The site update is very 50/50
3 years ago
General
I want to preface this journal by saying that the visual aspect of the site update is pretty good, though it is following the 'minimalism' trend little by little so make of that what you will.That being said, I feel like they missed the opportunity to deal with quite a few issues that users have had for a while. Such as;
• Rampant lack of tags by uploaders (Such as perhaps requiring a certain number of tags to finish the upload, so much stuff uploaded has no tags at all!) I would also like there to be a proper system of accepted tags like e621 does where certain tags get automatically funneled into a proper blanket tag so that you don't have to worry that you told your search to ignore the tag 'fart' but you also have to worry about brap, brapping, braps, farts, farting, stinky, gas, gassy, etc... so many tags for one thing you don't want to see...
• Poor division of upload categories/Users uploading to incorrect categories. Far too often do I see uploads in an area that barely exists within the art while another part has a much larger emphasis in the picture and that category seems to be ignored. Maybe implement a user-based ticket system where you can point out an upload and explain why you think it belongs somewhere else and a mod can review it?
• Inefficient/Underdeveloped search system. It's very hard to search for multiple terms at once without clogging the search bar with a TON of code and it feels like sometimes it just ignores the - symbol which is used to denote a term you do NOT want to appear in your searches. I cannot tell you how many times I click on images that disgust me just so I can see what the person used as a tag for it so I can include it in my searches in the future with a - to try and avoid it. Having to point out 20 separate tags for one single kink is kinda silly.
• Missed opportunity to create a system where an uploader can type in the username of the artist when uploading a piece that causes favorites on that piece to be shared between the two profiles' statistics because a lot of people don't want to favorite both the artist's upload AND the user's upload as well so it ends up as either one or the other. Maybe something similar to the parent/sibling system from e621 that connects counted favorites? This could also include the ability to give the artist shinies directly through a user's upload. I dunno.
Probably a lot of other stuff that people could come up with that they could make/do/change that would vastly increase the user friendliness of the site. Lemme know what your ideas are.
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