Scale
07-26-2005, 06:02 AM
I've red the proposal of limiting comments and that upsets me a little as a member artist...
I think a best idea would be to have the choice to skip all the decorative stuff and view the pages in a 100% bare style, without even icons. Either as a personal profile option or a parallel version of each page. For people with a slow connection it's clearly background images, icons etc. which require much more band than any amount of text/comments, and comments are frankly more important, they are the best feature of this kind of archive along with the watch/favourites system.
Moreover the best images tend to get flooded by commets of a few words just telling how beautyful the picture is, so no space would be left if somebody arrives a few hours late and wants to give a technical comment. Putting a limit to comments might end up harming right the artists who are more skilled or more willing to improve.
Just my two cents,
Scale
EDIT: Ugh, I had misunderstood the proposal... it was only to limit comments _loaded_ at one time... however I still think that the option to view the site in a bare style would useful.
I think a best idea would be to have the choice to skip all the decorative stuff and view the pages in a 100% bare style, without even icons. Either as a personal profile option or a parallel version of each page. For people with a slow connection it's clearly background images, icons etc. which require much more band than any amount of text/comments, and comments are frankly more important, they are the best feature of this kind of archive along with the watch/favourites system.
Moreover the best images tend to get flooded by commets of a few words just telling how beautyful the picture is, so no space would be left if somebody arrives a few hours late and wants to give a technical comment. Putting a limit to comments might end up harming right the artists who are more skilled or more willing to improve.
Just my two cents,
Scale
EDIT: Ugh, I had misunderstood the proposal... it was only to limit comments _loaded_ at one time... however I still think that the option to view the site in a bare style would useful.