Don't feel bad, bro... dA has been dead silent since everyone moved to Tumblr at the end of 2012. Especially groups

greilaskevar: ugh, and I really don't want to go back to tumblr after everything...

devotfeige: I mean, Tumblr has been dead since everyone moved to Twitter...

greilaskevar: lmao

I don't want to go to twitter for art either... v_v twitter resizes and compresses files awful and it's a terrible choice for artists in the first place

devotfeige: the solution is clearly killing Twitter so everyone flocks back to dA /jk

What about Pillowfort, tho? Still viable?

greilaskevar: pillowfort seemed dead in the water after the whole "banning someone for something not in the TOS, then taking weeks to update said TOS to reflect new policies" debacle, but idk... if there's any traction there I wouldn't be opposed to it?

devotfeige: sometimes one has to make sacrifices I guess... otherwise there's always Instagram

greilaskevar: I do have an art instagram, I just always forget about it... (I'm also Old and don't understand instagram at all lmao)

devotfeige: A mood, not to mention it's heaven for art theft... hmm I'll try to brainstorm other alternatives

greilaskevar: that's my other fear about twitter, I hear it's not great for theft either. :/ I sure wish tumblr hadn't shot itself in the foot.

devotfeige: the art theft itself is more like "people reuploading your art into a different website" and Tumblr also used to be theft heaven... but it mostly either happens to fanart or aesthetic pieces so OCs should be fine unless they're like, super generic

(and your style is very distinctive and personalized so I don't think thieves will go after it)

greilaskevar: I suppose I could always watermark my work for social media sites, too

devotfeige: that too! Remember to make it so they can't easily erase the watermark- then again, they tend to go for art that has more of an "aesthetic-adopt" vibe anyway