Why art sites suck

[whyrl]

I'm posting this list of perceived failings of art websites to help brainstorm some ideas to overcome these limitations. This post is generally directed at FurAffinity, but some of this applies to DeviantArt and others as well.

Don't make me poll. For me, this is the most annoying aspect about the current generation of art websites. I'd like to

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[brockulfsen]

A safe for work/browsing in my knickers switch. Comes up Safe for Work. You press the button to confirm your connection is not being monitored by your boss's fundamentalist religious nutjob nephew who manages the office network. Possibly IP range defaulted, so that it assumes first view based on rules.

[wolfwings]

I replied to your comment in the mega-reply I posted, as it's a great point. Your bit is at the bottom of the comment, for easier scrolling.

Good suggestions all around and a decent mesh for my plans.

[wolfwings]

• Don't make me poll.
  
  This is an excellent idea if I'm understanding it correctly. Do you mean you want to be able to subscribe to automated searches on new submissions that hit your search terms basically, and have them added to some kind of queue for you? Doing this correctly will require some thought, it can be done, and it's an excellent idea... I'd mostly been focusing easier browsing and searching, so far.
  
• Don't lump all images together.
  
  Don't make thumbnails so tiny.
  
  Lumping these two together as they're cross-related. Not being able to see the details of things because thumbnails are so tiny, which ends up allowing for 'custom' thumbnails which just makes things even less browse-able, is the core problem of both of these. Grouping options will be part of the browsing view.
  
• I don't give a shit about stories.
  
  And some people love music and flash animations. Simple checkboxes for default file types to filter for/against on media-attached posts are planned for.
  
• Don't just give me a list of titles.
  Heh... I was actually taking it one

[chefmongoose]

As for "Don;t lump all new images together". That's exactly what I want FA to do. All the new stuff from the people I watch. determine fast from thumbnails on the 10% I want to delete unseen, then open tabs and look at the new stuff.

I also don;t care much about stories, but some people do. *shrug*

As for the ads: Annoying, bothersome, but FA serves a lot of traffic. They're not going to make i t all up on T-shirrs and donations.

i could deal with smaller banners. Totally don;t care about the banner.

Sound like you'd like e621.net, offhand. :)