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The Death of DeviantArt and the art-site shaped hole haunting the Internet -- Multi-hyphenate
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I deleted my dA gallery over a year ago. Not interested in feeding their AI with my works. It's a shame, too, a few of my deviations made best all time under A:TLA characters' keywords.
Their UI is cancer. Endless popups nagging you to get Core. Their messaging and chat functions are useless to everyone except scammers. And now, the search function, aka the last thing I found dA useful for (because of the massive amount of tutorials uploaded there) has been completely nerfed. Now if I'm looking for a specific tutorial, I have to go to duckduckgo and type in the keywords and site:deviantart.com to pull up actually relevant results.
The enshittification of DeviantART is complete.
I wish there were other widely used galleries to post on but alas, I'm confined to FurAffinity for now.
There isn't inkbunny too, on the furry front
No. Inkbunny allows art of minors being in sexual content.