Not sure if this has been discussed somewhere already but I'd love a cool down for the trade listing. We still have the 100 page limit and I see some characters on there more than my family. 🥲 Maybe a 2 to 3 day cool down could combat those who do it? Just to give a chance to people with designs who don't do that. I just don't enjoy browsing through the listings bc of it.Â
Feedback thread for the Front/Browse/Search page updates — the corresponding announcement and changelist is here!
🎯 Goals —
- Reduce congestion in the character trade listings and search pages that was previously caused by a bunch of ads/non-characters being submitted to the site
- Improve visibility on the top page for characters that are currently being pushed off by non-characters
- Make it easier to find what you’re looking for when searching for characters/codes/resources/services/etc
📋 Seeking feedback for —
- I wasn’t sure whether people would prefer having each character type separated out into a separate listing rather than everything just being types of character?
- I opted to just add an optional filter since this seems more flexible in terms of search and customization (people seem to just be creating everything as a “Character” profile currently anyway, and a lot of the features are going to be the same), but let me know if this doesn’t feel good, or if anyone has suggestions regarding how to better structure the listings.
- My original idea for the front page was to allow people to add an arbitrary number of blocks (eg. if you want to add a Popular Characters, Popular HTML/CSS, Popular Resources blocks separately), but the UI for the control panel started getting very long and confusing so I just scrapped the idea. I’ll probably be fiddling with this to see if there’s a way to do this that isn’t overwhelming for the average user.
- Character categories:
- These are currently “Character”, “HTML/CSS”, “Resource”, “Service/Ad” based on what we most commonly receive reports for, but this can be expanded or updated if we feel that this is missing anything or is too broad.
- General UI/UX feedback:
- If there’s anything confusing or if you have suggestions for how to improve any areas of the front/browse/search pages.
- Extra features:
- Are you someone who regularly uses the trade listings or front pages and feel like there are changes or extra features that could be added to make life easier for you?? Have ideas for how to help make the listings less frustrating and more accessible?? Let me know!!
- Performance issues:
- Is the site super laggy for you now??? If not site-wide, please do point out the specific pages that you’re having issues with.
- Anything else related!! If you have any feedback for an unrelated feature, it may be better to submit a HelpDesk ticket rather than replying to this specific thread.
If you’re uncomfortable leaving feedback in public, please don’t hesitate to open a ticket via the HelpDesk.Â
Thanks as always!
The ability to convert an ad into a character would be nice, (as I have received an ad from a character giveaway raffle, so now I have I have a character who is stuck forever as an AD) other than that, it is good to see the site is still getting updates c:
Ginker1199 If I remember correctly the reason we cant turn ads into character is to prevent people from making a "fav for free art" ad and then turn them into an OC with a lot of fake favs. Raffle characters shouldn't be listed as ad (art raffles listings should be ads tho) they are characters.
I think if you file a ticket the admin might be able to fix that for you.