Fur Affinity and IMVU

[Ashley_Joy]

@Neox
Looks like you might be right, editing of comments already got added on FA
IMVU sure doesn't waste time.

Still, after spending 10 minutes on weasyl, the features got me hooked (FRIGGIN HTML IN PROFILES!! AND COMMENTS!! AND DESCRIPTIONS!!), though their servers seem a little slow, but it could just be me.

[Neox]

Still, after spending 10 minutes on weasyl, the features got me hooked (FRIGGIN HTML IN PROFILES!! AND COMMENTS!! AND DESCRIPTIONS!!), though their servers seem a little slow, but it could just be me.

Weasyl is nice (it's actually my preferred gallery), but after being on there for 2 years, I don't even have a tenth of the watchers that I do on FA. If I one day decide I want to get serious about doing commissions, Weasyl won't cut it. That's the main problem being faced by artists who make a living off their work: most of them can't leave FA because they'd lose a good chunk of their customer base.

[Drake Wingfire]

Honestly the ship jumping does get pretty ridiculous in part for that reason..

Its pretty awesome that people can make some good side-money on commissions, but those very people can't run off like a bunch of overly dramatic pre-teens at every change as well as think they have some form of massive pull over their audience. People gotta be more tactical thinkers with that shit. If someone is reliant on furry-money then its probably in their best interest to feel things out and really think about what they value more before running off all half cocked and then turning around and going "uhhh guys.... veeeeiwers? Hey.... come... come over here cause I aint gonna cater to those who use ________ art sight cause reasons" those people always did come off as a little over confident, to put it politely.

If ones reputation and artistic popularity has become massive enough to the point that jumping ship is gonna hurt them. Then that is really just on them weather they value their morals and opinions higher than they value what even dollar value or furry popularity they might be forsaking by ditching the location. Normally I would play a devils advocate here and  go "hell yeah, stick it to the fucks and blaze your own trail!" but with that territory does come some drawbacks, many in fact. So to try and stand on that side will come at some cost to not catering to the herd, a herd that has plenty of money to wave about and a lot of fluffing words for ones ears to make them feel like they are the shit. Its sort of a "grey" version of not having your cake and eating it too, since results vary.

[FurryJackman]

Well, now they're running adult ads, which has the highest risk for malware... and it even exists in SFW mode.

If you open the floodgates, you can't possibly control it. Trying to control where adult ads get seen once you've enabled it is absolutely impossible if you're using a third party.

Mirror/Migrate your stuff people. I primary Weasyl for my submissions now.

[CassidyCivet]

Those ads...ohmygod, they're absolutely trash. Like, really trash. Like...Honey Boo Boo for Southern US bad. I don't quite get Weasyl so I don't know if I'm gonna make the move...yet.

[Mosesj]

the problem with moving sites is that most sites don't have the content FA has, nor the audience.

if I'm an artist, I find very little activitiy compared to fa

if I'm a viewer looking for content, there's less stuff then fa