Can't host your own site?
Then sign up here: https://subscribestar.adult/
There's no telling if and when they might change tack themselves, but branding themselves overtly as an adult site provides some sense of comfort over Patreon.
Feel up to hosting your own?
Would you rather have a more robust and long-term solution to be a little more self-reliant and independent? Do like I did.
I installed https://wordpress.com on my own VPS
I installed https://s2member.com on top of that.
The bottom line when shopping around for options here is YOUR HOSTING.
I won't recommend any cause I can't take responsibility for someone getting banned off of it, but my rule of thumb is: the cleaner and prettier the frontpage is, the less porn-friendly it likely is.
Unfortunately, the more lenient and open (and often barebones) a webhosting service becomes, the harder it gets to set up your own wordpress site.
I can't teach you how to do that.
Once you get wordpress installed, most of the rest of the work is made much, much easier for you.
If that hasn't scared you off, then you should probably shop around for an alternative subscriptions plugin to s2member cause that just so happens to be the one I landed on because of 🌈reasons🌈 and it isn't necessarily the best for you.
I'll try and answer simple questions but that's about all I can share without delving into specifics like how to install packages on a server and set up your own domain.
I'm sorry I can't help with that, but I've done my time already.
Either way, I hope this proves useful.
Rechost to save a kink artist's life, etc etc.
I hope folks get through this relatively unscathed. Good luck out there.
advertising sucks, but i like archiving furry ads. furry ads are the only good ads, imo - both a great at-a-glance slice of the stylistic norms of furry culture, as well as a great slice of the awkward weirdness of it all, a genuineness that you don't really see anywhere else, except maybe webcomics.
made with @nex3's grid generator
i've spent the past couple of days going through FurAffinity ads in a spree of obsessive archiving. unlike most times, this time i've been saving every ad, not just what i vaguely call "product" ads in my head (pending a better term) - that is, writing, comics, animation, physical merch, games, 3D work, and various services - basically anything that's not 2D single image commissions, YCHs and adopts. i don't think i'll do this all the time, because there's a lot of ads and pages to archive, but it's a good way to get a quick impression of the standard artstyle conventions of the current era.
it's also given me a good idea of the total size of the FurAffinity adspace, which is kind of quite a bit bigger than i expected, given how often i see ads repeat. in the past couple days alone i saved about 320 ads. in the last month i saved 70 beyond that, so about 400 ads, and i'm still routinely finding new ads every 8 ads or so. given that i was finding new ads around every 4 ads for the past hundred, i'd wager there's maybe 50 to 100 more ads lurking out there i've yet to be randomly served. perhaps 500 total! maybe even more.
just kind of wild i guess! and that's just a small slice of the artists doing commissions and selling stuff in total, which itself is a fraction of artists in general, and FA is just a slice of the greater furry net at this point. site metrics at the bottom of any FA page indicate that it gets some tens of thousands of active users at peak hours, which i'm guessing might point to an upper limit of... maybe 100k regular users? and millions more live on social media, probably.
i don't know exactly what i'm getting at. i guess i just think it's great that there are so many furries! and even if it's advertising, i kind of appreciate being shown a random scattershot of the immensity of our culture and its cool and often weird and goofy creation whenever i'm browsing. some day i'll compile this all into a proper website, but for now, i leave you with a few more highlights:
