TAG BLOCKING:

First off: love it! Its a great start to the new year on FA! And when I look at the Javascript/HTML/CSS frontend in inspector, its pretty elegant and simple! I'd love to offer some ideas for updates to the next version:

1. When there's no tags, don't automatically hide the gallery art.
I'm seeing submissions with no tags in them get blurred by the tag system, solely because there's no tags.
- I might suggest required tagging, requiring 2-3 tags before submission, which could even offer suggestions based on the submitters previously used tags.
- This could also refine the NSFW system, because if a post has a NSFW tag, the submission could automatically block submitting a piece as "General" rating, and instead mandate "Mature" or "Adult" based on the tag. I've seen enough people forget to rate a piece "Adult" to know this safe guard would help.
- Compatibility with third party tools like PostyBirb wouldn't necessarily be broken, since it automatically handles tagging and ratings for bulk uploads on its end already! They would just have to update error code calls for a submission not submitting because of the tagging error, which again could be helped with an autocomplete tool based on prior uploads.

2. Make it three tiers.
Tier 1- Blur with no warning
Tier 2- Blur with warning about the blocked tag
Tier 3- Don't even show me the image.

Currently, with the blur applied to all submissions with zero tags, it is filtering items that I wouldn't object to, and makes it a gamble to click on anything because I don't know why it was blurred. Some kind of warning label on top of the blur stating why its been blurred might be nice.

(Tho I reckon a setting to either explicitly label "Warning: Submission includes one of your blocked tags" versus "Submission is blocked cuz you don't wanna see feet!" might vary from person to person.)

Either way, love the first version of it, and I'm already getting use out of it! Good job, team! I offer suggestions hoping to help make the site better however I can help, not trying to annoy anyone lol!

NicDaWerewoof

 nicdawerewoof is now live! I literally JUST created the account lol, so don't expect much right now.

There's two plans going forward:

Plan A:

NicDaWerewoof will be my profile for my own artwork and personal creations, and my current account (the one you are reading this journal on,  tktheanimal) will be the place for my sonas and commissions. The separation will keep things neat and orderly hopefully!

 Beauty-Queen has been teaching me how to make art, and my skill is increasing! Might even take commissions down the line! Really love making old school looking oil paintings in Rebelle 7, but I am still a novice, so I will train more before posting.

Structure Going Forward:

✧･ﾟ:⋆｡°✩ Nic ✩°｡⋆:･ﾟ✧
Main Account:Art Account:
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 TKtheAnimal NicDaWerewoof
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Plan B:

If FurAffinity ever allows username changes, I will either delete the new profile and convert TKtheAnimal to NicDaWerewoof, or if its possible to merge an old account into a new one I will do that instead, with preference to "NicDaWerewoof" as the new username.

https://www.furaffinity.net/user/nicdawerewoof
https://www.furaffinity.net/user/nicdawerewoof
https://www.furaffinity.net/user/nicdawerewoof
https://www.furaffinity.net/user/nicdawerewoof

Regardless, I have zero plans to delete this profile, ever. Not going anywhere! Just expanding my network UwU!

Thank y'all for reading, and here's to a great 2025! Love you all UwU!