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4 years ago
Quick update on Fellden: Development is in limbo until we have a US-based owner as the laws are more forgiving there for an adult business. Currently it does not seem that our current team members are too enthusiastic about opening an LLC and taking it seriously. Unless furries want something like this and demonstrate that passion by committing to regular weekly scheduled development, it's unlikely it will be ready to launch anytime soon. For now I'm shifting my priorities to our games, as there is more enthusiasm towards prototyping Amorous 2 rather than a new art platform.
I've been ignoring viewing my inbox for over a year, peaking at about 19,000 new submissions. I'm only watching 361 artists but they produce a lot of content. I decided to put on West World and try to plow through it in one day. I managed to get it down to 4,000 but still, it took hours to organize what I found inspirational for various reasons into folders. When I was younger I would check FA daily, leaving comments and messaging artists thinking I'm helping the community grow. However, that in combination with social media lead to a lot of wasted time. My life has become a lot more productive after cutting social media out of my life but I do think there is still a lot of value to staying in touch with furry art, I just really don't like this platform.
Don't get me wrong, the inbox does the job for delivering new content to you but I would enjoy more depth to the experience than just consuming. It's really cumbersome for interacting in more creative capacities and the beta only does so much to modernize it's aging features. I do read all the comments we receive on our content but social features like the shoutbox has been broken on my profile page for over a year. FA's moderation team hasn't allowed any discussion on new policies (Mostly political agendas) being added to the site in over a year, making it very opaque that the staff composition is corrupt. There is still no Webm/Mp4 support and replacement for flash is half-assed at best. We still have to use avatars that are 100 pixels and less than 50kb, it's a joke. These aren't the types of people I want in charge of my content distribution.
If you can look past all of that however, it's still one of your better options right now for finding furry creators, mostly due to their not being anything better on offer. Complacency breeds stagnation and so long as what we experience here is good enough for most, there won't be enough demand for change to see any real innovation or progress. I really don't want to still be using FA another decade from now ideally. Most of my good experiences in the furry community was not a result of the platform but the people, I could chalk it up to the same utility as an email. I personally would like a better proxy for making and sharing art but I may be in the minority of people willing to act on it. For many, furry art isn't a career but just a fun distraction from their already busy lives. It's not their responsibility to -fix- it and it's not really mine either.
As of late I've been focusing on building local friendships/relationships in our area and using the internet as a social outlet less. It's easier to relate to people in person and the conversations you have come off as more genuine. Things like Twitter/VRChat allow you to edit your social mask to such a high degree that you stop being a human capable of vulnerability and true intimacy after a certain point. It's in part why I stopped making VRchat videos on Youtube as I felt that streaming and by extension life in the spotlight was in service of the ego. I don't need to be showered in constant attention to be happy, just a few close friends who are at a similar level of development so we can help each other grow. I don't think there is much left to grow from FA but I'll keep using it and find my own meaning in it. Currently, that's building up a rich archive of references for creative endeavors I want to pursue in the future. There is some truly fantastic talent still here making beautiful art.
Poll Post, Vote here!I've been ignoring viewing my inbox for over a year, peaking at about 19,000 new submissions. I'm only watching 361 artists but they produce a lot of content. I decided to put on West World and try to plow through it in one day. I managed to get it down to 4,000 but still, it took hours to organize what I found inspirational for various reasons into folders. When I was younger I would check FA daily, leaving comments and messaging artists thinking I'm helping the community grow. However, that in combination with social media lead to a lot of wasted time. My life has become a lot more productive after cutting social media out of my life but I do think there is still a lot of value to staying in touch with furry art, I just really don't like this platform.
Don't get me wrong, the inbox does the job for delivering new content to you but I would enjoy more depth to the experience than just consuming. It's really cumbersome for interacting in more creative capacities and the beta only does so much to modernize it's aging features. I do read all the comments we receive on our content but social features like the shoutbox has been broken on my profile page for over a year. FA's moderation team hasn't allowed any discussion on new policies (Mostly political agendas) being added to the site in over a year, making it very opaque that the staff composition is corrupt. There is still no Webm/Mp4 support and replacement for flash is half-assed at best. We still have to use avatars that are 100 pixels and less than 50kb, it's a joke. These aren't the types of people I want in charge of my content distribution.
