>>150376573
it's sad, but they completely fucked themselves in the ass
>implement eclipse as some knock-off artstation to try and shed their alt/fetish reputation and appear "professional"
>everyone fucking hates it, the new layout runs like shit and feels like a complete insult to DA's identity
>instead of listening to the criticism, the staff throw literal tantrums over the backlash and actively begin to antagonise the userbase
>most of the actual talented artists who they wanted to keep around get fed up and leave, either deleting or abandoning their accounts
>ironically, a lot of the fetish artists are the ones who stick around because they're literally too autistic to leave
>start flooding the site with advertisements and promotions for their shitty payment moduels for features that should be, or used to be, free
>start encouraging and promoting AI slop out of desparation
>not just that, but force implement AI-training upon all of their artists, causing pretty much the last remaining few good artists there to leave
>bots swarm the website because of the slop
>entire site is now literally just said slop, bots or fetishfags, with an even worse reputation than ever before
i do really miss classic DA, i have a lot of great and insane memories from there as a kid and teen and it genuinely was a really good creative outlet for me at that age, but at least newgrounds is still around and sticks to its guns, tumblr actually isn't too bad for art posting nowadays either