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Published: 2008-06-04 06:06:24 +0000 UTC; Views: 27084; Favourites: 87; Downloads: 0
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note that this was made pre-v6, before I knew what the new message center looked like, and it's also super rushed.The idea is to allow us to split our deviantWATCH into at least two groups - our friends/peers, and everything else.
We watch two types of people: close friends and peers (our community), and artists who's art we just like.
I only have a few dozen 'close' friends compared to the hundreds of artists I watch because of their great art, and it's easy for me to miss something a friend submitted amongst the thousands of deviations.
I think it's important to make it easier to focus on the deviants who matter most to us, while also allowing us to continue to appreciate all the wonderful art shared by the wider community.
This is just a quick mockup to give people something to see, it is open to discussion, and I've actually left out ideas. It's meant as a companion to the description above, and for my journal on the matter: Comments. A solution?
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I've read that they're working something like this into an update to the message center. Wont be a separate area, but a filter/sort that let you push your Friends stuff to the front.
Rejoice!
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this is such an amazing idea. I wish it would be implemented.
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Plz make this system!! I watching many 100 ++ groups and deviantas and i miss ALOT of what my friends make >.<
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Great idea! Any chance it's going to be implemented in the near future?
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I remain hopeful, but aside from +spyed adding it to his ideas collection (about four years ago mind you) I've had no indication that it would be implemented.
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Ah, that's a shame, it's really a great idea and it's something I could really use. Oh well (:
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dA isn't a terrible site; they do a lot of things right, but they don't have the best history of implementing user's suggestions. It's all pretty random - some things get done over night by one developer, some things take years (the groups system), and some things come out of nowhere that no one wants
Until they implement something like this though, just knowing you'll lose track of your closer friends if you add too many 'cool artists' kinda helps.
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I think this is a great idea! I think it's something that most people can appreciate if introduced as a feature.
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Definitely a great concept! The watch has gotten so clogged I've had to stop watching half of my groups and I only have 9 to start with of which 8 have volume.
What would also work is to filter out the repeat offenders - mega uploaders and the ones that submit to every group in their genre.
I wandered in here looking for CSS clues on mini-galleries since *kuschelirmel-stock listed you.
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another good idea which is left to rot since 2008...
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I'm kinda surprised I'm still getting comments on this thing, how did you find out about it?
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I saw it on the Great Spyed 's profile
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Woah, that'll sure explain the constant trickle of attention
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XD it sure will 
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I would LOVE having this... it's embarassing for a best friend I speak to on aim all day every day ask me how come I haven't said anything she posted three days ago, when I'm trying to help her learn about certain things, and then be told that I watch too many people. D=
It's to the point now, that if I don't wanna be stuck in my inbox and get no work done, I have to keep bookmarks of close friends so that I can check their profiles specifically for new things, and I'm always finding new artists that I fall in love with their work, which just makes the problem worse... because I can't help it if someone is so spectacular here that I have to watch them after I realize that I'd fav their entire gallery. This community just has so many amazing artists and writers and photographers and cosplayers that it's hard not to want to watch at least a million of them. Great idea... I've been trying to think of a way to work through my problem of this, and it would be perfect to have this.
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nice idea! ^^ I'll definitely use it
but can you make something like a mixed friends and everything feature available, just like the current devWatch, for the sake of the people who wanted 'the big mess of deviations'? I like to view deviations like that sometimes, but if not, I'll be still satisfied with the new thing
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excellent idea...out of curiousity is this currently in place on the beta testers? and if so...or if it comes to pass....won't it be a good idea to have a 'reset all deviantwatch to artstream' button, then we can go and addteh communities within?
there was once group support on dev watch, but that was fiddly to say the least.
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A very interesting idea. I'm sure there are a lot of people (including me) who would love this.
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what i cant understand.. i am portuguese xcan you try explain me
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This is a great idea. I think it would be great for everyone to use. I think it would make things more orgainized to me 
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This is a great idea! I'm always hesitant to watch artists, even if I like them, because I know it's going to fill up my deviantWATCH. This would completely fix that problem for me!
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It could be named deviantSTREAM, since just goin' with the deviant theme.
But EXCELLENT idea, i hope this comes to dA!
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Cool concept. But maybe if you had a "friend or fan" option when you add someone to your devWatch it might make things easier.
Epsilon
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There's been talk about them developing new filters for our message center, one of which would be to filter things to have our friends show first. I'm looking forward to it, 'cause it would enable the kind of focus that I was going for with this concept.
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I agree. I aim to make my friends my priority first and foremost. I get a lot of messages, and I read about 100 journals a day.
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I think this is a fantastic idea. I continue to run into this problem. and I often end up deleting my friends messages out of my devWATCH in think that I'll remember to go to their page, so I can concentrate on getting the other deviants out of my devWATCH. It never really ends up being that way. I think this stream would be an amazing solution. I really hope something like this could be added!-Steve
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I think this is a great idea. It'd definitely make my commenting and whatnot easier.
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Interesting concept
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This would make my life so much easier. I do wonder how many resources it would take to program and implement. The gallery folder system is similar, but so much more small scale than this kind of filter system, especially considering the volume that would have to go through the filters.
But I do love the idea. I hope that it is seriously considered.
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Apparently the new message center is going to let us do something like this, not long until we get to see for ourselves
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I really think that this would encourage me, as well as others, to actually watch more people. Fantastic idea
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That's brilliant, also it looks nicer then the current message centre.
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Loving it so far.
The design could use some work, of course, but it communicates the concept quite well.
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