I love seeing informed people

Ah! I have to finish my requests first. 3:

I'm unsure what I'll do after that. I was already active on my weasyl account, posted stuff before became popular recently. I sometimes have the weird fear that it'll have drama.

Since I feel that I'm weak at art, I'll probably relocate to either Crimson Daggers, Pelleas, or cgHub. I've talked with a few pros from the industry on Facebook. They're genuinely humble and lax, like Bobby Chiu.

uh, what?

Sorry for not being clear.

I might consider on leaving the fandom entirely if FA turns into a ghost town. It's not because of the "us vs them" mentality. Historically, the fandom been constantly tied to drama and negative stigma, I fear that it might turn out the same way at Weasyl too. It's probably best for me to expand my ability and taste by joining communities that participate in the art and animation industry.

I have to speak from personal experience. Weasyl isn't much better. In a lot of ways, it's worse. Out of the frying pan and into the oven?

A site that has a splendid system and is still a straight upgrade from FA is undoubtedly SoFurry. It's tagging system is superior, journals are superior, everything is a lot neater. It's design doesn't intefere with how the site's search works either. And the search is pretty well designed.

The problem with Weasyl is ingrained in it's thumbnail requirements for images. It's very hard to make a thumbnail that accurately dipicts the content with their current system, and a thumb nail is completely required. The lack of a description or even a list of tags when hovering over an image's thumbnail makes it difficult to guess the content, and can result in clicking on an image for it's artsy look, only to find out that it's something not even relevant to what you had searched for.


I'd hold off on joining Weasyl fully until they sort out that thumb nail issue, because it really makes it quite a terrible site. Especially considering the weird way that the site's search seems to generalize results when using more than one tag. For example, 'Inanimate Transformation' will give you the results for all inanimate and all transformation images. Which makes it difficult if you are looking only for posts that contain both tags and not just one of them.

Woo! See you over there!