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The New Userpage Gallery

Kiffa_kitmouse

Kiffa_kitmouse

The Seventh Stranger
Yeah, it'd be nice if users were given the option to view pages either in the old style or new style. I don't need to see more thumbnails on the user page. If I want to see thumbnails, that's why I click on "Gallery".

The new way just looks awkward. It'd be one thing if you saw say, the last 9 favorites in a 3x3 block, or the last 12 in a 3x4 block, etc. But with the one big one at the top and the others following in single file, with the top pic offset to the left because the text appears at the right of the pic instead of underneath it, it just looks... ugly.

[EDIT: OK, I see the way it's supposed to look now. I did see the message that said "If your gallery does not display correctly please refresh the page and/or delete your browser cache"... problem is, if you don't know how it's supposed to look, how do you know it's not displayed correctly? lol

It looks OK now, but I still like the old way better. I prefer the time stamps.]
 
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EphyuSikay

New Member
Zalin said:
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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You realize you're actually supporting what I'm saying, right?
I know there's server lag, but the problem is that it's ALL being blamed on server lag, rather than anyone admitting that there are other problems.

P.S.: The capslock did its job and got your attention.
 
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Zalin

The One and Only
EphyuSikay said:
You realize you're actually supporting what I'm saying, right?
I know there's server lag, but the problem is that it's ALL being blamed on server lag, rather than anyone admitting that there are other problems.

P.S.: The capslock did its job and got your attention.
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Meh, Ive been reading all these anyways. (I have no life) Choose to respond out of boredism.

I must have misread what you said. The server is lagging, that much is true, and the problems are not because of the server's lagging. The problems are just there. I must have misread it because I thought you said it was all because of the server stress. Meh. Maybe staying up 24 hours and then trying to post on a forum wasn't the wisest decision of my life.
 
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cadc

New Member
I have to agree with captha, naturally I'm all for thumbnails, however, the way the thumbnails are layed out, it makes the pages feel rather un natural...

If i had to live with the thumbnails, I would suggest putting them next to each other instead of just following a straight line down.

also the idea of making this purely optional sounds really good right about now...

Still looking forward to the search function though :cool:
 
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LavitzSkall

Deviously Cute
To be honest I do not like this new format at all. Although it is a nice idea to be able to see thumbnails to prevent the rollover glitches, they are WAY too small to be seen. The old system was much more effective at showing the title of a piece, as well as when it was posted. Also, it takes less server capacity to load the text. Although I am sure the current increased lag is just a result of changing servers, I do not doubt it is also due to having to load tiny thumbnails instead of text. If the mod's are dead set on keeping them, could they at least arrange them in a visually appealing way. The vertical bar of tiny little pictures is really frustrating.
 
capthavoc123

capthavoc123

Master of Disaster
For the record, y'all, the vertical line thing should clear up if you clear your browser cache. It then displays two rows of four on top of each other. But it still looks awful.
 
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EphyuSikay

New Member
Zalin said:
Meh, Ive been reading all these anyways. (I have no life) Choose to respond out of boredism.

I must have misread what you said. The server is lagging, that much is true, and the problems are not because of the server's lagging. The problems are just there. I must have misread it because I thought you said it was all because of the server stress. Meh. Maybe staying up 24 hours and then trying to post on a forum wasn't the wisest decision of my life.
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I think you were just trying to be contrary for the sake of it. Or failed really hard at recognizing blatant sarcasm. :[
 
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cadc

New Member
after doing a refresh of the page, the page refreshed correctly, and I gotta just say, I take back what i said earlier, this is pretty nice!

but yea, optional is still a good idea ;)
 
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Zalin

The One and Only
EphyuSikay said:
I think you were just trying to be contrary for the sake of it. Or failed really hard at recognizing blatant sarcasm. :[
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I probably was just trying to argue, and when I am struggling to keep my eyes open, I could easily miss sarcasm. Meh, good night. :)
 
Koda

Koda

Member
Blah... Just needed to do Ctrl+F5.. I thought the stacking was intended! XD

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What happened to titles and artist names? How about some kind of spacing out or something?

The images are all just stacked like legos, and it kinda sucks. The bottom ... *stops himself*

I see, it actually does function and look nice in Internet Explorer. Hope there are plans to make it work in a real browser sometime in the future...

In IE I've noticed that the thumbs can jump around as you mouse over between wide and tall images. Probably something else that should be looked at, specially if toenails are restricted to a max/min size, keeping the thumbs still shouldn't be a problem.
 
