Boy howdy I thought I left this place behind but... I kinda need it. In the months since I left FA my traffic has started to dwindle. Not quickly mind you, FA has done plenty to keep traffic and business over on my tumblr and Weasyl in the meantime with the amount of bs and drama they've stirred up. But after a couple of months of FA keeping their nose clean and fairly well maintained (especially with lack of ddos attacks and upgraded servers), traffic has been vanishing elsewhere.
It IS the FA cycle (or cycle of any popular service), everyone gets mad at it and leaves it, then gradually come back to it for one reason or another. However, this serves as a problem to me, who has used commissions as a primary source of income. And watching traffic for commissions go from 8-12 person queues to 1-2 regularly, streams go from 20 to 5, the numbers speak for themselves. Part of a reason for my lethargy is my slow workpace, not having any work out there to tax me. I cannot survive off of the sloppy seconds/drama birds that fly south to Weasyl and Tumblr for the drama winters.
So with great aggravation, I'm returning to crossposting to FA, as well as posting on Weasyl, Tumblr, Patreon, and adding twitter and deviantart to my list of sites to keep up to date.
P.S.- Some sites I still deem as more "thematic" for certain types of posts: Tumblr you'll still find "sketchbook" posts, Patreon and Deviantart you'll find more "choice" posts from my commission pool. And Patreon I might start posting some exclusive arts, designs, and doing contests for.
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