How could an AI artsite better accommodate hosting digital/digital-traditional art as well?
Okay, hear me out, because I have a reason for this question.
It's pretty clear on observing the imagegen-art community that there's actually a lot of people (myself included) who do other mediums such as traditional art and its digital equivalents, sculpture, photography, ect, and triply so when you count mixed media combining those forms with imagegen, which tends to be the gateway for conventional artists working with imagegen,
It's also very clear, given the way the traditional/digital-traditional community haaaaaaates AI (For a variety of reasons, some understandable, some less so, I Hate You RJ Palmer), they're not gonna let it coexist in those spaces until well after the bubble bursts.
So, it's clear there's an underserved niche for people who work with both sorts of medium to post both sorts of art, and I feel like an AI-focused artsite could be the one to capitalize on that. Because while there's a lot to like about civitai, it doesn't quite fit for that purpose (Tho using it for such is possible), and I feel like an AI art site that does could be a unique competitor.
So, for those artists working in both imagegen and non-imagegen mediums, what would you want in a site that actively sells itself as a place for both?
Me personally, while I appreciate how civitai incentivizes exploration and finding new creators with its buzz system, I feel there's an issue in the way it doesn't really let individual artists cultivate a sense of having their own "place" there.
In terms of their own pages, think of how Deviantart used to before it got gentrified, and how Tumblr kinda still does (for now, on desktop).
Also I feel like the artist's descriptions of their work should be put more up-front as a part of each piece/assortment than they are now, because while that feature is there on Civitai, the way it's de-centered feels made more for the anonymizing nature of "the feed," and I feel like that's been a bane for artists building up a following, doubly so when it's with slower to produce mediums that aren't imagegen.
Naturally, I feel like filtering by medium as a specific feature would be vital, but also in terms of general goals, creating means for amateurs to not only get their start but build a community to improve their skills would be vital given how this article (While it's not the most positively disposed to our form) correctly points out the failure of a lot of things trying to fill that artsite-shaped hole is their neglect of beginners.
But, that's just my thoughts, what do y'all traditional/digital-traditional creators and mixed-mediaites think you'd want in such a site?