I'm imagining the title here being "Going for a new tattoo?," based on the sign. It's by German cyberpunk artist Puia, who runs Baka Arts. As of the moment it doesn't look like he's doing any BD, but I think he'd be a great fit.
There's loads more of his cool LC-style stuff at his Instagram. Note: the entry link below doesn't need you to be logged in to see the images.
INSTAGRAM:
https://imginn.com/bakaarts/
So, I'm currently finishing up a small project to look through every migrated post here, deleting where necessary, but mostly adding 'flair,' which you should be able to see on the sidebar. When I'm done, you'll be able to hit any of those buttons and see a curated list of matching posts.
Still a few things to do before I feel like this place is 'up to speed' after the move, but it's getting closer and closer. One annoying problem is that almost every inter-community link that's been posted here which once worked, is now broken, and even as the same community runner, I can't edit them except to add flair. Perhaps this is a feature that will one day be added across the Fediverse, though?
Anyway, the biggest blow of course remains the loss of almost 1200 subscribers, meaning we're somehow right back to where we started from in needing to get this place more exposure, some how, some way. Sort of ironic I guess, in that August 1st will mark our two-year anniversary. 🥴
Thanks for reading, and have a nice weekend, everyone. ^^
IIRC, 24 users were immediately transferred over here because they'd originally subscribed to the old EGN via their PieFed.Social accts, a nice little perk of the transfer tool.
So it looks like 72 more have signed up since, I suppose down to the little bit of 'advertising' I did here & there, plus word of mouth. Yay! My biggest hope of course is that most (or all) of our future posts will be seen on the collective "ALL" streams across our mutually connecting services, i.e. Lemmy, PieFed, and whatever else, because that's mainly how we built up the original user base, I believe.
But yeah, I suspect you're exactly right-- most of our total subscribers at the old place were in fact defunct, which was to be expected, really. That said, total subscribers still has some positive impact in various ways, just one of which was to help boost visibility in tools like this:
https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=graphic+novels
EGN+ used to be the #2 result there when searching "graphic novels," and user count definitely played a role in the formula. By being #2, we had more visibility, which I do believe helped drive even more subscriptions.
Anyway, I'm not trying to kvetch so much as try to explain how the loss of even defunct subscribers can still hurt where it counts. But... we'll see what happens. 🥲
Here's some other places to advertise, if you're still doing that:
Thanks! IIRC I hit up the 3rd, but didn't know about the first two. Adding...
Actually... @Sergio@slrpnk.net, amigo, compa, et al , could you possibly, maybe mention us across those first two links, please?
There is just so much to take care over here, at the moment. And burning myself out accomplishes nothing positive IMO.
OK done
Oh man, pardon the late reply, and thank you so much, compa! <3
I like how you picked out a fun representation of images to draw people in. Well done, matey. 🙂
yeah sure no problem!