Hello, fellow infrared photographers!

Last year, our club changed its submission system from posting every single work as a deviation to adding them in collections and posting a monthly deviation containing a link to all the works. This deviation could then be seen on our front page, so that visitors to our club could find recent club members' deviations very quickly.

Perhaps you have noticed that this year, deviantart has changed options for displaying profile pages. There are now "boxes" that can be customized to display collections. I have used this feature for the past few months to display each month's collection directly on the club's front page. You can see that there's a box for the latest monthly collection on the top left, and one below for the previous month's collection. The "newest deviations" box, containing the submission summary, resides on third place.

Now, I want to ask you to evaluate whether this method of submitting our members' works as a "summary deviation" is still necessary. With the "collections boxes", it's very easy to navigate to each deviation without me having to make a summary every month. Making these summaries takes quite a bit of time, as I have to enter all the links to deviations and member's profile pages by hand.

So, I think that in part this old method is not necessary anymore - you can now navigate to member's works automatically through deviantart's collection system without having to use monthly summaries.

On the other hand, I post monthly submission summaries to the "photography - misc" category, where they can be seen for a short time for users browsing this category. This means that eliminating these summaries may lead to some people not stumbling upon our club by chance. This is why I ask you to take part in the new poll above this journal(and/or post a reply to this post to discuss your opinion).

Link to poll

Thanks for participating!

=p0rphyrogene


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How to join r72?
Just send us a note with "join" as subject. Then, put us on your watch list and put the club's icon into your journal by typing :icon r72: without the space. If you don't keep a journal, you may provide a text-link to the club within your signature.

How to submit?
Just send us a note with "submission" as subject, and a link to the deviation you want to submit. We use collections as our submission method. Read everything about it in this journal.

We will post submissions once or twice a month, depending on the number of submissions.

Submission rules
Each member may submit two deviations per month, either both at the same time or seperately. This limit applies to the date the submissions were sent in, not to the date the submissions are posted (i.e. it can happen that the club posts 4 of your submissions in one month if you sent in two at the very end of the previous month).

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