tammymc opened this issue on May 01, 2003 ยท 351 posts
fitzwell posted Fri, 02 May 2003 at 3:53 PM
My point is not about bandwidth and regardless if it is not the reason for the change, it will impact the speed of the site by limiting the total number of images posted. Neither is it a posting/viewing issue or a creativity issue. It is simply that with a reduction in the average daily images that can posted, more images, in more categories, can have a better chance of being seen and the artist can have their creative voices heard. I am a someone who does not post, but loves to view artworks and over the last year, I have been finding it harder and harder to keep up. The favorite artist and favorite image thing was helpful in keeping up with a few artists, but I still miss a lot of other images because I cannot spend hours upon hours viewing every new image, every couple of days. If it is about the community, it cannot be just about the freedom of the artist to flood the galleries with thousands of images a week (which if I had the time, would be fine with me :)), it has to take some consideration for the people who are trying to view all these works. It would be like going to the museum and as you are walking down a hall, they keep adding more and more pieces. You would start to more faster and faster to view them all and eventually, you start skipping over pieces and rarely stop to appreciate what you are viewing, because the time you have is limited. I like to be able to stop and smell the roses, so to speak, and although I know that it will not solve the problem, I feel that if the number was reduced, even marginally, we would all be able to get a better to see what we are missing in haste. Thanks again :)