I really appreciate it, honest, reminding myself to check out the little hidden portion of the site every week isn't really intuitive. I can't imagine Artist Alley grants anywhere near as much exposure as it did in its first month or so simply because it might as well be Cohost's best kept secret at this point.
Which is why I wish we could've gone all the way, I struggle to imagine people being aware of the profile's existence after the current Cohost Corner announcement goes by, after a while I imagine it'll be this little known feature that someone might make a "Did you know about this really neat thing?" post about from time to time. What I'm saying is that @artist-alley is just too little, in my opinion.
I don't understand why there's such a big resistance to inserting user ads into the site when we got over 50% of the screen to the sides completely empty, not to mention I think it's pretty popular on sites like FurAffinity, e621, some comic hosting sites, etc. It lets people discover art, which they're actually passionate about and want to consume.
Maybe @artist-alley could be automatically followed by anyone that creates an account on Cohost, or it could just be heavily encouraged like with the staff accounts, obviously my preferred solution is still ads, but I mean, we could still go a bit farther yeah?
Ultimately I know my opinion is a drop in the bucket, the site staff ultimately has their own thoughts on the matter, even if I think they're very misguided, like with the "no volunteers" thing. People are passionate about this site and want it to succeed, the mere existence of a place like this is a goddamn miracle, it'd be a shame for it to fail because big money raising opportunities weren't taken.
