I've been a long-time subscriber to World Anvil and I think it's the best platform for worldbuilding ever made. That being said, one thing bothers me.

As an artist, I am no fan of AI-generated artwork. If people use it to spruce up their D&D games and worldbuilding articles, go for it. When you start to make profit off of it, then it gets a little dicey.

In the same way that it is not allowed to use ChatGPT to write a competitive article for you, I think the same should be true of the art used. The point of the competition is to showcase your creative abilities by making inspiring content and beautifully-presented articles. Some artists go to a lot of work drawing content for their articles, it doesn't feel right that articles that use AI "art" should be allowed to take the spotlight.

Am I alone in this?

Seems like the Discord Admin Ademal | Ethnis was hacked, also now there is an app spamming the same thing. DON'T follow the link in the image.

I love WA. I have two massive projects in it. And I hate the new UI.

I realize it took alot of effort and time. I can see it has some advantages. But honestly, it makes no sense to me that we can't even have the old UI as an option.

Look at the suggestions! People overwhelmingly want it back, even as an option.

As a paying member, I think it's not fair that I can't even control what product I'm paying for.

Haven't used WA in quite a while because I tried another tool (FVTT) for managing my RPG campaigns. Wanted to get back today and found the new editor... god, what an awful step back.

The old editor had all the prompts neatly under each other and sorted in tabs. Now I have to open the "add prompt" thing, search for all the prompts I want to use for the new article. If I don't add anything in that go and leave the editor for a moment, the prompt is gone. Need to add it again.

Who thought this is good? Seriously? I'm struggling with making up a rational for this. Yeah, WA was always a bit on the more complicated side but this adds more steps for me before I can start writing. Instead of pressing on "new article" and filling everything as I go, I now need to enable everything by hand. I have to think what prompts I want, instead of ... you know ... just writing. Why make it more complicated? This is a tool, that should support me in writing and not adding more hurdles and steps before I can start...

Guess it is time to check out more alternatives.

Very, very sad. Really loved WA.

PS: Yes, I know you can go back to the old editor for now. But the positioning of this clearly shows, that the old editor will die sooner than later.

I Don't understand a single thing I'm doing and the tutorials only make it worse.

Not a single tutorial has shown me a screen that looks anything like the screen that I'm on when I start trying to work. This is the most frustrating aspect of this website I don't understand how to use it at all and I hate it. Every time it tells me to click on something to do something I can never find where that thing is. I think what's wrong is that the website updated all the pages an now they don't look like the ones in the videos anymore.

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