I don't need to be an artist to understand how stupid and crippling it is to keep all of your commission info on one site that's been down for 2 days now, so don't even go there.
as for the rest of your message, glad you use more than one site, this was aimed at those who don't and chose to bitch about other websites being sucky instead.
You cant just MAKE traffic out of nowhere. Most of us artists have our commission info everywhere, even plastered with us in person. And the responsible lot of us always save refs and in person details.
There are too many FA alternatives that are pretty much clogged with too many artists and not enough customers. Thats why Weasyl doesnt work. Everyone is just posting and sitting on their ass waiting to get compliments while for the most part, because FA is an equal mix of both consumer and creator, its much easier to get feedback. Same thing with FN right now. Its so nice in theory, but its quiet as heck.
Its like telling someone who plays guitar in times square that they should go make traffic in the forest. Sure...they MIGHT encounter a hiker or something, and maybe they should do it once in a while for a change of pace, but at the end of the day, FA is important for us artists. We dont rely on it out of laziness, we simply invest a lot of time into it because the ROI on every other network is minimal at best.
Edit: other websites are not as good because they lack what I said before, a balanced community. Deviantart suffers from the same egocentrism problem.
