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No Longer Posting to FA.
10 years ago
Hey, for the few of you who're still waiting on me to post stuff, you should go follow me on Weasyl. I'm only using this account for watching purposes.
If you really must know why, well, I've talked about it on length on Twitter. This site is just so terrible in so many ways, and the only reason it gets a pass is because status quo is god. Everybody uses this site because it's where the artists are at, and all the artists use this site because it's where the watchers are all at, and nobody wants to try any alternatives despite the site being an outdated, poorly-run mess. I've been leaning towards this for the past few months, but the whole IMVU thing sort of made me decide to make it official. I don't care if I lose viewers or whatever - if you don't like my work enough to support me on this, you weren't much of a fan to begin with.
Other sites: Inkbunny (barely used), Sofurry (barely used), Tumblr (not used as much as I'd like)
Especially considering that I'm still struggling to find a job, I won't be around much except for very close friends. I'm trying to save money for this summer, for things like Megaplex, and each day that passes by without getting hired decreases my chances of getting to go to a con, or to a gem show like Grassy Creek. It sucks being broke... I'd start up a Patreon, but I finish drawings so rarely that it wouldn't be worth it. I don't want to beg people for money without repaying them somehow. -_-
Good luck, FA! I hope you're put out of your misery soon, for the good of the fandom.
If you really must know why, well, I've talked about it on length on Twitter. This site is just so terrible in so many ways, and the only reason it gets a pass is because status quo is god. Everybody uses this site because it's where the artists are at, and all the artists use this site because it's where the watchers are all at, and nobody wants to try any alternatives despite the site being an outdated, poorly-run mess. I've been leaning towards this for the past few months, but the whole IMVU thing sort of made me decide to make it official. I don't care if I lose viewers or whatever - if you don't like my work enough to support me on this, you weren't much of a fan to begin with.
Other sites: Inkbunny (barely used), Sofurry (barely used), Tumblr (not used as much as I'd like)
Especially considering that I'm still struggling to find a job, I won't be around much except for very close friends. I'm trying to save money for this summer, for things like Megaplex, and each day that passes by without getting hired decreases my chances of getting to go to a con, or to a gem show like Grassy Creek. It sucks being broke... I'd start up a Patreon, but I finish drawings so rarely that it wouldn't be worth it. I don't want to beg people for money without repaying them somehow. -_-
Good luck, FA! I hope you're put out of your misery soon, for the good of the fandom.
Which to me is about tenfold times worse than FA. I'll take incompetence over pure malice anyday.
That is one of my biggest gripes with Weasyl...
I think you might have misinterpreted the objection of thumbnails. The artist should not, must not, be in charge of how the thumbnail looks. That should be a preference on the part of the viewer. The thumbnails aren't for the submitters, and too many submitters use them as an opportunity to be more artistic, the exact opposite of what should happen.
From what I've seen, the vast majority of artists (including you I'm sorry to say, and I hope you don't take offense) choose thumbnails that just don't give me enough information to know if I want to view the submission. Too many thumbnails are "let's zoom in on the face." That tells me little about what the picture is. What makes for a good thumbnail? Why, nothing more than the entire image, uncropped. But that leads to another of Weasyl's problems -- its thumbnails are too small. That's another area that FA got right over its trial and errors over the years.
At least Weasyl is better than Inkbunny's abortion of a UI. Good lord that place is awful.
I mean, you are a member of the site, give ME the option to be able to see the image without an obnoxious thumbail that is nothing more than clickbait.
I mean, for as "bad" as FA is, it gives you the option to see the custom thumbnails artists use, or not see them. For Weasyl being better it doesn't have this simple feature?!