Toyhou.se

Great for organizing characters & keeping track of who drew what. HTML & CSS (CSS is premium but premium is inexpensive if you think you need it) customization is available. Very much a site where you don't have to be public or noticeable if you don't want to. Just don't make things public and/or use automatic watermarks and bam.
Do keep in mind this site has virtually no staff response to save you if something happens. Watermark your images so nothing gets stolen, don't interact with minors as an adult and vice versa, don't fake your age if you're a minor, and don't upload anything that doesn't belong to you and you should be fine.

Site is rampant with predators, abusers, stalkers, art thieves, kids lying about their age to access NSFW, etc.

Moderation is non-existent. I've had a ticket for a well known and documented pedophile submitted there for a year with no response.

Toyhou.se itself is a very useful website when it comes to fiction and storage of your creations. However, it's very difficult when you need to report problems to the helpdesk. The admin is very slow when it comes to dealing with reports that could of been sorted in an hour at the most. I am still having problems with someone stealing my characters and the person has only been warned once.

Got unlawfully banned and managed to get a code for an account to message the admin. Spent 2 hours debunking claims against me and why my account had been unlawfully banned only to get that new account banned for "ban evasion". Uh- you didn't give me any option to refute the bans or even COMMUNICATE with the one and only mod on the website on my old account, its unorganized and biased. Ran by bullies and drama.

To quote their TOS: "Toyhouse may disable your user account at our discretion without notice or explanation and regardless of your conduct or submitted content. "
Translation: even if you didn't do anything wrong or violate any rules we can still ban you for no reason because we dont like you :)

I have been trying to revoke one of my designs from someone who attempted to exploit my art for s*xual purposes and has s*xually harassed multiple minors including myself. It's been ~2 weeks with ZERO response after showing evidence of her p*dophilia and her frequent tracing and character theft, and both of her accounts have been left untouched.

This is unacceptable, child predators should not be allowed to run rampantly and tickets should not just be ignored.

I wish I can give them a 0 star. They took ALL my characters. I don't have any of them
They stole them from me with no warning. I'm absolutely livid. This website sucks and all they want is money, no happiness. Just money. They don't understand how much I spent on them. When I mean by stole I mean by the ADMINS stole my characters. STOLE.

I've lost a lot of characters because I got banned…wrongfully. You also need a 'Code' to get in. And he'll these codes are VERYYY hard too get (and when I say very, I mean VERY). So yeah don't join…also has a bunch of bullies. One time I even made someone FREE ART of their Oc…and what do they do? BLOCK ME! The only good thing is the complements and free characters, but other than that…

I got banned wrongfully because I accidentally put the wrong date of birth year when signing up, I'm a minor. Due to my age, I think they thought I was "fake my date of birth" so I can look at 18+ content there, I did but I always click away because I get very disgusted when I see any nude and or sexual images. (Also, I actually got IP banned too because I used my other accounts but I only did that so I can let my friends know my main account got banned).

I know I should have changed my that of birth in settings, but I have a huge problem with saying I going to do something but never doing it, it because I forget to do it, but anyway that's some context of why I didn't change it. When I got banned, I contact them via email, but they never responded I've been contacting them a lot and they have yet to respond. I don't know how many people are running ToyHouse but I'm going to say this, please don't waste your time contacting them, they probably won't even respond.

Also, the website is fine but there's some people that should not be on the platform like pedos, stalkers, kids under 13, etc. luckily, I never came across people like that, so my experience was good until I got wrongfully banned. (Also, sorry if my sentences are a mess. Anyway, this is my first review^^)

Toyhouse is rampant with user drama, mostly because a fair share of the users are teens, which can be extremely irritating at times, but so long as you try to keep out of it hopefully you wont find yourself wrapped up in any of it. The HTML and CSS aspects on the site (even if one is locked behind a $5/month paywall) are really nice touches to customize your character information pages and your own personal profile, and most people are really nice too, however, the moderation is a nightmare. Theres only one moderator on the site so I dont expect it to be super great, and its amazing how well theyre able to keep up the site on their own being responsible for everything to do with it. I do think the site needs more moderators, it likely will improve with such, but I can understand its likely very difficult to find more people to maintain the site and pay for them and the site upkeep as well. Speaking of premium, there is an optional $5 subscription to support the site. Personally I find premium worth it but its entirely dependent on you, and not using premium doesnt negatively effect your experience or block off anything major. Its just a way to support the site.

