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6 years ago
The footer is the truth.
I find this update to be quite funny.
So the devs here change a few lines of CSS to make the borders of elements more sharp and visible. They square up the site a little more making it more metro than smooth. They call this modernizing the site. Its quite funny. Its still flat, its still bland, its still basic functionality.
Then they introduce this FA Plus subscription plan "Please, pay us money per month so you won't get ads". How about I just keep using adblock, like everyone else in the world? Or is FA staff gonna start banning people who use adblock? I've used it for years, blocking those furry ads, now you're gonna add 3rd party adds too? Interesting, luckily those should be autoblocked. If not, I'll tell people how to block them and you'll have to make your FA Plus subscription seem more appetising. Or start banning people from the site for adblock, or start reducing site functionality to those who use adblock. I guarantee you that both options here would lose you a vast majority of your userbase which I am in favor of.
For years now I've been trying to suggest features to the site, policy changes, etc, to improve things here. Many people are fed up with some of the bullshit and you just don't give a fuck, isn't that right FA Staff?
You thought you could make things nicer by adding a "select all streams" button in our submission inboxes. Sorry, no, that doesn't help. Its the same amount of spam and the same amount of crap.
Perhaps you can improve things, by adding a blacklist and a whitelist, the way FN has. FN is already far superior to FA. I can block the tag Human, and any artwork that has been tagged "human", is auto blocked from my view. I can blacklist YCH, but whitelist "completed" "finished", and it will block YCHs, YCH Reminders, but whitelist YCH Completed, and YCH Finished. A desperately needed thing here on FA. There are people here who post a YCH reminder every 12 hours sometimes, its highly annoying. Perhaps I like watching an artist, because they do great stuff, but I don't want to see some of the stuff they do, like maybe scat or human. Maybe I'd like my submission notifications to finally stop showing me disgusting stuff when I watch someone who does a variety of things.
So, here's my suggestions for FA;
1) Expose tags to the submission notifications tab.
-- This will allow 3rd party tools to filter out submissions based on tags, a stepping stone to improving the site.
2) Give journals tags.
-- This will allow people to tag journals so they can be filtered as well. Don't forget to allow journals to be marked as SFW or NSFW, allowing us to prevent children from reading our journals.
3) Add a new system for YCHs.
-- Add a bidding system that uses a new style for hosting a YCH. Instead of using comments to bid, allow people to click a bid button. Minimum bid and auto buy threshold can be set by the host. This section of the page will automatically update each time someone bids. This will of course require you to use active scripts, like jQuerry or some such, but it will greatly improve how YCHs are handled. Minimum bids can be lowered in fact, allowing a more rapid paced bidding system where people try to outdo each other by 10 cents clicking the button each time someone outbids them. Don't forget to make the button unclickable, if they are already the top bidder. The host can even set a time limit on the YCH so that the YCH can auto end at a specific time or after a specific amount of time. Can set the time to be extended after each bid even. +6 hours after last bid for example. A nice complex auction system thats simple for its users.
4) Abolish YCH Reminders.
-- With the above, you can abolish the need for reminders by having YCHs show up in a different tab. No longer under "Submissions" but under "Y" for "YCH". Ongoing YCHs will show here. A colored outline around any you have participated in. Green if you're still top bidder, orange if not, red if YCH has ended and you lost. A timer on these YCHs will show below each. If a user removes this notification, it stays gone, clearly they don't wish to be a part of the YCH and don't need reminders.
5) Turn off YCH, Streams, Patreons.
-- With the above two, the ability to turn off all YCHs would be nice in our settings. To not get YCH notifs of any kind.
-- Can apply this to Stream notifs as well, stopping all stream notifications from coming in. Obviously the artist will need to tag the upload as a stream for this to work.
-- Can apply this to Patreon posts as well. Artist will need to upload as a Patreon Teaser. Images that are teasers that you can only see on Patreon.
---- Obviously these things here can be disabled with a hide tool such as described in #1, and soon #6 but I figured I'd suggest this anyway.
