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Holy fucking shit, this new thumbnail system is an affront to all of my senses. by Emenius
There was nothing wrong with the old system except for the fucktards who made the thumbnail super zoomed in so you couldn't tell the whole picture was going to be. Which could easily be fixed by allowing default thumbnails like InkBunny does. This is such an ass-backwards solution that obliterates the grid, DOUBLES the size of the THUMBNAILS(Thumbnails, by definition, are supposed to be small), and not only makes the front page and user pages absolutely hideous, but lessens the number of submissions shwon. Jesus fucking christ, get your shit together, Weasyl.
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(I was going to make a feature request, on the vanishingly small off-chance that no one has already mentioned it, but their "bug tracker" is a forum. So, lol, good luck ever finding anything there.)
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This is pretty much my opinion on the matter as well. Honestly, it's never a good thing in my eyes to take away the ability for a user to fit the experience to their needs/expectations where possible, and the lack of options is my only problem with this site. I couldn't be happier to actually be able to SEE the submissions posted here. It's not a matter of 'a few people' who were putting up super zoomed-in thumbnails - it's basically everyone. I'd rather have thumbnails turned off entirely, and just see the resized submissions we get by default.
This view shows fewer submissions, which maybe some people don't like, but it has less wasted space and actually shows a good representation of the full piece. The thumbnail system was actually a pretty big problem for me before, because dozens of times I almost didn't click through to see some art that turned out to be great, all because the thumbnail was such a poor representation of the content. Previously that's all that FA had going for it over Weasyl. With the current state of things here, I vastly prefer this layout over FA.
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yeah, i agree entirely. not only that, but i restored the thumbnails i set up for all my submissions (because i liked how they looked) and now they have an ugly amount of space on the top and bottom. i mean, seriously? would it be that hard to not have weird blank space around them when that wasn't there before?
this is really frustrating, because i generally like weasyl, but i hate how it looks now.
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Ugh, I agree...
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I like and dislike it, but provide constructive feedback.
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to be honest it was a big WHOA when i logged in, but its not that much of a hassle. It could be better improved since its probably for those on mobile phones. and i do agree with draccy on the constructive feedback
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I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. I did provide constructive feedback. Just because it's littered with expletives doesn't make it any less constructive.
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oh ok i was thinking you were on a rant. though i was saying that when i signed into weasyl, i was surprised that the thumbnails were so big that i thought i made the mistake of enlarging the scaling, but i dont think its that bad that they are big.
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I wouldn't mind an option that lets you have it the older way...which was nicer.
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UPDATE, THEY DO HAVE THE OPTION AVAILABLE!!
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I think it only restores -your- thumbnails to the old version, though. And they end up wasting a ton of space along with the same problem we had before, where I don't get a good idea of what a picture looks like or what its content is until I click through on it. (which, let's be real, I don't have time to do with every pic, so I miss a lot of good stuff here) It's not much of a fix any way you look at it, really.
Personally, I prefer this new system vastly, but I wish it came with an option to simply disable thumbnails outright. I want to see the whole picture in that nice, larger size every time. It may take up more space, but I can actually tell what I'm looking at. I can only imagine how much great art I never saw simply because the old, tiny, usually zoomed-in-on-some-face thumbnails didn't give me the slightest clue how great the actual content was.
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Well, yours, and whoever else happens to have them back to that setting
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I hope not a lot of people do it. Already, I'm avoiding pages using those old thumbnails because it's such a hassle to click through on every submission on the off chance it's something I'll really like. And it doesn't help that the new system makes the tiny thumbnails eat up twice as much vertical space as before (just extra blank space :<), so they look really out of place now.
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I actually like the way it looks now, but I do agree that it should be possible to disable custom thumbnails.