Weasyl is really really dead. I've had more activity on inkbunny since people are regularly on that site for other reasons.
Well I refuse to join Weasyl anyways because I can't create a username that is consistent with the one I use because someone already claimed the name Bourbon and Weasyl doesn't allow alternatives of a username (Bourbon., Bour-bon, etc) and I'm not about to put numbers in my username for use on a site that is primarily dead anyways. I'd rather create a Facebook page for art (which I am currently doing).
WHY HELLO
Omfg I forgot Furrific exists lmao.
I actually can second that. I have a facebook page for my art and since reach is hard to achieve, you can share posts with groups and pages to get other people to see it.
It's also nice to have a public area for both furries and non furries to access. Since I draw humans as well, I have my facebook on my business cards and got a lot of likes from handing them out at cons.
I actually can second that. I have a facebook page for my art and since reach is hard to achieve, you can share posts with groups and pages to get other people to see it.
You need to make an actual facebook page instead of a profile, like the ones brands use. It's rough starting out. You can also lock your content to only be available to a certain age group such as 16 or up.
Haha, that makes me the weakling.
Well if you rely on commissions then you do what you must to pay the bills. But better off alternatives than nothing at all.
I do rely on commissions, I also know how dead Weasyl is and that it is absolutely not viable for business. Even popular artists who left FA during one of it's many scandals came back to FA because Weasyl is effectively a ghost ship that's been slowly sinking for the last three years.
I have to agree with this! Weasyl is just crap
That's a nice dream, but in the real world things work differently. If we artists tried to force every customer to only communicate with us via channels outside of FA, we would go out of business.
I will never understand the hatred toward Weasyl, or many of the other art hosting sites that matter. I mean, sure, where they lack in some areas they make in all the other ones that matter. If more started making use of the next best alternative traffic wouldn't be a problem since artists rely on it for commissions.
that's not how servers work
Leaving traffic out of the equation, what is it you don't like about it personally? I'm wondering if the staff will work with the community to help better it.
It's not hatred for Weasyl, it's just flat-out the truth. The site is dead. No amount of telling people to move to Weasyl is going to resuscitate it. The only time it ever seems to become active is when FA is down or having problems. As soon as FA comes back up, Weasyl dies again. It cannot be a sustainable functional business platform for artists. And a large part of this is due to how they shot themselves in the foot. They stayed in closed beta for like three years, had some scandals regarding note sharing, and have pissed on artists with their strict and ridiculous guidelines for ratings (fully clothed character but you can see a nipple outline? that's adult!!!).
It's often times the toolish self-righteous attitude of the people who act like they're leading some kind of crusade by switching to it. There's also like, no community and what community there is consists of the former in my experience. It's not the site or it's functionality. Granted, it's layout is ugly in my opinion.
Oh aight, sorry about that. XD
hmm White Knighting? if so then that would pretty much prove my point about this community being in denial, wouldnt it. Im stating what i see, not demanding a exodus, patting dragoneers back, killing authorities or kissing someones shoes.
