Update: It has been confirmed that the default will be changing back in a future update.
Since the gallery is now defaulted to being sorted by 'Popular Now', I noticed that the majority of recently uploaded creations are getting very, very few downloads, whereas before everything used to be downloaded at least a few times. It isn't very fair to those who don't have tons of followers but still want to share their creations with others. Yes, users can easily switch to sorting by 'Newest', however most players likely won't bother/notice. I'm sure many don't care about the gallery or how many downloads they get, but I've personally enjoyed sharing my sims and builds a lot as of late. No one seeing or downloading kind of defeats the purpose of sharing, though.
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Sure, but now newer uploads are hardly even getting one download. I agree that it was fairly easy to get to 'popular now', but it isn't anymore.
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You're right. It will probably just reinforce old popular things. ... There's surely some science behind the psychology and stuff in this, right? They could've tried to research their hypothesis about this making the gallery fresher. *sigh*
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It’s disappointing to download something that looks really nice, but then find out it’s CC, so I don’t get to see the beautiful CC mesh or whatever it was.
I love, love using the gallery for many lots and sometimes for Sims, so I’m curious if there was a way to filter that...?
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That's been a feature for as long as I can remember.
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edit: I also sort of hate it because it's easy to forget to switch it to one of the other filters when you're searching for a specific person on the Gallery and whoops, you get no returns at all because they haven't uploaded something in a while.
On the left side of the gallery, under where it says 'Advanced' there's a box that says 'Include Custom Content'. Un-checking that should filter out CC.
I'd heard that it had been gone for a while, and they brought it back with this patch.
Thanks! I’ll be sure that it stays unchecked, then! (I must have accidentally pressed it or something, lol.)
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The switch to pop now default is a BAD idea. Like Ginzu19 mentioned, if you had any content already in 'pop now' when the gallery changed, you would notice the insane amount of downloads. It goes to show that a good percentage of users, never checked the pop now tab before and either don't know how to or don't care to navigate the gallery. This is leaving new content completely invisible.
There are some features about the gallery update that are cool, like the follow button and hashtag changes, but the default needs to be changed back to newest - it helps keeping the playing field level.
I'll also mention here that the gallery sync seems to be all messed up again with missing content, duplicates, and so on.. Was slightly better until the gallery change.
It's getting REALLY frustrating EA, would have been satisfied with the gallery just running smoothly and synced properly rather than changing stuff that didn't need to be changed.
When I checked the cache the day before the update there were just a few blurred household images in it (none of mine) even though I had looked at the Gallery several times. Seems a good way of spreading viruses as some are in code unreadable by any app. on my PC. 388 JPG, 1 .dat thumbnails, 5.5 MB approx.
With this change, it seems almost as if EA is saying they don't really care about the small creator. I mean seriously, popular now builds are popular because their creator has time to promote and/or has a huge following but this new change seems to shut out the creator just starting out.
On top of that, I was just in the gallery and there was nothing showing under "newest" or "popular now" and my own catalog was empty. The gallery was glitchy to begin with, this "update" just made it worse.
Gallery is broken - read here..
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/16650963/#Comment_16650963
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So, I decided to stop gaming/ building till the Gallery gets fixed, I hope the staff check this out and fix it soon as possible.
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I made my post before that became an issue. When I noticed the issue of newer creations not getting many downloads, uploads were still actively getting downloads. I know because some of my own did. It's just that newer ones weren't getting as many as they used to, because people weren't seeing them. I'm aware that the gallery was broken this morning. I tried to use it today and couldn't even get the Newest section to load. But that isn't the problem I'm talking about.