Favorite Artists

Would it be possible to add a Favorite Artists function, just like the Favorite Tags one? I know you can also add artists in the Tags one, but it gets a little messy with all the new pics beind posted everyday (that is if you have a few "common" tags favorited).

I second that request, would be a very useful feature to have.

I third it. The artists I have as my favorites don't update very often, so an update may get lost in the normal tags that I favorite.

Fully in support of this idea. And if possible, have a query much like favtag only for artists.

Also in favor.

Like Pixiv's favorite members, yes. Wouldn't have to restrict the favorite tags so. Implementing it, however...
May be better to just have a secondary set of favorite tags? Or an add button for it, with an upper limit.

I say I

Aye say aye too, aye suppose

Add another one to the wagon.

That would be great, I support that.

Yo.

I also think this is a good idea.

I refuse...

... to think that we can ever go back after this. DOO EET! pls

So this is now the "random bump every 10 hours" thread now? I don't think it's a bad idea, but it's more something that should be placed on the trac for Albert to decide than endlessly bumped here.

I couldn't respond to this until I was at a PC with Photoshop. Here's my suggestion for this, which I've been meaning to draw up for a while...

I think favorite tags should be separable into categories. This gives us the option to make a category called 'artists' that would include all our favorite artists, but it also opens up a myriad of other options for easy of browsing, while still allowing the same simple function that we have now at its basic level. I believe it wouldn't cost extra bandwidth either, but I'm not 100% sure on that one.

Anyway, I think it could look something like this:

http://i43.tinypic.com/2w3aset.jpg

The "Favorite tags" on the profile should probably remain as they are now, with just the latest 5 images in any of the tags in your categories. But we could have a new entry on the profile page called Favorite Tags which displays each category separately, looking something like this:

http://i41.tinypic.com/35hn04i.jpg

Additionally, a "cat:[name]" or "cat:#" could be used to denote it in a "favtag:" search, which could be linked from that page (on the ">>" links). The pure "favtag:" would function just as it does now: a search of all your favorite tags, regardless of category.

スラッシュ said:
"Sexual deviancy" - hat

That's some dangerous deviancy right there.

Surasshu's idea looks great to me. Being able to define your own categories would be extremely useful

The private pools idea that was thrown around could work for this as well, although I guess that wouldn't get auto-updated.

The only issue I can think of is that many tag queries are hard on the DB, there may need to be a restriction on the number of total tags.

There already is a limit on the total number of tags, I think it's 20? I also think it won't be more difficult on the DB to split the tags up into categories as opposed to it being one big search. I could be wrong though, I'm no coder at all.

This will take a bit of effort and I've been busy with work lately. Put it on Trac and I will get around to it eventually.

Right on. I've opened a ticket. I didn't think it would be the easiest thing in the world to put together, but it would really enhance the usefulness of the favorite tag function (which in itself has already greatly improved the browsability of danbooru). Thanks!

http://trac.donmai.us/ticket/479