If you can look past all of that however, it's still one of your better options right now for finding furry creators, mostly due to their not being anything better on offer. Complacency breeds stagnation and so long as what we experience here is good enough for most, there won't be enough demand for change to see any real innovation or progress. I really don't want to still be using FA another decade from now ideally. Most of my good experiences in the furry community was not a result of the platform but the people, I could chalk it up to the same utility as an email. I personally would like a better proxy for making and sharing art but I may be in the minority of people willing to act on it. For many, furry art isn't a career but just a fun distraction from their already busy lives. It's not their responsibility to -fix- it and it's not really mine either.
As of late I've been focusing on building local friendships/relationships in our area and using the internet as a social outlet less. It's easier to relate to people in person and the conversations you have come off as more genuine. Things like Twitter/VRChat allow you to edit your social mask to such a high degree that you stop being a human capable of vulnerability and true intimacy after a certain point. It's in part why I stopped making VRchat videos on Youtube as I felt that streaming and by extension life in the spotlight was in service of the ego. I don't need to be showered in constant attention to be happy, just a few close friends who are at a similar level of development so we can help each other grow. I don't think there is much left to grow from FA but I'll keep using it and find my own meaning in it. Currently, that's building up a rich archive of references for creative endeavors I want to pursue in the future. There is some truly fantastic talent still here making beautiful art.
Still here after a long time, something new would be nice. Still looking forward to Fellden and how that comes about.
I've been here since 2007, mainly lurking but the site feels pretty much the same as it did back then.
Honestly I'm pretty indifferent to this site.
Sleep on any rash decisions!
My ideal solution is a new, fresh art platform that has enough innovations on the way users both consume and upload content that it makes it fun and novel again. That's in part what I aim for with making my own, but I can only dangle so much of a carrot on a stick to carry the concept until there is more motivation from others to make it. I have a lot of fun making our games and I don't mind focusing on that if the idea isn't going anywhere with the website. Maybe it will bear more fruit next year. New people, fresh perspectives.
I am new to FA and I guess the biggest motivation for interacting has been community relationships I have the chance to establish outside of the platform - which just proves there's something deficient like you say. I guess I'm wondering how else there could be a feverish addictiveness to art content if I didn't like or know anyone on here.
I would like to think your problem is unique but as I said I understand the pangs you're feeling. I wish you the best of luck on building a successor.
I have a lot of ideas for a modular profile that can be tailored for a variety of user types. An ERP account will look different from a comissioner or a user that takes photos of their fursuit. Each individual will feel unique, should they take interest in using the features to it's full potential. Finding users would be an adventure. Finding and sharing content would be much easier due to comprehensive community tagging, similar to e621 but building upon it further so it works with a gallery format.
No new platform would be successful without making the transition as friction free as possible, all problems that can be solved with ambition. Might not happen right away but I would like to see it happen eventually as what I can do on FA has been pushed to it's creative limits.
Whether the site is better or not is important. However, even if it is better. A better platform, better mods, more interactivity, and an overall better system and user experience. If it doesn't pull the artists, and content creators over to it. I'm not going. The only site that seems to compete with FA for artists and gaining commissions is, Twitter. Which obviously isn't a furry art site. If I ever want to speak with, or commission an artist I'm going to be using either FA or making a twitter account. Any new website or design even if it is better will have to accomplish the hurdle of convincing the artists and creators to move from FA over to it. Which will then bring the rest of us commissioners over. Which means then everyone who follows the artists and commissioners will move over. I have never done more than glance at Furry Network because the artists I follow don't use it. They use FA or Twitter. I guess my two cents is that even if you make a fantastic platform that is better than FA, you need to make sure you can attract artists and creators over to it. I personally have no particular loyalty to FA but I will go where the content is.
I'm confident that -if- a new platform has a good creative director it can attract talent to use it regularly, but I'm not confident there is the manpower to make it at the current time.
