Could I just do it? Not right now. My programing experience is python scripts and embedded systems and I have no knowledge of anything sysadmin or infrastructure.
People are always complaining about whats around and we have lots of smart techy people here, so why not?
Mm yes I agree - it would be hard to improve on E6. FA has its problems, but it’s not that bad.
e6 as a repo is outstanding, but as a gallery, its frontend is a bit inconvenient.
(tho I’m working on an Android app for that (and other boorus + inkbunny as well))
I only ever think of e6 as a place to browse. A lot of whats on there is not uploaded by the artists. For what it is, I don’t think you could easily improve on it
I’d say FA is better in that respect, because it (usually) comes from the artist themselves and you can get more of a background on their page. Like you say in your other comment, people often abandon ship but FA always comes out on top.
Part of FA coming out on top is because there is a feeling of nowhere else to go. I’ve lost track of how many artists/creators have gone to twitter only.
That’s a shame, because browsing Twitter really sucks in my opinion :( I have noticed the same thing though
Browsing Twitter sucks even more now after the manchild got ahold of it. Whenever I try to find a source for something and it’s on Twitter I just give up and link their handle instead. Great if you want your art to scroll across someone’s timeline, not great if you want to find it ever again.
I have never had a twitter account. If I want to see something have to use nitter now, nitter.privacydev.net/ is the only one I know that supports 18+. I avoid using that instance when possible because it gets rate limited frequently.