Good. Glad you got away from that awful, awful site.

Blue hell site begone.

aww okay....

Please let this be the beginning of the end for Twitter as a content creator main hub....I don't care who you voted for or what memes you think are funny, I just want to see the beautiful artwork!

Amen to that. Twitter is going down the drain like all big social media platforms. Reddit is still in a better position as it's not quite as popular thus less attention falls on it, although at best it too is just a "gentler Twitter".

Twitter is about the worst possible site someone could use to post artwork. From a viewer perspective it's absolute garbage.

From a technical standpoint its design is pretty good for that... its admins also didn't harass NSFW artists as much as other sites, at least when I was last around. The community there though... just remembering feels like the Vietnam war of the internet xD

I'm talking about as a user trying to view it. There is no gallery. Posts with art mixed into the stream of retweets and ramblings. Trying to track things into the past is an exercise in madness. It's just garbage.

Oh, true: It doesn't have an actual gallery format. But I still found it easy to watch and find artists through it; Unlike places like FA, you have a combined home timeline and artists can retweet stuff from similar artists while they also offer a recommended section automatically guessing which users you're interested in based on what you've been looking at... not to mention visible and easily clickable hashtags that automatically lead you to a search with relevant results. Galleries like FA technically have some of this but it's not as obvious and encouraging: Here you only find a new artist if you do a manual search or someone you watch posts a boost journal, no previews nor other parts of the system guiding you on where to look for something new.

Inkbunny is the only one that seems to have made an improvement in this regard: If you favorite a submission there, you temporarily see a list with some 8 other submissions like it, thumbnail previews and all. That's the sort of constructive and non-intrusive engagement intended to help you find new content that I like

I find the majority of new artists by looking at people's favorites.

Sad to be seeing you go from Twitter, but at the same time, I understand. It sucks being on a site that is quite...eh, I can't find the right word for it.

Let's just say that twitter is completely messed up.

Shit?

Horrific and not at all designed for how people used it?

Probably the best decision anyone could make. Twitter is just... awful.

Good choice: Twitter will destroy one's mental sanity in time... if the internet is a place you can't avoid drama hell on, Twitter is THE place of that place. Reddit by comparison is nicer, I didn't have negative experiences there though I use it rarely so that's probably one reason why. Gladly joined your lovely group there ^_^

Otherwise, on this note, I'd take a look at decentralized services like Mastodon too. Albeit they have a bit less adoption, though some artists are moving to those too now. I'm a fan of everything decentralized and compliant with the Activitypub network, whereas by comparison Reddit is one company's product thus one entity has life and death rights over every community on there.

Reddit is generally hands off unless you decide to go full nazi or something on it. GENERALLY of course but still.

I take it they treat creators acceptably as a general rule, including more NSFW-ish ones? At that chapter Twitter was alright too, unlike with other things. Can't say the same about places like Youtube unfortunately, even artists have a hard time not running into trouble at every corner there.

So far I mainly used Reddit to get help with specific projects, since some prefer using it instead of setting up a forum. And other groups there but usually technical stuff unlike Twitter where I watched more artists as its system made them easier to find.

Basically unless your subreddit is the equivalent of a true nazi gathering place (or carry things such as child porn) reddit won't really do a damn thing, leaving it up to the subreddit mods.

I never really cared for the sudden influx of artists to twitter, as you said once an artist went to witter actually finding them is hard and actually going through their art is even harder.

Good...Twitter is for Twits anyway.

lol, how did I never think of that one before

Very wise choice.

"Saying Goodbye"
aww
"to Twitter"
Yeaahh!

Saying goodbye to cocaine going to start doing heroine

Its a totally understandable decision.
Sadly Twitter is the only platform where I can interact with the eastern artists that are basically my main influence by now, so staying there is a must for me. In addition the eastern community is so chill that its almost like its own world, a world where "if you dont like it just ignore it" seems to be the law (unlike westen furries where it feels like "if you dont like it, kick it out of the platform".

Its also a shame to see how Pillowfort, who couldve been a good alternative to Twitter, fluked its inauguration to a point where it isnt recoverable anytime soon. Being honest, I am not really very warm towards Reddit in general, but I can see why its probably one of the best options. Good luck with the move.

I had no idea you had Twitter..I wish I knew sooner

Im actually glad you made that move. Twitter sucks for art and Its hard to archive anything on there.

I completely understand. Twitter can just destroy you mentally after a while. I'll follow you whereever you go!