I didn't think fandomcalendar would take comm promotions. I thought it was only for events.
I like the medium field because it gives information whether it's even worth clicking (or whether it's a medium you loathe) in the absence of preview images (which are not in the template because of the particular issues that arise from having images on a rec comm, e.g. the NSFW issue, problems of having to either hotlink or copy the image, the different attitudes artists have about displaying their art in shrunk/cropped format anywhere, and different ideas about needed permissions and so on, so that seemed far more trouble than I'd want to put on reccers or the comm). But FWIW, it's perfectly fine if you just say simply "drawing" there if the artist doesn't say and you can't tell any more.
As for the gallery link, that is true for some sites, but I find it very hard to navigate some other sites, especially ones in different languages I don't speak, and the artist name is often different from the user name if the name is not in Latin characters. So in those cases it is not redundant, but may be a real help for the casual rec browser to explore more of the artist, even though they are in a very different corner of fandom on an unfamiliar site.
Like I explained above, I'm completely opposed to any kind of reccing in comments, because it is either soon a complete mess where you don't find anything, or takes an enormous effort for someone (likely me) to go through and build a parallel structure (like on pinboard) to tag like kink memes do, or repost recs posted in comments to utilize the tags here, and since I'm lazy too, my willingness to take over work for others to allow them to rec only goes so far. I mean, I want to make it easy and convenient for others to participate, but I want the result be a neatly organized repository of recs without having to redo every rec in some way or another.
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I like the medium field because it gives information whether it's even worth clicking (or whether it's a medium you loathe) in the absence of preview images (which are not in the template because of the particular issues that arise from having images on a rec comm, e.g. the NSFW issue, problems of having to either hotlink or copy the image, the different attitudes artists have about displaying their art in shrunk/cropped format anywhere, and different ideas about needed permissions and so on, so that seemed far more trouble than I'd want to put on reccers or the comm). But FWIW, it's perfectly fine if you just say simply "drawing" there if the artist doesn't say and you can't tell any more.
As for the gallery link, that is true for some sites, but I find it very hard to navigate some other sites, especially ones in different languages I don't speak, and the artist name is often different from the user name if the name is not in Latin characters. So in those cases it is not redundant, but may be a real help for the casual rec browser to explore more of the artist, even though they are in a very different corner of fandom on an unfamiliar site.
Like I explained above, I'm completely opposed to any kind of reccing in comments, because it is either soon a complete mess where you don't find anything, or takes an enormous effort for someone (likely me) to go through and build a parallel structure (like on pinboard) to tag like kink memes do, or repost recs posted in comments to utilize the tags here, and since I'm lazy too, my willingness to take over work for others to allow them to rec only goes so far. I mean, I want to make it easy and convenient for others to participate, but I want the result be a neatly organized repository of recs without having to redo every rec in some way or another.