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Huh. People. by chipotle
Hmm. It's not like Fur Affinity hasn't gone down for incredibly stupid reasons before, but it seems Weasyl is getting more significant attention levels this time around.
There are things I like about Weasyl and things I don't like -- I won't get into the whole web designer nitpicky thing, I'll just say there's a lot to nitpick -- but barring a site coming along that can manage to be genuinely disruptive, the "furry gathering hub" spot is FA's to lose. It's always seemed to me that without that disruption FA just won't lose that spot; despite the fact that it pees all over its own shoes on a roughly quarterly basis, furries seem to respond by shrugging and throwing money at it. While I know Weasyl has greater aspirations than "more or less like FA but without the pee," it's possible that if FA pees itself long enough and often enough, being FA without the pee may be a winning proposition.
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From what I can tell, FA mostly benefited from being in the right place at the right time. Pre-FA the choices for archives were VCL (which was pretty antiquated-seeming even in 2005), Yerf (hard to get into when it was working, and at that moment in time mostly not working), deviantART (at the time, ratings restricted), YiffStar (which I think at the time didn't support images, and of course seemed to *only* appeal to the porn crowd), and SheezyArt. I really suspect that if SheezyArt hadn't banned adult artwork in 2005 -- or if YiffStar had been launched as SoFurry -- then one of them would be the one we were bitching about instead of FA. :)
And, yes, there are a lot of weird nits to pick with Weasyl. When I first tried to upload stories, I discovered that while it would parse BBCode in uploaded text files just like FA does, the BBCode parser for uploaded files would only translate markup comments that were uppercase, whereas the parser for text you enter in its editor didn't have that limitation. Als, one of the parsers would translate the italic BBCode command to the "i" element in HTML, but the other one would translate it to "em" -- and the CSS for the site rendered those elements differently. One of them (I don't remember which) would show the text in white.
(To my eye the styles here are still frankly a mess; I recognize I'm a picky bastard who gets made twitchy by things that other people might not notice unless they were pointed out to them, though.)
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Possibly helpful tools for you!
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/waxpost-weasyl-crossposte/boddplgmdhddfmchbifhpdpekfdaenjc Waxpost, for crosspost purposes
http://projects.weasyl.com/soft/ to find friends/followers here!
Welcome!
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I'll keep these in mind, although I don't use Chrome and the crossposter doesn't know non-image items anyway according to its description, which will be suboptimal for a writer. But I'll look into the other tool.
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I've found it useful to find some folks (some of whom come in under a different name), so I hope that's of help! Hope the move-in is going well!
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Well, yes. FA is a house of cards and someday it's going to crash completely. Why the furry community has become so dependent on it is sort of hard for me to understand.
On the other paw, Weasyl is very much still in beta. Just try posting formatted poetry in any readable form and you'll see what I mean.