Keep in mind whenever you report the site only has one moderator. Their response time has gotten a bit better over the past year, but still likely wont be near as fast as any other site

You cant even make an account, a waste of your time. It is literally AWFULL, it tells you you need a code to make the account, what website dose that?

Toyhouse is overall an amazing website with many useful features that help artist with their work. You can store characters, sell them, create worlds for roleplaying and story telling, create literatures, etc. It is truly heaven for some of us and incredibly useful.

However, if you ever need to report something, the chances of anything being done are below 1%, no matter if predator, scammer or someone who is harrassing you. The changes and improvements on the website are incredibly slow, and even after 4 or 5 years, the website is still on beta (which is why you need a code to log in). There is only one staff member for the whole website with over 3k users active daily and that is, obviously, not nearly enough. I now have over 20 reports sitting in the report section and none of them get answered, and I had even more on my old account. I don't know why the owner doesn't add mods or admins, but it makes it really hard to deal with sometimes. There are many people who simply do not listen to the rules and post things they're not supposed to, most commonly uncensored NSFW despite the many minors on the website, and weird OCs romanticizing terrible things (in that case most commonly nazi oc's).

Overall there are many nice people, but since it takes ages to receive any sort of action from the owner, there's a few bad apples laying around where the only way of protection is a block.

Other than that, it's a nice website and once it is off beta and it will have more staff, I will definitely recommend it. But right now? Never, no matter how much I love the site.

This website is great for finding unique artists and original characters. That's the main function of the website, and it's simply just that.

I'm an avid toyhouse user, even bought premium in fact to customise the pages. I also have a few gripes with the website.

Note this is coming from an individual who is Over 18, a part of the closed species sphere and nsfw artist.

Pros
- The site has good customisability even without premium to decorate your pages.
- the organisation tools are great
- the message boards are fairly helpful on some occassions
- like all sites there are some nice people.
- does what it sets out to do which is create a big character organiser
-trigger warning tab just in case

Cons
- rampant with under 18's lying about their age.
- complaint tickets often dont get responded to for a while.
- need an invitation to acsess the site
- the interface can be hard to learn at first especially when none of it is really explained.
-like all sites, often does come into contact with z**philes ans p*dophiles, only difference is not much is done about it on this site.

If you stick to just using toyhouse as a storage site for your chars you can avoid the crap pretty much and just stick to linking it you shouldn't really face any issues
If youre still interested in the site ill leave my disc if you want an invite code to the site BRONZE#0002

I spent a few quiet months on Toyhou.se, and my experience degraded very quickly over this time. I would not suggest anyone ever sign up for this site if they can get a code, if you have any integrity whatsoever as a creator.

First of all, this site does not promote creative freedom. If the large, toxic community does not agree with something you write, you will be harassed incessantly.

I was personally told I was "suspicious" for venting often about a topic close to my heart and that affects me in real life: being short and often compared to a child for genetics that I CANNOT CHANGE (except, in some rare cases, with extremely expensive and invasive surgery that I have no interest in taking part in). I have been on the internet since the advent of AOL, I guarantee I am older than most of the people on Toyhou.se (especially given the childish way they react to anything they dislike), and I can and will live my life as an adult because I am, legally, an adult, and have been for a while. But because I am short (genetics), have small hands and feet (genetics), like to wear clothing that hides my body (personal choice to combat social anxiety as well as comforting because I'm autism spectrum) - anyone who interacts with me is somehow a pedophile, and I am a pedophile for defending people with similar genetics as well as characters that have these traits but are legally adults. This is offensive to a staggering degree.

Make a neocities or something and store your characters there. Do not give Toyhou.se the money they do not deserve - mods do nothing about this system where the forums are a toxic mess of people shrieking "CP" at things that are not and getting the entire site to defend their asinine views.