Has its problems, but my experience is good
Been active there as a creator for over a year now, and I can say mostly good things from my experience, though there are definitely issues. The site is fairly easy to use (both as a user and creator) and easy to get started there and develop an audience. Mature content rules are much less dumb and hypocritical than on most platforms these days - it feels like one of the last remaining platforms that understands there are things in between "SFW" and "porn" (with a clear Mature category, which exists for a reason). Decent tools to find what you want as a viewer or be found as a creator. The biggest issue currently is that AI "art" should be separated by a much thicker line (you can mostly filter it out, but while browsing suggestions etc. you often run into it), and the rules definitely feel unclear at times - I have seen adult creators complain that some of their not-so-explicit work got taken down, while there's definitely stuff on DA that's hard to call by other name than porn that stays without problems. I still prefer this over the pearl-clutching and corporate appeasement everywhere else, but there is a lot to improve here. Also, what made me write this review - I mistakenly had membership renewal enabled and it was refunded without much hassle when I asked for it. I expected way worse with how greedy platforms are these days, so that's a huge plus. (Though here another caveat: the support usually takes a couple of days to respond, they are not very fast.) So unless something suddenly changes, I think the 1-star reviews are far too severe, and I think "got a refund when I asked for it" is a pretty good test of user-friendliness. Far from perfect, but not at all bad imo.