New Homepage Discussion

Ponyweed

@Clover the Clever  
Constructive suggestion:
 
On the home page, create a toggle bar under the search bar that toggles all the forum features / top rated images / etc. on and off.
 
Since the forum / top rated / etc. still displays recent images anyhow, and these are floated divs (I assume), you can make all the extra content visible / invisible with simple css.
 
This leads to possibe solution of another issue I have with derpibooru although it might be congenital to a booru’s.
 
Because the turnover rate is so high, most people don’t get to see a lot of stuff unless they are specifically looking for it, which means that discussion generating images (trollbait or otherwise) and images by well known artists (karmafriend or otherwise) get all the attention.
 
Since images appear on the new homepage by default anyhow, in addition to toggling on/off visibility of the forum / top rated panel,
 
you can also have a button allowing users to toggle what order images appear on the home page.
 
E.g. they could select “random images from today”, “trending / popular”, or chronological.
 
The “Images” version (home)page would remain chronological by default, since that is how the booru operates.
DudeManGuy
The End wasn't The End - Found a new home after the great exodus of 2012

Waifu Hoarder
I like the idea of making it optional. I can be my stubborn, OCD self who hates when things change, and other people can have it their way.
JP
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I miss the show so much
“This looks like your first visit to the site”
 
You have no idea how much this startled me when I F5’d the page after just waking up. “WHAT?! FIRST VISIT? WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY FAVES AND COMMENTS AND” … oh “Images”. There they are. Just need to change my bookmarks.
 
But clicking on the “Derpibooru” logo no longer takes me to the images like it used to :-( Now I have to use the 1 button to go back to the first page.
 
Could you, umm…, warn us next time before you do something? I’m allergic to changes like this.
 
Other than that, the new front page actually looks nice. But I doubt I’ll use it much.
Soufriere

Sunset Shimmer Fan
I’ll be honest, I was kinda shocked when I refreshed the page and it was suddenly so busy. But I don’t hate it.
 
It can be somewhat useful to see the latest comments and forum posts, if you care about what topics are hot. I freely admit I’m not all that social and just do my own thing; I rarely visit these forums. “Just here for the Ponies”, as they say ;)
 
Fortunately the site as a whole is laid out pretty logically, so all I needed to do was add /images to my bookmark’s URL.
Petedash
Perfect Pony Plot Provider - Uploader of 10+ images with 350 upvotes or more (Questionable/Explicit)
The End wasn't The End - Found a new home after the great exodus of 2012

Prefered the old ‘just images’ homepage.
 
And the top 5 highest rated pics…we can’t lose it! It’s a part of this website.
 
People didn’t found the activity homepage useful at first… now most people will now have to click ‘‘images’’ instead of having the picture content.
 
I mean , honestly , we want the top 5 top scored week/all time.  
More than the recent forum posts  
More than the recent comments  
More than the feature image (lolwut?)  
More than watched images (there’s a section for that)
 
Or maybe make an option to change back to the other versions? I know it’s not possible , but damn…Not a mendatory change at all.
Nebbie
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A Perfectly Normal Pony - Nebutton
The End wasn't The End - Found a new home after the great exodus of 2012

The clutter this adds looks HORRIBLE and the reduced room for actual images make it unusable for what it makes its main focus (the images view). It’s worse for a first-time visitor too because the welcome message is too big and just makes things look more cluttered (and I don’t think anyone would really read the welcome message…wouldn’t the notification area with its distinctive coloring but smaller area be better for a first-time welcome?). If I saw a website like this and wasn’t intent on getting something on it, I’d just leave immediately.  
The side things need to be collapsible (and clearly so to prevent scaring away people) at the least, and the Watched Images section needs to take up as much horizontal space as it can. Right now, it leaves a big empty area to its side for me, and the thumbnails are shrunken as a result.  
Also, I think it’s a bad idea to put recent comments on the homepage by default. There’s gonna be a lot of complaints about NSFW comments and I don’t think many people care to see recent comments vs. other recent things.
Ponyweed

As mentioned above, it would be really easy to make 100% of the homepage / forum / site extras collapsible with simple css.
 
I think it is interesting stuff and I spent a lot of time visiting derpibooru before I noticed the forums and statistics / top rated – but since recent images appear there anyhow, the new home page really just “the Images page + extra stuff” which can be made toggle-able.
 
Plus you could add a button to home that allows users to choose what images they want displayed (on the home page) in order to mix things up a little, e.g. they could show trending / recently popular, or random pics from the day – that way site traffic won’t only be directed to the most recently posted pics.
 
That might also address the issue of displaying “highest rated” again by making it an option. Right now traffic is directed mostly to recently posted pics due to the high turnover rate, so the ratings curve for images is very steep.
Ponyweed

Grieffon – last I checked the featured image was image zero, the first image to be posted on derpibooru (a ponification of an early spiderman / pony thread macro done by hotdiggedydemon of pony.mov fame, his first pony art). Of historical interest as the pony image macro threads kicked off interest in pony art on the *chans, and hence kicked off a chain of causality leading inexorably to the creation of derpibooru, apropos, here. Ergo, a contingent affirmation of the structural anomaly inherent in the brony phenomenon, hence, qua, you.
 
