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Published: 2008-09-17 00:04:58 +0000 UTC; Views: 7241; Favourites: 55; Downloads: 0
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Description Here (finally) is my mockup for how I'd like a v6 club userpage to look (you may remember my crappy v5 version). It's styled mainly on the v6 deviant userpage I made a little while back, but some new features have been added just for clubs.

Features (from top to bottom)
  • New user symbol - Clubs get a new € user symbol to differentiate them from the crowd

  • Get connected - An easier to find individual club forum is accessible right from a tab on the page

  • Club banner - Identify your club with a unique banner right at the top of the page. This area also serves to differentiate the page from a regular deviant's userpage

  • Club info - 2000 characters to tell the world about your club, including links members might find useful or interesting

  • Exclusivity? - Clubs can either be exclusive (members need to apply to club staff and be approved before they are members) or open (deviants can just click a button and instantly become members). Once a deviant joins a club, it is automatically added to their devwatch

  • Watch without joining - the option to watch the club's submissions without joining is still present, by clicking the second button. This option is available for both exclusive and open clubs and cannot be disabled

  • Don't step on the little guys! - Club watchers and members would be notified of new club submissions through a new message centre section, similar to the devWATCH but only for club submissions. This would help avoid large clubs swamping deviants' work you have watched individually

  • Note staff easily - Clicking the note button will send a note to all club core staff (which will say it has been sent to the club)

  • Big feature - A large area to feature one club member, with a link to their gallery underneath

  • Don't resubmit! - All club submissions are not resubmissions and link right back to the original work! Watchers and members are notified of new additions to the gallery, unlike the current favourites system. Watchers would not recieve notification if they already watch the deviant who posted the submission (they would get it already, direct from the artist). Club members have the option to submit artwork to the club when uploading the deviation, via checkboxes showing each club they are part of

  • To allow, or not to allow? - Club staff would have the option to allow all submissions automatically into the gallery, to allow only a select list automatically submit, or for staff to have to approve all submissions for display

  • Journal - Although shown above without CSS for simplicity, clubs would have access to journal CSS by default, due to the lack of other useful subscriber features for them

  • Event Calendar - Blue dates indicate days with events happening. Simply hover over the day for the name of the event and a brief descrition to pop up to the right of the calendar, or click the date for full details including time, location and other info. The area to the right shows the next event by default when no date is hovered over

  • Staff and members box - shows all the staff and members of the club

    • A star on the avatar indicates core club staff - these deviants can maintain the club gallery, change userpage elements, submit news under the club name, admit members (in an exclusive club), approve artwork for display in the club gallery (if required) and take care of notes sent to the club

    • A speech bubble indicates a club messaging admin - these deviants can lock threads in the club forum and maintain the club chat room. Note that core club staff also have these powers. Official MN@ can overrule all club admin with respect to the chat and forums, and club staff cannot reopen forum threads locked by them

    • Any deviant without any symbol on their avatar is a normal member, and can only submit work to the gallery, and use the club chat and forums

    • Anyone not listed here is neither a member nor club staff and cannot submit artwork to the club. They may not be able to use the club chat or forums either if they have been set to allow members only (official dA staff can access them regardless of the settings)

  • Affiliates - Clubs like to affiliate to get more exposure. Why not provide a proper space for it?

  • Members' favourite news - The news club members have been faving in the last 24 hours!



Implimentation
(Copied from my reply to a question in the comments below)

This is indeed a tricky part of the plan to work out - My proposal is to hire another member of dA staff to deal with applications for the creation of club accounts. The application system would work similarly to the current deviantART Film application process, so the club founder must provide a short explanation of what the club will be for. In addition to this, certain criteria would need to be fulfilled by the founder in order to even apply, such as a minimum dA membership of 6 months and a minimum of 20 deviations in their gallery, to avoid spam accounts taking over the system.

As for the issue of subscription-type features, it would be tricky to work out who exactly should pay for them - should the members pay or the club staff? The only way around it that I can see is to have "premium" clubs charge a yearly membership fee (some small amount) to keep the features like forums, recent visitors list, journal CSS and the event calendar.

Of course, these extra features could be offered as standard to clubs, with the additional functionality providing an incentive for more people to join dA, thus increasing advertising and subscription profits for the company without a club premium being necessary.

