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Offer option for automatic favouriting when promoting content.
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.
free to use image templates for user pages
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.
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!
Highlighting of followed artist's name
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.
Add profile rating to profile page
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.
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.
External Website Links in FN Profile
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.
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.
Artist type on profile page
would be good thing to be able to see on the profile page when viewer comes there to be able to see what kind of art artist mostly/usually does and would be also good way to spot those who just commission others or watches only. kinda like Furaffinity has used and as a default setting for new registering user the default type would be Watcher un-till he/she changes it from the settings
How to import art from Furaffinity?
I cannot for the life of me, figure out how to do this, I've searched the help topics and all I've found, is topics pertaining to switching back to classic mode to import, however I see no option for that either, can anyone help?
When you're all logged into Furry Network: https://beta.furrynetwork.com/
You're not the first to miss it, don't worry! I've had to point a couple friends in the right direction as well.
You Should be Able To Stream Your Webcam
I think it would be cool if furries with fursuits can stream themselves, kind of like YouNow, using their webcam to a audience. This can give some furries more popularity and they can show off their amazing fursuits
We don't have plans to have streaming directly to the site, but we're looking at integration with other streaming sites.
[Furry Network Webpages | Site Ideas] Furry Network Front Page / Welcome Page
Request:
The conversion of Furry Network site URL (currently beta.furrynetwork.com) from Character Feed to a Homepage or Front Page.
Implementation:
Replace the Furry Network site URL destination with a proper homepage, and move user feed to another URL (user.furrynetwork.com for example [please excuse my lack of technical knowledge]).
Reasoning:
To me, Furry Network feels a bit disorganized, which is I think brought about by the fact that there is no clear frontpage to say:
'Hey! Welcome to our website! Wow, look at the 10 newest submissions, here's some site info and the latest update and details about the upcoming update!'
A front page, in my opinion, would be a huge benefit for everyone.
- It could tell people what the site is all about, and persuade non-members to become members.
- Obviously this would be more helpful after the site is more public
- It would help artists get noticed.
- I honestly don't see any way of gaining followers besides having friends and word of mouth, and I think it's a healthy way to make sure that the site is more of a community than just the most well-known artists that people would think to look up.
- It would unify the site by bringing you a page that everyone sees, with minor user-personal modifications to it to provide a better experience.
I think that having a place that is semi familiar to many people would go far in having more people adopt this site rather than sticking to an alternative simply because the site brings so many new ideas along with an alien layout and just isn't your average artist site.
While I'm not advocating to become just like other sites, there are reasons why dA, Weasyl, FA, InkBunny, and SoFurry have certain similarities, and that's because I think finding something that works and that people understand and tweaking it to perfection is how we get great things.
The front page of Weasyl, for example, being able to request critique and have a Tweet sent with your submission's link from the WeasylCritique account, along with having a submission on the front of the page until it got bumped by newer submissions was probably the single best thing a site could have done for exposure.
I know I talk a lot about exposure, and sure it's something I think everyone needs, it's a great way for me to explore the fandom I love so much and just find really amazing creations by really amazing people.
A better part of discovery comes from when I already have a goal in mind... I have to upload a submission or something, but something on a front page catches my eye and I go on a huge spree of checking out different artists just based on the art that sidetracked me in the first place.
Hopefully this is taken into consideration. I'm all in on this site and genuinely think, once things are a bit more smoothed out, that this could actually be the downfall of FA, especially by making things like Commissions easier and even having a fun system for that purpose.
The site has undergone some large changes, and the home page currently shows the most recent submissions. At this point, we want people to be able to access what they want a quickly as possible, and a greeting page would likely make this more difficult. We do want new users to be able to gain an audience, though, and we'll be discussing other ways this could be possible.
Make it more clear what PG13 according to the MPAA
This is probably one of my biggest pet peeve when it comes to art sites. Some of the stuff in the Popular section of the site is not PG-13 (focusing on butts, lude poses). To me, that's indicating that the users of the site don't know the rules.
The MPAA's criteria for PG-13 should posted on the rules page and a link to it the rules page should be obvious on the upload page.
Thank you for your concern.
We have our own criteria already created for this issue, and apart from a few minor changes, we feel it has been doing a good job. If in doubt, it can be flagged or reported for us to verify.
We're actually in the process of revising our policies slightly, and should be releasing an updated version of the Code of Conduct soon. Hopefully this is suitable.
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