a post a week or so) you can always have something new in your weasyl gallery for people to come look at. It helps new people to see that you actually do have other content on here.
2. Post cropped thumbs to FA and leave a link in the description (or write right on the art) that you can view the full versions on weasyl. This is one of our faves and has worked super well for advertising our comics, which are all hosted outside of our gallery.
3. Mini Kiribans this one takes a little more effort, but kiribans can be fun to do, especially sketches exploring things you are interested in! You can see an example of how to make a kiriban that includes everyone (not just the watcher of that number) here: https://www.weasyl.com/journal/2219.....weasyl-kiriban
4. Give these tips to your friends Helping others to leave the abusive relationship that is FA can also help you. The more artists who come here, the more watchers will follow and the less reason people have to stay on FA. You don't need to link back or credit anywhere, just spread good advice you may have for people! If we all help each other out, we can make this a very real thing.
5. Open commissions and giveaways on weasyl first Giving users first dibs on art on weasyl first will create more incentive to be here. Eventually, the offers won't last long enough to even get to FA.
In doing things like these, we have been able to afford to leave our main base of operations for commissions behind for greener pastures without taking hits. Commissions also used to be our main source of income and it can be scarey, but do not fret! There is always a way out :)
More very good tips that I did not include here because they are already here: https://www.weasyl.com/journal/24818
Tools for moving your galleries: http://projects.weasyl.com/
Tools for moving your watch list: http://projects.weasyl.com/soft/
Some benefits to starting over: http://mommashaus.tumblr.com/post/7.....new-website-to
If this doesn't interest you, feel free to move along <3
ty for this :D
http://projects.weasyl.com/soft/
Too bad you're gone - I liked your art so.
spte on1: do teh weasel
ste2: get dah Waxpost
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/.....fhpdpekfdaenjc
shep thtree
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That said, I'm more referring to people who move FA accounts then post thumbnails to the old one. If you're moving websites completely it makes a little more sense.
Thanks for the tips! Im not doing the full move yet but when the time comes, ill be sure to reference back to this!
Plus the watch list tool for Weasyl only works when the people keep the same username, most of the people I watch on FA are changing their usernames so I have to go manually find them anyways.
It's still somewhat of a work in progress, but it can be found here: http://fa-exodus-database.tumblr.com/
And submissions are very, very much open (and will likely never close, haha)
the more the merrier and the more people it can help the better
I'm also exploring external hosting/possibly moving this off of tumblr and onto its own server at some point if enough people tune in/think its worth it, but that's not going to be aaaaany time soon haha
but I mean
this hasnt even been up for 2 days yet sooooooo just gonna see where things go for now
(and finish designing this mascot oops)
If you have a deviantART account I'll watch you there, anyways.
i mean i really like the sites layout FAR better then FA and its over all an amazing site, i think i keep coming back here cuz i been here so long XD