In short:
I won't be uploading any more of my stories to InkBunny or SoFurry from now on. Follow my website or my galleries on FurAffinity, DeviantArt, and Weasyl for full stories.
SoFurry is in the process of an emergency migration to a new server host brought on by hosting fees. Their new site is extremely unstable to the point that any keystroke will direct me to an error page. Perhaps I'll return there if/when they sort things out, but I'm doubtful. InkBunny is just a terrible website for text.
In long:
I first found InkBunny like 15 years ago from a bender on ychan or some other place. Things were less centralized then, and there were a lot of different places people posted their stuff. I liked the interface compared to FA because it was overall easier to interact with, and you had more control over posting images in groups and with more sensible tags. As a non-artist, this didn't matter to me. I followed people on IB if they posted here, but I didn't think much about it.
I did realize that reading text on IB absolutely sucked ass, though. The formatting is strictly BBCode, which would be fine if IB had implemented an interpreter in the last 15 years to take, say, HTML formatting like < i >italic< / i > and convert it to BBCode formatting like [ i ]italic[ / i ]. Yes, it's literally that simple.
Instead, the uploader doesn't auto-populate from anything except raw text files (which I don't write in, because it's 2025 and I don't want to *emphasize* like I'm using fucking Markdown), you can only ever see about 3 sentences of text at a time even on a big desktop monitor, and the interface buttons are too too big and the panel for text is too small - continually drawing your eyes away from the text. And this is to say nothing of the uploader itself having arbitrary tagging supercategories that I'm sure nobody ever follows, or requiring you to navigate through 4 separate pages in order to upload anything at all.
Every time I've had to post a story here, it is an hour-long manual process to convert the text in my word processor into HTML, clean the HTML headers and other garbage, and then play a little game of converting all the new-line and carriage-return characters into consistent end-of-line formatting manually. Then I get to replace all the HTML formatting with BBCode, and then I get to have mysterious typos and missing characters appear anyway.
I'm sick of it. No more. If you like my stuff, follow me elsewhere.
SoFurry's text uploader is more tolerable than IB's in that I can paste HTML into it, but it still has the same problems of being overly clunky and never having been updated over the years. Getting a tag that works is a dice roll due to their manually maintained tag list (Big Boobs is official, Big Breasts is a different unofficial tag that isn't aliased to it) and the site has always been very slow to navigate and load.
You know what I do to upload to FA and Weasyl? Fill out some fields in PostyBirb and hit send. DA's interface is programmed by idiots so I can't upload PDFs via PostBirb, but it's still expedient to drop in the file, copy-paste the description, and hit Upload all within a single page.
I value my time, and the amount of readership and exposure I got through IB and SF was frankly tiny in the first place.
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05 Jul 2025 02:21 CEST
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