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We have blogs tho

A magazine consist of several pages. Its not easy to read a blogarcticle scrolling downwards. In a magazine you have a content page where you find what you want to read about, go to the page number and tada there you go. Making one blogpost for each article. Its gonna be filled. There may be a crazy high limit for blogposts but as many articles I would make it would hit it. And in my blog I don't want a lot. I want it clean , like "my outfits", "art of me" - stuff like that. Not thousands of articles. Do you understand where i'm coming from?

I understand where you're coming from, but they're still too similar. Kaj can barely fix bugs, I dont think he'll ever add a new feature like this. Yes, magazines were cool. No , I dont feel like it's neccessary at all.

You can still make amazing articles in the blogs, you just gotta think outside the box. Put some work in it.

In making magazines I could do my creativity on the site itself, overlap photos, write, choose fonts. If I were to to that in a blog article it would be so same over and over again. color the background, nice font i copied and pasted on the top, some photos, some text inbetween. If I wanted it so be more creative I would use photoshop, and like no problem to do so. But not everyone has photoshop, or nows how to. I remember on gsm that it was so easy to use, and I just want as many people as possible to be able to express themselves expressive. And you could also be a group of people making a magazine together and that teaches you a lot about teamwork. I just want people to get closer to each other and make wonderful things.

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LaurenEliz wrote:

Trashymochi wrote:

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A magazine consist of several pages. Its not easy to read a blogarcticle scrolling downwards. In a magazine you have a content page where you find what you want to read about, go to the page number and tada there you go. Making one blogpost for each article. Its gonna be filled. There may be a crazy high limit for blogposts but as many articles I would make it would hit it. And in my blog I don't want a lot. I want it clean , like "my outfits", "art of me" - stuff like that. Not thousands of articles. Do you understand where i'm coming from?

I understand where you're coming from, but they're still too similar. Kaj can barely fix bugs, I dont think he'll ever add a new feature like this. Yes, magazines were cool. No , I dont feel like it's neccessary at all.

You can still make amazing articles in the blogs, you just gotta think outside the box. Put some work in it.

In making magazines I could do my creativity on the site itself, overlap photos, write, choose fonts. If I were to to that in a blog article it would be so same over and over again. color the background, nice font i copied and pasted on the top, some photos, some text inbetween. If I wanted it so be more creative I would use photoshop, and like no problem to do so. But not everyone has photoshop, or nows how to. I remember on gsm that it was so easy to use, and I just want as many people as possible to be able to express themselves expressive. And you could also be a group of people making a magazine together and that teaches you a lot about teamwork. I just want people to get closer to each other and make wonderful things.

I dont think its fair of you to say that you want people to be closer and make wonderful things, as if its not already like that here. Have you read some of the amazings blogs on here? It's already like that, if you actually take the time to read blogs. And you can work together on it here too. Maybe try to look at the BT and what they post, and open your mind to what people are making here.

Also, Canva is a site you can use instead of photoshop.
Free site, similar to magazines, save it and put it on your blog. Knock yourself out.

Here: canva

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yes please ;____; it was my favorite feature in gsm.....

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yes please ;____; it was my favorite feature in gsm.....

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Omg i miss magazines ♥

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Omg i miss magazines ♥

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I'm with Yoko on this one. People can always be guest writters for BT

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LaurenEliz wrote:

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I understand where you're coming from, but they're still too similar. Kaj can barely fix bugs, I dont think he'll ever add a new feature like this. Yes, magazines were cool. No , I dont feel like it's neccessary at all.

You can still make amazing articles in the blogs, you just gotta think outside the box. Put some work in it.

In making magazines I could do my creativity on the site itself, overlap photos, write, choose fonts. If I were to to that in a blog article it would be so same over and over again. color the background, nice font i copied and pasted on the top, some photos, some text inbetween. If I wanted it so be more creative I would use photoshop, and like no problem to do so. But not everyone has photoshop, or nows how to. I remember on gsm that it was so easy to use, and I just want as many people as possible to be able to express themselves expressive. And you could also be a group of people making a magazine together and that teaches you a lot about teamwork. I just want people to get closer to each other and make wonderful things.

I dont think its fair of you to say that you want people to be closer and make wonderful things, as if its not already like that here. Have you read some of the amazings blogs on here? It's already like that, if you actually take the time to read blogs. And you can work together on it here too. Maybe try to look at the BT and what they post, and open your mind to what people are making here.

Also, Canva is a site you can use instead of photoshop.
Free site, similar to magazines, save it and put it on your blog. Knock yourself out.

Here: canva

My intention was not for it to come off as me meaning that people here aren't close and doesn't makes wonderful things. not at all. they do. but making magazines was such a great way to do so. And yes there are amazing blogs on here. I do not know what the BT is but that sounds great, could you send me a link to get there? i would love to check it out.

and thank you for the example of using canva, I will try it out, if not I'll just go back to photoshop.

But I'ts not like i'm saying "get rid of the blogs", i just want to add another feature. the more the merrier i think. like why not let the ones who want it get it? its not like its put in a corner: blogs or magazines.

