I wish the size limit for upload of video files was greater than 0.1Gb, it seems really limiting. I've only got a silly little test animation but it comes out at 123,766Kb for just 3 seconds worth.

Maybe I could convert to another file format; I'll do some research to see if, for instance, mp4 is liable to be smaller.

It is down to the format.

Thanks Steve, lost a lot of resolution also reduced dimensions but file size now tiny by comparison.

Bio text on my profile page clips off after four lines, but there's no clear indication of what the character limit is. Can the bio display be made to scale with the input text?

That aside, I'm hopeful for the potential of this site.

So that I can compare what I see as your bio and what you can see. can you please screenshot it and email it to [email protected].

Thanks 

Steve

Certainly. E-mail is on the way. Thanks for your help.

This is something someone might have already suggested, but I'd love to see an option in user settings to stop and/or modify the "slideshow" timer when browsing pictures. I can't really think of any other website that uses a timer (that is by default on) when browsing pictures. Frankly I don't like it at all, and I don't think it is very UX friendly when I have to stop the slideshow each time I open a full size image. Yes, pausing the slideshow means moving my mouse 2 inches and clicking the mouse, which takes less than a second. It is still an issue that would be easy to fix. (Note: I know barely anything about web development so it's probably not that easy.)

Hey there

Thanks for your suggestion.  I'll create a task for the dev team and see if we can't reverse this, so that the slideshow is paused by default.

 

Here's one, which doesn't seem to have been addressed in the last few pages: I'd be grateful for the option to have my notifications e-mailed to me in daily digest format. I'm interested in tracking my numbers, as most any artist might be, but I don't really need an individual e-mail for each and every blip throughout the day. A daily digest would be a manageable alternative that would give me something to look at without unnecessary inbox clutter.

(Or if there's already an option, could someone please point the button out to me?)

This sounds like a great idea,  I will put it to the team

What do you guys think about adding new categories for size related fetishes like Giantess/ Giants / Growth / Shrink etc, as part of the macrophilia community I think we would all appreciate to have a category instead of having to search everytime :))

I would like some form of reference to the forum on the front page, for example the Last post messages.. Maybe it would help getting the forum a bit more lively..?

This might be something that is in the works for Phase 2, if not I will make a note of it and talk to the team.

Updates to filtering, generic tags such as MxF, FxF, MxM, etc. are missing. Also some content tags, like male, female, futa on an ingrained level. Meaning that I could ban/filter all images/posts with the tag "female" for example, so no matter what the situation is, if its 10Mx1F, or 1Mx10F it would be filtered. Right now we can only filter futa content, but not female, nor male content. Devs should look up some examples from boorus on how to enable image filtering. I don't think we need super detailed tags like "clouds" when the pic is an image of outside. But we could use basic ones, like the ones I've detailed.

Cheers

Roger that! Submitted to the team.

Let me say this first, I may sound harsh and maybe even rude, but it's not meant to be that way. English is not my primary language. I really like the idea behind Slushe and the Community that is behind this.

1. Performance / Loading Time

It's just horrible slow. As a starting point... open Google Chrome go to "slushe.com" press "F12" go to "Lighthouse" and run the test, that's a basic starting point for what is wrong with this site. 

Just some simple example for this:

• On top of the page you have a thing called "Categories", if you mouse over a list of all Categories is shown, with a picture for each Category. The pictures are about ~180x180 px in size, but what you do is using stuff like this https://cdn.slushe.com/misc/cat28.jpg a full sized picture with 2.3 mb of size. Overall that Category thing is 30+ mb of download / memory usage all the time. But it should be one picture for all categories, that is used with offsets (or at least much smaller pictures for each ones) which ends up being 1 mb in size or so total.
• Same problem with most of the thumb images that are way to big for their use case.
• The javascript that is used looks like way to slow and oversized too, for the stuff it does.

Overall I would use a "one page solution" that uses ajax / xhr (or what ever you wanna call them) requests to load data instead of moving between "real" pages. Should make everything much smoother and faster. Sure that would require a huge rework of the page, but currently to be honest, it really needs that.

