This is a great idea!

Exactly. The coordination needed between artist and commissioner is a hindrance.

FN does seem to have separate character profiles under one account. You can add a character, which will get its own @handle under your account, and switch to it at any time.

There's another idea floating around about Tooltip help thingies for new users. A little explanation there, and a little ? link to bring the tooltip up again, could easily explain the Scope term and keep people in the know about what it is.

The problem with that (which is the same problem that Weasyl's Collection feature has) is that you first have to wait for the artist to upload the image, which does not always happen quickly, if at all. You need that coordination with someone else, which makes things less efficient.

If the commissioner(s) can upload it, tag both his/their names and the artist name(s) on it, upload it to his own gallery, and have the system offer the artist the chance to claim it and automatically display it in his gallery too, that would make things more efficient. The artist can do the same: upload it, put her name and the commissioner name(s) on it, and then the system would offer all commissioners the chance to claim it and automatically add it to their galleries.

The system could pay attention to which names are tagged onto the submission so that if, say, the artist has uploaded a piece and put the commissioner's name on it, but the commissioner has not yet seen the system's notification and is trying to upload the same image, the system can say, "Hey, I'm noticing you're uploading a commission for you by ARTIST. ARTIST has already offered you a commission claim. Make sure this isn't a duplicate image!"

In addition, since FN has an in-house commission system, perhaps the artist can have the option to submit the finished work to the commissioner by uploading it to the site (not to the gallery, but to the site itself) rather than via email, Dropbox, or what have you. The site would know it's a commission, know who it's for, and send all people involved a commission claim option so that it is automatically added to their Drafts. If there are multiple files (for example a High Quality one and an Online version) the users can select which one to add, and the system will download all of them to their computers in a neat little ZIP folder.

I republished the poem in my Public story submissions. It appears that the most recent update fixed whatever was causing that. It now displays properly on my end. https://beta.furrynetwork.com/story/529/stockholm/

A WYSIWYG editor would be nice, yes, in particular one capable of maintaining bolded and underline text. Light HTML/BBcode compatibility would be welcome too. :)

Varka, may I suggest making the tag system a little more graphical? My guess is that people don't use it because they don't know how more than because they don't want to or aren't interested in it. Displaying some of the options available to them with buttons (e.g. click the - button to toggle it, and then any tags typed while toggled are excluded), a dropdown, or tag suggestions (for example: type "anal" and get a "-" and "+" suggestion based on your tags marked as interests; someone interested in gay male art might get a "-female" suggestion) could increase the amount of use. That tag searching system is fantastic if you understand it, and if it's made a little less textual, a little more user-friendly, and perhaps stripped of some of the extra bits that people don't use, it could be a boon to the site. It may be that there just needs to be a bit more clarity for the user on what he or she can do with it.

If the definition Simplemind and I described is correct, how about "Plan," or "Idea?" That is plainer language. I don't see a problem at all with using "Scope" but you'd just have to be clear about what you mean by that. Websites and communities make their own terminology all the time.

Varka, is there currently a way to get a link for an unlisted submission? I have not seen one, but your response suggests that there's one there. I likely just haven't been looking in the right place.

That's nice to hear, and I can already tell it's true! I'm excited to see how it all turns out!