6) Blacklist Whitelist System.
-- As said in #1, exposing the tags to the inbox would be good so that tools can filter out stuff automatically. But why stop there, build a system into the very site that lets us blacklist things we don't wish to see, and whitelist things that null out blacklist filters.
-- Blacklist;
-- Each item in the blacklist, will hide the submission from your inbox, auto select it and remove it the next time you select remove.
-- Whitelist;
-- A whitelist word, nullifies a blacklist word. If you wish to get this more advanced, allow the whitelist to specify which words that word will nullify. For example if I blacklist "scat" "human" "ych", and whitelist "finished". I will want "finished" to nullify "ych" but not "scat" or "human". That way if someone uploads "scat" "ych" "finished", I won't see it because "scat" is still blacklisted. However, a simple whitelist can still work where if the word exists, it still shows the item even if other blacklisted words exist. I have some ideas as to how you can set this up layout wise but, anyhow.
---- Allow blacklist whitelist page to check whether it only whitelists inbox things, or search results, or other user galleries, favorites, etc. Checkboxes for each area the blacklist works in.
---- Allow users to be warned when they directly visit a page with blacklisted tags. Hide the image behind a blur wall that they click on to bring down, showing what tags exist in the image before they click it.
Maybe, just maybe. If FA staff consider some of what I have said here, things could improve but, I've not yet seen any sort of improvement over the many years of this site's existence.
EDIT:
Eeew, I just discovered one shit-tastic change you guys did. Download no longer loads a direct URL of the image, so I can't save it to the right place in my folders anymore. Thats total bullshit. Change it back.
EDIT 2:
To the above edit; You can simply right click an image and click view to get the original version, or remove "download/" from the URL. I may have a script designed to replace the download button with the old one.
Also, FA Staff decided to remove the ability to get links to comments other than your own.
Also they deleted the ability to "select all streams" from submission notifications, indicating a step backwards from being helpful.
Oh right and the new UI is not mobile friendly at all as many people are saying.
So the devs here change a few lines of CSS to make the borders of elements more sharp and visible. They square up the site a little more making it more metro than smooth. They call this modernizing the site. Its quite funny. Its still flat, its still bland, its still basic functionality.
Then they introduce this FA Plus subscription plan "Please, pay us money per month so you won't get ads". How about I just keep using adblock, like everyone else in the world? Or is FA staff gonna start banning people who use adblock? I've used it for years, blocking those furry ads, now you're gonna add 3rd party adds too? Interesting, luckily those should be autoblocked. If not, I'll tell people how to block them and you'll have to make your FA Plus subscription seem more appetising. Or start banning people from the site for adblock, or start reducing site functionality to those who use adblock. I guarantee you that both options here would lose you a vast majority of your userbase which I am in favor of.
For years now I've been trying to suggest features to the site, policy changes, etc, to improve things here. Many people are fed up with some of the bullshit and you just don't give a fuck, isn't that right FA Staff?
You thought you could make things nicer by adding a "select all streams" button in our submission inboxes. Sorry, no, that doesn't help. Its the same amount of spam and the same amount of crap.
Perhaps you can improve things, by adding a blacklist and a whitelist, the way FN has. FN is already far superior to FA. I can block the tag Human, and any artwork that has been tagged "human", is auto blocked from my view. I can blacklist YCH, but whitelist "completed" "finished", and it will block YCHs, YCH Reminders, but whitelist YCH Completed, and YCH Finished. A desperately needed thing here on FA. There are people here who post a YCH reminder every 12 hours sometimes, its highly annoying. Perhaps I like watching an artist, because they do great stuff, but I don't want to see some of the stuff they do, like maybe scat or human. Maybe I'd like my submission notifications to finally stop showing me disgusting stuff when I watch someone who does a variety of things.
So, here's my suggestions for FA;
1) Expose tags to the submission notifications tab.
-- This will allow 3rd party tools to filter out submissions based on tags, a stepping stone to improving the site.
2) Give journals tags.
