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E621 is an art archive. Furaffinity is... I honestly don't know what they're trying to do with that site anymore. It's mostly used for art, yes.

For that specific community, yeah.
But also ppl use twitter a lot for furry art. Also I see itaku is starting to get used more often after FA rule changes https://itaku.ee/home/images?ordering=-date_added

In general, yeah. FurAffinity is a vast collection of galleries with each user managing their own gallery, if they so choose to upload. E621 is a community-sourced, highly-searchable image/video site (a "booru"). Both sites are furry-focused.

FA allows users to upload things like photos with no apparent furry content. E621 has much stricter content requirements and staff manually approve every upload for site relevance. We do allow "not furry" content (146K uses so far) that has only characters without animal anatomy while still not being human, like robots and plant people. Gardevoir's base design has no animal traits but is still not human, so gardevoir's base design is "not furry." FA allows artists to advertise sketch YCHes and open commissions whereas E621 would delete such posts (and warn the uploader) if those posts are low quality.

E621 is more art-focused than FA, and FA is more community-focused than E621. Both sites have a Discord. FA gives uploaders a lot more control over their content. E621 is worlds better at organizing and finding content because uploaders don't have absolute control over their uploads' tags.

Keep in mind in terms of user demographics that E621 is an 18+ site, whereas FA sets the registration minimum at 13, with no lower quality limit on what can be uploaded. Beyond the... obvious concerns, this also means most of what's uploaded to FA is absolute trash and a nightmare to pick through due to the lack of any blacklisting functionality. God forbid you load the main page, ever.

do ppl actually use fa

meaterbeater431 said:
do ppl actually use fa

Many must. I see tons of new posts all the time. I don't know if it's anywhere near Twitter's millions, though. It's far more focused.

votp said:
Beyond the... obvious concerns, this also means most of what's uploaded to FA is absolute trash and a nightmare to pick through due to the lack of any blacklisting functionality. God forbid you load the main page, ever.

So much this, it continuously baffles me that FA has no blacklist. Even a "questionable" filter like e6 has would be great, so itd at least be possible to filter out the front page without needing a whole unaffiliated extension -m-