i dont know... at this point, it's not looking too good for me staying... i'm just so sick of the fact that they go and do things without consulting the users. if "all they do is in favor of the fandom" than why are they doing so many things wrong, because they CLEARLY haven't listened to what the people are saying. they've made too many distasteful decisions, and have made so many of their users uncomfortable.

probably not, cause it seems more work to get rid of everything

~shrugs~ Eh, I don't really know. All my stuff's there, and I've made a lot of friends through that site, so I'll probably go ahead and stay; despite all the bad things. Although if it gets too much worse I'll have to move.

I escaped last year, never going back. What's the latest scandal? I've been out of the loop...

I have no doubt that I'll have to leave at some point. I have adblock set to display the artist ads from FA but I don't see the other ads. Like Yawg has said, if they don't fix this quick everyone will go to adblock and the site will lose that source of revenue. They'll have to add subscriptions or premium membership to not see the ads. FA's track record in the making of sound business decisions is not good enough for me to believe this time will be different.

Good thing I already started up the back-up-to-other site process. I found a lot of good artists through FA, so I'll only credit it that, but if they have alternate means, I plan on find out where it is so I don't end up starting from square one to find them again.

I left FA a long time ago.

I'm probably going to back-up everything I've posted, delete it and then still look at people who stay.
I have adblock, and it is easy to tell someone to get adblock, but it should not be this bad.

I already left FA due to its annoying suspended system.

I don't have a FA account and I doubt I will make one. Weasyl might not be as populated as FA but there are great artist who are active here.

If you willingly stay on FA, you're either a masochist or a moron.

I just use this site for viewing work. Twitter for interacting with Furries.

FAs past and future are a travesty. And honestly, other there are furry entities that make FA look like a bunch of boyscouts.

Weasyl is a far nicer site to look at, browse, and it seems far friendlier for far more types of content. My only issue is that some people that I follow only have an FA.

DID SOMEBODY SAY FA DRAMA? 'COS I GOT ME A TONNE O' THAT SHIT READY TO GO.

Seriously. I'm not even kidding, I've got a folder full of shit stretching back to FA's inception that proves they're nothing but two-bit con-artists, thieves, liars and circle-jerking arseholes. There are things I've seen that would make any fur's ass pucker if they spent a half hour reviewing the evidence.

Oh, and let's not forget: six months to change a fucking banner image. If that's not indicative of a quality fucking service, not sure what is.

The only reason I stay on FA is because my other friends and contacts still go there. In truth I don't care about the politics of FA.

I'd love to leave, but the majority of paying traffic is STILL there. I no longer consider it my central hub, but yah, I'm kind of anchored there until the community itself disperses to other places.

I'm pulling what little content i have there, But I'm going to stick around to keep up with the artists i like. i am turning adblock on to prevent the site from making any money off of this bs they pulled (sorry FA artists that have ad space), and I'm going to check each artist i follow to see if they have alternative sites.

I won't stay forever for the simple reason that it won't BE there forever. Though at this point I'm honestly wondering what it's going to take to kill it for good.

I knew FA was sinking, but every time I think it hit bottom, it appears something worse happens. Fucking shit.
I just log in sporadically over there, but I prefer to hang out a lot more in IB and Weasyl.

furaffinity is run by brainless jerks, so yeah.

I don't know. I keep hearing that they are jerks but I haven't seen it that much. :o

I would have to say that I am considering seriously shifting my focus from FA to Weasyl in light of the porn site ads (which I don't see from my home PC with NoScript, but what I do see on my mobile). Not in a "burn my FA account to the ground and salt the server" way, but just upping my Weasyl activity.
All the prior dramafest re Dragoneer hasn't really bothered me much, and same goes for the IMVU buyout. I did notice a a week or so ago how Google-style ads were popping up when browsing FA on my mobile, and as long as they were for stuff like banks and shops I wasn't so minded, but now that I'm getting porn ads... well, it's reaching a tipping point.

Apart from that, I like how Weasyl actually "just works" on my mobile, and how I can customise thumbnails without having to upload separate image files - which is more than FA's really ever done.

"At last, sir, have you no decency?"

Does everyone finally see FA for what it truly is? Do we now realize we are filling his wallet?

i left that trashy website a long time ago, i believe a little bit before the imvu moment? idk.
i feel sorry for the people who stayed and are forced to use adblock to hide those smutty ad's.

I have no love for FA at all, but I feel like its potential successors are hoping to coast somewhat on the fact they're not god-awful PHP monstrosities with rotten administrative cores.

One major regression is the problem of discoverability. The homepage is transient, and journals telling me about artists generally aren't useful because interest isn't transitive. What other ways are there to find out about people? On FA, there's "browse", which lets you define some crude non-tag-based metadata and see what's there—crude, but effective. On Weasyl, the best you've got is searching for tags and hoping for the best, which would be fine if tags were moderated, but they're not—third parties can add tags to a work, but they can't remove any the uploader used.

As a result, people used to using the tags as a snippy-comment box like on FA (where tags are literally meaningless) will pollute the namespace with dozens of one-off tags which do nothing but waste database space. Any sophisticated tag management has to go through the administration, and I don't know whether there's an actual workflow for tag moderation or if it's all ad-hoc SQL queries applied to the underlying database. How would Weasyl's administrative team go about merging two tags together under a third name, or outright removing a tag that has no reason to exist?

I really hate FA, and I really wish that it were feasible for me to stay here exclusively as opposed to staying on both sites, but it feels like my art gets more attention over on FA, whereas here people rarely notice it. I'll always use Weasyl and I think it's the superior site by far, but I wish other people would realize that. :/ I think people, by and large, get discouraged by the smaller audience here, even though interest is ultimately tantamount to this place becoming as active and successful as FA. It breaks my goddamn heart when I see people's outrage die down and the regular flood of people that abandoned FA for this site go trickling back. I joined back during the Zaush thing (you can infer why) and I never, ever would've gone back if it weren't for all those factors.

(It is pretty satisfying to see Dragoneer find new and inventive ways to utterly wreck FA's PR, though. shhh I'm not petty at all)

I love Weasyl! FA can blow me. But if Weasyl had:

(a) a way I could post a flood of submissions without notifying my followers ('cause moving here would involve ~700 such things, automated through the handy-dandy Chrome tool)

(b) a way I could be notified of new comments on a submission that is in my Collections (I do not plan to re-post any art that's already in my Collections)

(c) transfer the "permission to post" from FA to Weasyl (i.e., I got permission (sometimes implicit) to repost all this art on FA as part of the commission process .. but I did not get permission to post that art here)

(d) softer language about posting submissions of art that are actually commissions and not my creations
... then I'd move in a heartbeat.

As it is, I've moved a batch of things over here, but then stopped because of (a), and (c), and (d). I guess I could do them in small batches, hacking away at it a little at a time until they were all moved, skipping the ones already in my collection, getting permission for the ones that are not... but that will take months, maybe a year or more. It is daunting.

At a minimum I should post my new stuff here first, or get the Collection offer from the artist. Then later post on FA also, but only if the artist does so first (thus, if they've already abandoned FA, I don't have to bother).

Oh, and as for the cross-post: I saw this post here first. I don't read FA journals anymore, and I know now that this is your primary home, so when I think "I wonder what Yawg is doing this weekend", I just come here. :)

Just did today.