Without being able to analyse previous dA profits, I can't make an accurate judgement as to which strategy would be best.




Ideas? Comments? Let me know what you think! (and it if you like it )



davecheesefish avatar, all deviations shown in the mockup and design © =davecheesefish
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Comments: 117

Baridah [2011-05-09 13:03:40 +0000 UTC]

i wish this was HOW it looked :c it is really good!

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Serious-Muffin [2011-05-03 10:39:21 +0000 UTC]

I love this idea, but with all the groups whats the point? whats the difference between clubs and groups besides one is an account and the other isn't?

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Davecheesefish In reply to Serious-Muffin [2011-05-03 11:11:48 +0000 UTC]

This mockup was made back in deviantART v5 (before deviantART Groups were even announced) as my idea for how a prospective club/group system should look if it were ever to be implemented

It's pretty much the same thing except I called mine clubs and they called theirs Groups

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Aqua-Kirby [2010-07-27 15:22:08 +0000 UTC]

The calender is a totally awesome idea!

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NoYouHaha [2010-07-05 08:05:13 +0000 UTC]

woops sorry haha i thought this wa s aturoial x3
Geek fail anybody
10/10

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JuliusZHE [2010-02-22 09:40:01 +0000 UTC]

Event Calendar

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DCZed [2009-09-24 09:22:21 +0000 UTC]

I still like this. I wonder why I never fav'd it before sorreh lol

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Davecheesefish In reply to DCZed [2009-09-25 05:22:16 +0000 UTC]

No problem, thanks for faving it now

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lightpurge [2009-09-23 02:06:59 +0000 UTC]

I love the calender idea!

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Davecheesefish In reply to lightpurge [2009-09-23 11:46:30 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much! I hope they do something like it in the real version

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lightpurge In reply to Davecheesefish [2009-09-23 12:24:30 +0000 UTC]

your welcome

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Shimon-Ifraimov [2009-07-03 12:55:12 +0000 UTC]

I LIKE IT ^^

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thefirsth0pe [2009-06-22 10:11:59 +0000 UTC]

this is awesome... i'd love to see your ideas implemented in the club and groups system.

My one question is, "why hasnt this got the title of a "daily deviation?""

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Davecheesefish In reply to thefirsth0pe [2009-06-23 03:47:07 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! But I'm not sure it's that good

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thefirsth0pe In reply to Davecheesefish [2009-06-23 06:05:23 +0000 UTC]

I think its one of the best "mockups" i've seen on dA

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Davecheesefish In reply to thefirsth0pe [2009-06-23 06:06:46 +0000 UTC]

Thanks

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thefirsth0pe In reply to Davecheesefish [2009-06-23 06:14:48 +0000 UTC]

your welcome ^^

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OLOluvzZutara [2009-04-27 09:25:52 +0000 UTC]

OMG.... dA REALLY needs to implement this option... I'd be happy to pay a small fee to open a club like this. I already run a club, and it'd be SO nice to see this on the userpage... I love the symbol too, it's really neat XDD

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Davecheesefish In reply to OLOluvzZutara [2009-04-27 16:37:19 +0000 UTC]

Thanks very much

An official groups and clubs system is coming really soon Unfortunately, it'll have the # symbol instead of the € one, but from what I've heard it's going to be awesome anyway

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OLOluvzZutara In reply to Davecheesefish [2009-04-28 06:38:28 +0000 UTC]

oh yay!! Wait... does that mean I'll have to scrap the club I already have and make a new one? Or will their be option to change the existing 'club' to the new version?

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Davecheesefish In reply to OLOluvzZutara [2009-04-28 19:43:35 +0000 UTC]

I'm afraid I don't know how it'll work, but I don't imagine they'll make you scrap the club completely

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OLOluvzZutara In reply to Davecheesefish [2009-04-29 10:16:49 +0000 UTC]

I hope so... XDDD

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Sliding-Panda [2009-02-26 18:38:50 +0000 UTC]

Wow. This looks great. I'd love to see deviantART clubs and your visual suggestion is very appealing. Also nice idea with this calendar. It would make the life of lots of clubs easier.

