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@@@ OFFICIAL SUGGESTION THREAD @@@

Juska

Juska

Finnish metal YEAH!
I'm sure it's been mentioned before, but over 30 pages of suggestions is too many for me to skim through.

All "Mypace-esque" human photographs added to the Prohibited or Basic Quality/Content list in the AUP, and promptly moved to that user's Scraps section.

Honestly, "Myspace type" pictures should only be seen on Myspace. I'm tired of seeing them plague the front page, they're not ligitimate artwork pieces, and only serve to get attention, ex: "O! YOUR ABSOFUCKINGLUTELY ADORABLE! I LOVE YOUR PIERCINGS AND YOU HAVE THE PRETTIEST FACE AND HAIR! VERY GORGEOUS!"

That's a direct quote from something I just saw on the frontpage. Caps and all...and pardon the vulgarities.
 
Firehazard

Firehazard

I can fix it!
As for the Ustream thing... I'm surprised there isn't a feature on ... yanow, USTREAM that lets users sign up to be notified when their favorite artists are on. Preferably in real time, through like IM or something. I mean, you'd think that would be one of the first features you'd want to put on there.

And if there is such a feature... people need to USE IT and stop making journals every damn time they start streaming. Especially since most users aren't likely to log in to see them until it's already over.
 
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jayhusky

Guest
Here's an idea relating to the ustream issue.

People have a button they press that tells users they are streaming.
But this is shown on the main page inside a small content box
E.g.

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Nav Links
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Link 1 Link2

Link 1 Link2

Link 1 Link2

Link 1 Link2
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Live Ustreams
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Dragoneer Snowfox
Guest pkdude
ukfurs foxamoore
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See More Streams
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Just a thought...
 
Bosgo

Bosgo

Life can be crazy sometimes...
okay so i have a suggestion for Fur Affinity. it is possible to put folders in FA? that way users could keep their favorites and their submissions so users could be more organized in how they veiw and show artwork. it would be a great deal of help for many users im sure. this is jsut a suggestion so yeah, do as you please.
 
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DreamRunnerWolf

New Member
How about an archive feature. Many artists here came from other places that they were fed up with (like me). So they deleted LOTS of artwork and now older classic works can't be found. Uploading 20 submissions of old artwork in a day can become an annoyance to watchers and even lose you watches.
What if there were a feature where artists could upload en masse to an archive folder where it didnt show up in the new submissions of watchers. just a place to build back up galleries that no longer exist....
please... it would be so totally awesome. *hope*
 
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DreamRunnerWolf

New Member
Oh and "journal deleted by poster" and "submission deleted by poster" is a waste of inbox space. it tells me nothing. someone uploaded/blogged SOMETHING and now its gone and i dont even get to know who it was. what is the point?
 
stranger24

stranger24

God of Rock
umm I have a suggestion...Maybe like for the adult users, allowed a "Fapped to" button.
Y'know like favourites, 'cept fapped to it lol. Some artists might wanna know how many people have done it. lol just a crazy thought.
 
ferretsage

ferretsage

Well-Known Member
Firehazard said:
As for the Ustream thing... I'm surprised there isn't a feature on ... yanow, USTREAM that lets users sign up to be notified when their favorite artists are on. Preferably in real time, through like IM or something. I mean, you'd think that would be one of the first features you'd want to put on there.

And if there is such a feature... people need to USE IT and stop making journals every damn time they start streaming. Especially since most users aren't likely to log in to see them until it's already over.
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I share your sentiment of the ineffectiveness of journal posts to communicate Ustream info. I am watching over 1,000 artists, and I report that 15% of all the delivered journals in my inbox are Ustream notifications -- nearly all of them over 4 hours old are expired. The influx of these notifications suggests that Ustream may become a prominent influence of the fandom in the near future. This recent volume of interest in Ustream by FA users is why I make the suggestion for coding to accommodate the live-video streaming website.

Ustream has RSS streams -- for archived pre-recorded shows only. There IS a feature to IM Twitter users who are friends of live broadcasts, but the FA user has to sign up to Twitter, find all his/her watched furry artists (hopefully they have accounts too) who are potentially going to start a Ustream broadcast, and have their Twitter set up to IM notify all who are "following" them. Having the whole FA userbase go sign up on Twitter and hunt down and "rewatch" all the artists they are watching on FA for potential Ustream shows, seems a lot of needless and wasteful doubled migration -- not to mention relying upon two external mega-websites not catering to the anthropomorphic niche.

Since it is obviously unrealistic and prohibitively expensive to have FA host streaming for furry drawing videos, and thus reliant on Ustream to host the content, the smart money is on coding FA to notify users of such popular events outside the FA website. If Ustream is becoming very popular with FA users (as indicated by the volume of Ustream journals), it's safe to say the fandom is heading in that direction -- so I'm just making the suggestion here for increased integration.

If I haven't made it more clear in my prior posts in this thread, currently on FA, there really isn't a way for furry artists to just broadcast Ustream to those who are watching them here of FurAffinity that they are drawing -- other then the journals, which are not really designed to intuitively deliver live Ustream info effectively. FA artists need a way to send notice to their watching audiences of Ustream videos, without all the clutter of expired broadcasts filling up the inbox.
 
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krisCrash

krisCrash

Member
stranger24 said:
umm I have a suggestion...Maybe like for the adult users, allowed a "Fapped to" button.
Y'know like favourites, 'cept fapped to it lol. Some artists might wanna know how many people have done it. lol just a crazy thought.
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I REALLY don't want to know :grin:
 
Xaerun

Xaerun

"toxic and negative"
kris: And I don't think many artists do.