This website doesn't represent the real furry fandom in my opinion, which started out as a (truly) tolerant and open minded people. Sadly I need to use it as most artists I watch are here exclusively. I shut up on some sensitive matters in order to keep my account and not start a riot, and keep such discussion to those corners of the internet where anything resembling freedom of speech still exists.
As for Canada, that dictatorship will get what's coming to it. All the progressive things they did at the surface, like embracing LGBT rights while we still need to beat on countries here to move out of the dark ages, do not excuse the authoritarian nightmare they've happily embraced on pretty much every other issue. Will stop here as anything social or political is a hazard to risk discussing on FA.
Theres other furry sites i do enjoy way more, better UI, features etc but they are practically dead in comparison.
That said, for me FA will always be a place to post my stuff or one of them. For me though it's not the staff in charge, it's sometimes the users themselves (Not you of course) but others that are the problem. By that one example is a random guy and I still remember, creating a bunch of ghost accounts to try to troll me. Luckily the staff got his trolling bitch ass banned so he couldn't do that anymore.
It is true the Flash being out does suck, though honestly we all knew it was coming. Some good things may have been lost, but honestly a lot of it was incomplete things that went nowhere.
As for politics, I wasn't big on them to begin with so that part doesn't bother me.
You are right though that despite the connection you make online, in the end as humans, we're social creatures that need physical interaction in general. Talking with people face to face is far better and healthier for us than chatting online. Plus we can see their faces and know how they sound and feel than online where it's sometimes harder. And only a few friends are needed that aren't family, though family is important. Now I feel at times there's a lot of talent going to waste but I have found those who do make beautiful art. That's just me though.
If you do leave FA just make sure though to let us know and where were else we can follow because I do want to know when Amorous 2 stuff comes out.
Flash dieing isn't the fault of FA, but it still operates as if technology more advanced than .gif doesn't exist. It's a time capsule and we suffer as a result. Adobe recognized that aging, dieing technology is better off dead than a corpse, many aspects of FA is in this state, hense the frequent 404's and security breaches.
The users give FA's it's heartbeat, but it's borrowed time.
However, Jason, I welcome any innovation you can bring to the table. This community is wonderful and deserves more than just 'acceptable.'
Blacklist for keywords would be nice though.
TBH, though, I remember the days when YiffCo was the best art archive around, offering a rating system and tags way back in the 90s. Everything since then has felt meh by comparison.
I feel like these days InkBunny is probably the best furry archive out there...or would be if it weren't for an indelible association with a certain type of content.
I certainly would become a member of a new service, but remaining active would depend on whether or not a good cross section of artists joined up. There was another site that tried a while back, and I became a member, but it never really hit a stride. Sadly (or not, depending on viewpoint), FA has not only a good cross section of artists but, at least, a usable (if a bit archaic) page.
Personally, I get a bit tired of the drama and of the political stands here. For example, I am not really a fan of cub art, but I simply dont watch artists that engage in it. I dislike the strident advocation of ridding the platform of types of art that they disagree with. So, I simply ignore it. I wish others could use tags and common sense as well
I would really like to have something that can help get artists more easily seen instead of having a small percent chance on the home page when you submit something new and depending on what time of the day/night it is you might get lucky. Or the old time favorite, digging through other peoples favorites to see people's art and if you like what you see you check out their profile.
A user name change would be GREAT - it has become super hard to get followers on here if you start a new account just for the sake of the name.
A simple looking and functioning website sometimes is better then a flashy website running a million scripts.
If I had better Computers this might be less of an issue for me, but all the competition want to have all these things going, making the website load in a million things and it either slows down my computer, or it just crashes the browser.
I love FA that the site is alot more simple and so things load in....when the site isnt being dumb.
FA can always be better. A Keyword blocker, and a folder for Favs are 2 things Id love to see added.
And FA has been around for a long time, how many websites have popped up with claims to be the FA killer; have all these neat features and better staff and all that jazz?
Yet each time....FA has stood tall.
The only real threat/competition to FA has become Twitter. And its because people have become more political over the past few years.
