Hi. For a few days now my notifications won't load. I'll click the bell icon, and I get the loading animation, but the screen never shows up no matter how long I wait. Ad block is off, tried logging out and back in, no change. I'm on firefox.

edit: Oops, just saw there was already a thread for this. My bad.

I have now over 99 DMs that are just P-Bot saying I published a piece. I know I published a piece, so does it really warrant a message cluttering up the DMs?* If I were to get a message from an actual person it'd just get lost in the spam. Same for the emails. I could disable emails altogether, but then if a real person DMed me I wouldn't know about it.

Surely there is a way to just have P-Bot not notify you about published projects, or is there not?

* Also, is there a way to bulk delete these?

Did not know that was possible, but either way, it's still an obtuse solution. The expected behavior is the thumbnail updates automatically to the image changing. Or that when you go to re-cut, it makes sure the image hasn't changed.

Hi. I wanted to request a couple improvements to the art submission page that have been nagging me for a while.

1) Selecting a tag from the tag suggestions should return your cursor to the tag input box. As it is now, every time you make use of this feature, you lose focus on the input box, and have to manually click it to type in more tags. Needlessly cumbersome, and would be a nice QOL fix.

2) This one is more of a bug. If you accidentally upload the wrong picture, remove it, and replace it, the thumbnail will still show the old wrong image. Re-cutting doesn't work, and continues to show the old image. You're forced to delete the project and start over. The thumbnails should get regenerated every time the first image changes.

Please and thank you.

Thank you. :)

Hmm, when I go to the submit page it still has None as the pre-selected template option for me.

I hope I'm not being annoying by bumping this, but since not even the typo was addressed, I was wondering if maybe the message wasn't read.

I've now uploaded a couple pieces since this update, and I think it really needs one final tweak, please! If you define a default template, then it should pre-select it by default. As it is currently it always starts with no template selected, requiring 2 clicks every time to select it. If I'm setting an upload template then it's because I want those settings every time. I shouldn't need to specify it.

The wording also suggests that this is what should happen: "If you set this as your default template, all new projects will be pe-filled with the above information"

By the way, typo on "pe-filled" (this is in the edit template page).

Yeah, that one. If you've filled everything out correctly, then it just feels like an extra unnecessary click. Most other art sites don't require you to accept the guidelines every time. It's just implied, or there's a checkbox that's ticked by default.

Yay, thank you! I super appreciate this. ❤

I hope we can automate the publish prompt too. That would remove one last click per upload.

Since it doubles as an error report feature for when there's fields missing, maybe it would still show up, but only when it has an error to report?

Okay, cool.

So a few days ago I mentioned that the thumbnails on the Latest Art section don't appear to be rendered correctly. That is still unchanged, and I'm not sure if it was part of the fix list, but I figure I should mention it again anyways. The images appear to be filtered with a poor interpolation method (I assume), resulting in very aliased previews.

The new issue I was gonna mention is that when you go to an art page, it shows a resized version of the image, and only when you click on it does it show the full version. The problem is the resized version is not the correct size. As far as I can tell, this resized version always takes up an area of width 624 px, and keeps the aspect ratio for the height. However, the image that's being used is more than 624 px wide, which means it's gonna be resized (twice now) to this div, resulting in less than ideal windowed previews. My art has a heavy emphasis on meticulous lineart, so this looks very obvious on my stuff. For example in this piece, the leg and arm lineart looks very aliased. This would not happen if the preview was correctly rendered to be 624 px width, the exact size of the div. It would also take up less bandwidth.

I hope that made sense. I can clarify if anything was confusing.

Is this thread still being followed by the devs? There's another bug/issue I wanted to report about the new system.

Is it known that the Latest Art small thumbnail images are not rendering like they should be? See for instance my latest two piece thumbnails here. They appear to be in nearest neighbor as opposed to bicubic.

Hi. Is the system going to have support for preference defaults? Right now the system requires quite a few more clicks than the previous form, and as someone who uploads a lot of art, and has some carpel tunnel symptoms, every click makes a big difference for me.

The issues for me:

• I only ever upload one to category, illustration, but now I have to do 2 clicks to select it, whereas previously I had to do none.
• I always use a license, and previously that was on by default. Now it's off by default. So I have to click it on, and then do another click for the license preferences I want. People will generally always want the same license, so it'd be nice if it saved their preference and you didn't have to do this every time.
• Do we really need the confirm publish prompt? It feels like such an unnecessary extra click. Can't it be a checkbox that's on by default saying you understand the terms?

Also, a bug:

• If you select the wrong picture to upload, you delete it, select a new one, but it doesn't prompt you to save the new thumbnail. And if you try to re-cut it, it doesn't update to the new picture.