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funbil @funbil8/1/2023, 4:50 PM

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Plum @PlumPanAD7/31/2023, 7:35 PM

Normalize using email for commission communications

No* chance the platform will suddenly decide you should not see half of your messages
Nowhere near as easy to have your account hacked and all messages deleted (Discord)
Very likely to have a better search built into your client than any other messaging platform
Everyone already has it (and it's trivial to make a furry/art specific one if needed)
Allows direct attachment of files that should be large enough for MOST finished works, excluding most video
At this point, not any less private than any other common messaging platform
- Still reeling at how "Private Messages" got turned into "Direct Messages" and no one batted an eye

godspeed you! big animal @niss7/31/2023, 7:49 PM

i did the last comm entirely over email and it was actually pretty painless. and it's not like the Anxiety Of The First Message is any less on other platforms. so, would recommend

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Sugar Meowth @dosmeow7/31/2023, 7:43 PM

I mean, for PMs vs DMs, I can't think of any instance where staff could not access "private" messages on systems that called them that like forums?

Plum @PlumPanAD7/31/2023, 7:45 PM

Probably correct, but it still feels like a lawyer went up and went "hey you can't say these are private if we're going to scrape them. Change the name." and again, NO ONE cared and just assumed they were private.

bug @bugbeargoo7/31/2023, 7:48 PM

i love email for commissions. its so much better

colin @vogon7/31/2023, 7:56 PM

the one thing I need to point out here is that

No chance the platform will suddenly decide you should not see half of your messages

is very false if you're using any big hosted e-mail service -- "e-mail deliverability" is a sprawling nightmare field and it's absolutely possible for your e-mails to disappear into a mysterious hole never to return -- and the only way you can guarantee this is to run your own, unfortunately

otherwise 100% correct

Plum @PlumPanAD7/31/2023, 7:57 PM

Mmm this is true, I have myself dealt with and troubleshot a few times of an email just, never showing up.

I'd say it's still a lot less likely than, whatever the fuck twitter does, but "No chance" is in fact inaccurate.

Gay Eminem on 9/11 @DecayWTF7/31/2023, 8:01 PM

I run a couple of email servers and yeah, it's absolutely possible for email to just Not Make It, even in cases you are running your own server. It's sad that email reliability has gone down mostly in the name of "fighting spam" but it's still quite good in most cases

Shark of Unreasonable Size @AfterShark7/31/2023, 7:56 PM

I can't speak for others but my issue with email as a service has always been that I was taught from a young age to treat email like actual mail where a level of formality and effort is expected to justify somebody taking the time to read your message, which into adulthood has seemed to be the basis on which most of the world uses email, so it just becomes a source of anxiety sending something as informal as "hey could you please draw a pin-up of my shark girl in a swimsuit, here's some refs!"

godspeed you! big animal @niss7/31/2023, 7:59 PM

i can definitely see that. but if you just Don't treat it formally then they tend to follow suit (especially if they are also an extremely online furry haha). i know that's easier said than done though.

Plum @PlumPanAD7/31/2023, 7:59 PM

That is a bit of a hurdle, I was also the same. But I think that can also be mitigated by an artist saying "just email me like you would a note, no need to be formal". That doesn't entirely fix the problem but some assurance in the ToS would help a lot I imagine.

Shark of Unreasonable Size @AfterShark7/31/2023, 8:01 PM

Yeah it kinda becomes a "deprograming the ways that society fucks us up" issue, not insurmountable but certainly tricky.

Gints Halcejs @Halceon8/1/2023, 1:47 PM

I always felt that physical mail is being treated too formally anyway. Paint your envelopes, send three page essays that are just an elaborate pun and use entirely made up honorifics. Nobody can stop you.

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