And being less addicted to being online many hours of the day in social media and having more good acquaintances and friends to locally see and hang with is a good route to go.
Not that im any business expert but I know a little on LLC's since my friend Rassah and I have been in the real estate investing business for 4 years and had to set up a few here in the US.
If ever care to chat on stuff all my contact info's on my profile page here.
But it'd take a lot for me to consider using another site, if it's another crap like Furry Network then nope, no way.
I would feel much better about using FA if the moderation team cared about the community, but it really doesn't feel like they do.
I've had problems with art thieves and tracing and get told tough, "it wasn't an exact trace" and then get warned about being punished myself for "arguing with the mods on their decision."
Some artists can break the rules and have to wait out their ban, but others get it reversed instantly if they suck up to the mods. Even if its about cub porn. Regardless on anyone's stance on cub, Pro or Against, it's still unfair.
Heck, myself and some friends have been dealing with a stalking issue, so a working Block Button would be nice. But we don't even get given that. :/
I don't think the FA staff does enough to respect their community though. Considering what they owe to it I really think they could and should do more.
"I don't need to be showered in constant attention to be happy, just a few close friends who are at a similar level of development so we can help each other grow." Couldn't have said it better.
I would very much like to change my screen name. I don't use the 'fox' persona anymore & want to change it to SpellboundWolf, which is the title I use on most other websites. It's frustrating.
Plus, it’s good to make some friends and keep track of their stuff.
SoFurry is working on a ground-up rebuild of their site, but it's moving slow. So as bad as it is, FA is still the best basic goto site.
I've been lurking in the furry community for almost 20 years and I find it disheartening that the community has become ultra PC, especially FA. It's whatever that this place is the go-to but I really hope enthusiasm for project Fellden picks up soon. It sucks the project is dying down.
Problem is that furaffinity is "good enough" that there's no incentive for people to leave or change platforms and there already are a lot of platforms which do not destroy works uploaded, including but not limited to SoFurry, Weasyl, Inkbunny, FurryNetwork, Newgrounds and Pixiv. Artists are here exclusively so it makes sense to only follow them here, all users are already following everyone here, so there's no reason for artist to post elsewhere.
Also the reason for avatar limitation is that they convert all avatar uploads into GIF files, which is lossless fileformat, so if you upload JPG avatar the filesize gets larger after upload, so I guess they simply try to avoid getting too massive avatars. Reasoning for this is that "it's easier this way and it doesn't matter" and the system has been the same since 2008 and it was already stupid in 2008 with far better systems literally everywhere else: https://forums.furaffinity.net/thre.....95/post-559507
Funnily enough, any furaffinity uploads before around 2018 would claim the file to be PNG, but in actuality they were JPG and this was also because of the same bad coding which was simply assuming file extensions, rather than checking file header or getting file extension from that JPG processing pipeline they use to destroy peoples works. Accounts here are also tied to username rather than user IDs (same problem Sony had with Playstation 3 and PSP, which is why they are so eager to cut those platforms completely), so feature of being able to change nickname is basically impossibility unless they are doing some super major overhaul - which they haven't seem to have done in 13 years now. The new layout was simply some flashy smoke to make it seem they have done something, but it's literally frontend change, some golden paint over pile of trash.
As for staff, this is basically the same with every single website, all everyone bases their opinion on their sole interactions with individuals. My personal experience has been that they have suspended most accounts I have reported to be minors posting and interacting with pornographic content, but one account with hundreds of patreon leaks and real life porn gifs in their scraps (no descriptions, tags or titles, so could not be searched unless you manually got to the profile) were met with "we don't handle third party takedowns" after long wait.
Twitter also sucks for similar reasons, which is why it's shame that Tumblr died as most people moved to Twitter from there.
We are mostly in a bubble of our own making to some extent, those who have already grown tired of FA have left, meaning we will only see the comments of those active enough to justify being present. It's not so much the platform that needs to change, but our joint effort as creators/consumers raise the bar. The reason in my opinion that platforms like Newgrounds and Deviant Art have evolved at a faster rate is their userbase wanted it more.
