New Feature Introducing Doll Profiles

The doll profile feature is AMAZING. Thank you for adding it!

 

Really really cool and fun! This is a great tool!

 

Would love to be able to make more than 5 doll profiles. I currently have 7 dolls, and have more on the way... having to pick who has a profile and who doesn't is a bit of a bummer.

Other than that, I think this is awesome.

 

I love reading about other people's dolls and their backstories. ^^ It always amazes me how creative the people here are.
Thanks for adding this feature!

 

omg yay! I've been wanting a feature like this! Definitely love it!!! Also hope more spaces will be added in the future, as I have quite a lot of characters planned I think this feature is awesome!

 

OMG this option is amazing!
thank you for adding this

 

So cool! Thank you!

Now....to choose 5 of my 16....

 

The perfect tool for any aspiring storyteller. But the best part is definitely reading/seeing what others have written. What a great way to discover people on the forum! So many awesome characters. Thank you, DoA Staff & Beta Testers!

 

Just the thing I need to continue to put off the work I brought home to do. I can always count on you to help, DoA

Off to procrastina--- uh, test the new feature.

 

Made one for my Leia Going to wait a while to make another, though. Great idea!

 

I love this!

 

That's super cool!

 

Nice addition; thank you!

 

Love

 

I'm glad you added this.

 

Will we ever be able to have more pictures on the profiles? Like a small gallery?

 

Oh! It says "limit 1" so I didn't know I could put more linked photos. Thanks!

 

Thanks for the help! And thanks for creating this feature!

 

What a great idea !

 

This is awesome! Although my 24cm doll is listed under the 40-49cm category? Did I miss something filling it out or...?

 

Ah, thank you! (I also noticed that it shows what category it is at the top of the form page... good to know.)

 

This is such a cute feature! I had a lot of fun filling out my five profiles already! I would loooove it if we could add more in the future.

My only feedback would be about the best and worst features of the dolls... mostly it just isn't something I'm interested in when looking at a doll profile. I am interested in technical details like the eyes, wigs, and aesthetic, but not a review of the doll itself, I guess? Though I suppose I enjoyed complaining about my own dolls' shortcomings... XD

 

I love that this feature was added! I am so excited to start filling out my dolls profiles. I am especially excited that there's places to fill out what wigs/ eyes/ faceup artist/ mod artist/ etc! I love looking and other people's dolls (and now, profiles, too) and so often we sit here and go, "I wonder where that wig is from?", and now, we'll know! Awesome feature, all the way around! As soon as I get some profile photos, I'll be putting my profiles up!

I'd love to have more space available in the future for more profiles. :3 I, like many others, have way more than five and would love to share them with the world! Even paying a small fee wouldn't bother me.

 

Thank you so much for this feature! ♥ This is a cool way to show off your dolls - easier to find your own info too than from the database threads scattered across the forums.
I did have some issues though, when I tried the feature.

1) I spent a good hour writing my first doll profile, then saved it as a draft. Then I edited the draft again, but after I saved it the second time, it seemed to disappear from the face of Earth. I can't find it anymore (and I'm a doof and forgot to back my info up XD). I'm sure I didn't click any "delete" button, so I'm a little confused as to what happened - although I understand that all new features will have some bugs and that this is a testing phase. Just thought I'd tell you what happened.

2) Would it at all possible in the future to be able to do the classic BBCode image linking for the profile picture, rather than have to upload it from my computer? The reason I had to edit my draft was to try to get my image look like, eh, something that wasn't photographed with a potato. XD 200KB is a very small limit, especially if you're trying to fit the maximum width of 800 pixels in it.
Also I think it would be less strain on the forum platform, maybe? Anyway, just a suggestion - since the feature already has a spot where you can link more images, it would be nice if it was possible to do the same to the profile picture.

Anyway, like I said, thank you so much for the feature! ♥ I love it, and I can't wait to see what my doll profiles will look like when I get them all done.

 

I'm loving this new feature! Especially how there's room for which eyes, wig and whatnot a doll has, and personally I like the part about best/worst features of the doll. It's very helpful for when you're trying to decide whether or not to get a specific doll and I don't think it gets in the way or anything. In my opinion, you guys should keep that, haha.

 

Great idea
It will be more easy to see same doll with different custo
+1

 

Personally, I think this part should stay. I also like seeing little "technical" notes like this, and particularly if I'm interested in a new doll, I'd love to see not only what others have done with it, but what they've noticed is particularly noteworthy or troublesome.

Just because one person doesn't like it, doesn't mean others aren't interested, after all.

 

@Dezarii
Ah, so that's why the uploaded photo. Well, it makes sense then. Any pointers as to what uploaded size/resolution looks the best? I tried 600 x 465 pixels (first 72ppi and then 240ppi) and it looked absolutely horrendous. My image was the usual rectangle when I uploaded, but in the doll profile it seemed to be stretched into a square, which made it look funky I guess.

I'm using Windows 7 and Google Chrome. I have no idea what happened, I just clicked save, then looked away while I assumed it was saving, and when I looked back it was gone. This COULD be a human error, I am known for my mistakes - but I could swear I did press the right button. x_x But if there was any error message, I wouldn't know because I wasn't looking at my screen. OTL
And next time I'll first write my stuff on somewhere else, and then copy+paste it to DoA. XD Was silly of me to not to remember backing up!

