I think I like Weasyl a lot, though I do have a few issues with the interface:

1) I haven't been able to clear out my submissions inbox because it's currently sitting at over 1000. I could easily do this for FA but not for Weasyl, why not? Well, because Weasyl requires square thumbnails, and since they all look same-ish, it requires a lot more assessing of whether I'll check out the full version of a picture because I can't always derive the context from a bust shot. Not to mention, hovering my cursor over an image obscures it, so I need to basically dance around the images I'm looking at and can't use my cursor to help me not skip lines . . .

2) This wouldn't be insurmountable but there are a TON of thumbnails on each page. Checking the select box on each individually is right out, so I need to assess and clear them all at once; I do this by middle-clicking to open the art I want to view in a new tab. This usually gives me 20-35 tabs open at once, wheras with FA I only has 10-15 open per page.

(One of the reasons I currently hate deviantart is because their ridiculous overblown wrap-coding-in-wrap-coding prevents middle clicks from registering as middle clicks. It only takes an extra click to open a new tab from the drop-down menu, but once you have a habit . . .)

3) I really don't like programmer logic leaking into user interface. Programmer logic prefers to use the least number of computer logic steps in order to get a result. UI logic needs preferably uses the least number of human logic steps to get to a result. They don't always correlate. Something like "Invert selection" is okay for utility's sake, but people don't generally think of selecting all as inverting the selection of none. They'll get used to it, sure, but to ease people into the system it makes more sense to have "select all" and "select none" buttons as well, even though that's "technically" redundant clutter.

Additionally, what is WITH the text markup? It's not HTML or BBC or a mimic of DA or FA, and since there is no clear "markup help" box in the sidebar when you're actually making text, you have to open it up basically from a google search, or from the "help" bar at the top and then click markdown formatting.

I do not like using asterisks for auto-emphasized text. They're used far too much in RP contexts, mainly because they're used as quotation markers for actions; it doesn't look the same when it's in italics. You have to add *backslashes* now to do that, and I'm pretty sure everyone's forgotten where the backslash is located on their keyboard. Why not just use Wiki formatting with two single quotes in a row to mark italics, and three to mark bold?

Also any markup that begins with ![] is too much. That's three symbols to type PLUS the brackets that go around the user name, and they're super special cases whether you want a name, an icon, or a name and an icon. I'm sure it looks like it makes sense to a programmer, but why have so many additional marks there?

If you don't want to use the colon markup from DA, how about [user:rickgriffin] or [icon:rickgriffin]. Or if you want a name and the icon, [usericon:rickgriffin]. And you only have to type my name once. It looks like more symbols to a programmer, but typing words for users is more natural than symbol-hunting.

This also creates the problem that several common symbols have to be represented in HTML anyway, so . . . yeah, it ends up turning into a bit of a mish mash. Also since text formatting mimics HTML anyway, there's no auto-injection that allows for multiple line breaks between paragraphs . . .

Okay that turned into a bit of a rant. I really do like Weasyl, I just wish browsing it didn't make me feel like I'm in looking into it through a hole cut in a box . . .