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6 years ago
Extreme suggestion to FA admins that they will never see or actually implement:
Make a special search filter or a special subfeed like the ones for music/stories/fursuits/art whatever on the main page or somewhere easy to access that would rate and prioritize images based only on the like/view ratio.
With this said thing completely resetting every day/week if possible. Call it the Art Of The Day / Week respectfully. If it's weekly based tho, it might need some additional gate-keeping such as refresh being made only once in an hour.
That way people who draw nice stuff (or create other content in fact), but have no followers would end up being featured or having more exposure in general.
Right now it is extremely hard to find nice stuff burred under a shit ton of YCH and bad drawings be it to find a new people to watch or if you are actually a content creator - to put yourself out there.
That said the site honestly needs a new feed specifically for YCH/Adopts since I'm at it.
So imagine that you are not a famous and you draw something and 10 out of 29 of your followers like the thing. Imagine that eventually the drawing gets 50 likes and 110 views in the long run. That's every other person liking the thing enough to actually click fave.
And your guess is just as good as mine of how great that said thing can be. But nobody will ever see it ever unless they stumble upon it somehow.
The feed I'm suggesting would police itself and even things out naturally:
Imagine a good drawing with good ratio:
More people see it, more people like it, eventually it evens out even more maybe getting more likes ratio maybe less, but the artist who drew the great thing gets a great exposure.
Imagine a horribly bad, almost comically bad, looking drawing that was seen by five people and liked by 4 of them because they are friends with the beginner artist and want to make them feel better and show their support. (Nothing wrong with that, just a concept that people from the outside of your circle won't share)
Naturally way more people see it, (because having 80% of viewers liking the thing would put it right on top) and obviously little people outside of the friends of that said beginner artist would click fave on that said drawing after seeing it.
So eventually the view count grows, the fave ratio drops and the thing slowly moves down to the bottom half of the "Best Today" feed.
In worst case scenario there might be some edgy salty trolls that would talk shit in the comments under that said badly drawn art or hate on fetishes and whatnot. But then, because it's a public place they could be easily reported and monitored.
Nowadays its almost impossible to find a new artists to follow. You rather follow the absolute most famous ones or follow your friends because FA is drowning in badly drawn stick figures as well as YCH/Adopt crap that accounts with little to no viewers dump on the site.
Seriously I'm used to finding accounts that have 30+ YCH on their galleries with 90 reminders on top of these with some adopts mixed in that barely have 12-28 viewers that follow them. Yet they spend hours spamming the main feed with their art that in most cases are actually just lazy obvious traces of real life photos with animal faces slapped on them (and sometimes with no face even, just a trace of some ass or boob and whatnot).
Make a special search filter or a special subfeed like the ones for music/stories/fursuits/art whatever on the main page or somewhere easy to access that would rate and prioritize images based only on the like/view ratio.
With this said thing completely resetting every day/week if possible. Call it the Art Of The Day / Week respectfully. If it's weekly based tho, it might need some additional gate-keeping such as refresh being made only once in an hour.
That way people who draw nice stuff (or create other content in fact), but have no followers would end up being featured or having more exposure in general.
Right now it is extremely hard to find nice stuff burred under a shit ton of YCH and bad drawings be it to find a new people to watch or if you are actually a content creator - to put yourself out there.
That said the site honestly needs a new feed specifically for YCH/Adopts since I'm at it.
So imagine that you are not a famous and you draw something and 10 out of 29 of your followers like the thing. Imagine that eventually the drawing gets 50 likes and 110 views in the long run. That's every other person liking the thing enough to actually click fave.
And your guess is just as good as mine of how great that said thing can be. But nobody will ever see it ever unless they stumble upon it somehow.
The feed I'm suggesting would police itself and even things out naturally:
Imagine a good drawing with good ratio:
More people see it, more people like it, eventually it evens out even more maybe getting more likes ratio maybe less, but the artist who drew the great thing gets a great exposure.
Imagine a horribly bad, almost comically bad, looking drawing that was seen by five people and liked by 4 of them because they are friends with the beginner artist and want to make them feel better and show their support. (Nothing wrong with that, just a concept that people from the outside of your circle won't share)
Naturally way more people see it, (because having 80% of viewers liking the thing would put it right on top) and obviously little people outside of the friends of that said beginner artist would click fave on that said drawing after seeing it.
So eventually the view count grows, the fave ratio drops and the thing slowly moves down to the bottom half of the "Best Today" feed.
In worst case scenario there might be some edgy salty trolls that would talk shit in the comments under that said badly drawn art or hate on fetishes and whatnot. But then, because it's a public place they could be easily reported and monitored.
Nowadays its almost impossible to find a new artists to follow. You rather follow the absolute most famous ones or follow your friends because FA is drowning in badly drawn stick figures as well as YCH/Adopt crap that accounts with little to no viewers dump on the site.
Seriously I'm used to finding accounts that have 30+ YCH on their galleries with 90 reminders on top of these with some adopts mixed in that barely have 12-28 viewers that follow them. Yet they spend hours spamming the main feed with their art that in most cases are actually just lazy obvious traces of real life photos with animal faces slapped on them (and sometimes with no face even, just a trace of some ass or boob and whatnot).
it pains me that i have to search through a mountain of obesity and weird shit whenever i search for gardevoirs.
The featured art system sounds a bit like what is on SoFurry, however, I think art that is featured is dependent on the number of votes a picture may receive. I'm not entirely sure. I had one of my drawings a LONG while back (2016) get featured, but no other, despite the newer stuff being arguably better. I could be wrong, of course. Maybe it was featured because I was a new artist on SoFurry? Not sure.
From what I understand about FA, is that it's more or less a jury-rigged mess, basically a highly modified regular forum layout with an emphasis on image sharing.
Basically duct-taped together and incredibly difficult to implement new features. But despite the archaic design, it is the most popular social media platform the fandom has to offer.