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Restructure - Community Suggestions

Sun Sep 16, 2012, 11:56 PM
Community suggestions on the deviantART Related restructure:

Suggested Changes


Stamps
  • Have a category 99x56, and another for untraditional sized stamps. Suggested by ^TheLastHuzzah

Devious Fun
  • The Memes category has a misleading title. Suggested by !prosaix and others
  • All, if not, most deviants are confused on what My Video Stills are for.
  • Memes should have two sub-categories: filled-in and blank. Suggested by $namenotrequired

DeviantMEETS
None

It's Coming
  • Change "It's Coming" to "Muro Drawings" or remove it completely.Suggested by ^Katara-Alchemist
  • Merge "It's Coming" with Devious Fun > Miscellaneous. Suggested by `lost-angle


LOLFella
  • LOLFella could probably go; so many miscats and copyright violations. Suggested by ^Katara-Alchemist

T-Shirts, Gear & Prints
Probably won't be able to change anything about this gallery. It's more officially controlled.
  • Have a "Clearance" category. Suggested by `JamminJo

deviantART Birthday
  • Merge 7th to 10th Birthdays into "Previous Birthdays" Suggested by ^TheLastHuzzah
  • The 7th to 12th birthdays should be sorted into chronological order. Suggested by =Mathness

deviantART Skins and Scripts
  • Separate Journal and Gallery Skins. Suggested by ^Katara-Alchemist and many others
  • Journal Graphics is a waste of space, mostly miscats in there. Suggested by ^TheLastHuzzah
  • Journal graphics should be moved to resources and stock, as they are resources. Suggested by ^neurotype
  • Make Skins and Scripts separate parent galleries. Suggested by $namenotrequired

deviantART Suggestions
  • Possibly remove written suggestions and have deviantART Suggestions with no sub-categories. Suggested by ^TheLastHuzzah
  • I think deviantART Suggestions are better as deviations. If you take away the written suggestions, it seems to favour people with visual art skills. Stated by `ATrue

DeviantIDs
None

Added Category suggestions and other


  • Somewhere to put interactive dA-related flash files. Suggested by `parallellogic
  • Deviants are mostly in favour of a profile customization-type category.
  • The categories should be in alphabetical order. Suggested by =Mathness
  • "Allow other extensions in scripts & styles (such as .js files - i also had .crx in mind when writing it but that is allowed now, not sure about .js and other popular extensions for, er, extensions)". Suggested by $namenotrequired
  • .psd, .xcf and .zip files allowed in skin designs, to allow for easier coding (as you can see which fonts are used etc). Suggested by `im-not-sana
  • .png for full CSS and user styles and such, as simply the preview. Suggested by $namenotrequired

Feedback


  • On having a deviantART Related category in Flash:
    "Eh, so long as it's there I'm fine with it, though I'm not certain that is the most intuitive location for it. I mean when you submit fan art, you look for the fan art section and then look for the specific medium within that section to submit to. To me the same should be true of deviantART related content - you should look for the category 'devART related' and then look for the medium of expression (written, pictorial, animated, interactive) within that section." Feedback by `parallellogic


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:iconmiontre:
`miontre Sep 17, 2012  Hobbyist Photographer
I agree with:
  • Have a category 99x56, and another for untraditional sized stamps.
  • The Memes category has a misleading title.
  • All, if not, most deviants are confused on what My Video Stills are for.
  • Memes should have two sub-categories: filled-in and blank.
  • LOLFella could probably go; so many miscats and copyright violations.
  • Merge 7th to 10th Birthdays into "Previous Birthdays"
  • The 7th to 12th birthdays should be sorted into chronological order.
  • Separate Journal and Gallery Skins.
  • Journal Graphics is a waste of space, mostly miscats in there.
    Although it isn't completely useless, it does have some good uses. So I more closely agree with:
    • Journal graphics should be moved to resources and stock, as they are resources.
    Although, I've always understood this gallery to be an area for people to host their images :B If so, I would agree that the gallery should go. We can use Sta.sh now :dummy:
  • Make Skins and Scripts separate parent galleries.
  • Possibly remove written suggestions and have deviantART Suggestions with no sub-categories.
  • Deviants are mostly in favour of a profile customization-type category.
  • The categories should be in alphabetical order.
  • Installable gallery skins.
  • .psd, .xcf and .zip files allowed in skin designs, to allow for easier coding (as you can see which fonts are used etc).
  • .png for full CSS and user styles and such, as simply the preview.
    I would also be in support of other image file types such as .jpg and .gif


I disagree with:
  • Change "It's Coming" to "Muro Drawings" or remove it completely.
    What if our work isn't made in Muro?
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:iconladygagz:
You can't even submit to It's Coming, so that wouldn't be an issue. It's Coming is an old gallery that was made for select artists to "test" deviantART muro. :)
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:iconmiontre:
`miontre Sep 17, 2012  Hobbyist Photographer
:lol: Whoops. I thought it was somewhere people could submit their WIPs :O
In that case, I agree it should completely be removed.
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:iconicefire8521:
=icefire8521 Sep 17, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Maybe there should be a subcatagory for journals skins; one for specific people [like for skin commissions, requests and gifts] and one for free skins. I'm kind of tired of seeing good skins but I'm not allowed to use them; I'd like them to be filtered out a bit.
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:iconprosaix:
'It's coming'... Can't you make it a subcategory or something else? Devious Fun for example? It's not as if we can submit anything in there...
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:iconeitvys200:
=Eitvys200 Sep 17, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
You no add PLZ gallery? :confused:
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:iconwdwparksgal:
:bulletgreen:Having spent countless hours a week moving miscats from Projects and dA-Related folders, I would say there could be a lot of changes that could include combining cats and sub-cats to try and lower the amount of stupid mis-cats. I realize I was fighting a losing battle, but I was very concerned about keeping clean folders. And, of course, I was asked to keep deviantARTSecrets cleaned out (it was notorious for having miscats ~ I worked up to my last hour as a volunteer removing miscats).
:bulletgreen:I totally agree with changing the stamp cats to the standard accepted size and the "other" sizes.
:bulletgreen:I agree with changing the sub-cats for Memes.
:bulletgreen:A "Clearance" category for sale items in the dA Shop would make it really easy to find great stuff to purchase at a discount :points: :buymyprints:
:bulletgreen:Are journal graphics backgrounds for banners, footers and text sections? If so, going into resources is a great idea :idea:
:bulletgreen:I wish all categories were automatically alphabetize, like folders in gallery, etc., but to have categories arrange in alphabetical order would be awesome :aww:

Between your two heads, I am sure both of you will be able to seriously clean up deviantART-related :glomp:
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:iconthelasthuzzah:
^TheLastHuzzah Sep 17, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Good looking suggestions! :D Why are ^namenotrequired's suggestions on green? :XD:
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:iconladygagz:
Because we're working on it together, and it's easier to distinguish his suggestions. We were using this journal as a "private database" of suggestions before now. :D
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:iconthelasthuzzah:
^TheLastHuzzah Sep 17, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Ahh, I see! I thought it would be something like that :D
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