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New image previews by Bitcoon

LOVE this new layout! Actually, the old thumbnails were a huge issue for me, and they legitimately kept me from enjoying this site at all as a watcher. People would make their thumbnails zoomed-in on one small feature like a face or something, and they would be completely unrepresentative of the piece as a whole or its content. They were also pretty tiny on a standard computer screen, so the result was, I'd click into someone's gallery and see nothing but a bunch of tiny faces. If their art was good, or they had a few drawings that I'd really like, I probably never knew it, because I wasn't willing to click on dozens of thumbnails in hopes of finding something good. It's a huge waste of time.

So this new system is great! Images are shown large enough that I can actually see what's in them, and there's a lot less wasted space between them. Suddenly I've gone from preferring FA vastly to preferring this vastly over FA. The larger size is great as well, since on FA I have to rely on a browser extension (Imagus) to see decent previews without having to click through and back, but here those extensions don't work so I need to be able to understand what I'm looking at from the preview. The only change I want to see is the ability to turn off thumbnails completely, especially those terrible old ones that some people chose to restore to. They're way too small in this format and take up a ton of space.

I know some people don't like the changes, so I hope they look into making more options. Smaller preview size options, grid layout controls, thumbnail/preview preferences... as far as I'm concerned, more options is always better for the user.

Deviantart always gets shit on (probably for points "commissions") but their browsing and preview options are the best, and their features for finding more art that fits your interests are awesome. I'm glad to see my favorite up-and-coming furry site finally working toward a more modern layout. I really believe in Weasyl, and if they can keep listening to users then I know they can make this by far the best site for our community.

New image previews

Bitcoon

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    I use the thumbnaiks cause i only make music, the art is secondary, and if the disable them completely i have to go through my gallery and re submit everything

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      If it were my choice, thumbnails would be a fallback if there's nothing else to show, like on music or animations which don't automatically have an image to make a preview of.