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The reason why FA users won't leave FA:
10 years ago
The footer is the truth.
You know, it's funny. No matter how bad this site gets, users won't leave. They leave, and then they come back. For one key reason. No one else leaves. It's a vicious cycle.
Popular Artist X with 400,000 watchers and gets $3,760 a month in commissions, stays because he gets paid and has lots of watchers.
Popular Artist Y with 50,000 watchers and gets $570 a month stays for the same reason.
Less Popular Artist Z with 10,000 watchers and hardly any commissions stays, because if they leave, they get nothing because no one gives a shit enough to follow them to a new site. If they leave, they realize no one cares about them, and are forced to come back.
Commissioner A stays because Popular Artist X and Y are here and aren't leaving.
Commissioner B stays because he likes Popular Artist Y's stuff and commissions them all the time.
Commissioners C through Q stay for those same reasons.
Commissioner's A through Q are willing to register on Weasyl if Popular Artists X and Y were to post their art there and/or move.
Watchers 1 though 5000 stay, because Popular Artists X and Y are here. 1/4th of these watchers already have accounts on other art sites. 3/4ths are willing to follow the artists X and Y to the other site. 1/10th just don't want to leave till the artists actually give them a reason to, such as deleting the gallery from FA.
If Popular Artist X and Y were to leave, Less Popular Artist Z can move, and still get commissions and maybe even get more because people will notice them more.
But because Popular Artist X and Y won't leave, Commissioners A through Q stay, and Watchers 1-5000 stay, therefor Popular Artist X and Y won't leave because those people are staying.
It's a programming loop! Someone has to break the cycle. The popular artists should start duplicating their galleries, giving people like me a choice so we aren't required to stay on a sinking ship, drowning to death just so we can enjoy their stuff.
Popular Artist X with 400,000 watchers and gets $3,760 a month in commissions, stays because he gets paid and has lots of watchers.
Popular Artist Y with 50,000 watchers and gets $570 a month stays for the same reason.
Less Popular Artist Z with 10,000 watchers and hardly any commissions stays, because if they leave, they get nothing because no one gives a shit enough to follow them to a new site. If they leave, they realize no one cares about them, and are forced to come back.
Commissioner A stays because Popular Artist X and Y are here and aren't leaving.
Commissioner B stays because he likes Popular Artist Y's stuff and commissions them all the time.
Commissioners C through Q stay for those same reasons.
Commissioner's A through Q are willing to register on Weasyl if Popular Artists X and Y were to post their art there and/or move.
Watchers 1 though 5000 stay, because Popular Artists X and Y are here. 1/4th of these watchers already have accounts on other art sites. 3/4ths are willing to follow the artists X and Y to the other site. 1/10th just don't want to leave till the artists actually give them a reason to, such as deleting the gallery from FA.
If Popular Artist X and Y were to leave, Less Popular Artist Z can move, and still get commissions and maybe even get more because people will notice them more.
But because Popular Artist X and Y won't leave, Commissioners A through Q stay, and Watchers 1-5000 stay, therefor Popular Artist X and Y won't leave because those people are staying.
It's a programming loop! Someone has to break the cycle. The popular artists should start duplicating their galleries, giving people like me a choice so we aren't required to stay on a sinking ship, drowning to death just so we can enjoy their stuff.
Even if many artist leave we'll still stay cuz there are still many artist that won't so.
Tho those numbers xP 400k watchers haha noone has that owo
Your current watcher count might have plumetted because you wiped your gallery but your pageviews wouldn't deminish.
Right now the big problem really is, in my opinion, that everyone seems to only give a half-try to other sites. They'll upload some contents, after uploading it to FA, or during FA downtimes, then forget to until they catch up some day.
If things got posted equally to multiple sites, i'm pretty sure people would end up opting for the one that is easier to deal with by default. Or well, the least reliable would not be returned to after major downtimes.
And if artist X/Y/Z wanted to get people to make the move, it's easy to do those 'I'll be opening an hour earlier on [PREFERRED SITE] before FA.' or so. That would get interested people over there pretty fast after a few times, once it becomes known...