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Updates and fixes here and there

Hello everyone. Just wanted to chime in. We just did an update today to help fix some of the small nuisances that popped up after the site merge. Hopefully most of them are taken care of.

We are reading over all the responses to the Big Changes thread, and a number of the ideas are good ones. They may take a little time to implement, but anything is workable. Yes, we are working on a filter for viewing, which should be up in a couple days. Even now, the Random Art on the front page is only that of Compagnon artists.

Also, according to our rules, blatantly fetishist art is not allowed. We have image flagging for this very reason. :) Flag it enough times, and it goes away for review. I thank those who have.

I am also working on something that will allow you to fave/remove/flag an image or artist just by hovering over the thumbnail. That should make the process a whole lot easier.

Thank you for addressing these issues. One thing that should probably be dealt with at some point is that with the growth in the number of artists, the Artists List is starting to get a little unwieldy. Even with the list indexed alphabetically, it is getting a little tedious to flip through all the S's, say, if I want to look i[ Scptt Ruggels's gallery. At some point, it might be good to gurther subdivide the index, so that clicking on S gives you the option of clicking on Sa-Sc, Sc-Se, etc.

Richard Bartrop said: Thank you for addressing these issues. One thing that should probably be dealt with at some point is that with the growth in the number of artists, the Artists List is starting to get a little unwieldy. Even with the list indexed alphabetically, it is getting a little tedious to flip through all the S's, say, if I want to look i[ Scptt Ruggels's gallery. At some point, it might be good to gurther subdivide the index, so that clicking on S gives you the option of clicking on Sa-Sc, Sc-Se, etc.

That is a wonderful idea. :) I second it!!

Also, to the Artspots staff, thank you for listening and being so communicative! :)

Artspots has to be one of the fastest sites when it comes to fixing bugs. Thanks!

Richard Bartrop said:One thing that should probably be dealt with at some point is that with the growth in the number of artists, the Artists List is starting to get a little unwieldy.

Agreed, I ran into this problem not too long ago as well. I was thinking, it would be really cool to have a search bar that works like Google Suggest. (So when you type "sc", you immediately get a drop-down list with Scale, Scott Ruggels, and Scooby Doo.) This scales well, and you don't need the alphabet bar(s) any more.

Nocte said:Agreed, I ran into this problem not too long ago as well. I was thinking, it would be really cool to have a search bar that works like Google Suggest. (So when you type "sc", you immediately get a drop-down list with Scale, Scott Ruggels, and Scooby Doo.) This scales well, and you don't need the alphabet bar(s) any more.

Oooh I like this idea as well. Seconded for the shiny ajax method! =D

OH, I don't google enough! :)

hehe.

I like that idea as well.

I think the enhanced search box would work too. I wouldn't create a separate one for the artists, though, just use the existing one. The main reason for that is because in our usability testing (we actually did some!) having two search boxes on the screen is nothing but confusion. People would gravitate towards the artist one and type in a general keyword they wanted to find.

So, in that respect, you would start to type 'dra' and get:

dragon
draft horse
Drakenhart
...

So that the next key, 'k' (drak) would narrow it just down to Drakenhart.

This could be doable, yes. :)

I can see how two search boxes would be confusing, yes. The thing I had in mind was to let the search box apply to the currently active tab. So if you are looking at the artist list, you would search for artists. In the forum, you could search posts and topic titles. And so on.

Ah DA has that and it's extremely irritating. Personally I prefer to search from any page (And is the assumption it'll do as such by most) so that it'll pick up any artist or artwork as it does now just perhaps a mite tidier. Otherwise people just get confused and fustrated having to remember to go to specific sections each time if they realise at all.

Yeah, there's a lot of context sensitive design that if done poorly can be really annoying. In this case I think it's because the search button would still be in the header, so a user would assume that the search will be site wide. If you want to add a search within the current results feature, I'd put another search box below the header at the top of the page content with some text that says "Search within these results." That way there's a visual cue and text explaining it. I don't think people will have a problem with that.

Metsys said:If you want to add a search within the current results feature, I'd put another search box below the header at the top of the page content with some text that says "Search within these results." That way there's a visual cue and text explaining it. I don't think people will have a problem with that.

That's precisely the situation where people would use the "search within these results" for general searching. :) If anything, the Google method of providing a separate link (which is at the bottom of the search results pages) would probably be the best option if we wanted to do such a thing.