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aaah my friend loved the magazines, she had one of the more well-made ones on the swe sight imo, i don't remember what it was called tho

It might have been about the hunger games lol

But honestly, I think they are like a tad bit gimmicky? like blogs are fine, one suggestion would be maybe being able to do like pages in blogs or smth but eh. I feel like not many people would use the function that's all, we're not enough people on this site and the blogs are barely used all that much to begin with so

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aaah my friend loved the magazines, she had one of the more well-made ones on the swe sight imo, i don't remember what it was called tho

It might have been about the hunger games lol

But honestly, I think they are like a tad bit gimmicky? like blogs are fine, one suggestion would be maybe being able to do like pages in blogs or smth but eh. I feel like not many people would use the function that's all, we're not enough people on this site and the blogs are barely used all that much to begin with so

I don't see the problem with them being a tad bit gimmicky, but okay. I like the thought of pagefunction in blogs. If not magazines, at least pages. And yes we maybe arent that many, but the function might attract more people and also everything is worth a shot, if it fail it fails, but we cannot know before we try.

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aaah my friend loved the magazines, she had one of the more well-made ones on the swe sight imo, i don't remember what it was called tho

It might have been about the hunger games lol

But honestly, I think they are like a tad bit gimmicky? like blogs are fine, one suggestion would be maybe being able to do like pages in blogs or smth but eh. I feel like not many people would use the function that's all, we're not enough people on this site and the blogs are barely used all that much to begin with so

I don't see the problem with them being a tad bit gimmicky, but okay. I like the thought of pagefunction in blogs. If not magazines, at least pages. And yes we maybe arent that many, but the function might attract more people and also everything is worth a shot, if it fail it fails, but we cannot know before we try.

yeah no i don't mind the gimmicky part, the fact that no one will use them is honestly my main concern. I don't think a function that no one uses will attract much more of a userbase anyways, I'd rather have the focus on updating already existing parts of the site to make the quality overall higher than to start to create a feature that would take a lot of work but that very few people would actually use

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LaurenEliz wrote:

devilcake wrote:

LaurenEliz wrote:

devilcake wrote:
aaah my friend loved the magazines, she had one of the more well-made ones on the swe sight imo, i don't remember what it was called tho

It might have been about the hunger games lol

But honestly, I think they are like a tad bit gimmicky? like blogs are fine, one suggestion would be maybe being able to do like pages in blogs or smth but eh. I feel like not many people would use the function that's all, we're not enough people on this site and the blogs are barely used all that much to begin with so

I don't see the problem with them being a tad bit gimmicky, but okay. I like the thought of pagefunction in blogs. If not magazines, at least pages. And yes we maybe arent that many, but the function might attract more people and also everything is worth a shot, if it fail it fails, but we cannot know before we try.

yeah no i don't mind the gimmicky part, the fact that no one will use them is honestly my main concern. I don't think a function that no one uses will attract much more of a userbase anyways, I'd rather have the focus on updating already existing parts of the site to make the quality overall higher than to start to create a feature that would take a lot of work but that very few people would actually use

Okay I understand. But of course I don't want it to be created if few people support this. I hope that this forum could show how many who wants it, if its just a few people, it will of course not happen or be worth it. But that is why I created this, too see, and if many wants, then there is more security that it would be highly used, If that makes sense?

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devilcake wrote:

LaurenEliz wrote:

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I don't see the problem with them being a tad bit gimmicky, but okay. I like the thought of pagefunction in blogs. If not magazines, at least pages. And yes we maybe arent that many, but the function might attract more people and also everything is worth a shot, if it fail it fails, but we cannot know before we try.

yeah no i don't mind the gimmicky part, the fact that no one will use them is honestly my main concern. I don't think a function that no one uses will attract much more of a userbase anyways, I'd rather have the focus on updating already existing parts of the site to make the quality overall higher than to start to create a feature that would take a lot of work but that very few people would actually use

Okay I understand. But of course I don't want it to be created if few people support this. I hope that this forum could show how many who wants it, if its just a few people, it will of course not happen or be worth it. But that is why I created this, too see, and if many wants, then there is more security that it would be highly used, If that makes sense?

yeah. And honestly, it's not a bad idea because the magazine function was so much fun? and I'm sure some people would use it, I just don't think it's realistic for vp, sadly

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LaurenEliz wrote:

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LaurenEliz wrote:

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yeah no i don't mind the gimmicky part, the fact that no one will use them is honestly my main concern. I don't think a function that no one uses will attract much more of a userbase anyways, I'd rather have the focus on updating already existing parts of the site to make the quality overall higher than to start to create a feature that would take a lot of work but that very few people would actually use

Okay I understand. But of course I don't want it to be created if few people support this. I hope that this forum could show how many who wants it, if its just a few people, it will of course not happen or be worth it. But that is why I created this, too see, and if many wants, then there is more security that it would be highly used, If that makes sense?

yeah. And honestly, it's not a bad idea because the magazine function was so much fun? and I'm sure some people would use it, I just don't think it's realistic for vp, sadly

I am happy to hear that you don't think the magazine function is a bad idea. it may not be realistic, but often you experience something to be totally unrealistic, but you would be suprised if giving it a shot. to make a change, it wouldn't work if everyone said it's not realistic and stood back. Changes happens in masses. I take it as you support the idea but can't see it happen, does that mean I can have the pleasure of writing your name up as a supporter?

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