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Art And Rights

Lusetifan Shadow Drako 8 years ago updated by Digby (Community Manager) 7 years ago 5

I am curious about both other peoples views on this, as well as the staffs views on this.


If I have commissioned a picture, with me and the artist going onto bad terms, ending in the artist no longer wanting me to post the art [Unlikely but I can't thinks of anything better for an example] Does that mean I have to take it down?


The reason I ask is that, yes the picture were made by the artist bit I payed for it, so in the end, who really gets final say on it?


In my opinion I should be able to post it here, despite the wishes of the artist, as long I give proper credits.

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Dave Michaels has a solid response here. Most artists are fine with you posting an image that you commissioned. If there is ever a question about this, just ask the artist; if you have it in writing that you can share, you are usually fine.


If an artist does ask for a piece to be taken down, it's common courtesy to do so.

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Notification Optimization

Noodles and Foxpany 8 years ago updated by Digby (Community Manager) 7 years ago 2

Kinda needs to be more optimization to the notification system. Sometimes when I click on a category it doesn't load and loads the previous category. Does this on all my machines on Chrome and Firefox and Safari (didn't test on Edge (*COUGH* IE *COUGH*)). Don't know if this is a load time issue that throws out an error and says "Fuck it we'll just load the previous request" but might be something in the jQuery if thats what your using.

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How to post pics

slyfox1918 8 years ago updated by Digby (Community Manager) 7 years ago 1

sorry I'm new I have no idea how to use this XD

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DNP option for submissions

Tarocco 8 years ago updated by Digby (Community Manager) 7 years ago 3

Giving an author the option of placing an indicator/reminder on the page of a submission that it should not be reposted on e621.net and similar sites would be a nice feature. This could be extended to compare file hashes and eventually visual similarity.

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Choose what size of the image the audience gets to see, Only the artist sees the full-sized.

SpikedKanine 8 years ago updated by Digby (Community Manager) 7 years ago 1

Someone posted a suggestion that you get the option to remove the download button to make piracy harder.

Instead of doing that-- I suggest that we implement something like how DA has it.

On DA, you get to decide the size of the image that the audience gets to see. By doing this, I get to use DA as a sort of vault or archive of my full-sized images. I can go in and snag the full-sized image at any point in the future, but the audience cannot.

On every other website outside of DA, I have to create a smaller version of said image specifically for those websites. And since FN has this neat 'draft' or 'unlisted' option that already kind of works as a vault of sorts-- I think it would be kind of nifty if you could just decide how big the image is that the audience sees. Might also help out people who don't have programs to re-size said images? -shrug-

Dunno if anyone else really liked such a feature as much as me, but I decided to make a thread for it anyway just in case.

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Offer option for automatic favouriting when promoting content.

Karo_Zagorus 8 years ago updated by Digby (Community Manager) 7 years ago 1

This way we don't have to click that many times.


Between, if we click twice, does it matter in what order do we do it? xD In my logic, if we automatically fave items what were promoted user should be more inclined to remove artwork as favourite if he do not wish to have it in his favourite collection.


The combination of options are the following as logic follows:


Faved + Promoted

Promoted + Faved

Faved and not promoted

Promoted but not faved


These are the actual combination users can do as of right now, and these take clicks, if promotion would come with a fave that would be one less click.


Plus, if user doesn't want the content faved they will remove the fave from the item, but if they do not like the piece of item in my opinion it is lot less likely that they will ever promote or fave the item. This way user choice is much more conscious.

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free to use image templates for user pages

Myshanti 8 years ago updated by Digby (Community Manager) 7 years ago 1

The site looks nice, and one of the things that looks particularly good is all the places you can have pictures. I'm hoping the layout will change to something along the lines of this https://support.furrynetwork.com/topics/459-userpage-layout-changes/ rather than just a newsfeed, with plenty of places to feature your original character. A lot of furries are not artists and do not have the money/just don't get commishs of their character for whatever reason, which creates a lot of empty pages or rampant art theft, as is what tends to happen on sites that are more RP oriented... it might be nice to have some free to use template images that people could customize colours on so that it matches their character. What would be even better would be something like those customizable "dress up" programs where you can click and drag elements onto a template, only instead of weird clothes make it different sets of eyes/ears/muzzles... like nintendo mii's or something only in 2d... although that might be asking too much X3 Free to use lineart in the popular species that could be coloured in some free image editor like gimp would be more inclusive though, so that everyone would have a chance to show off their character's markings and have banners/icons/character feature images on their profile.

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I know users want to add personal touches to their profiles, and if they can neither create nor commission art, they are more than welcome to look for free art across the internet. Plenty exists, and we encourage unique profiles. The biggest downside to providing art for users is that those accounts will still feel stale.


Character creation programs are interesting, but they also often feeling stale since characters, though different, share many of the same features. It's also difficult to make a program that reliably makes good looking characters; many end up looking creepy. My concern is that a good amount of work would go into making something that gets little to no use.


For now, we'll pass on this, but I appreciate the idea!

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Highlighting of followed artist's name

Heuvadoches 8 years ago updated by Digby (Community Manager) 7 years ago 4

I'd like to propose that, when surfing the Fresh or Popular feeds in, for example, artwork, that any artist that is currently being followed be highlighted in some way. Whether that be by an addition of another small graphic (like is done for the mature/exreme) or via something in CSS such as framing the picture in a contrasting colour, or changing the colour of the artist's name on the thumbnail's overlay.

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Add profile rating to profile page

Gamasauratron 8 years ago updated by Digby (Community Manager) 7 years ago 1

As I was digging through the new users, I found users who were improperly tagged as General with adult avatars and banners. Following a chain of users with similar avatars, I found another user with the same, but they had marked their profile as 18+. I flagged the profile as I did the others, but had no idea that they were already marked until finding them in the pile of fresh users eventually.


Having a little icon somewhere on the profile page itself, unobtrusive to the rest of the page but there for confirmation purposes, would make mistakingly reporting profiles happen less, I feel.

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This is a bit of a touchy subject; while having that could help in terms of moderation, it would also brand accounts as being mature. That might not be a problem - after all, users are choosing to upload mature images for their profile picture.


There are likely reasonable ways that we could cover this through moderation without have an intrusive system; having moderators who primarily look at general art, for example, would likely help us catch those profiles faster.

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External Website Links in FN Profile

Tarras 8 years ago updated by Digby (Community Manager) 7 years ago 1

Many furs can be found in numerous places on the internet, primarily Twitter and Facebook. Having a specific place on the FN profile for external links would help furs connect with other FN users offsite. Currently, you can create a custom profile block for social media sites, but that could get clunky and inconsistent from profile to profile (eg. one user might have one block per external site link while another user has one block for all external site links), and having an option for external links will help users remember to include the links on their profiles.

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At this point, the custom profile blocks are the best way. Not everyone wants or even likes external links, and we want to give users the freedom to customize their profiles as they see fit.