Princess Luna
Senior Moderator
Site Developer
Tag Czar
Complexity is a bigger problem than performance for that case. Every additional bit of logic we add makes maintaining things harder, and we have like 4 developers if you count them in a very generous manner.
The new approach of "just render the textile, have some CSS slot in words about emptiness if empty" is much easier to deal with when we make changes to image pages.
I'm unsure what people dislike about it. Is it that it stands out? If so, that is _intended_ so that people actually write descriptions. A lot of our images come with like no context and it can be a pain to understand what's going on. As an example, here's something I'd been confused about for _over 2 years_ that eventually we rerated from _safe_ to _explicit_ to _safe_ because of an understanding of the context: >>1123761
Anyways, user link normalization has been done, and the UI should be a little easier to notice and get to creating a link. Artist credit will be coming soon.
The new approach of "just render the textile, have some CSS slot in words about emptiness if empty" is much easier to deal with when we make changes to image pages.
I'm unsure what people dislike about it. Is it that it stands out? If so, that is _intended_ so that people actually write descriptions. A lot of our images come with like no context and it can be a pain to understand what's going on. As an example, here's something I'd been confused about for _over 2 years_ that eventually we rerated from _
Anyways, user link normalization has been done, and the UI should be a little easier to notice and get to creating a link. Artist credit will be coming soon.