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Hi Members,

The Photographic Club has been affected by recent deviant art changes and the club is now in basic format, we are no longer able to display thumbnails or display our created galleries on the front of our club page, this will have a direct effect on the way we run the club as we used to like to display monthly features and we had a separate "members images" gallery for displaying and collecting submissions.

These changes will now result in no monthly features and we will now ask members to only submit to the "featured" gallery as this is the only gallery we are able to display in full on the front of our club page.

We are both incensed by these changes as both of us (Joel & Rick) are fully paid up members of deviant art, something that used to cover the club features. The Photographic Club is a voluntary group that we set up for fun and to help our members spread and share their photography.. Something that in itself aids deviant art and no doubt increases their paid memberships overall. We never envisaged having to pay further membership on something that was run on the behalf of other people, we don't think either us or our members should have to pay for these basic features such as thumbs or custom folders etc.. As these features were once available to us as standard.

We hope you understand and we will continue to share your images in the usual way and we are sorry to have to end the monthly features.. If we can find a way around this we will do so.

Please submit your images into the "featured" folder from now on (and accidental "members images" submissions will be transferred into "featured" by ourselves for the near future)

Many thanks

Joel :iconlomoboy: & Rick :iconmym8rick:

:)
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:icondramathrills:
!DramaThrills Jul 18, 2012  Hobbyist Photographer
What if you have people donate points, to make this a super group? I'd be more than happy to donate to a cause like that! :)
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:iconmym8rick:
=mym8rick Jul 22, 2012  Professional Photographer
We would be delighted if you could do this and pass the word and then we could really take off with competitions and more, so, yes that would be very helpful thank you.
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:icondramathrills:
!DramaThrills Jul 22, 2012  Hobbyist Photographer
It appears only the founder of the group can turn it into a super group(The Cofounder might be able to, but I'm not certain that's the case) So if it would help, I could have people donate points, and then give the points to you, for the club, when there's enough points for the group to be upgraded. Since I'm not able to upgrade the group myself, before I create the donation widget for you to turn the group into a super one, I'd need to know if that would work for you and if you'd be able to do that.
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=mym8rick Jul 25, 2012  Professional Photographer
Thank you for your kind thoughts and yes We would appreciate all the help we can get, I'm not too sure how the point system works but if it achieves us becoming a super group I'm all for it.. once again thank you for your help. :heart::peace:
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:icondramathrills:
!DramaThrills Jul 25, 2012  Hobbyist Photographer
Alright, I've started the donation pool for the group. If you could send people to my page to donate to the pool, so that the points come in faster, you'll have the required points for the upgrade in no time.
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:icondramathrills:
!DramaThrills Jul 25, 2012  Hobbyist Photographer
Here's some info on getting a group upgraded to a super one: [link]
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!Windstomphotography Mar 10, 2011  Student Photographer
Hi I'm not a member but is it possible to use the journal to show monthly features? I'm not sure on the thumbnails (I don't know much of DA technical things) but a monthly Journal with links at least to the featured photographs/photographer?
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:iconvampiremetamorph:
~vampireMetamorph Oct 11, 2010  Hobbyist Photographer
Isn't it possible to make a new gallery folder for each month, so you can feature directly the folder link in a journal?
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:iconlomoboy:
=lomoboy Oct 15, 2010  Professional Photographer
Yeah we could do that but we used to feature just a handful of images and not the entire monthly submissions.. we will find a way :) thanks for your thoughts :thumbsup:
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:iconplasticjoinstheworld:
~PlasticJoinsTheWorld Oct 9, 2010  Student Interface Designer
I truly understand. And you're right! I just submitted 2 photo's to the members images though, before reading this.
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