Art focused communities such as pixiv are dead as most artists jumped ship a long time ago. Twitter is inconvenient. It can't be limited to media posts so if you follow a decent number amount of artists then a substantial proportion of art can easily go unnoticed as your timeline get submerged by their most uninteresting thoughts that they must share every second. Booru sites can't be fully relied upon unless you want to depend on other users' will to keep things up to date. Not to mention that some comply to DMCA requests, filter what can be posted on the site depending on some arbitrary rules, or simply try to limit users one way or another. Those who don't generally have less content.
>mainstream website >for artists You can't have both. Twitter is the best you can get after the Tumblr catastrophe.
>>7938226I wish I knew. I miss when there were decent forums and gallery websites, even old deviantart as bad as it was.
>>7938226ask gpt to make you an aggregator if you don't want to use the existing ones
>>7938235I don't want both. If it's not obvious already I don't think that moving from dedicated websites to mainstream ones was beneficial at all. Pixiv was popular enough so that both random and popular artists were active on it, but it wasn't mainstream in the real sense of the term. It was 'mainstream amongst artists'. Tumblr is an exception I guess but I stayed away from that one anyway. To be honest I don't care whether it's a mainstream website or not, I understand that artists want more visibility. But twitter just becomes a glorified spam box once the amount of artists you follow reaches a specific (rather low) threshold. It was probably the worst move possible. I dare say things were more convenient even before pixiv took off when traditional blogs such as hatena were the norm. Artists would go off topic as well (it's their blog after all) but at least they would usually wait until they had enough to say to do so.
>>7938271I have to look into using imgbrd-grabber again. Last time I did many websites were broken though.
All artists can move to forums or back to tumblr overnight. Nobody wants to do that because everyone is on Twitter. They demand to be on Twitter. It's as if Twitter is the 666 tattoo of the internet. When the news reports happenings they cite twitter. Every form of gossip comes from Twitter. More than half of 4chan is twitter screengrabs. If the internet were to die by 5pm central time today the number one site with the most activity would be twitter. You might as well just delete all sites and keep twitter as the only site.
