Has some sort of following or subscribing system ever been considered for the site? I don't think I'd need to explain it much, but the Youtube system would be a good parallel. You subscribe to content creators, and they come up in a subscribers tab. If there's a creator you always look forward to in particular, you could activate email notifications when they post pieces of art.

I do acknowledge that you can just search for a certain person, but I think it would be easier for artists to gain a consistent following if this system was in place. Potentially even a sense of community around creators?

I'm curious if anyone else has ever thought about this, and if it's been pitched or attempted before. Thanks for your input.

This site is pretty old and thus runs on an older engine. If I recall correctly, the original creator or designer or whatever you wanna call it left a long time ago. Any updates are thus impossible, unless perhaps you'd like to redesign the whole thing from scratch.

I remember asking for some updates to get a better mobile experience and being given this reason, hence why I'm saying this and not one of the mods. (Maybe they got tired of repeating themselves? Idk.)

On a different note, artists tend to have tumblr, deviantart or perhaps twitter accounts or so you might be able to find and follow. Not on the hub, but still followable :)

All of this is pretty much the case.

I knew most of this but didn't know that the original creator is no longer here. Were they a frequent poster and just thought that the site went in a different direction then they had hoped? Or did they just ghost out and never bothered to leave the site in someone else's hands?

I don't think Friye's talking about Hypnohub in particular, but just the creator of the booru system.

This was my understanding as well. From the artists side of things, I have no way to track new comments and such on my uploads so yeah, I have to check that manually. I dunno if its worth making a blog specifically for all the stuff I upload here but some folks might find it easier.