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It's DeviantArt that's getting nuked. Haven't seen anything about FurAffinity or any other sites he posts on, but probably would save anything you want to keep just in case.

That is a shame I liked his artstyle, sure it was more simplistic that other artist, but I rather see some dynamism and creativity that the same stiff anime look other artist had. Atleast Fuze always added personality to what he drew

How do you even use discord?

Discord is like an IRC type program, though it can also be opened in a browser. I'm an idiot who has only ever used it and Steam, but these days it is basically the replacement for stuff like Skype or other instant messaging tools and a go-to IM program.
You can add individuals as friends and talk with them via text, voice, and video, and you can also join servers where you can do that sort of thing. Fuze has posted links to his personal Discord server on his DA.

A Discord server can have a limited point(s) of entry (e.g. a link with an invite you post or pass around, which eventually expires, or invites to other Discord users directly) and in this way who actually gets let into a server can be a matter of the owner's/mods' discretion. Inside of a Discord server one can make channels where discussion is dedicated to a certain topic or where something like voice chat is enabled automatically. Servers and users ping (you) when you get a new message from them, but servers can be muted. Moderation of course wildly varies.

Depending on an individual user's settings, sometimes you can message them immediately without needing to add them as friends, while others will have their settings such that you need them to approve your friend request before you can talk with them one-on-one directly.

Discord is infamous for producing very insular servers and communities where all kinds of stupid shit happens. I find Discord to be good for talking directly to my friends and so forth but generally only lurk in the servers I am in.

No problem. Just be careful, again, Discord servers for some shit are completely unusable. Fuze's hasn't been but again, I almost solely lurk on servers and join very few because Discord servers are so often such shit. It can depend on the subject and who's in them, but you get the idea I hope.

What are the alternatives?

christ

Newgrounds is probably the best bet. Won't get you noticed as it's very much just artists and animators among other artists and animators, but it's good as a gallery site. Or at least it was until they forced everything to display as webp. Frickin morons. You can still download as png or jpg or whatever if the image is below a certain size, or if you just manually change the image's url extension, but a stupid all the same.

Twitter is unfortunately still king for outreach. Sucks as a gallery, especially after a recent change concerning NSFW tagged images in the media tab, but it still commands the most traffic for your average artist/audience combination. Unfortunately.
Bluesky is a Twitter alternative but good luck getting noticed there.
I've heard people whisper about Cohost but it feels like a Pillowfort situation where a select few artists are hyping it up, but very few people follow them to the site itself.
I have seen a weird number of people try to hype of Sheezyart's return, but like with Pillowfort, I'd wait and see if it's even worth the time. Would rather stick with NG than hope it kicks off as a big thing.
Tumblr these days is actually kind of fine if you're not doing strict pornography. It has some softened ruled about nudity but I wouldn't chance it too much.

In a nutshell: The artist-site landscape sucks.

I think people are giving Newgrounds too much flak for WEBP even though, as you said, you can change the URL and still get the original resolution of an image just fine. I find that a better alternative in contrast to other websites like DeviantArt that give artists an optional download button which (under certain circumstances) accidentally leaves the compressed version of an image as the last version standing.

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newgrounds is now just twitter 2.0, filled with moronic puritan children

Userbase seems to be varied nowadays. You can notice it quite well on the review section for Sillypoo's National Women's Day animation "CYBERGIRLZ".

Fricking hell, this board still thinks Funkin'grounds is a viable alternative. Don't get me started.

and Fulp just sucked off Nintendo wiener just a couple weeks ago while exempting their old guards because they're still shilling his site.

homosexual. What was Tom Fulp supposed to do? He's stated in the very thread where he announced the Nintendo DMCA that he doesn't have money to hire a lawyer and go to court over this. Is he supposed to dip into Supporter funds meant for prize money and site hosting? Or was he supposed to suck Ninjamuffin's wiener for some of that Kickstarter money? If he takes out venture capital, the possibility of gutting the website entirely of NSFW increases ten fold and he'll be forced by shareholders to implement Web 3.0 bullshit like data collection or AI to try and make it profitable.

Newgrounds sucks for a number of reasons (nepotism mainly), but I think it could be way worse.

