On Dec 22, 2015, BogusRed said:

On Dec 21, 2015, Angelus-Mortis said:

Maybe another thing you could do is have a livestream feature where people can post their livestream/picarto status. I kind of just forgot to mention that.

Can you tell me more about this? I have no idea what picarto is or what you mean by livestream.

Picarto.tv and Livestream.com offer streaming services where some artists will stream their art in progress live, and people watch them and chat. But it's sometimes difficult to know when people are streaming unless you follow their Tumblr blogs. Newer art galleries like Weasyl have this feature, so if you follow someone in an art gallery, you just view their page and if the artist uses it, it will say they are streaming or not. I guess that's something you could do in your profile easily, but having a separate feature for it makes it easier for people to look for I guess.

On Dec 21, 2015, Angelus-Mortis said:

If you're worried contest participation might be too low, you could perhaps try some other events where you don't have to spend money on prizes. It could be a theme month you use to promote users' artworks. Or a comeback event.

Oh yeah maybe i could do simple contests like "whoever posts the most comments this week gets their work featured. or something like that.

On Dec 21, 2015, Angelus-Mortis said:

I've also noticed some of the affiliates are a bit outdated and haven't updated for years. Maybe you could try and see if you could find affiliates that are more recent? You don't have to get rid of the older ones unless they've moved to another site or something, but affiliation is one method of spreading the word because that's how some people might find your site.

Oh yeah. those are ancient. None of them are getting me traffic right now except for a few per month from pixelgoddess closet. I will get new affiliates.

 

I was talking with my Mom and she had some ideas. Perhaps we could introduce a ranking system. This would encourage members to be more active because they'd gain higher ranks as they posted more. We had a REALLY long discussion about this (11 pages of posts) back in 2007. Perhaps I should just go ahead and implement this because pretty much everyone agreed it was a good idea.

Do you mean forum posts or what? I guess that could work, but then I wonder what the ranks do--is it like a video game achievement or is it useful on this site somehow?

Some other ideas--we could also allow animations. They don't have to be flash animations though. You could allow other formats like regular mp4 or those free formats. I find a lot of people are moving towards regular movie formats and away from flash. You might be able to attract a few Krita users this way. Krita is recently experimenting with and will be soon rolling out more stable animation features, and there are already lots of people using it, even though it's a beta feature. I think most people are posting Krita animations as gifs though.

Collabs would be a good idea. I am noticing that the groups feature isn't being used much. I wonder if it can be expanded to include groups for collabs, art trades, etc? Might make it easier for people looking for that stuff. Or even commissions too. Maybe at this point it might not be attractive because people will want to be using features where there are people actively using it. But no harm done in offering it anyways.