Some updates I'd like to see happen are...
1. Automatic Removal of deleted/deactivated watched accounts from our Watch Lists.
For the sake of preventing clutter, since we cannot remove deactivated/deleted accounts from our lists ourselves. Another option would be the ability to un-watch a deleted account from the "The owner has deactivated their account" page. If automatically removing them via their deletion isn't an option, including this would be a god send. At least half of my watch list is full of dead accounts that I can't remove, and it really messes with my OCD.
2. Updated
Artist Information
For example...
normal said:
Species:
Age:
Shell of Choice:
Operating System:
Personal Quote:
Music Type/Genre:
Favorite Movie:
Favorite Game:
Favorite Game Platform:
Music Player of Choice:
Favorite Artist:
Favorite Animal:
Favorite Website:
Favorite Food:
Updated said:
Community Name:
Date of Birth:
Best form of Contact:
Furry or non-Furry:
Community Hobbies:
Favorite Food:
Favorite Drink:
Favorite Music Genres/Types:
Favorite TV Shows/Movies:
Favorite Anime/Manga/Comics:
Favorite Books/Authors:
Favorite Video Games:
Other Favorite Things:
Preferred Music Program:
Preferred Game Platform:
Preferred PC Type:
Favorite Artistic Style:
Favorite FA Artist:
Other Favorite Artists:
3. A new spot for Furry/Fursona based information under artist information (similar to how contacts and artist information is separate; if not filled out this - like contacts - won't show up)
For Example said:
Single or Multiple Sonas/Characters:
Name(s) of Fursona(s)/Character(s):
Species of Fursona(s)/Character(s):
Reference(s) of
Fursona(s)/Characters(s):
Fanart Permissions: (Must pick; Allowed to be used in Fanart // Not allowed to be used // Ask first)
4. This one is small, but I'd like an "Email" and possibly even a "Secondary Email" slot to be placed in the Contact/Social Media section. This way artists and members have more ways to directly reach those they do business with without having to Hound them for contact emails should they be the type to not hand them out each time.
5. I would like submissions to be a bit more organized in how things are submitted, such as Stories having a short story option or poetry having a Lyrics option etc.
6. I'd like Story/Poetry/etc to have normal images instead of tiny ones that are most times difficult to read if people try to jazz em up and include information about what they wrote in them. I've seen some writing submissions have larger images, but I'd like for this to be default if possible.
7. I'd like for group pages to be more defined, and be allowed to have submissions sent in for approval directly instead of having one person control everything and have to do it all themselves
8. Push notifications for Watches, Comments, Shouts, and Notes would be awesome.
9. The ability to change your username four times a year "for free" (without bothering staff), but to avoid spamming or harassment, each time you change it you have to wait three months to change it again (aka like DeviantArt's system).
10. Removing the icon limit in profiles.
I don't really see a point in the limit, unless people decided to link literal hundreds of icons, but those profiles could specifically be reported for spam or something. If I wanna have thirty cool icons all around to either look pretty, advertise artists, or both I wanna be able to. It's not like FA doesn't have a thousand dead accounts (and dead account submissions) taking up space anyway.
11. Similar to my feelings of the Watched List being cluttered, I'd like for the "Commissions" tab to be hidden from people's own eyes if they don't offer them, and become a setting that they can turn on somewhere else in the options section. I don't offer commissions, so seeing it as apart of my profile just irks me for some reason.
12. I'd love to have a chat on site.
I'd like for Furaffinity to have a chatroom for members to just jump into and socialize actively together. Perhaps with a small spam filter or something on it. That, or maybe a dedicated discord server with a Titan link or something for people to see the chat on the website. I dunno. Just something more "FA-relative" as random roleplay discords aren't my thing and joining artist specific discords always feels like signing up for telemarketing lol.
13. Better eye protection
I really, really, REALLY want the ability to block certain tags from the searching/browsing function including art in people's favorites and galleries. I don't mean to kink shame here, but if I have to see one more disgusting dirty diaper or a sweaty obese antelope getting rammed I'm going to vomit. Enjoy what thou will and all, but please don't make me have to see it in order to browse other NSFW tags. Hell I've seen some of that stuff and more in the SFW sections as well so really there is no escape AND I NEED ONE. I'm sure people feel the same about this, other kinks, or even my own kinks (and that's completely fine - not everyone is into bdsm). But I don't think they - or I - should have to see it if we don't want to. Implementing a blocking tags feature along with something that allows members to add tags on art might help organize the site's submissions beautifully - and spare my wallet of future eye Bleach purchases.
[3.3.2020] Edit: Cleaned up the post considerably and added new suggestions.
