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Site UI Tweaks and Suggestions by Coyote-Solitarius

I haven't been using Weasyl much because, frankly, I'm not really big on the User Interface (UI). I'm kind of just leaking my brain on pixels, I'm sorry it'll most likely read as a confusing pile of disjointed thoughts.
!!!!WARNING: I'm about to have an opinion on the internet!!!!
Improvements I'd personally like to see:

  • Comment Previews in the message center such as DeviantArt's set up would be really handy. The current message center feels clunky for answering comments, especially if you get a lot of them.
  • Please move the "Remove All" button.
  • Please move it.
  • I'd like to see Folders act more like folders, and less like personal categories in your gallery. Unless I'm missing the option, from what I can see, there doesn't seem to be a way to remove an image from your Main Gallery. I'd like the ability to hide stash stuff in scraps. ;) I'm an organization freak, I want to move and shift my gallery around.
  • I hate to admit it, but I miss the Recent Watchers message set-up Furaffinity has. I'm very picture oriented, I like seeing the person's username and icon in my message center when they watch me.
  • I'd really like profile pages to feel less disjointed. I understand that Weasyl doesn't want to become a carbon copy or every other art site out there and while I respect that endeavor, there are some downsides to reinventing the wheel. Many sites have similar profile set-ups because, well, they work. People dig familiarity. I've made my profile suggestions into a smaller bullet list for some semblance of organization. +Issue: Right now the only way to have favourites displayed on your front page, is a toggle bar located right below your personal gallery bar. I'd like to have my favourites displayed, but not in such a way that in distracts from my personal gallery, after all I want folks to visit my profile and browse my art. It's fairly easy to confuse someone's favourites with their gallery (I've done this a few times, myself). +Suggested Correction: Place the favourites gallery elsewhere on the profile page. Maybe even add the option to organize your profile like Y!Gallery or DeviantArt. +Issue: The entire right hand side of the profile is a clutter. It appears to be one big wall of text and becomes a strain to look at. +Suggestion Correction: Add boxes (I dare say something akin to Tables) to the sections. Maybe repeat between two subtle changes in colour between every other one (Muted Blue/Muted Green/Muted Blue/Muted Green/Etc). Again, Maybe add the option to organize your profile like Y!Gallery or DeviantArt.

That's my current thoughts on some UI tweaks. Of course, my word isn't any better than anyone else's, but I thought I'd share my ideas anyways. i'd love to see Weasyl get more traffic, and some UI updates just might help!

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Site UI Tweaks and Suggestions

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    Gods, that Remove All button.

    One simple thing that I keep coming back to is some kind of memory for frequently used tags. I do a lot of fanart so I use the same tags over and over, and it would be nice if there was a way to fill them in without me having to type out every single one every single time.

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      Ooo, that's a good suggestion too. I feel ya. Lets just say I use male, canine, feline, anthro, furry, and stuff like that a lot.

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        Also the note system is just as clunky as the message center, if not moreso. I had to search through 20 items in my inbox to find the one relevant piece of information I needed, recently, because they all had the same subject but each message only contains one part of the exchange, rather than adding to it. It would be great if we could even just flag important notes or something.

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    THIS~ >W< You're right, the messaging system is so painful. -w-; And yes, I love the remove all button, but it is totally in the wrong place. ^^;

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    Shoving this at Weasyl staff, cause these are good ideas!

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    that "remove all" button needs to be placed differently. and it needs a warning attached to it. >do you want to remove all? y/n?

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      You should be getting a confirmation message. Do you have JavaScript enabled?

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        aaah. that was the issue. Thanks! I had no idea it would do that. @__@

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          Aha. We do try to keep everything in working condition regardless of browser and settings, so we’ll look at getting something better than confirmations in place that works without any JavaScript at all.

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            Thankyou! It was either my adblocker or javascript.. simply crashing? I restarted the browser and disabled and then re-enabled my adblockers. I noticed the oekaki on chickensmoothie wasnt working either. idk. its working now.