Look, I know this site's in beta, and I have been using it since...I forget when. But yeah, what's one thing that can be done to make it more author-friendly?

Well one thing that needs to be adjusted is the community. I don't care how feature-friendly the site is. If the community's mostly here for art, then it's going to be the primary focus and writers (as well as musicians) will get the shaft.

Oh, and you know what else? Even if this, a furry site, does value authors, the community makes a huge difference. SoFurry does have an author friendly community, but here's something that they usually don't mention: That since SoFurry used to be Yiffstar, it was heavily adult. And as a result, most of the site's users are there for porn. Many people from SoFurry have told me that it's very author friendly but I have yet to see proof of this. Oh it is author friendly alright, but what they really mean is FETISH-author friendly. Clean writers like me can go fuck off.

Even when I point this out to other furs, guess what kinds of responses I've gotten?

"The trick is to write something that's fappable, but not sexually explicit."

"Just put in a romance scene. Doesn't have to be yiffy."

"Furries will happily read something if it has a good romance scene in between everything else."

Yeah...geez...telling me to rewrite my work to include sex or romance. HEY GUYS, GUESS WHAT?

NOT EVERYONE IS A FUCKING ROMANCE OR A PORN WRITER.

So if I want to be read, I have to write romance or porn, or just masturbatory stuff. Great. Says a lot about furs, doesn't it? That they mostly want something to just masturbate too.

For a site to be truly author friendly, it also needs to have the correct audience. The audience makes a huge difference between a community where authors are invited into art trades and valued just as much as artists, and a community where someone writing a freaking epic that would put Robert Jordan to shame is lucky to get triple digits while someone scribbles a doodle on a coffee shop napkin and gets 60 views a second.

So in other words? A lot of out of the site designers' perspective.