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Nope. You can either change your username (Why would you have your NSFW username be the same as your SFW one?) or just use sets.

Furrin_Gok said:
Nope. You can either change your username (Why would you have your NSFW username be the same as your SFW one?) or just use sets.

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NiceGuy35 said:
My username isn't the same, it's a long story, but more importantly, you can still find a user's current profile with their old username, so changing the name doesn't help.

I do use sets, but that doesn't change that everything would be a lot easier with some more options for managing favorites. Also, sets are just that little bit less convenient to use than favorites, to the point where it's annoying.

How, exactly, can you find a user with their old username? We stopped storing old usernames on site.

Furrin_Gok said:
How, exactly, can you find a user with their old username? We stopped storing old usernames on site.

Like this above ^
The old username still exists (and even contains a url to the current user) if someone's reply contains a quote from before the change.

Google index also make things easier to track.

Download them to your computer instead of favouriting?

Furrin_Gok said:
How, exactly, can you find a user with their old username? We stopped storing old usernames on site.

Don't know how or why, but i am able to find my e621 profile by just googling: "(old username) e621", and i suspect that's how people found my profile. Said old username was the one I used when I made my profile, which is also my SFW username.

BlackLicorice said:
Download them to your computer instead of favouriting?

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Make an alt and favorite stuff you wouldn't want to fav on your main on there or just scorch your current acc and start over on a new one.

But in all honesty, if your coworkers already saw your favroited posts before you unfaved them it's pretty much already GG, since nothing you can do make them unsee them.

darryus said:
Make an alt and favorite stuff you wouldn't want to fav on your main on there or just scorch your current acc and start over on a new one.

But in all honesty, if your coworkers already saw your favroited posts before you unfaved them it's pretty much already GG, since nothing you can do make them unsee them.

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NiceGuy35 said:
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NiceGuy35 said:
But this is getting pretty off topic, unless someone has anything else to add, or an admin wants to comment on managing favorites, i'd just say to lock the topic at this point.

If you want favorites that aren't visible on your main account you're going to need an make an alt otherwise private sets are really your only answer.

An easy way to make your favorites private would be nice.

What if favorites were just implemented as sets behind the scenes? I think this is what YouTube does. Your favorites are just a playlist. So, you can easily toggle them between public and private.

Maxpizzle said:
An easy way to make your favorites private would be nice.

What if favorites were just implemented as sets behind the scenes? I think this is what YouTube does. Your favorites are just a playlist. So, you can easily toggle them between public and private.

Yeah, favorites in Youtube are a private playlist. Really using sets instead of just the ambiguous "favorites" button is a smart idea in the first place. That way you can categorize them so when you look back years from now you know why, generally, you wanted to keep track of that. Where as with "favorites" it's a crap shoot.

Looking back now, the very last page of my favorites I already see a few things I don't know why are there and others I know had a more specific reason than "I like how that looks" but I can't remember said reason(s).

More on topic, sorry there aren't private faves, OP, it'd be really cool if there were. If you were to start a vote or petition or something I'd upvote that/sign for ya, seems like a nice feature to have.

AnotherDay said:
... If you were to start a vote or petition or something I'd upvote that/sign for ya, seems like a nice feature to have.

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I don't think there's any reason why the ability to set faves to private shouldn't exist. Most art sites allow you to set them to private, some even allow you to set specific ratings to private. There being existing workarounds doesn't make a feature useless, if anything that people look for loopholes means that it's a feature people would use.

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NiceGuy35 said:
I'd say that staff has been annoyingly absent from the discussion. @NotMeNotYou @Ratte @TheHuskyK9

The admins probably have seen this post but didn't respond unless there is an actual need to be involved in the discussion.

In the meantime, you can create a proper forum post/request for a new feature to be added.

You can do this by typing in the prefix "[Feature]" into your title name and selecting the "Site Bug Reports & Feature Requests" category (to put it on the record). Be sure to use the correct template for your Body and state a brief description of the requested feature and why would it be useful.

TheGreatWolfgang said:
The admins probably have seen this post but didn't respond unless there is an actual need to be involved in the discussion.

In the meantime, you can create a proper forum post/request for a new feature to be added.

You can do this by typing in the prefix "[Feature]" into your title name and selecting the "Site Bug Reports & Feature Requests" category (to put it on the record). Be sure to use the correct template for your Body and state a brief description of the requested feature and why would it be useful.

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regsmutt said:
I don't think there's any reason why the ability to set faves to private shouldn't exist. Most art sites allow you to set them to private, some even allow you to set specific ratings to private. There being existing workarounds doesn't make a feature useless, if anything that people look for loopholes means that it's a feature people would use.

Speaking as a user - generally, it's because when the site was made, we had favorites, and sets popped up.. well, sometime in the last 5 or 6 years.

TheGreatWolfgang said:
The admins probably have seen this post but didn't respond unless there is an actual need to be involved in the discussion.

Another possibility is that they'd like to watch the conversation unfold naturally without their interference.

As well, not every member of the staff has the same knowledge. It would be foolish to expect any admin to be able to speak with the knowledge of what making this sort of change would consist of. And what seems like a quick easy change to you, might be a monsteriously large change in true.

After all, remember that we have 1.5 million posts, 343,000 users, over 100 million favorited posts ...those are pretty big numbers, with a lot of room of things to go catastrophically wrong.

SnowWolf said:
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As well, not every member of the staff has the same knowledge. It would be foolish to expect any admin to be able to speak with the knowledge of what making this sort of change would consist of. And what seems like a quick easy change to you, might be a monsteriously large change in true.

After all, remember that we have 1.5 million posts, 343,000 users, over 100 million favorited posts ...those are pretty big numbers, with a lot of room of things to go catastrophically wrong.

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SnowWolf said:
Speaking as a user - generally, it's because when the site was made, we had favorites, and sets popped up.. well, sometime in the last 5 or 6 years.

That's why it isn't a feature, not why it shouldn't be. Beyond possible practical limitations of the site's coding, I still can't think of any (good) reasons why the ability to make faves private is bad. It doesn't go against how the feature is currently used, at worst it might be somewhat redundant, but even so the alternatives (sets and upvotes) don't function exactly the same way.

NiceGuy35 said:
I would never suggest that it is a quick and easy change to make, i am a software engineer in training myself. I am however, saying that it is a conceptually simple change, and that it would be nice to see staff acknowledge the concerns.

... My point was a bit more that it might take more than... *checks* ... the 20 hours that passed between the thread being started and your comment about the staff being "annoyingly absent"... for a member of the staff who is appropriately knowledgeable to make an accurate assessment regarding that.

Just sayin'.

regsmutt said:
That's why it isn't a feature, not why it shouldn't be. Beyond possible practical limitations of the site's coding, I still can't think of any (good) reasons why the ability to make faves private is bad. It doesn't go against how the feature is currently used, at worst it might be somewhat redundant, but even so the alternatives (sets and upvotes) don't function exactly the same way.

Ah, fair enough. I read you as stating "I don't know why this isn't already a thing" rather than "this would probably be a good thing."

Sorry :)

(though I figure the history lesson's useful too)