I've gotten back into using it for business, and as long as it's used strategically and in moderation, it's a good thing.
I'll admit I do struggle with figuring out how to best reach potential clients and get views, but I think that's just a matter of consistent uploading over time. And not expecting this community to provide even a half-decent living in and of itself, which is a reality I accepted almost a decade ago, but is worth typing out to both remind myself and any other artists in this community.
In the past several months I've been unable to work on art (or any other job) due to medical issues, I've been watching how the more successful artists handle things. The ones like yourself who have mastered consistency far better than me and have been around for over a decade. And most of them seem to cross-post to Twitter now, if not use that as their main activity hub.
As a result, I've done the same.....and to be honest, I much prefer it. Which sucks, in a way, since this place does still draw a lot of attention. But with how poorly this place is run as a business, I'm done putting 80% of my efforts here. I think I always knew it wasn't worth it, both for business purposes and otherwise, but now I'm finally willing to admit it.
The hard part is, if you want a lot of financial backing/attention your going to need to separate yourself from the pack by being in the top 1-2% of your field. Meaning you need to work harder for longer and remain consistent over years. You can apply that discipline to really any online medium and make it somewhere if you really want it. As of this year, I make 6 figures from furry content but that's the result of building a brand non-stop for 10 years.
For the average artist I can see why Twitter can be alluring but a lot of what you see there is fake and surface level flattery. The honest path requires a strong foundation and little public fanfair while your grinding out your skills.
I absolutely agree that you shouldn't focus too much on social media. One or two places to cross-post at most, and with identical commentary at that. I could never handle posting content on 3-5 platforms and found it so draining that I immediately quit it within 3 days.
I would rather just would on consistently putting out content every week, which is what I'm getting into now that things are finally stabilizing. You definitely do need to be in the top 1-2% as a creative if you want it to be your main source of income and I personally have no problem aiming to be that.
Certainly, there are some issues that arise when trying to do that quickly enough to make decent money, such as site policies, but there are ways to deal with that if you're creative enough. I'm glad to hear you've been so successful after all your time and effort invested. You've absolutely become one of the artists other artists think of when they envision having a monetarily successful career.
Turns out the long-term side-effects of the surgery I had that saved my vision when I was born 3 months premature include early on-set cataracts, and some other retina issues. I used to be 20/30 and 20/40 (corrected) in the right and left eye, respectively. Since my left retina was re-attached and I had cataract surgeries on both eyes, I've been dealing with the other retina issues (some of which are just normal side-effects of cataract surgery), and it finally is looking like I'm going to be done within the next two months.
I don't expect to be back to what I used to be until science advances a little further. For now I'm aiming for a solid 20/70 in one or both eyes, so I can get a daytime driving license in my state.
In the meantime, with reading glasses I can see well enough to work at a mostly professional pace again. and should be back to full pace by the end of August. I'll take it for now~
Locations like twitter frankly aren't worthwhile. However if shit does get a tad out of hand I have considered focusing on Weasyl, only problem is I hadn't uploaded their in many years >->;;;;
Otherwise, you can meet a lot of fun and spiffy people here still. ^_^
On the other hand I love how innovative and beautiful other websites are but only a fraction of my watchers are there... And admins messing into politics feels like putting cactus to my ass. Let's say it's not the best place for it xD
But in all seriousness, there really isn't many better options. SoFurry is just "meh" , Weasl only became a thing when FA went down for yet another DDOS attack, Inkbunny is literal pedoland, and Twitter is essentially a political echochamber that I actively avoid.
My only other furry art site experience was with VCL prior to joining FA in 2005 I think. As I recall VCL was frustrating to try and search for anything specific on and I don’t recall it having an easy communication method.
I would definitely consider jumping ship for something that would make it easier to find people with similar interests. FA doesn’t really have an effective tool for creating groups. I have been following you for years and have been keeping an eye on this project as well. I definitely do plan to check it out if and when it’s up and running.
I do feel like I have to hold something back here as I tend to be mostly centrist and occasionally right leaning on specific issues. A furry place that is more accepting of that would be welcome.