 

Love love love this feature. I for one enjoy the best and worst feature on the profile page. When looking at sculpts i think its nice to see what other people who own the doll have to say about it.
I know i have a few favorite dolls that other people own and its nice to be able to see their profiles, pictures, in one place. Very cool amazing feature over all.

 

Ooh this is awesome! I hope the limit will be increased though– I have twenty more boys wanting their own profile pages :P

 

I absolutley love this feature! Not only is It great way to see other people's dolls but I'm having fun reading the character info as well. It's had the probably unintended consequence of motivating me to 'finish' more of my dolls so they will look nice in their profiles

I think the best/worst feature is very useful and will be a big help to anyone looking to buy a doll. It's nice to be able to get a feel for a bodies quirks and difficulties.

 

This feature is so much fun - I love reading other people's doll profiles! Thank you thank you thank you~♥
Can't wait to get my doll and complete her character so I can create a doll profile too.

 

This feature is rad-- I really enjoyed going through and creating profiles for some of my dolls. Can't wait to get more added, but to be fair, I still need to fill in more of the details of the ones I had made!

Will it eventually become a sort of new format for the BJD database, or will it continue to be separate? (i.e., sculpt/company/skintone tags used to bring up dolls meeting specific criteria?)
Keep up the great work, DoA Mod Squad!

 

I love this feature!!! But I think I'm having a problem creating new doll profiles from yesterday. I've created several a few days ago but yesterday when I would like to add a new one, I was unable to find the Create Doll Profile button *LOL* Does anyone have an idea where should I find the button?

 

Thank you so much Dezarii!

 

Is there any way to include multiple search terms on a single field? For instance, some people write Angell Studio and some Angell-Studio, but including both in the search gives no results because it thinks we want a company called Angell Studio Angell-Studio. So if we can make the search include both separatedly that'd be pretty cool. If there is a way to do it and I'm not seeing it please correct me, haha.

 

Gender/Sex would be really good. I wanted to only search for MSD size girls yesterday but I noticed there was no way to filter just for them. So that's my humble suggestion.

 

Yes I can see where it can go confusing, but your option of 'male/female/intersex/none' under 'sex' sounds like a good solution.

I don't think I'm that different from the majority of people in that I was looking to buy a female doll of a certain size, so I wanted to look at other people's profiles to see what is out there, other people would want to do the same thing for whatever sex or size they are after.

Gender is a separate thing, at least within this context, and as you said it's covered under the gender field.

And if someone has a male sculpt on a female body or vice versa they can use intersex, or then there are dolls of course which have no sex characteristics (especially amongst the yosd) so they can be none.

I'd say keep it simple, you're still not going to get things 100 per cent no matter what, but if it's simple you have a better chance of giving the majority results back that match what people are searching for.

 

Thanks, that´s fantastic!

 

I have a feeling it would be too difficult and/or not feasible, but along the same lines as Yuns' suggestion, would it be possible for write-in fields like the company name to basically have auto-fill suggestions so that people are at least more likely to select existing labels? I'm not certain if it would be a coding thing on the forum side, or what, since I don't know how these things work, so I totally get if that isn't something that would be terribly... feasible. It's not like you can do a drop down for company, since there are FAR too many out there and no one would expect that kind of thing from you!

 

Well, it was worth a shot, haha. Thanks for checking! yeah, I used AS as it was what led me to notice that but I suppose depending on the company name there's not much one can do besides doing two searches.

Another thing which I noticed, is some people write the company name in the Body field, instead of the name for the actual body (for example, Fairyland rather than, say, Minifee or Feeple60 or Iplehouse instead of EID, SID and whatnot). Can we maybe get a little explanation text near that field like we have with some of the other ones so we can all have a rule for what to write there, be it company name or body name? Unless of course I'm the only one bothered by that, haha.

 

I figured it was a long shot, but I had to at least bring it up. ^^ It may help, but if the tags are from a preset list I think it would be far too much work for all of you. Unless the tags are a user-generated thing? Where you can add/create your own tags and they would automatically be added to the preset list? I'm not sure how these things work, as I said...

 

That makes sense, I suppose. Sorry if I came off as rude or anything!

 

I just wanted to say that I really love this new feature and thank you to the moderators and admins of DoA for creating this for us. I think it's so much fun to be able to browse people's dolls in such a convenient way. I love reading people's thinking, planning, and stories and ideas for their doll to go along with the pictures. I think in DoA, due to the nature of the rules, I don't end up seeing much about the characters and stories behind the dolls, so that is really so nice.

I hope one day we can 'favorite' people's profiles so that they're bookmarked into a collection =) . I'd love to easily be able to look back at all my favorites and share my favorites list with others!

EDIT: Oh, and as for the sex category issue, I think it would be safe to stick with what I've seen other websites do for human people these days. I've seen the options be Male/Female/Other for a while. Since it's such a delicate topic, I don't think any solution would please everybody, but this seems safest. Intersex/None also seem like good options though.

Thank you again, it looks really great so far,
ali

 

Is it possible to get a randomizer? Just click a button and get 10 random dolls to look through? I would love to be able to just look at random dolls rather than look through the list of recently updated. I love this new feature, by the way, thanks for all the work you all have done to update the forum and everything!

 

I love love LOVE the doll profiles. I've discovered so many new dolls just by browsing through them! Would it be possible to maybe add a little comment section for each profile? Just something small, for a sentence or two of admiration? I'm glad we can "like" individual dolls but I think it'd be pretty neat to be able to leave a short comment as well

 

Of the major categories that I can think of; being able to search by body seems to be the next most general catagory.