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Davecheesefish In reply to Sliding-Panda [2009-02-26 19:06:31 +0000 UTC]

Clubs are already on the way! #catdevnull is a club account they're testing, but is inaccessible to anyone other than staff at the moment When it's ready, clubs will be released to everyone

Thanks very much for the comments!

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Sliding-Panda In reply to Davecheesefish [2009-02-26 19:13:22 +0000 UTC]

Wow, I see you've got some confidential information here!
Well, anyway I'd love to see them working. Any ideas as to when they're going to be accesible for mere mortals ?
You're very welcome. I enjoyed browsing your gallery

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Davecheesefish In reply to Sliding-Panda [2009-02-26 19:24:40 +0000 UTC]

I have my sources...

I think clubs are supposed to be released before the end of this year, but I don't know any more specific than that I'm afraid

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Sliding-Panda In reply to Davecheesefish [2009-02-26 19:26:35 +0000 UTC]

Okay then. Thanks a lot for the info

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Davecheesefish In reply to Sliding-Panda [2009-02-26 19:30:13 +0000 UTC]

No problem

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Sliding-Panda In reply to Davecheesefish [2009-02-26 19:31:56 +0000 UTC]

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lady-maree [2009-02-07 06:05:27 +0000 UTC]

being a club admin this would be a gawd send!

I especially love the events calender!
well done, well done indeed!


=lady-maree

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Davecheesefish In reply to lady-maree [2009-02-07 08:35:53 +0000 UTC]

Thanks very much!

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floating-angel [2009-01-29 19:48:44 +0000 UTC]

I love this!
It should be implemented. Now.

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ghibli92 [2009-01-29 19:18:52 +0000 UTC]

Dude, that's an awesome idea!

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i-am-anonymous [2009-01-29 18:52:01 +0000 UTC]

I pray that this gets implimented! Considering how much DA has been changing lately it shouldn't take too long.

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Davecheesefish In reply to i-am-anonymous [2009-01-29 23:20:45 +0000 UTC]

I certainly hope so!

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julvett [2009-01-26 01:43:29 +0000 UTC]

I love this- have you had any luck with getting in implemented?

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Davecheesefish In reply to julvett [2009-01-26 01:46:28 +0000 UTC]

I've had a lot of positive feedback about it from members and it's in $Moonbeam13 's collection of groups suggestions, but I don't know if anything is being done based on this design as yet

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Nekoori [2009-01-22 18:27:33 +0000 UTC]

Fantastic mock layout. I truly hope it gets implemented.

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Davecheesefish In reply to Nekoori [2009-01-22 18:36:17 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

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Zhellana [2008-12-29 18:43:22 +0000 UTC]

Great job!

Now, my question: Is there an option to disable favourites on deviations so club admins don't have to go telling people to favourite the original?
But it might be a problem to code in there? i dunno, just my two cents.

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Davecheesefish In reply to Zhellana [2008-12-31 13:51:57 +0000 UTC]

With this system all deviations shown in the club gallery link to the original artwork, so there is no 'club copy' of them, solving the problem entirely

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Zhellana In reply to Davecheesefish [2008-12-31 15:35:34 +0000 UTC]

Ah, excellent!

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Aquapotato [2008-12-19 16:32:48 +0000 UTC]

I like that it's basic and not confusing. Some other people had ideas that were very intense... This looks easy to nagivate

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Davecheesefish In reply to Aquapotato [2008-12-19 20:21:53 +0000 UTC]

Exactly my intention Thanks very much

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RockabyeRy87 [2008-12-14 16:39:44 +0000 UTC]

If only you could post a deviation in the suggestions forum. haha

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Davecheesefish In reply to RockabyeRy87 [2008-12-14 16:43:45 +0000 UTC]

It's posted in the deviantART Suggestions gallery

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DogInTheWild [2008-11-22 20:00:56 +0000 UTC]

This design is amazing and so easy to understand and really utilizes space well!

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Davecheesefish In reply to DogInTheWild [2008-11-22 22:20:31 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much

I just hope they'll do something like this when they release the groups system

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DogInTheWild In reply to Davecheesefish [2008-11-23 16:58:52 +0000 UTC]

I hope so too! It would be really awesome!

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shftfrm [2008-11-21 08:18:03 +0000 UTC]

A really nice idea! Like it!

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