2. Posting Media

This should be considered one of the most important things and really needs some love.

• It should not be a popup, it should be a "full sized" page
• Why the page needs to reload between switching from "image" to "poll", "video" or "text", you just have to hide / show some elements while keeping the rest.
• Categories are so important for the viewer and the artist. So they should not be behind a scroll wheel.
• There needs to be good pictures for each category to show what they are. This pictures do not need to be shown always just a "info" button or when you hover the category with your mouse.
• Categories need to be sorted / grouped together better and categories that exclude each other should automatically do so. For example group the art type of a picture together "2D", "3DX", ... what people are on it "Solo" "Couple" "Group"..., what is shown "Big Butt/Tits/Dick" and so on.
• Give us a default set of Categories that we can choice. So we don't have to select them for each picture. As most artists tend to do the same stuff over and over again.
• Tags need some love too. Again let us set default sets of Categories that we can click on to add them to the picture that we used before. Add a list of most used Tags based on the Categories that where selected.

3. Overall Stuff

• The loading of additional pictures on https://slushe.com/featured and https://slushe.com/most-recent needs to start earlier, so that you not encounter that loading waiting time so often when you just scroll down.
• On "Gallary View" / "Featured" / "Most Recent" you show the artist and the name of the picture at 50% of the size of the image. I don't think we need to show the artist there (and we 100% not need to show the artist on the gallary view on the artists own page, because we know its from that artist, because we are on the artists page). Reducing that to 25% size and removing the artist should be better or even removing that at all?
• If you view a picture, then the categories and the tags of that picture should be much closer to that picture. I would expect the tags to be right below the picture. But at their current location you also just can remove them, as they don't feel like they are connected to the picture at all.

4. Featured vs Most Recent on the Front Page

This is surely highly bias and based on personal opinion. But this just does not feel fair and reasonable on how it is selected and done. This leaves me as an artist questioning my own work and my own overall understanding on this kind of art and quality in a way that does not feel good.

Surely overall you can say the median picture in the featured page is much better then the median in the most recent. But there are to many pictures not getting the same fair spotlight they should get by getting featured on the front page. While there are some pictures that are getting featured that lack far behind in visual quality. This raises the question of bias and many more stuff.

I have no easy solution to this. But I think there needs to be a way as an artist to know why or why not you get picked up or not. And there should be a level of quality in your art that gives you a automatic featured for all your pictures in the future. Make it an achievement, if you unlock it your "done". At least give us a insight in how this stuff works and is selected. And then make that selection as un biased as even possible.

5. Contests

I love them as they are a reason to get better (hopefully). I don't think there needs to be big rewards for them anyway. What I would think would be great is to endorse more talking and feedback on contests pictures and artists. And that includes artists talking about challenges and thoughts behind pictures and techniques they used to archive things. We could use that much more as a Community building tool then as a core contests.

However there is one big upset on that topic. If you have a contests called "Glory Hole" then why a "Milking Table" is winning the contest? Don't get me wrong on this one, the picture is really great and it should have won a "milking table" contests. But in a "Glory Hole" contests it should not even have been allowed to be voted on, because it's off topic. I think that is dishonest to everyone that tried their best to get a very hard topic down to a picture, just to see someone winning this with a off topic picture of something that I would consider a much easier to do topic. And just let me repeat this: I love that picture, I like the artists and it's not his error to create such a good picture. It just should never be a option to be voted on as it is off topic.

@SonyaVixen
to address your points

re 1) yes, the site is way too slow, we'll be dedicating a whole development cycle to address this issue, we have started using ajax in some parts, like the home page used to load in pages rather than endless
re 2) 

It should not be a popup, it should be a "full sized" page

the full page option already exists, click on the two arrow icon in the top right corner to expand the window, you can also expand the text box... lot's of people (including myself) prefer a small window though, that's why we have both

Categories are so important for the viewer and the artist...