>He was betweeen a wiener and a hard place
ftfy

Alright, well, frick you.

>and 99% of users aren't going to out of ignorance or indifference.
Alright, fair. You can get a slightly less uncompressed version of PNGs from Twitter by opening it in a new tab and changing the URL from "small" to "orig" and the download button on DeviantArt is only available if you're logged into an account, but that doesn't stop users from downloading the compressed preview image anyways. Cinemaphile has also started to compress images for mobile users. I've seen it in fatgay threads on Cinemaphile where the images being posted have filenames that literally say "fullview" or "m" at the end of them that let you know it's a compressed version.

Along with art websites, it would appear that the competency of internet users has also gone down the toilet. Most are likely using a mobile device with app versions of websites that really restrict what you're able to do online and that sucks.

You're telling me. Apple tried breaking all browser apps on iOS over a month ago to force people into exclusively using the app store.

On Newgrounds, when you click an image to see its full resolution, right click it -> open image in new tab -> click the URL address bar -> find "webp" in url -> replace it with "png"
You can even remove all the bullshit after it (usually something like "?f1234etc") and it'll work fine
Simple as that.

Some may upload their work as a "jpg" for whatever reason, so if png doesn't work, you can also try that, or even possibly "jpeg"
Not ALL uploads will be automatically changed to webp, especially smaller images, but a ton are, and it's a pain.

>Not ALL uploads will be automatically changed to webp, especially smaller images, but a ton are, and it's a pain.
Actually, you know what's interesting? Newgrounds initially allowed art posts to only have one image per upload, and because of this, they were able have images in their original format and at full resolution.

One of the most requested features for the Art Portal was multi-image hosting, and Newgrounds implemented it with three different gallery options and a number of different features, BUT the trade-off was that preview/fullview images needed to be converted into WEBP to minimize load times in user feeds and published submission pages. The feature was at odds with actual feasibility and ease of user experience.

WOW, and here I thought I had all the systems figured out. Newgrounds' heart is in the right place but its systems for art seem to be all over the place. I wonder if all these weird complications are a consequence of maintaining a website for over 29 years.

>there was a huge security vulnerability found in the webp format.
Bro, you gotta' sauce me the frick up. This sounds like spectacularly unfortunate timing.

Thanks for the info. I respect you for typing all this out and giving me something interesting to read in a thread that was initially about fetish art.

On Newgrounds, when you click an image to see its full resolution, right click it -> open image in new tab -> click the URL address bar -> find "webp" in url -> replace it with "png"
You can even remove all the bullshit after it (usually something like "?f1234etc") and it'll work fine
Simple as that.

Some may upload their work as a "jpg" for whatever reason, so if png doesn't work, you can also try that, or even possibly "jpeg"
Not ALL uploads will be automatically changed to webp, especially smaller images, but a ton are, and it's a pain.

Newgrounds, Tumblr if you don't post flat out porn.
There's also twatter, but that site is literally the Devil incarnate.
Anything other site just goes unnoticed.

Newgrounds at least has a gallery page, with Twitter you better hope the artist doesn't use the twitter as social too or you'll have to scavenge though pages and pages of memes, photos and stuff to find the art. Both sites have dogshit search engines though. But I think the defining factor is whatever or not the artist is organized and tags their art accordingly.

Gallery-dl.
Unfortunately after DA API rework it doesn't allow to download originals if there is no download button anymore (save for when originals still can be maximized to the original size in case of some pictures), but it still can download entire gallery (still better to use your account during download).

First time I heard of this thing is it a program or a site?

Speaking of AI art, something is really bothering me is how stuffed everything is getting with that stuff, sites should add AI as a tag or something because now a days that is like half of what they spam in my feed.

I just hate how fricked up the DA search engine is that it picks up EVERYTHING that even remotely resembles your search terms no matter the spelling or context.

Man DA kind of forgot the meaning of the word Deviant, if is cracking down those fetishes. I kind of get it age stuff is kind on the iffy side whatever it goes up or down. I don't understand the TG stuff that is normie shit compared to the more vicious stuff.

>Man DA kind of forgot the meaning of the word Deviant, if is cracking down those fetishes
The name has been meaningless for decades. The titular deviancy was "desktop personalization and software reskins."