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9 years ago
Yep, with the most recent image I'm pretty much caught up on images for now. I do admittedly have a couple more sketches, but they're convention ones and I've not gotten around to scanning them yet. ^^;
I've also done some of the gallery cleaning that I said I was going to do. Again, nothing major but a couple of sketches way, way back that I could do without cluttering things up back there. Might do some more tidying later™.
And on the subject of galleries, yes, I've seen the new update. Do I care for it? Not particularly, but I don't actively loath it, either. My main issue is that I think it unbalances the visual weight of submissions far more than should be acceptable for an art site. Some of the outcry-induced tweaks have made it a little better, but it certainly should not have been rolled out across both the Beta UI as well as the Classic UI all at once with so little warning. (Though I partially blame Twitter in that regard for skipping that one notification sent out about the update despite me following the FA feed. That sure put the "twit" in "Twitter", that's for sure.) Something like that was better left to the Beta where it fit better inherently, much like how a similar UI is part of Weasyl but was built in from the get-go and thus feels part of it (and some dislike its UI for the same reasons folks haven't liked the change here). Or have it be optional. Frankly I think it ought to be rolled back and separated to have each UI get its own respective format/default option. After all, the site already has to check what style is selected for each user, light, dark, beta, and so on. Just one more small check to tack onto the list and then pull the relevant data that it's already having to load and retrieve the specified entries from.
Some have compared the update to the rollout of Windows 8. I don't think that's entirely fair to either Windows 8 or FA. I would say it's more like Windows 7 versus Windows 10. Some prefer the previous UI style, and others prefer the new style. For some using the older version (in this example FA's Classic Mode and Windows 7), the new setup has a couple new things and some layout changes, sure, but overall comes off as more a pointless "meh" for folks. Change for the sake of it and not really adding much that they care about when what's under the hood isn't really all that different, more-or-less.
Anyway, there's my 2¢ on the matter and kind of a look at the sides I'm seeing. Let it be an option to select from. Then regardless of which style a user preferred they could have it. Like the classic style? Alrighty. Want the more Metro-type version? That's fine too.
I'll go ahead and wrap up, though. My idiomatic 2¢ is probably closer to 12¢ by this point with the rambling. X3 We'll see what happens from here. I'll see about working on posting more art once the semester winds down, or something.
I've also done some of the gallery cleaning that I said I was going to do. Again, nothing major but a couple of sketches way, way back that I could do without cluttering things up back there. Might do some more tidying later™.
And on the subject of galleries, yes, I've seen the new update. Do I care for it? Not particularly, but I don't actively loath it, either. My main issue is that I think it unbalances the visual weight of submissions far more than should be acceptable for an art site. Some of the outcry-induced tweaks have made it a little better, but it certainly should not have been rolled out across both the Beta UI as well as the Classic UI all at once with so little warning. (Though I partially blame Twitter in that regard for skipping that one notification sent out about the update despite me following the FA feed. That sure put the "twit" in "Twitter", that's for sure.) Something like that was better left to the Beta where it fit better inherently, much like how a similar UI is part of Weasyl but was built in from the get-go and thus feels part of it (and some dislike its UI for the same reasons folks haven't liked the change here). Or have it be optional. Frankly I think it ought to be rolled back and separated to have each UI get its own respective format/default option. After all, the site already has to check what style is selected for each user, light, dark, beta, and so on. Just one more small check to tack onto the list and then pull the relevant data that it's already having to load and retrieve the specified entries from.
Some have compared the update to the rollout of Windows 8. I don't think that's entirely fair to either Windows 8 or FA. I would say it's more like Windows 7 versus Windows 10. Some prefer the previous UI style, and others prefer the new style. For some using the older version (in this example FA's Classic Mode and Windows 7), the new setup has a couple new things and some layout changes, sure, but overall comes off as more a pointless "meh" for folks. Change for the sake of it and not really adding much that they care about when what's under the hood isn't really all that different, more-or-less.
Anyway, there's my 2¢ on the matter and kind of a look at the sides I'm seeing. Let it be an option to select from. Then regardless of which style a user preferred they could have it. Like the classic style? Alrighty. Want the more Metro-type version? That's fine too.
I'll go ahead and wrap up, though. My idiomatic 2¢ is probably closer to 12¢ by this point with the rambling. X3 We'll see what happens from here. I'll see about working on posting more art once the semester winds down, or something.
