Isn’t there a pin function for the banner? - I got the impression the contest winners were pinned for a time.
If so, can all new featured images be pinned until the next ones are added? I’m just thinking as an interim solution until we figure out a better way.
This would likely stop the very annoying problem of the delay in them popping up causing you to click on them instead of something else.
There are some images I am tired of seeing because I am always accidently clicking on them!
I am on chrome desktop, and the featured artwork scrollbar is not working. the dimension looks weird for some of the artwork.
Is the featured artwork banner control by the featured tag? it’s been weird lately. i kept seeing the owl image
Its selected by tag and sorted by last change (even new comments).
@rosa Yes, it’s odd. There’s a work-around in the last post here:
maybe the display artwork on the top can get a different tag assigned? only limited to 5 or 6 artwork? i kinda miss it being the latest artwork featured. at first i find it interesting to see old amazing artwork popping up but it is getting annoying , some old artwork kept appearing more frequently.
@rosa It seems like you might be suggesting a time-limited tag. It’s a manual process but we could do that.
Featured images could receive a tag that is removed after a specified time. I don’t think we’ve discussed this idea before. I’d love to hear what others think.
I had once thought about a slide show. Each image that has been featured once in the past is placed in a pool and the routine shows the images in sequence for 10, 15, 20, XYZ minutes. In this way, each image is featured again and again. And if you want to give preference to more recent images, you can add 3 to 10 of them (or however many you want) to the pool and attach a date-based indexing numbering to them, which specifies the date on which they are to be removed. If the date is reached, the image is no longer displayed, so the images with a date index are automatically removed one by one, only non-indexed “originals” remain in the pool forever and rotate indefinitely.
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I presume the process of tagging the vote winning images each month is manual, so it sounds like removing the previous month’s tags could be incorporated into the same process?
I feel like the intention of the featuring process is to display the vote winning artworks for one month, then change to the next month’s. This suggestion is in line with how I thought it worked.
If having an image featured is treated as a badge of honour, then perhaps during the current month the tag could be ‘currently featured’ and then changed to ‘featured’ at the end of the month. Or apply both tags at the start of the month and remove just the ‘currently featured’ tag at the end of the month.
(Sorry if I haven’t grasped how this works properly)
@MangooSalade Yes, adding the featured tag is a manual process.
Right now, we’re using it for two things:
I’m leaning toward manually managing the tag for the featured banner.
That would prevent comments on older featured images bumping the new ones out of the picture.
We would not need a new plugin that has to be written and maintained.
Perhaps we use a different tag for the banner then because removing all old featured tags would delete the history of all works that once where featured at some point, basically taking their community award away. It could also happen that an artwork gets featured a second time when no one remembers it already was featured at some point.
Yes this works for now. I have made a new tag just for the top row - featured-row but @sooz @AhabGreybeard and I need to rotate images here. When we feature a new image with this new tag we need to remove a tag from the older one. In addition to this we need to put featured for all the images so that it goes in the larger featured gallery.
So at a time there will only be 6 image assigned with this new tag
I think you mean the oldest one?
Are images with the featured-row tag presented as newest to have the tag on the left and oldest to have the tag on the right?
If so, when a new images is tagged as featured-row, it will be quite simple to figure out which one needs to be removed as well as ensuring that it has a featured tag on it.
I like this new featured-row tag.
May I suggest we pick the top 5 in the voting process and not the top 6 as you had suggested, @raghukamath? That would give the monthly art challenge winner a month on the banner (from end-of-month to end-of-month) and the top 5 voted winners a month on the banner (mid-month to mid-month). @Mythmaker pointed out that naming 6 would remove the art challenge winner.
Unfortunately there’s no way to “pin” or time-designate work on the banner.
The Banner looks great!
Not sure if this belongs in this thread… but here it is…
I have noticed we have quite a few beginner Krita artists participating in the monthly challenges. I’ve also noticed that many of them receive 0 votes after the voting process. And lastly, I’ve noticed that some have not continued to participate after that. could it be they are getting discouraged because more advanced/experienced participants are the only ones getting votes?
May I suggest we think about the monthly challenge separated into “Beginner”, “Intermediate”, and “Advanced” categories, all in the same challenge? Then everyone can vote for their favorites in each category? Maybe this would be encouraging for our less experienced participants, knowing they have a chance to win in the beginner’s category. Just putting this out there as a suggestion. It may be a logistics nightmare, but may not. What do y’all think about it?
Sounds good. But do we have that much entries? May be beginner and advanced would be good? Also we need to open up slots for featured place.
Hi @Elixiah, nice suggestion.
As a beginner, I was fine with receiving zero votes 
it’s just part of the learning experience. However, I agree with you that it can be discouraging.
Maybe we could have more votes to give.
There’s so much amazing art out there at all levels, and it’s tough not being able to show support for more of it. I feel more disappointed not being able to vote for all the creative pieces I see (even if the technique isn’t top tier) than not receiving votes for my own entries, which, by the way, hasn’t happened yet .
1 Vote for expert, 1 Vote for intermediate and 1 Vote for beginners? But where Ali’s the threshold?
