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fiztheancient:

weasyl:

lonewolfpawprints:

First of all, the site hasn’t even launched yet. You can’t say “mods that care,” when you really haven’t given them anything to care about yet. Second, I’m not a coder, so my depth of a website analysis is “Does it work?” However, I was not a fan of the aesthetic of the beta site: I thought it was ugly and cluttered compared to FurAffinity. Moreover, the Weasyl’s TOS and AUP are almost exactly like FurAffinity’s, at least as far as I have seen, so, yeah, practically a clone, especially since they’ve just displayed FA’s priggishness and/or cowardice when it comes to controversial subject matter.

Overall, now with Inkbunny live for months and SoFurry improving it’s own website (there’s a pretty website if you want to see one,) Weasyl really hasn’t done enough to distinguish itself from the market of FurAffinity competitors.

Hello! We’re noticing you have a few concerns about our site, so we thought it’d be important to address them.

Although the site has indeed not launched yet, our staff has been hard at work making the site come to life. Whether it’s the amazing effort our coders have been putting into the site, the amount of time the more creative members of our staff took to help with the graphic design of our logos, user interface and mascot, or the months many of our staff members spent giving much appreciated input into how our policies were written. The artistic members of our staff have also volunteered to draw commissions for anyone who donates to our upcoming fundraiser, in order to encourage people to give more than the five dollar minimum required to get an invite to the site, since it would take one thousand donations to reach our bare minimum goal of 5000 dollars (which would go into buying 3 servers, a firewall, a switchbox and paying for hosting).

Additionally, we understand concerns about the blue layout, and we don’t intend it to be our final design. That’s why Aden, our front-end developer has been hard at work designing a new look for our site. You can find a preview of our new UI here, which will be available at launch!

Concerning our change in our policy regarding minors in sexual situations, we had been torn on the issue for a while as we attempted to allow artists more freedom on the site, but also follow local laws. In retrospect it would be too difficult to consistently enforce such a policy and we were given the option to ban all minors in mature situations, or allow it all. As a small site we have decided to ere on the side of caution when considering US law, leaving us with the ban. While our vision is to be fairly nonrestrictive when it comes to what you can upload to our site, and not to let things like personal preference dictate our policy, we ultimately feel as though we have to not only ensure the safety of our site and make sure the site is available to all.

Having a hardworking team that works together, an attractive UI, and a policy designed keeping the interests of the site and it’s users in mind are all great things to have, but that’s not all that makes us different. The fact that we are making sure our staff is accountable (as made evident in our Staff Code of Conduct), eagerly listening to our community, continually improving the site, and having features like Collections (which will help cut down on duplicate uploads) are some big points of what makes us different. But most importantly, we welcome artists from all sorts of backgrounds and communities to come use our site, instead of catering to just one specific niche. We want to make the best art site the Internet can offer, so it should be a place where people from all walks of life feel comfortable congregating. We can only hope that we’re successful in that endeavor, and intend to do what we can to make that dream a reality.

guys, if you do have concerns, dont be shy and tell us! it really does help us

I just have to interject and say that SoFurry is absolutely not a “pretty website”