Aqua. to joe

one problem with wallpaper previews, I often use the previews as my wallpaper instead of taking the time to download the zip file. Most people put what is in the zip file into the preview anyway at full size and resolution.

bakerstreet:
I know there are allot of places to go but I like to roost here.


And I do feel that the people who are downloading the most are the ones who make 3 or 4 accounts just to get as many as they want. Other wise why would this bandwidth thing still be a problem? There are already caps for downloads, why isn't it working?


And I didn't mean to portray my words as "this is the only site in the world" I felt that if people came here and they get a cap tell them about the subscription or tell them about the community and how to help and tell them about other sites like Deviant art to get wallpapers.

When they get the message saying that they reached their limit for the day, tell them and show them that there are other wonderful sites to go to. You can come back tomorrow for more if you want.

Something like that.

Jobeleca:
yeah I noticed the preview sometimes is the wallpaper. Suppossedly the artist should have made a smaller jpg file for the preview instead of the large screensize file.

At any rate, I hope it can be worked out so that people can browse freely while the ones who just want to download bandwidth hoggin stuff all day long without contibuting something to the site can be weeded out.

Jafo:

You know, the other day when Peff and D_S and the rest were nagging me about how I was acting all 'artisty' when I hadn't done anything I thought it was really strange. I have stuff all over the place... I keep finding my old work all over the internet, as a matter of fact, places I never put it ... I'm only starting to put stuff here.

I guess you're right. Shame they don't see what a huge community this is.

I have been reading through this thread and I felt that I wanted to contribute. I am an avid wincustomize user and willing to go to the expense of subscribing simply for one reason: QUALITY! I am a no-good at producing your artwork, yet I have to recognize that skins make PC work more exciting and pleasurable: "giving credit where credit is due." This is the attitude that all users have to adopt. Many artists have given up a lot of their time and work to make some great skins. In a way, evryone has to realize that if the skinning community is to develop and grow, everyone has to contribute. Perhaps I am an optimist, but wincustomize should enhance and offer features that no other sites have even thought of. The question to put into peoples mind is: What am I missing? Perhaps I'm talking a lot of garble, but I want only the best for this site.

Bedtime for me...

Drama.....

Ryan, if you don´t want ActiveDesktop but JPEG wallpapers try one of the wallpaper changing programs.

am excellent freeware is this one: http://www.wallpaperchanger.de/
it supports BMP, JPEG, GIF and PNG, is skinnable and also can make your desktop icon caption background transparent

Wallpapers aren't the issue. There's no magic bullet really. We'll just have to put some cap on how much non-contributors can download per day.

Skinz.org topped out at around 5 megabits at its peak.

WinCustomize uses over 20.

It's interesting to note that at one time, Skinz.org was the only skinning site [still] open on the net, when Deskmod and Customize both went down, and before Devart and the others started...

Kinrik....you know what they say...'if you don't eat, you can't poop, and if you don't poop, you die'...

I don't think we need another FAQ, all we need to do is update the about section. Add the different levels and put in the level restrictions. Then all you have to do is refer them to the about section.

"if you put some graphics using the letters "win xp" on it, people will probably even read it, and use it as their wall paper"