RodS opened this issue on Jan 02, 2023 ยท 221 posts
EVargas posted Fri, 06 January 2023 at 7:54 AM
@Wolfenshire, when you said "I know gallery and genre is listed on the main image, but obviously nobody is seeing it": in my opinion the reason for this is because it is a bit hidden, when you click on "gallery at the top" you see options like "trending" and "new". It is then necessary to click on "sections" or "genres" again to see a relevant option.
Speaking a little about web UI/UX, and considering that you would like to increase interaction in galleries and forums, what about simplified menu options? Reducing the distance between homepage and what the visitor wants?
Looking at the homepage it is possible to see that the main content promoted is the marketplace, for obvious reasons even, as others do, I don't see a problem with that, but could there (maybe) be included a small carrousel, of something from gallery/forums? Something like "latest discussions" or latest submissions.
Each user likes to browse the internet in a different way, and I think it's good to have customization options, as mentioned above, regarding the galleries. I particularly use the option to hide forums (Vue for example I don't see it). In the case of galleries what I do is have shortcuts/favorites in my browser, so I browse by clicking on my shortcuts instead of using the menu. Still on this I think it's important that there is always a visible option of "new / all / no filter" so that users eventually become interest in seeing the whole (except for the adult filter, that must persist of course). I myself often click on galleries/new, after a filtered browsing it's very refreshing to see the wide variety of art/artists that exist here and I usually end up seeing something that interests me.
About the example of writers having poor or no feedback, when reading your comments the idea came to mind that an interesting option (and expandable to other cases) would be to promote/encourage more collaborations between artists. We've seen animations here with a narrated story, I think that's pretty cool. There are a lot of people who like challenges and surely materializing your stories in images would also be a great challenge!