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Weasyl Newbies Tips: Journal browsing by LudoCrow

Decided to write another one of these journals as I I'm working on uploading a bit more of this last week's art commissions.

So, Journals.

Did you know that when you click that "Browse" tab in the upper left corner of the website, there is actually a category for journals? In fact, new journals are submitted to the website just like any other submissions: Through the "submit" tab.

As such, when you post any new journals, it is added to the journal submissions categories which just pretty much anybody can find. This might not seem like that much more than elsewhere but it actually has a subtle but very great effect in my opinion:
It means that when you post a new journal, the chances are that someone else outside of your watchlist might and possibly even -will- fall upon that journal.

In short, someone could never post a single image, character or story to Weasyl and yet still be able to technically develop some amount of visibility on the website through the simple journals they post, be them just from babbling about their favorite recent TV show or video games they enjoy. Or announcing a Let's Play which they may later stream through the website's Stream notification system.

So, go on. Click that browse button.
Find a journal whose title or subject you like.
And leave a comment. In a way, it's a great mean to engage in more developped chatter than "Wow, this picture here is awesome!" with users you had never met before when you discuss about the subjects of their journal and also a great way of showing this website is much more alive than one might otherwise think.

In fact, pretty much a great majority of the artists whose works I enjoy the most on this websites are now people whom I discovered through their journals first rather than their art :)

P.S.: However, if you want to keep a journal private only for the eyes of a cared few, then there is a checkdown box at the very bottom of the preview screen called "Make this journal visible only to my friends". As such, only those people you considered close friends enough to send a friends invite to(and who consider you close enough of a friend as well to accept it) will be able to read such journals.

I hope this help!

Weasyl Newbies Tips: Journal browsing

LudoCrow

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    awesome!!

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    Sounds very helpful, thanks!

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      Just trying to do my best to point out what features I feel I like best of this website. Journal browsing I'm finding out is a great way to meet not only new artists but also new users in general to chat with :)

      It's possibly, in my eyes, one of Weasyl's most overlooked feature but possibly one of it's greatest when you're aware of it so I try to spread knowledge of it when I can :)

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    Oh, excellent! Newbie tips are always welcome, glad to see this for sure! I don't fully understand everything about this site yet but I can tell you I'm already enjoying the people. Welcoming and helpful, certainly. I'll admit, it did take me a little bit to figure out that I need to use Submit to create a journal entry, hehehe.

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    this is actually Really insightful, as this is completely new to me! Thanks for the heads up ^^

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      Trying to share as much knowledge as I can ^^

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    I have found a lot of new artists to watch thanks to this simple feature of displaying all submitted journals like that.

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      Very very much.

      I feel it's basically the difference between "How well can someone draw?" and "but what does the person behind the art even have to say?".

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        I know that I myself personally, take personality into consideration as to whether or not I will commission a person over the other. Artistic appeal is certainly important, but all the appeal in the world can't make me get over the fact that I just don't get along with a particular person. If I remember right, art or commissions is a service type thing. I am more likely to bring my business to someone who I interact with better and enjoy their art, rather than someone who I don't enjoy interacting with but still enjoy their art. In principle, my time and energy is limited, so ya, I'll play favorites, commission the artists I like and support their pages through comments and other things. Word of mouth is rather powerful in this business I imagine.