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Idea: Contest Integration
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Published: 2011-03-26 00:18:52 +0000 UTC; Views: 16852; Favourites: 230; Downloads: 112
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Contest Integration by =TimberClipseHey guys!
So this is my second large suggestion in the past few weeks. The idea? To take one of the largest factors of art, contests, and integrate it INTO deviantART!
The idea features a clickable list that would show group, deviants you watch and official dA contests. Each list is expandable and you would be able to hide lists you don't want to see as well.
This idea could also eventually lead into new ways to use your message center including but not limited to:
- View deviations related to current contests
- A Calendar with contest deadlines as wella s other events on the left hand side
- etc.
Non-Viewed Features
These are features I was unable to add, but would be part of it in an ideal situation:
The features would include notifications on the home page when there are new contests. An option to turn the contests list on or off. An option to send you a daily digest (via note or announcement or email[?]) of contests that end in the next 2 weeks. Hide lists in the main list you don't want to see currently and expand with a single click. Option to view only contests applicable to age groups and international/US Only. UPDATE 25 March 2011, 12:00 AM EST: Suggested by `namenotrequired : A complete listing of all blogs and journals that use this extra feature that could be searched. My own addition to that is that each could then also be split up by what mediums are allowed. This could be done through a series of check boxes. Implemented
Total Time: 2 Hours with FireBug + 1-2 Hours with Photoshop and Other apps. (About 4 hours total)
Used: FireBug
Adobe Photoshop CS4
Screenshot Capabilities on Mac OSX
UPDATED:
March 26, 11:00 AM EST
Added, per suggestion and then revision by `namenotrequired a section that would allow you to browse contests currently going on, even if you don't watch the deviant or group.
I then further revised it to automatically count these journals as news article so that they don't make deviants post both journals AND news...
Have a great day!
March 27, 2011: 3 AM ESTThank you so much for the Daily Deviation! I truly hope this will become a reality!
Also if any of you are interested, I made a recent announcement about the Contests Around dA Article: [link]
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Comments: 113
Thank you very much for the critique and kind words.
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This is an awesome idea and i really wish it'd get fully implemented.
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Your suggestion has been featured in Suggestions of 2011 .
Congratulations!
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This is a great idea!
I often miss out cool contests because they're hard to find -- some people just announce them in their journals, instead of in news and etc.
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Totally down with this but I'd like to see the contest limit at perhaps five instead of just two. We like to keep things busy at the Haiku Club.
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The thing I love the most is the contest search feature. I hope this will not only be a suggestion, but reality.
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totally awesome and simple. hope it happens!!
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congratulations!
great job man
it was always a good idea, glad your work has been recognized
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Congrats!
I knew this was going to catch attention! ^^
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OMG! This is an awsome idea!
That would be an amazing feature if it was implemented!
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If a deviation won a contest would it show up on the deviations page that it won? I think that would be a good feature to this system too if you haven't already thought of it
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That would be cool. I included a similar idea, but not entirely that
Very cool, thanks!
TC
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I really hope the dA staff takes this to heart.
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This is an awesome idea, and I really hope they use it!
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GENIUS!!!! I've been wanting something like this forever!
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This is one dA suggestion I really wouldn't mind. It wouldn't change the format too much, and it would actually be very helpful to me, as I'm always missing deadlines!
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Not just deadlines for contests, but having it link to the original blog would mean finding the "submit here" button so the entry goes into the correct category.... I cannot tell you how many contest entries end up in the wrong category. If I find them, I move them, but for every one I move to the correct category another may be missed, ergo, the contest missed! I agree that this suggestion wouldn't change the format too much!
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I knew this would get a DD. Congrats! It's such a great idea.
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Congrats on the DD! 
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This would make it so much easier to keep track of all the contests I watch/join
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No. If you let every moron host a contest it will be flooded for a fair amount of people, even if they could disable it for each person. And if you'd let only groups, only premium members or only seniors and volunteers host them it would be just as pointless to create such an extensive update.
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I completely disagree. Although there are some contests that don't work out the majority of them do.
And if as you say every "Moron" would submit them, then why would you be watching them? And if you aren't watching them it wouldn't show up on this list. More to the point, if a "moron" hosted one, it wouldn't affect you at all!
Best,
TC
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