(Sorry, should have been #KeenSpace / #ComicGenesis, rather, #KeenSpot being the “pro” service.)
And sure enough, SmackJeeves is no more and KeenSpot & ComicGenesis aren't looking that good either. At the same time, “Big Social” (esp. Facebook and Instagram, but also Twitter) has gobbled up much of the mindspace, and a general effort to monetize on the phenomenon (artists want to eat too, how greedy of them!) has shifted to more professional or semi-professional oriented services.

There was an interesting conversation on Twitter some time before the Musk takeover about webcomic history and the important role that hosting services (particularly #SmackJeeves first and #KeenSpot later) had on the development of the medium and in launching artists. Among the many changes the Internet has undergone in the mean time, it was argued, was the drift towards irrelevancy of these platforms.