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The New Userpage Gallery

Immelmann

Immelmann

Machine Washable
Oh hello there. I do hope this is the right place and time for this thread.

Just noticed that userpages now have the new gallery, wherein thumbnails are displayed, instead of just the title with timestamps. I'm curious as to what you all think about it.

I like it, myself. As I see it...
Pros: It's certainly prettier, to me at least. Nice and neat, and clean.
It makes previewing a gallery easier. The hovering mouse-over was a bit glitchy.
Cons: No time stamps! Does this user post once a week, or has he been dead for a year?


So, thoughts?
 
Madra

Madra

i am a meat popsicle
Well, it's a nice idea. You're right, it does make previewing a gallery a little easier, but eh.. it seems to be really, really slow, so it kind of defeats the purpose. And I also miss the timestamps.. those were really useful. :/
 
Immelmann

Immelmann

Machine Washable
I miss the timestamps too - I think it'd be nice if the timestamp was put just under the big preview image, so that we see the upload date of whatever we have highlighted.
 
capthavoc123

capthavoc123

Master of Disaster
I'm going to be brutally honest here.

I think it sucks. Hard. It makes the pages load a hell of a lot slower. It looks awful. And I really liked being able to tell at a glance when the submissions were uploaded.
 
Aq Bars

Aq Bars

Я Ак Барс
I like it, you're right when you say the mouse-over thing was glitchy. It was annoying. The timestamps were kind of useful for stalkage-related purposes, but I don't think I'm going to miss them much.
 
Nanakisan

Nanakisan

Wild lunatic!
Immelmann said:
I miss the timestamps too - I think it'd be nice if the timestamp was put just under the big preview image, so that we see the upload date of whatever we have highlighted.
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its still i nthe description page of the picture.


I do like the new interface seems less annoying now
 
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EphyuSikay

New Member
Don't like it. Makes pages take a hell of a lot longer to load (which is currently being blamed on thumbnail re-cacheing), and it looks like FA is going to start going the way of DA and other sites that think Web 2.0 and loads of Flash/Ajax/other bloated browser-side scripting are the way to go.
 
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Zalin

The One and Only
Don't like it. The page took forever to load, and it doesnt even look much nicer. Suddenly, instead of a wall of text, its a narrow line of little, undecipherable pictures. I couldn't even tell which piece was which in my favorites section.
Maybe it should be optional to see it/not see it?

Ugh, hopefully this post doesnt become outdated in the time it takes for me to reload my page and get a final look before cementing my opinion <_<
 
Gillagad

Gillagad

Insanely Foxy
The lack of titles or timestamps on the userpage is annoying. And having random small thumbnails floating in the center is pretty ugly imo. Seems a lot less functional and useful than it was...
 
lawsuite

lawsuite

likes mango chili lollipops
They could at least make the thumbnails a bit larger! They really are too tiny to get a decent idea of the image. At least make them as large as the normal gallery thumbnails, for Christ's sake! Or even use less of them, and/or place them side-by-side. All the empty space is glaring. Right now it looks like a more poorly-organized version of a DeviantArt page display.
 
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XianJaguar

Member
Yeah, I'm going to have to say I do NOT like the new "user gallery" format on the user page. The tiny thumbnails are all lined up vertically, one thumbnail per row, stretching out the page more. I miss the titles with the handy mouse-overs. The old format was much cleaner, more informative, and faster-loading.
 
capthavoc123

capthavoc123

Master of Disaster
And despite what is implied by that nice little notice on the main site, the slowdowns are not likely to get any better. Think about this. Instead of just having a few images and some text to load each time a userpage is called up, there will now be a ton of images. With the traffic that we get, it's going to translate to slower performance.

I think we should at least have the option to use the old style.
 
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EphyuSikay

New Member
BUT GUYS WAIT IT'S JUST SERVER LAG, NOT CLIENT SIDE LAG
ALSO, THERE ARE NO PROBLEMS VISUALLY
AND NO IMPAIRMENTS TO USABILITY
THOSE ARE SERVER LAG TOO, WAIT IT OUT

Seriously.
 
Armaetus

Armaetus

Nazis, Communists and Antifa don't belong on FA
An option to use the new or old way would be nice...
 
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EphyuSikay

New Member
Immelmann said:
...but if FA is going to be anything like DA...
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No, it's cool, DA loads fast as hell and doesn't have any glitches or client hangups when you try to change gallery pages, submit anything, or use a lightweight browser that isn't full of bloated, official releases of five different runtime environments and plugins.
 
Summercat

Summercat

Former Motterator
XianJaguar said:
Yeah, I'm going to have to say I do NOT like the new "user gallery" format on the user page. The tiny thumbnails are all lined up vertically, one thumbnail per row, stretching out the page more. I miss the titles with the handy mouse-overs. The old format was much cleaner, more informative, and faster-loading.
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This is exactly what I was going to say. I dislike how it's set up now. Maybe if they were put into some sort of table with mouseover information....
 
capthavoc123

capthavoc123

Master of Disaster
Immelmann said:
I'm all for making this optional, but if FA is going to be anything like DA, Google, or any modern site, I guess it's not going to happen.
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On the other hand, if FA were going to be like those sites, the changes would at least make a little bit of sense.
 
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Zalin

The One and Only
EphyuSikay said:
BUT GUYS WAIT IT'S JUST SERVER LAG, NOT CLIENT SIDE LAG
ALSO, THERE ARE NO PROBLEMS VISUALLY
AND NO IMPAIRMENTS TO USABILITY
THOSE ARE SERVER LAG TOO, WAIT IT OUT

Seriously.
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CAPS LOCK IS KRUISE KONTROL FOUR KOOL

In all seriousness, ya, its server lag. Server lag means the server is being stressed. A stressed server means a lot of stressed furries smashing their keyboards out of frustration.
There are problems visually. It stretches out the page and makes it look ugly.
There is an impairment to usability. I can no longer mouse over images and get a brief glimpse of them. I can't even tell how old a picture is without clicking it, which means waiting for an insanely long load.
Server lag will not go away. The traffic right now is at its lowest. Its midnight on a Sunday night. There shouldn't be too much traffic yet. It will only get worst.
 
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JennaVixen

^_^
I really do not like the new style. :-/ Can we have an option to use the old style, at least? I really liked having the "tool tip" style previews and seeing the titles and date in text... It certainly looked a lot cleaner.
 
OxfordTweed

OxfordTweed

BORED
It does not work in Chrome. I've noticed that in FireFox, if you hover over the image, it does like on Y!Gallery, and makes it bigger. This does not happen in Chrome at all. D:
 
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