Furry Life Online first impressions.
5 years ago
Tl;DR, Tons of potential to officially put FA in the grave. But needs A LOT of polish and QoL changes and additions.
Pros:
- You can change your Username without have to make a new account (already a valid reason to move)
- Nice new and more user friendly UI. Stuff is easy enough to find and it's a simple enough to learn to navigate. Not as simple and to the point as FA witch is a bit of a con but just browse the place for like an hours and it'll make sense of itself.
- More organised. Like.. WAY more organised. I like the album system. Makes sorting stuff really easy and easy to find. Im my case I sorted my commissions, art, and commissioned art.
- More easily accessed variety of content. Art, Music, Streams, and Writing is all right there and categorized.
- Supports video, gif, and art with no issue, even previews gifs as you scroll past them.
- Tag system is straight forward and makes finding specific things way easier.
- A BLACKLIST. Finally I can search stuff and not run into pages of dirty diapers and shit-n'-piss porn.
- Slightly more customization Profile. It's about on par with FA.
- Club System. Basically you can have little "clans" or "Groups". Not sure if I'll dab in that personally but it's there for folks.
- Forums ready and integrated into site and not separate.
- Authenticator and 2 Factor login available.
Cons:
- Quite a bit of set-up required.
- Home page a bit of a cluttered mess. First look into it I barely had a clue what I was looking at and where anything was. Stuff is just kinda strewn all over the place.
- Need more "quick actions". As I was making albums. I found it's a bit of an annoying 6 step process to delete an album or make a new one. Got tedious real fast.
- Needs a profile tagging system. Something akin to how we put :iconName , there's (as far as I know and seen) no way to quick link other people beside posting a plain link.
- Links and URLs don't work in the Credit section of uploads.
- No real explanation or point to the Credit and Copyright section when you can just add that in the description like we do here.
- No social link tab in profile. A nit-pick but social links need to be put somewhere in the About Me section.
- No NSFW feral art. While a niche thing for me personally, that is a wide category that I know will be turn off for a lot of folks.
- Browsing through the Home>Gallery Page is a bit.. weird? Having to go through recent Album updates to eventually get to separate recently added individual images just seems like an odd design.
Overall.
It's very hit or miss. I like the organization of it all and has various features and QoL stuff that FA's been desperately needing for a LOOOoong time. I can't test everything right away cause I have no followers there (even here I'm posting to 19 watchers non of witch will like read this) SO naturally until certain things happen I can't give a full review/thoughts. Honestly I think it just needs more QoL additions to make certain tasks less tedious. This very well can also just be [FA is dead moving to insert site then comes back to FA a month later] part 23. So we'll see what happens.
Pros:
- You can change your Username without have to make a new account (already a valid reason to move)
- Nice new and more user friendly UI. Stuff is easy enough to find and it's a simple enough to learn to navigate. Not as simple and to the point as FA witch is a bit of a con but just browse the place for like an hours and it'll make sense of itself.
- More organised. Like.. WAY more organised. I like the album system. Makes sorting stuff really easy and easy to find. Im my case I sorted my commissions, art, and commissioned art.
- More easily accessed variety of content. Art, Music, Streams, and Writing is all right there and categorized.
- Supports video, gif, and art with no issue, even previews gifs as you scroll past them.
- Tag system is straight forward and makes finding specific things way easier.
- A BLACKLIST. Finally I can search stuff and not run into pages of dirty diapers and shit-n'-piss porn.
- Slightly more customization Profile. It's about on par with FA.
- Club System. Basically you can have little "clans" or "Groups". Not sure if I'll dab in that personally but it's there for folks.
- Forums ready and integrated into site and not separate.
- Authenticator and 2 Factor login available.
Cons:
- Quite a bit of set-up required.
- Home page a bit of a cluttered mess. First look into it I barely had a clue what I was looking at and where anything was. Stuff is just kinda strewn all over the place.
- Need more "quick actions". As I was making albums. I found it's a bit of an annoying 6 step process to delete an album or make a new one. Got tedious real fast.
- Needs a profile tagging system. Something akin to how we put :iconName , there's (as far as I know and seen) no way to quick link other people beside posting a plain link.
- Links and URLs don't work in the Credit section of uploads.
- No real explanation or point to the Credit and Copyright section when you can just add that in the description like we do here.
- No social link tab in profile. A nit-pick but social links need to be put somewhere in the About Me section.
- No NSFW feral art. While a niche thing for me personally, that is a wide category that I know will be turn off for a lot of folks.
- Browsing through the Home>Gallery Page is a bit.. weird? Having to go through recent Album updates to eventually get to separate recently added individual images just seems like an odd design.
Overall.
It's very hit or miss. I like the organization of it all and has various features and QoL stuff that FA's been desperately needing for a LOOOoong time. I can't test everything right away cause I have no followers there (even here I'm posting to 19 watchers non of witch will like read this) SO naturally until certain things happen I can't give a full review/thoughts. Honestly I think it just needs more QoL additions to make certain tasks less tedious. This very well can also just be [FA is dead moving to insert site then comes back to FA a month later] part 23. So we'll see what happens.
zarakitten
~zarakitten
At least one person read it. 😃
Devin_Arts
~devinarts
OP
*sniff* Thank you.
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