Weasyl was promising but no one seemed to want to actually make the move and switch.

Fa will never die simply because people hate change

Weasyl wasn't enough of an improvement over FA to justify a strong migration. It has most of the same problems, about the only improvement was that it had blacklisting.

FA won't die out to a new furry-niche site, it's deathblow will be whenever a non-garbage art site turns up to kill FA and DA in one go

That’ll be the day.

FA and DA are both pretty bad but they also have a set of rules and what not. Not sure DA members would appreciate furry diaper porn on the same site.

But maybe someday they can figure it out

actually
DA allows (and is notorious for) a lot of that weird "SFW fetish" art where it's obviously porn to whoever made it, but there's no genitals showing so it's ~fine~

but I think DA lets you blacklist all the furry diaper porn? were FA is like... 25% of the "browse" section is shit i would really like to never see

I didn’t know you could blacklist on DA, neat

FA would be a little better if most artists actually tagged their stuff. There’s an artist I like who never tags anything so it’s near impossible to search for his art

This! So much this! What is the purpose of someone posting their art online if they dont or barely tag it, so that its usually only found if you find it in someone elses favourites who is watching that artist? Its like they are using FA but dont really want to show their art or use FA. Or they are just ignorant in how browsing or searching works on FA. Ive seen pieces that have absolutly no tag at all, not even browse categories, but are still really well made. After they leave the first pages of browse, they are gone and you will never find them. Sometimes i wish the only way to search art on FA would be per tags so that they are forced to use them, or public tags are made available like on some other websites.

That’s why I really like e621. I find most artist utilizing that

I believe on that site its actually mostly the fans who post arts from their favourites, and those actually care about tagging it right for the most part. Also theres no other way to find art than by tags there. I had e621 in mind also when i talked about public tags.

That’s what I like about it. You HAVE to tag it. And even better they make you tag it by what you physically see, not what’s implied.

Gender politics aside... I don’t like seeing characters with dicks being tagged as female

Agreed.

I'd love all the "tools" of deviantart on a site that allowed adult content/posting in a space not JUST for furries :'3. That would be the best of the worlds.

This comment is all too true though.

I think pixiv is one of my favorites as far as tools/upload/account stuff, but it's a little awkward to use it as a main gallery since I don't speak Japanese

the way comics/sequential art work on there is ESPECIALLY nice

I haven't tried it but I trust your judgement :D!

It's subjective though and artists and viewers have different and often opposing desires and ideologies. For example, a lot of artists crow and glee about square-cropped thumbnails that they control when posting, while a plurality of viewers strongly dislike that. Then the artists wonder why nobody is looking at their stuff.

actually. when I bothered to manually crop thumbails for all my FA posts they got about 10-25% more clicks/favs
so having a built in tool for that instead of having to make a separate file for it is always a good feature

but this also isn't really relevant because most of the sites I use now have "dashboard" style browsing/following

I was involved in research back in the late 00's and found that cropped thumbnails result in more views, but lower fave to view ratio, and that sites that offer it standard end up with viewer fatigue. If one person is doing it, it can be unique. If everybody is doing it, people don't know what is what anymore and run out of will to have to click everything to have an idea of what they are and deal with unexpected traps. Random discovery also was reduced as more people encountered traps and reverted to staying with only trusted artists. So it's a short term gain in extreme moderation, but a long term net loss. I admit that with changing consumption patterns, this might not continue to hold true, but metadata analysis on certain sites indicates that it's still a prevalent effect.

Endless-scroll, single-column sites exist primarily to feed boredom and addiction, and are rather effective at that, but will always have their downsides. Art posted only on Twitter for example will tend to guarantee that the art remains niche as long as people might get trouble or grief for interacting with it. There are numerous folks who bemoan the fact that they can't follow some of their favorite artists anymore because those artists moved to Twitter or Facebook and if they follow or watch, the public nature of those sites will cause it to impact their life negatively.

Win some, lose some, and like I said, always subjective. :)

and still, none of this is actually relevant to FA being a dying site

Dying by what metric?

I ask this with genuine interest, as I like to try to understand the motivation and reasoning behind what people think of things. If you'd rather not discuss it, that's perfectly fine.

FA's traffic has gone down a ton over the past 5 years or so.

Remember that indecent where they lost literally everyone's passwords and it took like 2-3 months for them to resolve because their only solution was to have admins manually hand them out to a lot of people? The population never actually recovered from that and has been steadily dropping. FA also doesn't have much appeal to young adults so it isn't gaining very many active new users.

What population IS left is also a lot less active, you can check the like views/favs on a lot of popular artist's submissions now VS before the incident and it's about half, in a lot of cases.

I like FA because of its UI. Makes it easy for me to browse art and save images with the info that I want in the file name. Yes it's an old UI, but change doesn't always mean better.

I fine Twitter's UI horrible for browsing art. And post something and a few hours later it can't be found again.

I don’t like how the favorites disappear after a while.

Faves on FA or Twitter?

The ones on FA only vanish when the original poster deletes them.

Fa; I’ve notified that the favorites only last so long and they automatically get removed

No automatic removal, that's from the original artist deleting the submission. I've got faves from over a decade ago still for example.

They 100% get removed. It’s not a time based thing.

Let me put it like this:

Let’s say you have 10 spots. You can add 10 items (in this case favorites) to your 10’spots. But as soon as you add an 11th item the 1st one gets removed.

I think FA allows a certain amount of favs before they get pushed off.

There are images I know for a fact I favorited that were removed so I had to refave them

Oh, fave count limit. That makes sense after people caused problems by trying to fave the whole site.

What count do they limit it to now?

I have no idea what the limit is

Well, the reskin can be undone. I still use the old FA Layout.

I think the old FA layout is the best of all the online sites.

Yes, definitely better than the new one!

I do not believe it is READY yet but you may keep an eye out for a site called Artrise. I'm hopeful for it. But then again I was hopeful for many "new art sites" and none of them have bashed this place out of existence yet soooo. Crossing my fingers.

Blegh. Twitter is not conducive to browsing submissions. :\
Oh and the file names are garbage.

I do all my browsing on phone/tablet, so the media tab on twitter and dashboard style sites in general better suits my needs- I unfollowed everyone on FA a couple years ago because checking submissions on this site just felt like a chore.

but then again, I'm just looking at art for art's sake.
I could see twitter being less convenient for seeking out like ultra-specific fetish content or whatever people do with FA, but then we get into FA's tag system being kinda bad and the complete lack of a blacklist making browsing pretty awful.

If the only media (generic) you are posting is the stuff you would've posted to FA, then sure, it can be browsed on Twitter reasonably ok. But when its mixed in with "here's a photo of my dog" "here's a photo of my work station" "here's what I had for dinner" "here's an upcoming WIP" "here's a repost of that YCH I'm doing" and such, it just becomes a nightmare to find stuff.

One artist might do a decent job, but that doesn't scale.

I also can't get notifications when someone posts things, because it's lost in the noise of all the other crap my feed gets.

Maybe I like forcing people to look at the baked goods i've made.

You fiend. :V

Must you fritter away our attention like this?