it just drives me crazy bc there are a dozen different low-effort ways to build this place from a mess into a Functional mess but they keep pressing forward on things like patreon 2 which By Their Own Admission will almost certainly operate at a loss
artist's alley is a very small step in the right direction but it also feels so begrudging. like ok fine here's your ad space are you happy now. we're putting it here in this little corner where nobody will see it. the perfect opportunity to more or less revive the idea of project wonderful And immediately populate it with ad buys and its just shunted over into a classifieds page. i guess at least it's got filters
like there's literally a user-created script to hack the cohost corner (an intrusive and mostly useless feature that isn't updated often enough and should be in the footer) into an artist alley display . people who use this website are literally breaking it open because they Want to be served ads by their peers and the website has no interest in accommodating that. its unreal