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Thumbs Are a Go by Aden
Feels good to get these out. Please let me/us know what you think!
Now we can hunker down and get working on some actually cool stuff (instead of things that, you know, should have been there from the get-go)
If anyone's curious about the styles or js used on these, ask away. It's deceptively simple.
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I wrote a journal with some critique on Weasyl's UI, including the new thumbnails. Feel free to foward it to other staff if you think it has some useful stuff to consider.
https://www.weasyl.com/journal/89373/my-thoughts-on-weasyl-s-new-thumbnails-and-uiOtherwise keep up the great work you guys!
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Very thorough writeup! Thanks for taking the time to do that. We'll be refining and tweaking in the weeks to come, and we'll definitely have those points on hand. Especially the spacing. Getting spacing right everywhere when working from an old codebase is surprisingly tedious.
On the sizing point, previously the most frequent feedback we got was that people wanted a great representation of the artwork behind the thumbnail. We may have swung a bit far in that direction. However, I would be interested in hearing your feelings on this after using the site like this for a week or so, whether the large sizing has grown on you or if it still grates.
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Thanks for taking the time to read my journal. I look forward to seeing the future updates!
I do think you swung a little too far, and I have seen a few others who aren't happy with the size of the thumbnails either (though to be fair I have seen a greater amount of people in support of it), but it's still a good update that I think will be even better with a bit of refinement. It might happen that I get used to the large thumbnails though, I guess we'll see! Maybe just fixing the spacing issues will make it all look a lot better too even with the larger thumbnails, so that it doesn't seem as crowded.
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I'm glad we're not limited to square thumbnails anymore. Some of the new thumbs seem a little huge to me, but maybe that's better for mobile? idk. It's still a welcome change.
The one thing I really don't like is the new placement of the folder info on submissions (between the image and the description). It feels really disruptive, I care more about what the artist has to say than how they organize stuff and I felt the folder info was much better off to the side.