New Features On TwoInchBrush.com

Voy Kay

Felix I will second ALotofHappyAccidents there Felix. There is indeed commercial spam in the article section:

https://www.twoinchbrush.com/articles/kpi-for-seo-9-must-have-metrics-in-your-seo-analysis

Felix

Thanks for the heads up! I've banned the user and removed the article.

Seems like an overhaul for the whole report system is needed here...

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@Felix: I have a few suggestions on new features. I have to mention that I neither have the technical insight if you can realize them and/or how time costly a realization would be nor if those suggestions have already been posted by someone else.

In case someone refers to an other painter in his painting, e.g. @Tom0779, it would be great if the painter gets a notification about this
I think I mentioned it several times and others too that it would be great that you can change the main upload picture of your painting. Yet if you are unhappy with it (happens often when you upload it from a mobile phone) and/or you did some additional details/corrections you can only delete the whole upload and do it again. Here you might loose a lot of valuable input already done by others.
It would be great if you can upload additional pictures for Bob Ross recreations as well. E.g. sometimes I would share a picture of a framed painting also. Or you could show some pictures of the different stages, etc..

These are my suggestions.

Felix

Tom0779

Thanks!

Good idea, I'll check how much work it would be to add detection of username mentions.
Same
Should not be too much work, as it would work the same way as with the originals

@Colin Hudson#1837
I can change it so that clicking on an item on the newsfeed opens the painting in a new tab, so the position you scrolled to does not get lost. Would that help?
To unblurr the paintings on the feed you can tap the little red "NSFW" on the bottom right without visiting the details page.

Felix

Tom0779 You can now upload additional pictures to Bob Ross paintings.

Colin Hudson

Another useful feature is to be able to go back to the same place if, for example, you open one of the blurred images or look at comments on a picture. I always get sent back to the very start of the Main SIte.

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Felix: One further idea came to my mind. It would be great if you can follow a specific painter, so you are always informed when this painter uploads a new painting, etc..

Felix

Tom0779

In biology there is a phenomenon that a lot of different animals evolve into crabs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation

It feels a little bit like we are going the same way, only evolving into facebook/instagram 😃

Good idea, and doesn't seem like too much work. I'll think about how to best implement something like that.

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Felix Yes, I know and there are other suggestions in a similar way. But the more the community grows the bigger the chance you loose the overview. I think this can help you... But of course it is no must... I am just brainstorming about it.

Colin Hudson

@Felix - you definitely need an assistant!

tel

Hi Felix, how about for a bit of fun we have an event whereby we challenge each other by actually nominating another artist and setting that person a painting task. Nothing as simple as "paint a landscape" or "paint a seascape" but something more specific... IE paint James bond or maybe paint a still from star wars etc. I think this would be something a little different and should be a lot of fun in the process, of course one nomination per artist so some way of monitoring this would be needed 😀

Felix

tel great idea, that sounds super fun!

We could start a test run with this here on the forum. I would just start a new thread and nominate someone (you of course 😁) and once you've uploaded the painting you would comment here and nominate the next one.
What do you say?

tel

I love it, anybody else like this concept??

tel

Maybe to move things along it might be an idea if the nominee was to nominate another artist straight away to avoid the inevitable long periods between submissions. Of course for this to work it would require i would imagine at least 8-10 artists who are happy to paint what is basically an unpaid commission, maybe a vote for best commission at the end ?

dracula

As I'm moving toward the halfway point of the Great Voyage, I find it's getting a little difficult to know how many and which paintings I've completed at-a-glance. I wonder if a matrix chart, somewhat like the github heatmap for code contributions would be a useful way to quickly visualize gaps and series completion for a user. I think this format would work well, but would just be binary on/off, at least for an individual, though a combined all-user combined heatmap might be cool too!
Here's an image search of what these charts look like.
https://www.google.com/search?q=heatmap+github&sxsrf=ALiCzsa44gunEo-dT06XMON9SEpRI7T-Hg:1663966773358&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiJp8aj56v6AhVHl2oFHZ60D0UQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1512&bih=779&dpr=2

Felix

dracula Fantastic idea!

joha59

If one of the painters is removing his or her account, the paintings of that account are gone, but also all the remarks that account received and placed. Could it be possible to keep the remarks of that account which he/she wrote on other paintings?

Felix

joha59 At the moment there isn't an automated way to have your account deleted, so I am handling all deletion requests by hand. Most people ask me to remove their accounts and all their uploads and comments as well.

Jeffth

What about private messages? It just occurred to me while discussing the book borrowing in @NTZArt 's thread. I was going to send my email address privately to avoid exposure to bots or what have you, but couldn't find a way. Let me know if you've already have a good reason for not having private messaging. Thanks!

Felix

Jeffth The reason I haven't built that yet is a rather simple one: I didn't want to put in the amount of work it would take to built them in a way that I would consider good enough.

But I also think that it is now time to finally give all the members here an easy way to connect for one-on-one conversations. I'll look into it.

Jeffth

Felix I just discovered I cannot edit posts from a while ago. I'm guessing the ability to edit one's posts expires after a certain time, although I don't quite understand why this is. In any case, I was aiming to edit my post in @NTZArt 's thread to remove my email address from the public eye. If you could assist me on removing or editing that post so my email is not out in the open I'd be grateful. Thanks for all you do here Felix! I am so lucky to be a part of this lovely community 🙂