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something about weasyl that bugs me... by KeelahButts

I just noticed it doesn't show your favorites anywhere on your profile. :( most of the artists i watched on fa i found through "favorite surfing", that's a potential huge loss in exposure. Idk maybe it does on the full site im just on mobile right now.
So two issues i have with the site: not having control over what images show on your profile, and the lack of a visible favorites section. Other than that everything is great. Want to know whats funny? Today i had 116 submissions here & only like 50 on fa. Haha.

something about weasyl that bugs me...

KeelahButts

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    Yeah I hope they add something for favorites, I used to find new artists by seeing their work in peoples' faves section >.>

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      Honestly thats how i spent most of my time on fa, clicking a pic, going to the artist's page, clicking something i liked from their favorites...found a lot of good stuff that way i never would have seen otherwise.

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    Yeh thats something I dont like either. Although it means I can fave weird shit without people judging >3>

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      Haha that's true, guess I hadn't really thought about it that way.

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    Is that not it on the far right in the bar where it shows collections, characters etc.?

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      also yes my inbox has been filling twice as fast here as on FA and I follow FAR fewer people haha, and it's not even people flooding, it's a bunch of different people with just one or two uploads per person... I love it.

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        Yeah it's pretty great. I still looked on fa and it's like all stuff I've already seen here anyway, lol. I've actually gotten quite a few comments and messages here as well, more than I was expecting. I really feel like at least right this moment weasyl is actually the more active site. Anyway I did see the favorites bar but if I'm just browsing people's pages I think I'm less likely to go look at their favorites now just because it's not right there on the profile. I know it's just one click but I guess it's more of a mental thing.

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    You can view other peoples' favorites, it's just not on their front page.
    https://www.weasyl.com/favorites/vapidcrocuta

    Also, if you go into settings>Submission Folders you can click on a folder you want to be displayed in your "featured" so you can make a folder with one picture if you want one specific image shown, or make a folder with a few.

    Hope that helped!

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      Yeah I saw the favorites thing, I think I'm just less likely to go look at someone's favorites when they're not right there on the profile. Maybe it's just something I'll have to get used to but I still think it's a disadvantage. Like now there isn't a chance of something catching my eye while I'm on a friend's profile or something. Thank you for the folders thing I'll have to go look at that! I made a folder of a lot of old art & it's all terrible, but now it keeps popping up on my profile & I'm like "No! I don't want people seeing that first!" lol

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        I hear that. Usually their favorites are right in your face and that's what catches your eye :/
        And no problem! I was frustrated about that as well.

        My two complaints:
        1. You can't delete comments. Like wtf. Some furries are rude and I don't want their negative comment sitting there.
        2. There's no "scraps" section like in EVERY OTHER art site. I don't want people to go through my gallery and see a bunch of doodles mixed in with nice finished pieces

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          AHH that's a good point, especially since the last thing you submitted ends up being your featured. I don't want some stupid doodle showing up as my main submission! Guess I'll just wait till I have something else to post right after. I'll probably make a scraps folder if I ever post any sketches or anything like that. I didn't know you couldn't hide comments, yikes that's kind of important. I can only hope they'll add stuff like that as the site progresses. I feel like fa only implemented that recently too so hopefully it's coming.

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    Yea I thought the same about the favorites. I think the ability to show that on your from page would be good. Now, I made a folder and put my pictures in it and the folder gave me the option to make it a featured journal so something like that. The newest submission changed to featured submission when I did that. There are only two images in that folder but they randomly show up in that slot. Might be able to just make a feature journal and only put one image in it. I don't know how uploading new images after that affects things.

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      Yeah I don't like how your most recent picture automatically shows up as your feat ured. It keeps me from posting something I might not like si much until I have something prettier to post immediately afterwards, lol. From what I can tell so far, you create a folder and put your images in it, then it sort of randomly chooses from that pool of images which one to put on the cover. I don't know about submitting image folders as journals, I guess I'll have to play around with it when I have time.

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        I herped-a-derp and meant to say a featured folder, not journal. And said it twice. Anyway, I have sense uploaded another thing, and the big-huge image on my front page is still coming from the featured FOLDER. So it is currently cycling though those two Sidney Picts and did not display my newest cat-demon-body-paint-thing picture.

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        Huh, and unless I am missing something, Scraps do not exist here. I think functionally speaking, all things that you desire to be featured for a while, could go into a featured folder, maybe only a single thing. Everything else that looks less good would then not be stuck on your page all big-mc-large-huge-like, but would still appear in the chain of stuff at the top. The annoying thing about the folders at they are at the moment, it seems, unless I am missing something, that you can only put one thing in one folder at a time. I was going to suggest that all things you would normally put into your gallery, you put into a folder called Gallery, and then set it as featured. And all else would be de facto scraps. However, further organization at this point, would be hindered.

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        OH: "A random item will be chosen from all featured submission folders to be shown as your "featured" submission on your profile page."

        "all featured submission folders"

        Ah you can have more than one.

        I recommend making a folder called Scraps, for thing you like less, and setting all other folders to featured. Or something based off of that idea.

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          Ah that would be perfect if i could set only a couple folders to be "featered" but i cant seem to figure out how to do it! Maybe i should just wait till I can get on my laptop. So far ive just been on here in little spurts as time allows. If that system works though that's a pretty great solution. I was playing in settings earlier and there are a lot of really useful features.

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    Yeah, it's an extra click but I like it better as it's not deceptive.. there have been FA profiles that I see art and go OMG.. click, and realize it was a favorite and not a submission. However, I can't stand the fact that you can't delete a comment. Ever, whether it's yours or on your page.

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    I also wanted to add that they added a feature at some point that lets you make folders be "scraplike", in that they don't submit to the weasyl home page, as well as being able to make it not notify your followers if you wish. You can also select specifically which folders are eligible for your Featured submissions. You could effectively make a folder labeled featured and make it be ONLY your submissions you want to feature.