It has become ubiquitous with 'furry' and since many people use it as their source of income...a big change like that is hard. The followings, the familiarity with the site, etc.

All in time, things will come around and hopefully the better run/designed/maintained sites will be on top!

I actually really enjoy Weasyl. I admit I'm not that active here, but due to recent events I haven't been on the computer as much.

I agree though, it seems that the other site is quite popular and will always seem to be. It's possible cause change is a difficult thing. I find change difficult myself. I like Weasyl quite a bit, and am trying to be more active.

What I plan to do is offer opening here first, and secondary across other sites. Let people know this on other sites too and simple 'Commission openings are offered HERE first, and at a $5 discount temporarily' might be all it takes from a handful if artists to get the mass going else where. I wish more 'big name' artists would consider a slight shift in priority posting. I know they want a more stable, better run site, but don't care to wait for a following.

I need to comment here more... I don't get feedback here but I can't expect to get it if I never give it either! It takes communication to make something like this work. I don't do art as much as I'd like anymore but I still watch, and it helps to be an active watcher.

I'm so glad I can favorite journals now!

I was TOTALLY having this exact conversation the other day with another user and it's so true. To be honest, I LOVE Weasyl and if I had to choose on one site, this would be it.

I did notice how finally people were filtering back these past few days, it's pretty great :> Buuuut i'll have to shuffle my butt back to that other awful, awful site. I hate it but that's where the community is :/

While I do like Weasyl and will continue to support it, I think it still has big problems. Weasyl will not yet be my main art site when I can't get visibility posting here (especially as a non-adult artist who isn't already popular on FA).

I hope it's ok for me to copy+paste something I've said elsewhere:

I’ve gone back and forth between Weasyl and FA and I do have to say that FA still has the superior site. FA is easier to browse, submitting images is a far smoother process, and everything is just much more visible.

I was an early adopter of Weasyl (donated money) and to this day I don’t see any noticeable improvements. The thumbnail system is awful - if you don’t size the same way every time on drawings they appear to change greatly in quality, it rarely gives a good idea on what the image as a whole looks like (which is lousy when you’re trying to be seen, exception being porn), and it slows down the submission process. I still find submitting to be slow, to the point where I have abandoned an account because it was taking so much longer to keep it up to date with the FA mirror.

Weasyl has some fantastic mods and admins, people who keep interest going and are overall great people, but from the outside it has the exact same development problems as FA. Changes are unnoticeable or unimportant, with small details getting attention over the needed large updates. This may be entirely different with people having other interests for the site, but as someone who has kept an adult art block up I keep getting bored and annoyed trying to use it. A website’s community around art can’t grow when submitting and viewing art isn’t fun to do in the site.

That said, I do want to see Weasyl grow into a great alternative for FA, but it has been over a year since the release of the Beta and I don’t think it can yet compete.

I've heard it said that FA only thrives because of a vicious cycle -- no one wants to leave FA because that's where all the art is, and no one wants to upload anywhere but FA because that's where all the watchers are. I think artists have the potential to break this, but it'd represent a risk for a lot of us. If artists don't bother to upload to a low-population gallery site like Weasyl, then there's no art to draw potential viewers, so they definitely won't gather. However, if the artists upload art regardless of whether or not it draws comments and favorites, then at least it's there and can gain notice, perhaps eventually drawing an audience. The problem is that many of us do business on FA (which still has the greatest potential client pool), so leaving also represents a financial dent.

Here Here. I am enjoying the site. I forgot I even had one. But then again I don't use "the other site" that much either. hahaha. I am a sad noodle dragon for that.

I wish it would be more popular too. I don't really like FA and all the pron that shows up there. If I had it my way, I'd stay on Weasyl and abandon FA because it doesn't have anything to offer. Let's face it, FA is about as basic as an art site can get and doesn't allow access to Groups, Folders, or Character profiles like DA and Weasyl can. Why on earth do we even stay there? Not to mention that it breaks down all the time and eventually will be like Yerf when they promised to put the site back up and never did.

Weasyl has a shot at making it big now that FA is busted. I wish we would stay here.