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Shinies
6 years ago
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I'm not turning them on myself, nor do I plan on using them. Personally I don't feel secure about FA enough to put my payment information into any system they've created that's linked to my FA account directly.
However I personally feel like this shinies thing is a lazy attempt at them trying to gain back some potential lost traffic. Twitter is becoming more and more popular as an art page for people to post their things onto, and I've even seen some artists using FA as a secondary site to just post their works several days/weeks later, or not even post everything they do (even finished products). It feels like to me rather than make an attempt at fleshing out normal features and getting FA up to standards with every other website out there, they're trying to bait artists back into posting on here with a donation system so they can get back lost traffic.
Like there are so many other things about this site that could use an overhaul, but rather than make it pleasing to use, they just throw in some tool that basically makes them look like they care about artists to try and potentially sucker people back over here to get more submissions added.
This is frankly just my 2c on it though. I really have no issue with the idea of FA adding in a donation system to help out artists, but given their security issues in the past and the lack of any real updates this site gets with functionality (how long has the re-design been in beta now?); I feel like the site admins prefer to drag their feet on releasing features and actually making changes until they end up realizing death crawling up on them.
However I personally feel like this shinies thing is a lazy attempt at them trying to gain back some potential lost traffic. Twitter is becoming more and more popular as an art page for people to post their things onto, and I've even seen some artists using FA as a secondary site to just post their works several days/weeks later, or not even post everything they do (even finished products). It feels like to me rather than make an attempt at fleshing out normal features and getting FA up to standards with every other website out there, they're trying to bait artists back into posting on here with a donation system so they can get back lost traffic.
Like there are so many other things about this site that could use an overhaul, but rather than make it pleasing to use, they just throw in some tool that basically makes them look like they care about artists to try and potentially sucker people back over here to get more submissions added.
This is frankly just my 2c on it though. I really have no issue with the idea of FA adding in a donation system to help out artists, but given their security issues in the past and the lack of any real updates this site gets with functionality (how long has the re-design been in beta now?); I feel like the site admins prefer to drag their feet on releasing features and actually making changes until they end up realizing death crawling up on them.
What things are we talking about here exactly? Not asking this in a challenging manner, I'm simply curious. Like personally for the use I make of it (i.e. looking at porn) this site does its job. What's your opinion?
- Can't black list certain things from view
- FA has categories that should just be tags, and the categories that exist are usually missing tons of things
- The site has been in beta layout for years
- HTTPS is still not enforced to ensure security because they apparently can't figure out how to make the site perform normally when enabled
I personally can deal with the beta layout, but the fact I still can't blacklist certain fetishes from view is rather irritating (especially when you come across something that makes you really uneasy). I know I can search for what I want but the mess that is the category and tagging system can make things difficult to find.