To be blunt, I feel this site is too bloated with 'modern aesthetic' and it interferes with actual functionality.

I'd rather my inbox not have a black gradient over the bottom of every thumbnail and that the images just load without motion or fade. It slows the site for no added benefit beyond 'wow look what we can do'.

Additionally, application of UX web design would help a lot.

Currently:

Clicking the name in the top left, clicking my own name in the top right, as well as 2 "what's new" buttons that ALL lead to the same place. While submitting an image is 2 clicks (any 'rival' sites I can think of use 1)

There is an all in all easy solution to this, in my eyes.

Red: Make clicking on the site name take us to the site-wide listings. Clicking a websites name taking you to a non-personal homepage seems more intuitive than your inbox. You already have a secondary bar for filters, surely this can be used on the 'front page' too yes?
Yellow: Move 'Add Content' to the main bar, along with a 'What's New' button if you really want?

Blue: I realize this is only for your inbox screen, but it feels extremely, almost pointlessly redundant. This one I do not have an answer for right now; but I feel the left side menu's space could be better used somehow.

Green: Clicking this should take you to your own profile. Like mentioned above, this feels like simple intuitive design. Perhaps make the arrow on the right larger and a unique element?

As a side note, the popdown list of 'related' suggestions that you need to click a specific button to remove also feels a little forced. Clicking off the Header entry bar anywhere else on this page should dismiss that. Then again, that seems to be a common trend with any support form system.

All in all, this site has potential, but I feel like we're getting more fancy than function. Being able to opt-out for the superfluous visuals would be nice. And more care for navigational efficiency feels very needed.

The current search is incredibly basic and not great. It only shows results that match ALL of the specified tags. Here are some features that could make the search much better:

• Ability to search by other metadata (title, date, number of favorites, number of views, etc.)
• Ability to sort by date, number of views, number of favorites, etc.
• Boolean logic in searches

It would be amazing if I could do these searches:

• cute || snuggles || hugs
• sfw && (cuddles || kissing)
• gay && !(nsfw || suggestive)

For some fields like number of favorites, number of views, and date, it would also be great to have numeric range queries (high/low/band pass filters):

• Let's say I wanted to get images of tigers that had greater than 100 likes. It would be great to be able to have a query like this:
  • tigers && favorites.gt:100
• Let's say I wanted to have look at images with the cute tag that have less than 500 views:
  • cute && views.lt:500

Derpibooru has one of the best searches I have seen (https://derpibooru.org/search/syntax). It has all these features (boolean searching, metadata searching) and more (fuzzy queries, some regex features). They use Elasticsearch which is an open source project used by many big names like Netflix, Wikimedia, Stack Exchange, GitHub, and SoundCloud.

I know that the features I am proposing may require a lot of coding and testing, especially for query parsing, but I just wanted to let you know what you could do to make the search the best it can possibly be.

I'm not sure how possible this is, but FurryNetwork seems like a site that is striving to integrate the different functions and services the fandom enjoys into one place. That endeavor would not be complete without Patreon!

Furry artists everywhere have been using Patreon heavily to generate income from their work. It has become rather important to many artists, and viewers too, since these artists often release content based upon things that happen in Patreon. Is there a way to allow Patreon and FN to interact? Perhaps a user can become an artist's patron from within FN, and immediately access things on FN that non-patrons cannot.

I know this idea is truly a long shot since it likely involves cooperation with another company, but there can't be progress until someone speaks up!

What?

A simple page to read and accept before a user can sell or buy commissions. Explaning how the feature works, what are the buyers & artists rights and general etiquette - to ensure commissioning goes smoothly and nicely for both parts. Potentially reduce failed cases that requires solving for mods.

Why?

Having sold and bought a lot of commissions over the years I've often encountered people who either have the wrong idea or are unsure about their rights as a customer or the artist in the first place. Such as too scared to ask for edits since the first time they got yelled at, or sometimes too self-centered to take notice of the rights of the other. Or those customers who suddenly start explaining their kinks or moaning about their personal problems when you ask for more specific details about the commission you need to draw :s

Few things the page should cover at least:

• How the feature on site works (terminology and flow)
• Artists & customers rights
• Acceptable turn around times and how to handle them if delays happen
• Highlight the importance of ToS
• Etiquette how to treat eachother
• Etiquette how to ask for edits and how to deal with them (when is the okay time to ask extra for edits, for example)
• Mention about consistensy in art quality and the importance of examples (customers check if artist has ever drawn anything similar to their request, artists make sure they can produce equal quality as the examples being displayed, such as: same efford =/= same quality)

Instead of the "@person followed @person"

"@person followed @narse"

"@person followed @likeshine"

"@person followed @aaros"

and

"@person favorited thing"

"@person favorited thing"

posts consuming the entire newsfeed on someone's page, why don't you collapse them into smaller posts?

Turn the stack of social media activity posts into one:

"@person followed @aaros, @narse, @likeshine, and @bobross"

"@person favorites this, this, this, and this"

I continue to be in favor of using profile pages as art hubs and putting the submissions gallery, featured submission, and user favorites gallery at the center of the user page experience. But if there ARE going to be social media posts this is a very easy fix that would immediately reduce a lot of the problems people are having with their submissions getting buried under lots of updates about who they followed and favorited on their user page.

I just love the unofficial "notifier" extensions for FA, dA and Weasyl that are on Chrome/Firefox, they make notification management faster fifty times over and I use them 24/7. What if this website was the first to have an official one?

It was pretty nifty to be able to import everything from FA to the site. But with the ability to have characters separated from each other, it might be good to allow for art and images to be transferred within linked accounts. That way a user doesn't have to delete and reupload art they already imported and put in the information for!

Since people use both underscores and dashes to represent spaces, I think they should be treated the same in tags. Then people will not have to enter a multiple word tag twice.

The easiest way to do this would probably be just converting dashes into underscores when you enter in a tag.

It would be nice to have the ability to filter out the artwork that I've already seen through my watch list when looking for new artists to watch.

I would like the ability to toggle "watched" users off from the fresh/popular feeds and still use tag searches.

would be really nice to have options to be notified by email of new messages, favorites, follows, etc