Follow up to my original announcement a month back.
Why am I leaving?
In total honesty, I was having a hard time ever since the interface switch a few years back. Its clunky and hard to work with and I never fully enjoyed the site like I did before after that.
The real nail in the coffin however, was when DA went full throttle with their support and advertisement of AI artwork. Effectively welcoming 'artists' who couldn't art at all to flood submissions with the garbage that is AI artwork. I hate AI artwork, because not only do you not have to learn to draw in any capacity but AI is stealing every pixel of the picture that it creates from actual artists who work hard on what they make. Ever since then I have been active here less and less as a result. The activeness in the community has also been less since these changes took place. I have noticed it not only on my own personal page, but places where I would frequent would slowly go dead as other people left the site altogether or
