Is ArtStation a good place to post still or is it overrun by bots and scrapers?
>>1005395>bots and scrapersMight as well post nowhere
>>1005399I don't mind that
>>1005395Every place it's overrun by bots and scrapers The internet is dead, normies killed it years ago
>>1005407if thats the case then why cant you scrape and index discord? I get info off of there that never ever shows up in search
>>1005409it depends on if the domain (e.g discord.com, artstation.com) permits google to scrape or not via the settings they place in their robots.txt file. now, of course, someone who is not google could write a program that joins various discord servers and downloads all of the files posted there, but as of their API update quite some time ago, discord bots can only see files that users explicitly send to them via commands.TLDR, discord has a restrictive API that is decent at blocking a good amount of scraping, other sites are either not smart enough to block scraping, or they believe it is in their best business interest to allow scraping
>>1005395You have nice art saar is for sale? Please email pajeet@hotmail.com?
>>1005395just use screenshots not the 3d viewer thing
>>1005438Well no because scammers use API to steal accounts and credit information. You’re only thinking about this as a honest person instead of a dishonest person.
>>1005395why is this image so disturbing? I can't place it. it's like uncanny+gross but no one aspect is gross in the way I'd expect (doesn't remind me of bodily excretions or gore despite the potential for that given the colors/textures)... what is going on here? the lighting is weird.. the custard is slightly off in texture and color perhaps.. the bread texture looks off like from a 2000s pixar movie but not a real donut... the frosting too translucent and glassy like a melted beer bottle rather than chocolate frosting? I'm not even trying to hate it's just pulling me in in a way most donuts don't ...
>>1005395Bots and scrapers are the bulk of the internet nowadays Art station is 50 percent decent and the other half is pajeets trying to scam you.I've got more than 10 scam messages in the last 4 days
>>1005395artstation is full of ai artists showing their "portfolios"
i had my email on my artstation page and kept getting scam concept art job offers at $60/hr. i got one scammer to agree to pay me $90/hr kek. i dont even have concept art on my page. after removing my email i never got them again, but recently some pajeet found me and wanted to scam me with a printed check for work that involved making a wedding card
>>1008336Maybe it's broken/glitchy shading on top of otherwise photorealistic model. It's like, something's going on with those edges on chocolate which makes reflections/shading look like randomized mosaic.
>>1005409Because it's not a website and it's impossible to scrape using regular search engine spiders/crawlers, it will require dedicated software written just for discord alone and even then, there is no way to get the list of all available discord server links. If link's for a particular discord community posted somewhere on the open internet and some spider/crawler finds it eventually when scraping the site it was posted on, then okay, it can use it (if it's not obsolete like regular discord invite links after few days/weeks), if the chat was only shared using invite links with individuals in their private messages, or using temporary links, it would be impossible for crawler to even get there.