>>110408 (OP)
A couple of years ago DA was swarming with AI slop. Like you'd open a decent artwork and on the right there would be a bunch of windows with similar/suggested/recommended "art" and you'd be able to tell it's bingshit just by looking at a tiny thumbnail. Open it — and sure enough it's slop, and the author would usually not even mention that it is. Despicable.
The redesign also made it look corporate and not "deviant".
Looks like they are more aggressive with their "encouragement" for visitors to make an account? Opened a random profile and it only shows a handful of works before prompting to register.
A lot of artists seem to prefer xitter or bluesky (whatever happened to pillowfort and other social media spaces made with artists in mind by the way?) and also mark their works with "do not repost" signs.
In regards to boorus, from a collector's perspective they are by far the best. Artists however aren't always content with their works being posted there. Take Fox-Pop for example, he is on a do-not-post list. Also seen artists accuse e6 of driving traffic and views away from his social media profile. Perhaps these boorus should adjust their ui to help the artists by promoting their profiles more.
If artists were to be more accepting of having their works reposted to e6 (better yet, do it themselves), that would be great. That place makes it very convenient to bulk downlo