Since OGA was first created a little over a year ago, one thing people have been asking for is the ability to group art into "collections". I love the idea, but until now I've been putting it off because it's non-trivial.
One of the big changes coming down the pike for OGA 2.0 is the new art interface. Our current interface works relatively well for finding and commenting on existing art, which is good from the standpoint of OGA being an archive. On the other hand, if you're an artist looking to improve a piece of art based on comments from the community, you have to go to the forum for that. Or, if you want to, say, fork a piece of art (in other words, create a new derivative of it while leaving the original alone), there's no way to indicate that you've done that except for leaving a comment.
I'm posting this here in response to a post on another thread. It was suggested that OGA move away from Flash for audio previews and start serving up HTML5 native audio instead. I want to state for the record that I think this is a nice idea in theory, but in practice there are some things that prevent me from doing it:
I tried to provide a pretty detailed answer to Ogrebane's question, but what I said there doesn't have to be everything. If you've got some ideas for OGA 2.0, we'd love to hear about them. :)
I think it would improve the enjoyment of the site quite a bit if there were a direct link on each user's profile to see their submissions instead of having to go to browse > by user.
Can this be fixed automatically? (no problem if not)
Can we get a list of all art that is lacking previews so we can fix it? (either automatically or manually, which I wouldn't mind doing) It could be that only these two are affected :)
The top of each submission form needs a red "Warning, you are not logged in! The submitter will be marked as anonymous, so either log in or don't forget to add author information!"
Alternatively, anonymous submissions could be required to have author information added, but the first solution would be better, because it would be clear before pressing "submit" and I'm sure many browsers will forget what you filled in if you log in while filling the form.
