Art Charts: These will include favorite artists, vendor credits and images. This interactive feature will replace the stale Hot20 system. The information will be gathered from member's favorites lists, found in the “My Favorites” link.

They might make it harder to manipulate the Art Charts than the Hot20 for a while but if the people that wanted to vote to only make the Hot20 a popularity contest want to, they'll figure out how to do it again.

I'm not sure how they are going to calculate it this time but it looks like it's going to be based on more factors than just a vote so it'll probably take them more time to.

They switched the views and comments to a mouseover on each thumbnail so you can't tell at a glance how many each image got, I'm not sure if that system is better or worse, but overall the new galleries does give more info, whether or not that info is useful is hard to tell at this point.

From the comments I've seen on it so far the majority of opinions are "That it's going to take a lot of getting used to" I agree with that and will wait and see what the members do with it.

 

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