Mostly agree with the items you mention here, especially default categories and tags. After we're done with phase 1 features, we're going to review and improve each key page including home page, categories, media posting, etc

re 3) re gallery overlay, we've already reduced it from taking up 100% to 50%, this space is required for long text and consistency and the fact that it only shows on hover doesn't impede viewing enough to consider removing, imo... other then that good points, which we'll review

re 4) re featured selection, yes, it's somewhat biased, however the alternate is an algorithm which wouldn't address quality at all just quantitative criteria such as number of views, likes, etc... in other words "winners" win more... eventually we'll need to go that path and figure out a way to make that data inferences as fair as possible but for now it's still manageable 

quality is not the only criteria, another important one is variety, for example since most submitted works are in the 'dick girl' category the quality standards are higher, but since we don't want to limit the site to just one niche, categories such as hetero, 2D, etc get a pass on slightly lower "quality"
other criteria include the amount of images submitted by an artist, opt-in categories are excluded, whether the image is promotional, etc

and yes whenever you have manual selection, subjectivity is going to play into it, but we try to keep it objective, within a given rule set

re 5) we'll expand on contests, as for the winner, I've heard others level issues with it, but you're the first to mention the 'milking table', so at least it's a widely shared view, having said that, the broad interpretation of a 'glory hole' is for a dick poking through a hole, to that end, the basic criteria were satisfied and the rest is down to creativity
so I agree that 'off topic' should disqualify, but in this case it doesn't overstep that line

@miro

thank you for that response

on 2) i know the option for making that popup full size exists, the point i wanted to make is more that its a very important thing, that shouldn't be done in a popup style input. you want everyone to take their time, to put all the categories right and maybe even add some tags to the pictures. the most important thing is that people can find the art style that they are looking for, for both the viewer and the artist.

on 3) yes the reduction from 100% to 50% was a good thing. but think about the use case of this: someone hover over a picture because he might be interested in it. so what should happen now? you reduce the visibility or should you increase it? i would expect it to get bigger or at least keep its size and get additional information displayed next to it in a kind of "speech bubble" or so.

on 4) maybe a bit of both worlds would be a good solution to start with. have artists that have a given level of quality (base it on number of likes, followers, favs or maybe do it after they have been featured x times before) to be featured always and then add variety by putting spotlights on other stuff by personal selection.

on 5) well i guess the definition of this is different in different languages and locations, so yes maybe that was just good creativity. but there is a little "but" still there. if i remember it correctly there was only this one milking table picture in the contest, nobody else had that interpretation of what a glory hole is. the artist himself wrote: "Glory hole really isn't my jam, but I went with the milking table variation." so my understanding is that even he said, not a glory hole but he has taken the next thing close to it. in the end i just wanted to bring that up, because for me it was wrong to include that picture. think somehow end of that story, now thinking about the next contest ;)

Oh I total missed one...

The filename of the pictures shouldn't be just a random hash combination. It should be something like "Slushe - Artist - Title - Picture Number - Hash.jpg". This would save time and make sure that the artist is known when people look at the file in the future. And in case you can't directly change the filename on the server, then at least add a save button on the page that does add this kind of data to the filename. But there should be even a option to do something like that with server side code without actually changing the real filename just sending another header or so on a download request? oh I cant remember that one correctly.

And speaking about file headers, I guess something with them is wrong to. If you open a picture directly like https://cdn.slushe.com/galleries/24785f0c76ce3d9f7/5f0c76d9cc567.jpg then you get a zoomed in view (400% or so) of the picture at least on current version of Google Chrome. This should be related to wrong data in the header of the image or the header of the web server reply.

@SonyaVixen

re 2) anything that makes submissions more efficient, like a modal window instead of a new page load is preferable, imo, but a good compromise is to remember the 'full page' setting
re 3) good suggestion
re 4) that's pretty much the plan
re filename - currently the plan is to add a 'download' option which then downloads the image as the original image name
"And speaking about file headers, I guess something with them is wrong to. If you open a picture directly like https://cdn.slushe.com/galleries/24785f0c76ce3d9f7/5f0c76d9cc567.jpg then you get a zoomed in view (400% or so) of the picture at least on current version of Google Chrome. This should be related to wrong data in the header of the image or the header of the web server reply."

I actually see it at the original size also on the latest chrome on win 10