(Side note. It’s driving me nuts that I can’t get that last Amorous achievement for the high score in the shooting range. So close to it but I just can’t quite make it)
I also gotta confess I am in the 30+ part of the fandom, meaning I am critical of what I spent my time and energy doing. If a place takes a super-user stance about their web sight or platform it feels more daunting to even get invested, like you have to learn to work with this new system all over again. But its also fair to say, I just am being lazy and like a simple way to just art dump.
As a foot note, to the last paragraph, new places, trending places, hyped places, they all tend to attract this fandoms more toxic types, as an older artist, I just can't handle being around loud and some times aggressive people so I tend to just wait for hype and hate trains to die out a bit before I really feel like checking a place out and using it, I know that's pretty counter intuitive to like getting attention but its more like a social anxiety thing in all fairness, so grain of salt.
FA is like a Golden Statue on a solid stone foundation but is covered in grime, algae. and there's a bunch of hobos around it.
It's the go-to furry site and is where I've had the most consistent growth as a artist and met my friends. But it's age and stubborn-as-a-mule devs and mods keep it from being solid and near-flawless.
- minimal profile customization
- no blacklist
- barely functional tagging system
- extremely bottle-necked file upload size.
- Mods do next-to-nothing against scammers, groomers, and bots
- Browsing page is drowning in YCHs more then actual art.
- and several other things im forgetting.
At this point its.
- E621 for finding new artists.
- FurA for following their art
- Twitter for following their lives/vlogs
- Newgrounds for people that don't want to use E6 or Twitter.
FA has encouraged me to continue on with photography and other endeavors moreso than many other platforms. So yeah, I think it’s a neat circle, and I wish someday I can crawl out of my sadness pit and back into the “community” again; no better way to be a part of it comparatively (I refuse to use Twitter).
One thing I wish it did have was some kind of 'Commissions' page or tab, where you can browse currently open artists, and-or artists that you follow can turn on and off when they're open (and also get added to this 'Commissions' page / tab).
Making it super easy to casually browse for open artists, their queue sizes, prices, examples, and sending a form to be in the queue.
On the practical side (And this is PURELY a preferential thing, no judgments to others who feel otherwise); I just prefer to only visit and follow people on as few sites as possible. For me, I dont use Twitter, but I have one because, the day they leave FA, I can try to find them somewhere, but jumping between Inkbunny, Sofurry, Patreon, and Subscribstar, and Newgrounds to a point (heck even youtube for a small number of artists). Props to those who love the ability to access wide audiences, and no harm in keeping back ups, but I just prefer the minimalist approach. Why click 7 times when I can click 1 time?
Still I know that rules are different for each site, functionality is different for each one, and frankly speaking the ability for artist to earn the $$$ is different for each one (regardless of commission or subscriber models). Im not going to get into a thing on the Politics of each site (I know there is a history FA has that is not the greatest, but clearly its stood the test of time for a reason), and for better or worse, FA is just the most accessible. At the same time I know the whole Pornographic art is a grey area both legally and morally depending on the context (which again thats a whole conversational can of worms - my rule of thumb is; is it Fiction? Then who the Hell cares?) Regardless I know some sites offer more freedom for the artist vs others but again, thats just a far bigger conversation topic so I digress.
Sorry im sort of getting a bit off-key to the point. Simply Put; I would rather artists stick with one place that is Known, Accessible, modestly simple to use, and consistent. While FA may not always fall into those categories, it clearly has lasted withstood the test of time (again for better or worse).
Granted, I am not an artist, so I will concede that I have no vested interest on the functional side as an uploader, Since I dont go out of my way to be a super fan (interacting, commenting, and so on - no judgement to those that do). Having said that if you feel like FA is not the primary place you want to be, then I say try to find another that suits you (more power to you!) But I would ask to not be one of those who tries to (forgive my phrasing) "go all OCD and Eraser Happy", and delete old accounts that may or may not hold archives, or just basic history of you as an artist. I (me personally) just find the idea of artist trying to use the "clean slate" concept to a degree that is unhealthy (especially when you consider this is the internet - I dont have to like it, but I can accept it). I have more respect for artists who will go to old accounts and put up like a journal or a note that is just one big redirect. (Again thats just me, I acknowledge others may not agree or feel the same. No judgments here.)