DreamRunnerWolf said:
How about an archive feature. Many artists here came from other places that they were fed up with (like me). So they deleted LOTS of artwork and now older classic works can't be found. Uploading 20 submissions of old artwork in a day can become an annoyance to watchers and even lose you watches.
What if there were a feature where artists could upload en masse to an archive folder where it didnt show up in the new submissions of watchers. just a place to build back up galleries that no longer exist....
please... it would be so totally awesome. *hope*
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Scraps does this, to a degree. Well, not showing up on the main page is at least a start, because clogging the main page with 20 pieces of your art looks a little... odd, and maybe a bit rude. Other than that, some artists reupload old stuff periodically (I don't really understand why, unless they just want those few more views/watches) and nobody seems to care.

What if you just uploaded the old work to scraps and named it "[OLD] (title)" so that people know exactly what it is? Plus, I'd assume that quite a few of your watchers did not follow you down the internet trail and just discovered you on FA, so they probably won't worry about it.
 
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SnowFox

SnowFox

Member
How about a target="_blank" in the links under your name and info etc. Having people's FA page load in the same tab when I forget to right click->open in new tab is a bit annoying.
 
krisCrash

krisCrash

Member
SnowFox said:
How about a target="_blank" in the links under your name and info etc. Having people's FA page load in the same tab when I forget to right click->open in new tab is a bit annoying.
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that's a good idea, but until it happens, try to middle-click the link; in both IE, Firefox and Opera this opens it in a new background tab. Easier than right clicking :)
 
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jayhusky

Guest
krisCrash said:
that's a good idea, but until it happens, try to middle-click the link; in both IE, Firefox and Opera this opens it in a new background tab. Easier than right clicking :)
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This also applies in SeaMonkey (By Mozilla) and Google's Chrome Applications.
 
T

Toaster

Member
I know it's been said before but.... I'd like to see a label for coders/programmers/etc. Programming is an art in my book.
 
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jayhusky

Guest
Ornias said:
I know it's been said before but.... I'd like to see a label for coders/programmers/etc. Programming is an art in my book.
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If this was allowed then certain tags such as HTML's <script></script> tags would have to be filtered and also block uploads of executables and zip files

Zip mainly because harmful files can be hidden inside .

I see where your coming from though.
 
SnowFox

SnowFox

Member
Who's going to download your zip file, extract it, then open up your code and start fapping?
Here's my submission:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;http://www.metacafe.com/watch/sy-1473689248/rick_astley_never_gonna_give_you_up_official_music_video/">

oh and filtering tags is easy enough /</&lt;/ etc.
 
Valerion

Valerion

Member
Something I came across today, and thought it may need a little enhancement. It's something I see a lot, so I'm going to create a hypothetical example to demonstrate the issue:

I uploaded a submission a few years back, before tags and keywords were implemented, and simply never went back to populate them. Created the submission as follows:

Submitted by: Valerion
Title: Valerion
Description: My fursona! Done at last!
Tags: Empty
Keywords: Empty
Category: Visual Art
Theme: General Furry Art
Species: Canid - Wolf
Gender: Male

Now, someone tries to do a search for all my wolf pictures. The following search: "wolf @lower valerion" won't turn up the above submission. It would be nice to have the ability to search in the submission information block as well, perhaps something like "@lower valerion @species wolf @gender male".

I often see some badly-described submissions, and I think this will help someone target specific works of art a lot easier.

Another idea to solve this is to push the submission information down as implicit keywords, so that for the above submission the keywords will always contain "wolf male". This will allow a "@keyword wolf @lower valerion" to match, without adding more options to the search function.
 
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Xaerun

Xaerun

"toxic and negative"
Doesn't searching for a keyword without any fields applied turn up a submission if it appears anywhere on that submission's information?
 
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yak

yak

Site Developer
Administrator
SnowFox said:
How about a target="_blank" in the links under your name and info etc. Having people's FA page load in the same tab when I forget to right click->open in new tab is a bit annoying.
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We're giving you a choice to open the link in this window/tab, or a new one.
Adding target="_blank" is taking that choice away from you.

furcity said:
This also applies in SeaMonkey (By Mozilla) and Google's Chrome Applications.
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It applies to every single browser aside from IE.
A lot of things does.

Valerion said:
Now, someone tries to do a search for all my wolf pictures. The following search: "wolf @lower valerion" won't turn up the above submission. It would be nice to have the ability to search in the submission information block as well, perhaps something like "@lower valerion @species wolf @gender male".
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Search indices for old submissions are updated once a day at 3AM.


PHP: 
// The list of fields that the search uses, and the respective field match weighs that affect the final result weight:
//
$field_weights = array(
	'title'     => 3,
	'keywords'  => 4,
	'description'   => 2,
	'filename'  => 1,
	'username'     => 1
);
 
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redtail

New Member
I'd like to se SOME enforcement of the new TOS policy, specifically regarding SL images, more specifically of consecutive posts of the same or similar SL screencaps.
It's literally tenfold worse than Fchan's cub-porn fiasco, which is irritating enough.

Given that Fchan does not see 5-10% of its submissions coming in as cub porn, they seem to have been able to manage it.
On the other hand, SecondLife screencaps continue to flood pages, regardless.

I'm not sure if this is the right suggestion box for that, though.



On the other paw, another option would be to notify users that they're required to tag these submissions under "screencaps" or some new category for in-game screenshots, then allow for users to block certain categories or usernames within searches.
 
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