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FA Site Changes - Running the Beta Layout
10 years ago
I'm running the beta layout, so I'm probably not getting it as badly as some, but there are a few observations about the beta as it stands now, that are worth mentioning. This is my helpful critique to anyone who may see it/read it/link it to anyone who can affect it:
1.) When you go to the "next" page in the "scraps" gallery, it actually sends you to the next page in the main gallery, making it impossible to browse scraps beyond the last 60 submissions.
2.) Sidebars that constrain the size of horizontal art are bad. One of the (few) things I actually liked about FA's layout was how it didn't constrain images like many other sites did, except in cases of only the most extreme size. I know the sidebar exists because someone in web-design-psychology school was taught that anything you have to scroll down for would be less likely to be seen by the masses you're trying to advertise to. I'm not sure how many people IMVU is going to entice, instead of just annoy. I'm not in touch with the 13-20 year old demographic they seem to be targeting.
3.) The vertical orientation of the mobile site is great, but for some reason, it breaks pinch-to-zoom on my phone. Since many of the links are still tiny text links, especially at the top, the ability to zoom would be great.
4.) The "Featured Image" thing is something that I greatly miss.
5.) The ability to see someone's favorite's gallery on their front page is missed. This was a *great* way to notice new skilled, talented people at a glance, a good way to help the discovery of people outside of your watch list, when you went to someone's page to leave a shout, or send a note, or whatever else.
6.) The vertical orientation of the mobile site still breaks the "Notes" section When you pull up a note, it displays the note off to the side and you cannot scroll sideways to read it. The only way to read a note on your phone is to hold down the link to the note until a menu pops up allowing you to open the note in another tab on your mobile browser.
7.) The large preview image of the last submission is absent on the mobile version, leaving a huge open space.
8.) The large preview image of your last submission, or the last image you moused-over on the artist's front page, no longer acts as a link to that submission. That may be something small but eh, that's why it's #8.
And just a suggestion:
9.) The ability to search notes for users and subjects would be an A+ #1 feature.
1.) When you go to the "next" page in the "scraps" gallery, it actually sends you to the next page in the main gallery, making it impossible to browse scraps beyond the last 60 submissions.
2.) Sidebars that constrain the size of horizontal art are bad. One of the (few) things I actually liked about FA's layout was how it didn't constrain images like many other sites did, except in cases of only the most extreme size. I know the sidebar exists because someone in web-design-psychology school was taught that anything you have to scroll down for would be less likely to be seen by the masses you're trying to advertise to. I'm not sure how many people IMVU is going to entice, instead of just annoy. I'm not in touch with the 13-20 year old demographic they seem to be targeting.
3.) The vertical orientation of the mobile site is great, but for some reason, it breaks pinch-to-zoom on my phone. Since many of the links are still tiny text links, especially at the top, the ability to zoom would be great.
4.) The "Featured Image" thing is something that I greatly miss.
5.) The ability to see someone's favorite's gallery on their front page is missed. This was a *great* way to notice new skilled, talented people at a glance, a good way to help the discovery of people outside of your watch list, when you went to someone's page to leave a shout, or send a note, or whatever else.
6.) The vertical orientation of the mobile site still breaks the "Notes" section When you pull up a note, it displays the note off to the side and you cannot scroll sideways to read it. The only way to read a note on your phone is to hold down the link to the note until a menu pops up allowing you to open the note in another tab on your mobile browser.
7.) The large preview image of the last submission is absent on the mobile version, leaving a huge open space.
8.) The large preview image of your last submission, or the last image you moused-over on the artist's front page, no longer acts as a link to that submission. That may be something small but eh, that's why it's #8.
And just a suggestion:
9.) The ability to search notes for users and subjects would be an A+ #1 feature.
this tho
Personally i like the fact that they're like that, on the condition that if you don't upload anything it just shows faves, and vice versa. But I do think they need to make it more clear that you can click those options, and possible set which one is automatically shown on your own page first...
That is still the most essential feature of FA that i deem the strongest part of the community. I have always been looking through favorites of other peoples pages and always found so much cool stuff that i would have probably never known of, if it wasn't clearly visible on the profiles page.
If that's gone or hidden...(and people are lazy and don't do more clicks than needed) then this page will loose all it's remaining usefulness for artists when something essential is being changed that way.
That's only my 2 cents.
Bunners
better move to Weasyl for two weeks then come back!
They're just toppling more Trade Centers for a smoke screen.
Nvm. Found it. NOW WE HAVE A TIMER FOR EDITS!?
EDIT: Yeah, 5 minutes. They added the timer ITSELF but the limited time to edit your comment has always been there. Now you know EXACTLY how much time you have, I guess, for whatever reason.
http://boothale.net/scripts/facleanup.html
You can remove all the ads and all of the ad gaps by installing this script in Greasemonkey (same way you install the one above):
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u.....remove.user.js
Gonna go ahead and send this in to Fender
just a little something else to add :3