Exactly. The site will never become populated if folks keep crawling back to FA.

It's...kind of lick an analogue for a relationship with an abusive/neglectful spouse.

In my case, if I make a big enough of fuss in one location, I will be too ashamed to return to it, especially if I declare that I do not expect to return. Ultimately the slobly administrators matter little in my life, but shame helps me stick to my arbitrary vows. But shame is not highly cultivated on the internet. People live to quit and unquit, without much thought either way. It does frustrate me when people who have accounts on non-furaffinity websites, and are even active on them, will only watch me on the furfy page I want nothing more to do with.

Yep, sad but true. And recently I have been seeing a lot of "leaving" journals where they say weasyl is not worth their time, essentially. It's unfortunate.

I came here as a backup. I never left FA (or DA) personally, but decided to check out the new site, see those who ran off and just have an extra place to upload.

FA users (like many internet users in this day and age) have a tendency to follow the bandwagon as a knee-jerk reaction to anything they don't like, whether it be something big or completely irrelevent to them. The common bandwagon on FA is "something bad happened, so we're leaving forever" on the millionth furry exodus that month. But, like you said, since FA is where they are set up with the largest fanbase of watchers that will give them their noteriety (and commissions), it doesn't take long before they make their "triumphant return" (until the next time) and completely forgetting why they left in the first place.

It is, quite frankly, hillarious to watch... which is why I do just that - watch. I'm not going anywhere, because I have no reason to. If a reason came up that I was actually concerned about, then I would consider it. But what one of the mods ate on a Tuesday is not going to make me delete my FA gallery and run for the next best thing.

I'm not saying there are legitimate reasons to bail, but clearly, if the people "leaving FA forever (until the next time)" keep coming back, because they don't want to re-upload their gallery or can't make the same commission profits (or worse, Patreon paywallers) as they used to, then clearly whatever they were bitching about must not have been that important after all. Again, which is why I refer to it as a knee-jerk reaction. The people doing the bail-and-return job on FA are doing it out of reaction, not consideration. They're doing it less because they care about the issue and more because that seems to be the "in" reaction. Just another bandwagon people mindlessly jump on.

Again, this is why I didn't leave FA, but made a Weasyl account to check it out (and keep tabs on the artists I enjoy who jumped ship) - I sat and asked myself "How does this effect me?" and "What is the point of deleting my gallery and moving it elsewhere?". After looking at the situation and asking myself if it would make a difference to hop on the bandwagon out of FA for good, I've simply never came to a point where it's been time to say "So long, and thanks for all the fish." and if more people did that BEFORE bailing on their FA accounts (and everything attatched to them), this back and forth yo-yoing with unfinished, barely used Weasyl accounts wouldn't be an issue.

I guess that's just my opinion on the matter. And again, not saying this is you or every FA artist who's left FA to join Weasyl... but it is a lot of them.

there's actually another website that's currently in testing that basically transfers all your watches/Account info from Furaffinity to their website's cache, and when someone makes an account and they associate it with their FA account, it'll automatically rewatch/favorite anything you've put up that you put up/they put up. I beleive it clones your entire gallery too. It's intense, but a friend of mine is testing it and so far says that it's going well....I'll send you a note with it's info. You hit the nail on the head with fa's whole thing about having pre-established bs basically.

Love yah, cat woman. Stay cool.

I've given this sort of thing a lot of thought. As a professional web developer, I had often entertained the idea of setting up my own "FA-killer" art site, but I came to the realization that it could never overtake FA on its own merits. These huge social sites don't lose their userbase for something a trivial as admin drama or slightly better features. There are two examples I can think of where such a userbase turnover did happen:

1: MySpace vs. Facebook. There was a time when MySpace was the leading social media site, and Facebook was an upstart. Facebook focused on being a social site for regular people, while MySpace, for some reason, decided it was more important to make features that let bands promote their music. Musicians really liked this! ..everybody else felt betrayed and left for Facebook.

2: Digg vs Reddit. Both were news aggregate sites, where the content was controlled by a user-voting system. When Digg started allowing companies to circumvent the user-voting process and just buy spots on the top of the list, everybody left for Reddit.

These big social sites only fall when there is an outright betrayal to the kind of content they provide. FA is only filled with lies and drama if you're paying attention to the admins. If you're just there for the furry porn, it's only visible in whiny journals that you probably don't read. Unless the FA admins purposefully disrupt the flow of furry porn, there can be no mass exodus from FA.

I signed up for this originally because someone I know works on the project and I wanted to support their work.

When Dragoneer announced that not only had he sold FA out to the scumshits at IMVU, but that he'd done so months prior and not informed the userbase, I added Waxpost to Chrome, moved everything I had over here, and burned my FA archives to the ground.

This place was booming for a while after that, but everyone seems to have forgotten that IMVU is scum and that Dragoneer still runs FA under their management, and just keeps posting there. It's frustrating because the shit on FA that people are now gushing over is stuff that Weasyl's had from the beginning.

OMG GUYS, FA ADDED FOLDERS! THIS IS THE MOST INNOVATIVE CHANGE TO TECHNOLOGY SINCE STEVE JOBS INVENTED THE TELEPHONE! :V

Nevermind that it's been here since the beginning...

Hello fellow ranter! :D

hmm, a very good point, sadly i feel like i'm stuck getting commissions thru FA as most of the artists are still on there. plus iv been kinda slipping on posts here, just got to take time on a day off and post the new things i think. i hardly care about watchers so its morso just keeping these two updated.

i agree FA is a cesspool, but still have to use the POS site for people refuse to move (dont advert as even bernal cant get his banners upp as imvus takes over everything now) as its "convenient and everyone i know is there" so i will alter some elements and prolly have weasyl have higher rezolution of images along with HF and fa gets even smaller versos to make it note as being inferior, and just suggest here or my patreon.