Director pages are here! Directors is a great hub for artists looking to neatly present all of their information in one place, including links to their socials - and what's even greater is that everyone can freely make one!

Directors-artists can also link their Directors page to their e6ai user page, making it easier than ever to showcase all of their posts in one convenient place, regardless of whether they uploaded them themselves.

This link needs to be created by a staff member to ensure the Directors page is connected to the correct user account. You can request a user link in this thread. Please note that a staff member may contact you to verify that you are indeed the director/artist tied to the Director page.

How to

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Please make sure to include the Director page and your user page in the message

https://e6ai.net/directors/4
https://e6ai.net/users/31246

This is definitely a nice and useful feature! I particularly like that director/account link with the checkmarks, it will help people easier discern an upload by the actual director from one by a third party. I mean, it's pretty often you see comments mistakingly trying to address the uploader as though they're the director, when he/she may not even ever visit here.

Or (though this is more rare) inversely: you're actually aware of this, would like to say something to them and it actually is them too, but their username differs from their director tag enough to cast doubt, and now you feel weird because you could just be talking to a figurative chair.

So yeah, good stuff. 👍

But umm, could I maybe request a different placement for this new category in the top bar?

This is minor, but Posts always used to be the leftmost (text) button, which I use as an almost subconscious one-click way back to page 1 from anywhere on the site, and I can't be alone in this. Directors taking its place has been screwing with my muscle memory. 😅

And neat though that list of director pages is, it's not something you're typically going to return to all day long, I think.

Besides adapting, I guess I could use the E6ai logo which is the leftmost element, but that's still an extra mouse drag + click to get to the latest uploads.

I've currently just blocked the element wholesale because I'm a lazy bastard, but that's less than ideal because I do like what it offers. But this ain't about me, it's about general UX.

Just my two cents.

hammapajamma said:
Besides adapting, I guess I could use the E6ai logo which is the leftmost element, but that's still an extra mouse drag + click to get to the latest uploads.

I've currently just blocked the element

Hello Hammapajamma,

The directors page is in the same position as e621's artists, in the background it's the same thing. Changing the position implies to either change it on both sites or introduce difference in the 2 code base. Dealing with code base differences is annoying and can be a big time sink, so the devs keeps it to a minimum.

There's always the possibility to use CSS or a code injector like Tampermonkey to adjust it on your local browser

kaleth said:
Hello Hammapajamma,

The directors page is in the same position as e621's artists, in the background it's the same thing. Changing the position implies to either change it on both sites or introduce difference in the 2 code base. Dealing with code base differences is annoying and can be a big time sink, so the devs keeps it to a minimum.

There's always the possibility to use CSS or a code injector like Tampermonkey to adjust it on your local browser

Hmm, yeah, too bad but that's understandable.
A userscript would probably be a good idea, I'll look into it.