-- This will allow people to tag journals so they can be filtered as well. Don't forget to allow journals to be marked as SFW or NSFW, allowing us to prevent children from reading our journals.
3) Add a new system for YCHs.
-- Add a bidding system that uses a new style for hosting a YCH. Instead of using comments to bid, allow people to click a bid button. Minimum bid and auto buy threshold can be set by the host. This section of the page will automatically update each time someone bids. This will of course require you to use active scripts, like jQuerry or some such, but it will greatly improve how YCHs are handled. Minimum bids can be lowered in fact, allowing a more rapid paced bidding system where people try to outdo each other by 10 cents clicking the button each time someone outbids them. Don't forget to make the button unclickable, if they are already the top bidder. The host can even set a time limit on the YCH so that the YCH can auto end at a specific time or after a specific amount of time. Can set the time to be extended after each bid even. +6 hours after last bid for example. A nice complex auction system thats simple for its users.
4) Abolish YCH Reminders.
-- With the above, you can abolish the need for reminders by having YCHs show up in a different tab. No longer under "Submissions" but under "Y" for "YCH". Ongoing YCHs will show here. A colored outline around any you have participated in. Green if you're still top bidder, orange if not, red if YCH has ended and you lost. A timer on these YCHs will show below each. If a user removes this notification, it stays gone, clearly they don't wish to be a part of the YCH and don't need reminders.
5) Turn off YCH, Streams, Patreons.
-- With the above two, the ability to turn off all YCHs would be nice in our settings. To not get YCH notifs of any kind.
-- Can apply this to Stream notifs as well, stopping all stream notifications from coming in. Obviously the artist will need to tag the upload as a stream for this to work.
-- Can apply this to Patreon posts as well. Artist will need to upload as a Patreon Teaser. Images that are teasers that you can only see on Patreon.
---- Obviously these things here can be disabled with a hide tool such as described in #1, and soon #6 but I figured I'd suggest this anyway.
6) Blacklist Whitelist System.
-- As said in #1, exposing the tags to the inbox would be good so that tools can filter out stuff automatically. But why stop there, build a system into the very site that lets us blacklist things we don't wish to see, and whitelist things that null out blacklist filters.
-- Blacklist;
-- Each item in the blacklist, will hide the submission from your inbox, auto select it and remove it the next time you select remove.
-- Whitelist;
-- A whitelist word, nullifies a blacklist word. If you wish to get this more advanced, allow the whitelist to specify which words that word will nullify. For example if I blacklist "scat" "human" "ych", and whitelist "finished". I will want "finished" to nullify "ych" but not "scat" or "human". That way if someone uploads "scat" "ych" "finished", I won't see it because "scat" is still blacklisted. However, a simple whitelist can still work where if the word exists, it still shows the item even if other blacklisted words exist. I have some ideas as to how you can set this up layout wise but, anyhow.
---- Allow blacklist whitelist page to check whether it only whitelists inbox things, or search results, or other user galleries, favorites, etc. Checkboxes for each area the blacklist works in.
---- Allow users to be warned when they directly visit a page with blacklisted tags. Hide the image behind a blur wall that they click on to bring down, showing what tags exist in the image before they click it.
Maybe, just maybe. If FA staff consider some of what I have said here, things could improve but, I've not yet seen any sort of improvement over the many years of this site's existence.
EDIT:
Eeew, I just discovered one shit-tastic change you guys did. Download no longer loads a direct URL of the image, so I can't save it to the right place in my folders anymore. Thats total bullshit. Change it back.
EDIT 2:
To the above edit; You can simply right click an image and click view to get the original version, or remove "download/" from the URL. I may have a script designed to replace the download button with the old one.
Also, FA Staff decided to remove the ability to get links to comments other than your own.
Also they deleted the ability to "select all streams" from submission notifications, indicating a step backwards from being helpful.
Oh right and the new UI is not mobile friendly at all as many people are saying.
A lot of people never bother tagging their submissions, so whenever you wanna look for it, unless you know the name of the artist, you're screwed to find it. I wish FA wouldn't allow submissions without tags to be posted.