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Efficient use of space & Nice looking!
Just because there was zero praises so far. I want to highlight my favorite aspect of FurryNetwork!
Nice looking with efficient use of space. This is one of those rare sites that look fresh and up-to-date while not feeling like everything is massive and wastes space. Today many sites focus solely on the mobile look, but FN has succeeded making the experience great for computer users as well.
I love how artwork tiles on pages, it's a nice experience to scroll through different works - unlike on many other sites where thumbnails seem to float here and there. You've paid attention to both showing artwork big enough and fitting as much thumbnails on one view. Also viewing submissions nicely focuses on the submission itself.
Kind of hoping the feed page would get an update/alternative layout to be more like the rest of the site ^^;
Ability to add a watermark
It would be nice if we could add a standard watermark or a custom. But that may be stupid. I was just suggesting cause my boyfriend and I mostly do sketches and we don't tend to watermark them and the added security would be nice.
In general, we agree with Neotheta on this. Watermarks are a bit tricky - while this does add security, many people will be less likely to share the art. The internet has been doing a much better job at finding the original artist for pieces that are shared; usually, the risk of someone stealing the art and cropping out a signature is worth the potential for attracting new fans.
We'd prefer to leave this up to the artist. They may watermark their work if they want, but it won't be a built-in feature.
Art And Rights
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.
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.
Notification Optimization
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.
DNP option for submissions
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.
Choose what size of the image the audience gets to see, Only the artist sees the full-sized.
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.
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.
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