IDK. You do whats right for you, but try not to overcomplicate the process if nothing else. Thats my 2 cents at least.
Less fighting. The mods focus on breaking up fights.
Less bots/minors. I am pretty sure half my Twitter followers are minors/a bot. It makes it hard for me to trust anyone on Twitter when the average person puts their gender and age as practice, which, I am certain many ages are straight up lies.
FA can definitely be improved in many ways, but at least it understands that slander and tossing personal insults are inherently wrong.
1. Being forced to scroll through gallery/favorites pages one at a time, rather than being able to skip to a specific page. Example: If I have my display setting set to show 72 images on a single page, and as a result my favorites will have 15 pages, but I want to reach page 8 I have to go through page numbers 1 through 7 first, or insert the number page number into the URL bar.
2. The search options being so damn primitive. If I want to find an artist's works with it I have to type an additional command(in this case @lower(space)(artist name) because otherwise works with the artist name in the title show up, even when its giftart TO the person I was searching. I reaaly wish more sites would just copy IB's search options. It has, by far, the most user-friendly search functionality on any site with media posting-functions.
3a. While I DO want a black list, something that needs to be implemented first is enforced tagging. There are so many works, both good and unappealing(the extremely gross fetish kind of unappealing) that would fly under blacklists because the poster doesn't tag the work with ANYTHING.
3b. The lack afromentioned tag blacklist. Self-explanitory.
4. The lack of being able to organize favorites. While artists can sort their works into neat little folders, a user's favorites are organized by date, with the only sorting customization being whether to list by oldest, or newest first. Pixiv actually has a feature to let you personally tag your favorite works, though its only available on the desktop version of the site, I think?
5. Technically an extention of the "primitive search options" complaint, but its not being able to search through your own favorited works. I've faved a ton of works by this point, so I desperately need a way to sift through them in a feasible manner. This is another thing IB also already has.
6. The UI for the list of users you watch is very bare-bones. It only lists their screen name and is only sorted by alphabetical order. There is no other way to sort the list, to my knowledge. It would be nice if it included their avatar, a few of their latest works, being able to search through them. Like IB. Yes, again.
I like Inkbunny better though.
I don't really like using the site. I always feel like there's gunman on the roofs, watching and waiting.
I'm only here because of the artists flock here. I'd rather use Inkbunny, but the artists and content there is, limited...
Sure, the site hasn't majorly changed in a while, but there have been improvements made from time to time, and really there isn't much that has ever needed to be changed; they got a lot of stuff mostly right at the beginning. You can find images and watch artists, what more do people really need?
Only thing I feel they've gotten wrong is how they've handled "child" content; even artists who use very clearly older, adult, versions of younger characters have had their images pulled and bans threatened. While it's probably just an over-abundance of caution on a tricky issue, I wish they'd work with artists more as suddenly being threatened with a ban does not exactly create a friendly atmosphere; as much as artists may need this site for their content to be discovered, the site in return needs artists as well.
And those sites end up having their own drama like more censorship or stupid pointless rules or dumb signup requirements or power tripping moderators.
Inkbunny has a pretty good setup, especially when it comes to tags and black listing stuff you don't want to see, but a lot of people don't like particular content allowed there (even though you can block things you don't want to see). It is also a fully "furry" site that bans human stuff (which I'm am totally okay with).
We need something like e621, but with a journal and profile page system, with "forced" community tagging (basically make it so community tagging cannot be turned off), and A LOT LESS CENSORSHIP.
Here's the thing about the plan on making a new successor or new place for the community, nothing takes less than 5 years to grow, think 10 years from now in terms of planning and growth. Everything takes time and don't rush doing big decisions
Then again I will probably change my mind because I haven't been here long enough to experience all the issues you all have faced. Thus when I do face them I will probobly come to hold a similar sentiment to the rest of you.
So I am excited for Fellden. Please keep working hard, I hope it all goes well.