Hmm, some interesting changes have been recently made to this site, it seems. Just for my own funzies I'll list the things I personally do and don't like about it.
Positive
- You can now fave and comment gallery pictures! This is a great thing, I think. Though you must turn it on manually in your settings, so remember to do that if you are interested in it.
- You can make polls! This is a great thing, too. In fact I think I'll try out the feature with this post just to see how it works.
- You can bumb a forum thread without writing a message to it. That is a small but really nice improvement!
- You can make several characters share a single gallery picture, so there's no need to upload a same picture multiple times anymore. Takes a lot of energy to arrange the old pictures that way, yeah, but for new images that is a good thing.
Negative
- Some of the coding and text arranging has been messed up, but I guess that is something to be expected. For me the most annoying thing with this is how changing the paragraph format and using lists (like I am doing right here) does some funky things to the spacing between lines. I just hope this is some sort of bug and will be fixed eventually.
- The areas of your profile pages can be rearranged, but only by premium members! Until now I've found pretty much all premium extra features to be reasonable, but this one I find really really disappointing. Personally I feel it should've been available for all users.
- Tags of the character page are hidden by default and need to be clicked manually to be visible every time you visit the page. I don't find this a good decision and don't know why it won't be so that a user can decide which setting is the default one, tags hidden or tags visible.
- To me the new main forum layout seems really messy. It is just a personal preference of course, but to me it doesn't even look like a forum at all.
- When looking for example your own favorites, you no longer see who the characters belong to. Just... Why?
So all in all it's almost 50/50, but negatives still win. That's really sad, as some of the positive things are actually really nice! With some adjustments this would become perfect, but I'm afraid there's no change they will for example give the option of profile arrangement to everyone now that they have already decided to keep it just as a premium feature - and that bugs me honestly very much. That was the feature I previously was missing the most. =/
I think the pros outweigh the cons this time! I mean I'm bummed by your third and fifth negative points but that's about it. Might be because I don't use the forums a lot nor do I format my character profiles in fancy ways or anything, IDK. Sucks for those who do, though! :'0
Polls seem like fun, if I ever posted bulletins that is, haha! ALSO "tagging" several characters in one pic is so handy!! I'm super hyped about that! I haven't tried it yet - can you only make your own characters share a gallery picture together, or like... if I have drawn my and my friend's OC then can they both share the pic, or will my friend still have to upload the picture to their account as well? :0
6 years, 10 months ago
Yeah, there sure are some awesome improvements in this update! Though I don't know either how exactly the shared art works with characters owned by several people. There is the plus sign under the picture (the one you click to add characters) even if the art is on someone else's character, but I don't know if it can be used by anyone. Should test these things out!
6 years, 10 months ago
Yeah I actually tried it out just now and it does work! :D I'm so happy! Of course, that means there will be so much more work to link every character to every single picture... but I'm gonna do it! Slowly but surely.
When I get around to doing that for PU characters, would you mind deleting the doubles from your gallery? It has always irked me how my "Art" section has a ton of double or triple pics because everyone has had to upload them personally to their characters' galleries. I promise I won't be deleting any of my current PU stuff ever so they will still stay in your characters' galleries even if you delete them. ;> No need to do that until I have actually linked everyone, though (just to make sure that I'll actually do it haha).
6 years, 10 months ago
Ooh so good to hear! And yeah sure, I'll do my best to weed out the doubles, too. =D
6 years, 10 months ago