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Find ways to feature upcoming artists AND writers

8 years ago • updated by 8 years ago • 1

One thing that a friend brought to my attention about FN is that while it's doing a lot of things right, the way it presents its content really highlights popular artists without really giving lesser known contributors a real opportunity to shine. I don't think this was intentional, but rather I think it just sort of became that way as the team sought ways to organize everything efficiently. Instead of just a "Most Popular" feature, how about featuring contributors who have been getting a lot of attention lately (hits, favorites, promotes), or who have posted a lot of new work lately?

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8 years ago

This is something we've been bouncing around for a while, and we definitely want to find a way to highlight creators, especially those with great talent but who are less known. What we might do for now is have a monthly staff highlight blog post; that way, we can also talk about why these are highlights for us. A few other ideas we've tossed around:

Include a featured section on the gallery sorts. There's one main risk of this - it's easy for staff to focus on one type of art and ignore others. We'd want to make sure we had diverse picks.
Keep improving the activity feed so promoted submissions are more prominent.

We definitely still have work on this end, and hopefully we can come up with some good solutions.

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