So I guess that’s why it was chosen.
 
Apropos!
Clover the Clever
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Since the Beginning  - User number zero

Lord and Saviour
As mentioned above, it would be really easy to make 100% of the homepage / forum / site extras collapsible with simple css.
 
Sadly, nothing is really easy. Bear in mind we have ~300,000 unique visitors a month - all with different browsers we have to test, different screen resolutions, etc, etc. The current design for the site isn’t ideal in many ways and we’ve been wanting to scrap it (mostly) and start over, but that’s not something we have the manpower/time to do. Developer-wise there’s just me, K_A and a couple of others - and none of us have much time to work on the site on a day to day basis.
 
Featured image: is picked by the admin team. It’ll change as and when.
 
Thanks for all the feedback - we will be keeping the design as-is for a few days before making any major changes to gather information, since ~20 people on the forums is a small percentage of the ~10,000 unique people who use / every day. So far those statistics are saying that the bounce rate (number of people who see it then leave) is down and people are sticking around longer, but we need to get more data for this to be statistically significant.
someguy111
Wallet After Summer Sale -

I want an option to turn the homepage off and just go straight images. I know I could just set a bookmark to go to the images instead of the homepage but it’s still kind of a hassle. Also I think it would be nice if each user could customize the homepage layout; they could drag the comments to the top for example.
ArmyBoy57

Has anyone tried to look at the main menu of the site Via Mobile phone?  
I ask this beacuse that’s how i started on Derpibooru. Just wondering if any mobile users are having issues with the site…
Mayojar77
The End wasn't The End - Found a new home after the great exodus of 2012

Well, I like it. It’s a visually appealing system, and it uses up all of the space on the screen rather than just having a blank white box on one side.
Clover the Clever
Princess of Love - Extra special version for those who participated in the Canterlot Wedding 10th anniversary event by contributing art.
A Perfectly Normal Pony - <@CloverTheClever> I'd pay to see Carcer in a fursuit
Always Codes Drunk - It explains a lot
From the Night - I have technically banned myself a bunch of times...
Since the Beginning  - User number zero

Lord and Saviour
@ArmyBoy57  
We do test for smartphones/tablets - while this doesn’t reflow perfectly it’s “good enough” to the same extent as the rest of the site (which is itself not great - we know, sorry). If we ever have time to redesign we’ll use a responsive approach for mobile/tablet.
UTTFISH'S
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The End wasn't The End - Found a new home after the great exodus of 2012

Un*belly*vable!
Really neat to see Derpibooru evolve like this!  
Particularly :  
*> Watched images and new images on the same page  
Streams, new forum posts*
dt
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No Thank You
I eagerly await the day I go to the homepage and see a racist/etc comment in the front page.
Petedash
Perfect Pony Plot Provider - Uploader of 10+ images with 350 upvotes or more (Questionable/Explicit)
The End wasn't The End - Found a new home after the great exodus of 2012

About that featured image , can you hide it?
 
tags doesn’t work on them , and…well , it kinda ignores the meaning of having tags. (being able to hide a picture)
 
And I guess we lost the top 5s forever. Really sad.
Blackie
The End wasn't The End - Found a new home after the great exodus of 2012

@dt
 
It has already happened for me today, 3 times. Good ol’ DB.
 
Also, I think the homepage is bad and worst of all, useless. The activity button was already good enough.
Clover the Clever
Princess of Love - Extra special version for those who participated in the Canterlot Wedding 10th anniversary event by contributing art.
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Always Codes Drunk - It explains a lot
From the Night - I have technically banned myself a bunch of times...
Since the Beginning  - User number zero

Lord and Saviour
About that featured image , can you hide it?
tags doesn’t work on them , and…well , it kinda ignores the meaning of having tags. (being able to hide a picture)
And I guess we lost the top 5s forever. Really sad.
 
Featured images are selected only from the list of safe images - there may be the occasional featured image you don’t like, but nothing offensive/NSFW.
 
Racist comments? How strange, we don’t appear to have any reports for those.
 
Seriously, report stuff. People who make racist comments on the site should be banned, and will be if you report it. Simple as. We want the homepage to represent the community. If there’s a bit of the community that sucks - let’s fix that. The rules are rules.
 
 
@Blackie  
@dt
I think the homepage is bad and worst of all, useless.
 
Care to elaborate? Sweeping generalizations kinda don’t help us. Been lots of good feedback in here so far and we are listening.
cb5
Thread Starter - The time wasting thread

@Petedash
Care to elaborate? Sweeping generalizations kinda don’t help us. Been lots of good feedback in here so far and we are listening.
 
So far the majority of the people saying the homepage is bad have been saying it’s too busy and has too much stuff going on and needs to be simplified.
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