Okay I get it. If it's free, more people will join.
Actually I've been saying the more people that will stay, Truth be it though, the less free it is, the less that will join too but that isn't the important issue here. ^_^
But how many times have free sites disappeared? Remember when Furnation use to be the prime free site? It's hardly even a website anymore. And Furaffinity is a BLOATED version of that and in the few years it was up, it's been down more often than one can remember.
Well I'm not attacking what you're saying in this paragraph obviously, but I can't help but remark that Furnation didn't have this kind of dedicated people willing to donate, or Staff that actually care AND aren't stupid.
I don't understand why people keep saying it's not 'fair' to deny this and that. It's a privilege to even have them.
Umm, "I" never said it wasn't 'fair' to deny this or that actually. There are also good reasons why I never said or would say that.
People are going to leave one website for another but it's not because they have to pay for special features. The basics will still be there. People tend to enjoy FA and want to support it but they will lose more people rapidly through these downtimes. They can fix it and reward those who support it -- therefore limited the number of downtimes. They can even pay to have professional coders touch up the site.
Well if you compare how many would be loss by the plans you laid out, these down times are nothing compared to how many we'd lose. But I assume you're referring to people watching the art, while I was referring to the artists.
And if they still want to leave because a website wants to make money and maintain itself, then let them leave. Furaffinity needs SUPPORTERS, free, donated, or charged.
People who are paying are paying for the chance to be exposed in FA. It wouldn't matter if you are an amateur or a "professional" furry artist. (I mean, is there even a difference now? Big-name artist still get the most exposure)
The big artists would leave for the most part actually, secondly Fur Affinity is not a professional website when you compare it to actual professional art websites like Deviant Art.
People hit it big in the industry there, while many who have hit it big, there or through other things, they most often remove all their art from Fur Affinity because they can't afford their art to be discovered and thus them associated with these pictures. That's, simply the way it is. Don't forget, we're talking about the business world.
DA can get away with it, because DA is a professional website.
No amature artist is going to down money for exposure. Most of the top artists won't either. (just like many great artists on DA don't.)
But this is about exposure. it's about maintaining a website that goes down too often.
I'll assume you typoed that. :3 I think you meant this isN'T about exposure, ...
I can't help remarking though, that umm... *points to how much money was raised* kind of dissproves even the 'need' for what you're suggesting. Either the Staff is going to spend the money correctly and save what's needed correctly, or they are going to waste it all, and thus a stable income for the sight won't make any real difference.
They're either going to do it right, or wrong. But raising money as needed certainly isn't the issue because... As I've been saying... Fur Affinity is a GREAT website, and because of how great the Staff, Community, Atmosphere and so on are here, they've gotten a lot of loyal people all across the world.
I can't help but acknowledge this as it's right in our face... Thus i find the idea of how hard everyone is discussing the notion of changes, limiting privlages, giving more, in favor of more stable income into Fur Affinity, at the cost of quantity, atmosphere, and loss of a % of the community. (Since all the evidence isn't in yet, I cannot put an estimation on the % yet.)
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