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Midnight Ranting: Badges, Aging, Ads, Mods
8 years ago
General
It's past midnight.
To the Nether with it, I'm going to rant.
Feel free to argue/agree with me in the comments!
I may be worded but I'm not trying to say what's right! :)
FA: Badges
I like badges. They are fun to collect and display IRL and online.
I think badges on FA are going to be... problematic. They are being added soon, hopefully, but it also makes me concerned about the... love being given to FA. See below.
FA/IMVU: Aging
I love FA. I love it more than dA. There are so many reasons that I think FA is the best art site.
That being said, I'm hesitantly on the "%&@%##& UPDATE ALREADY" bandwagon. There's no hiding that FA is outdated. On the (very) plus side, it's easier to load. On the downside, poor story support, questionable quality, sometimes confusing format... The poor servers are dinosaurs last information I read.
What was starting to scare me the most had little to do with FA. Long story short, my friend introduced me to IMVU the 'game'/service. In my opinion, it is... bad... It's a great concept that used to be an amazing community, but the raw software just isn't cutting it anymore; it may have the potential for infinite fancying up due to community-submitted content, but it can never improve past the technical limitations. When I realized IMVU owns FA, I began to worry that FA would be treated in the same "run yourself while we take ad revenue" way.
With the announcement of badges, IMVU is at least working on something related to FA. That gives me hope.
FA: Advertisements
You know what's awesome? User made/paid ads. I've found several cool artists through the user ads here.
You know what's satisfying? Occasional banner ads that you forget are there until you remember that they are silently paying for this site.
You know what's a wiener move? Video. Ads. Video ads used to be the bane of my existence; they slowed my terrible internet down to a crash. And does [i]anyone[i] like sound from nowhere?! Has anyone else been getting video ads here lately?
FA: Mods
Last rant of the journal is a nice one.
I like the mods here. Well, at least, I love admin
Asia Neko. She has dealt with all my trouble tickets kindly. She even read/responded my suggestions/requests for improving anti-CoC spam, even though I'm an outside pleeb who knows nothing about FA's inner workings besides what I can read from the source code. She deserves more recognition.
To the Nether with it, I'm going to rant.
Feel free to argue/agree with me in the comments!
I may be worded but I'm not trying to say what's right! :)
FA: Badges
I like badges. They are fun to collect and display IRL and online.
I think badges on FA are going to be... problematic. They are being added soon, hopefully, but it also makes me concerned about the... love being given to FA. See below.
FA/IMVU: Aging
I love FA. I love it more than dA. There are so many reasons that I think FA is the best art site.
That being said, I'm hesitantly on the "%&@%##& UPDATE ALREADY" bandwagon. There's no hiding that FA is outdated. On the (very) plus side, it's easier to load. On the downside, poor story support, questionable quality, sometimes confusing format... The poor servers are dinosaurs last information I read.
What was starting to scare me the most had little to do with FA. Long story short, my friend introduced me to IMVU the 'game'/service. In my opinion, it is... bad... It's a great concept that used to be an amazing community, but the raw software just isn't cutting it anymore; it may have the potential for infinite fancying up due to community-submitted content, but it can never improve past the technical limitations. When I realized IMVU owns FA, I began to worry that FA would be treated in the same "run yourself while we take ad revenue" way.
With the announcement of badges, IMVU is at least working on something related to FA. That gives me hope.
FA: Advertisements
You know what's awesome? User made/paid ads. I've found several cool artists through the user ads here.
You know what's satisfying? Occasional banner ads that you forget are there until you remember that they are silently paying for this site.
You know what's a wiener move? Video. Ads. Video ads used to be the bane of my existence; they slowed my terrible internet down to a crash. And does [i]anyone[i] like sound from nowhere?! Has anyone else been getting video ads here lately?
FA: Mods
Last rant of the journal is a nice one.
I like the mods here. Well, at least, I love admin
Asia Neko. She has dealt with all my trouble tickets kindly. She even read/responded my suggestions/requests for improving anti-CoC spam, even though I'm an outside pleeb who knows nothing about FA's inner workings besides what I can read from the source code. She deserves more recognition.