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XianJaguar

Member
capthavoc123 said:
For the record, y'all, the vertical line thing should clear up if you clear your browser cache. It then displays two rows of four on top of each other. But it still looks awful.
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Ah, so it does. Well, that's a little bit better. Thanks for the tip. :)

Still, I do like the old format better. It gave people more options...if they wanted to see a thumbnail from the line text, all they had to do was roll their mouse over it. If they didn't want to see the thumbnail, they didn't have to touch the text. And of course, no matter how tiny or efficient you make a thumbnail, text will always load faster. Oh, and timestamps FTW.
 
yell0w_f0x

yell0w_f0x

~Foxy loves oreo~
i miss the timestamps.. and yeah.. i like the old one better too..
 
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Dogman

New Member
Cons:
vastly increased load times
thumbnails are really small
no titles
no timestamps
you no longer have a direct link to the artists userpage who's work you've faved.

Pros:
none.
 
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Zalin

The One and Only
Koda said:
Blah... Just needed to do Ctrl+F5.. I thought the stacking was intended! XD

==== Meaningless post follows, sorry for drama ====


What happened to titles and artist names? How about some kind of spacing out or something?

The images are all just stacked like legos, and it kinda sucks. The bottom ... *stops himself*

I see, it actually does function and look nice in Internet Explorer. Hope there are plans to make it work in a real browser sometime in the future...

In IE I've noticed that the thumbs can jump around as you mouse over between wide and tall images. Probably something else that should be looked at, specially if toenails are restricted to a max/min size, keeping the thumbs still shouldn't be a problem.
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Mmm, browser doesn't mean anything. I tried it with Internet Explorer, Firefox 3, Opera, Google Chrome, and Safari. Nothing seems to be different.

Edit: Actually, Dogman, it functions fine. Hover over the one you want and a larger thumb appears on the top along with its title and the author. You can only link back to the original pic, however. There should be a link to the author and a time stamp, but everything else is functionable.

Edit 2: Clear your caches. Labeled Private Data on Firefox at least.
 
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Honeymane

Member
I'm having difficulty understanding how this benefits us, the end user, compared to such normal functions like 'search'.

If FA wants to play with the big-boy artist communities of DA and such not, I suggest the fix the damn search function, not mess up one of the few good features of FA.
 
Aq Bars

Aq Bars

Я Ак Барс
Honeymane said:
I'm having difficulty understanding how this benefits us, the end user, compared to such normal functions like 'search'.

If FA wants to play with the big-boy artist communities of DA and such not, I suggest the fix the damn search function, not mess up one of the few good features of FA.
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Are you serious? Drop the damn search function already, its disappearance has been explained to death by staff, and it's not coming back. Deal with it.
 
Aden

Aden

Play from your ****ing HEART
New galleries work fine in Opera 9.6 here. I don't get the hate that I see in some others in the thread, but I'd like to see this not extrapolated too much farther. I'd hate to see FA become like the current dA.

Also, from the FA header: "Site performance may be impacted while thumbnails are regenerated." Does this mean we'll see a performance increase after a little while?

Edit: I miss being able to click on the user name from mine or someone's favorites gallery.
 
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Koda

Koda

Member
Zalin said:
Mmm, browser doesn't mean anything. I tried it with Internet Explorer, Firefox 3, Opera, Google Chrome, and Safari. Nothing seems to be different.
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The image jumping happens if you mouse over a tall image and then a wide image thumbnail. Only does it in IE for me. *shrug*

Anyway, I did put the tagline on there 'meaningless post' for a reason! I figured out I was just being dumb.

Good job FA
 
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Zalin

The One and Only
Aq Bars said:
Are you serious? Drop the damn search function already, its disappearance has been explained to death by staff, and it's not coming back. Deal with it.
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http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1896964/

Actually, Search is returning. Don't you look at those ads and stuff people pay Dragoneer to put up?
Edit: My apology, Koda. I read that meaningless post part and completely ignored it =\
Edit2: My apology again, this time for misspelling your name :(
 
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Honeymane

Member
Aq Bars said:
Are you serious? Drop the damn search function already, its disappearance has been explained to death by staff, and it's not coming back. Deal with it.
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This still doesn't explain how exactly this change benefits the artists, other then one user proposing that perhaps FA is trying to change their style to better match websites such as DA.

However, in order to match, or even come close to matching an artistic website like DA, FA is going to need some sort of search function, because search functions are the bedrock of nearly every modern website, and certainly an important one to any artist website.
 
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Stonefire

New Member
I was going to say that I didn't care for it, but then I cleared my cache and saw what it actually looks like, and I approve of it for the most part. As many have commented, I miss the timestamps, but I could live without them. Also, I miss the direct link to the artist's userpage that their name provided before. Other than that, and as long as the lag clears up, I think the new layout is pretty cool.
 
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