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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: 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..
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.
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.
@Felix - you definitely need an assistant!
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
I love it, anybody else like this concept??
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 ?
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
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?
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!
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.
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