Some of you may be fine with this and some of you may not be. But as the person who works on keeping the Gallery organized for everyone, it's become necessary. The number of pictures and folders has more or less reached critical mass. After seven years since #FemaleMuscle was founded, it's been featuring more and more pictures from so many artists and photographers who wanted to share their brand of female muscle with the rest of the community that enjoys it. But after 7 years, it's become more and more difficult and VERY time consuming to keep up with the number of submissions. I can't always be online every night before that number piles up, so it's unavoidable.
After a certain primary folder reaches a certain number of pictures, and the number of pages surpasses five, the page numbers are separated by a [...] button that makes you type the page number you want to go to. I usually open up all the pages, so I can move pictures smoothly between them. But when I have to type the page number each time I do that, it become all the more time consuming. Let me put it another way, I was prepared to step down as admin over this. But I found a way to avoid that and lighten the workload. After careful deliberation and consent from the other admins, I'm going to bring about a change to the Gallery that more or less amounts to wiping the slate clean and starting fresh again. I originally mentioned a complete purge of the Gallery. And while there was some agreement to that, it was then proposed that instead I create a single folder to put every single picture in.
So that is what will be going down. The Gallery is going to be undergoing a major overhaul with a potentially new system of organization. Every single picture that has ever been submitted in the last seven years will all be moved to a single folder. This will preserve them all, but at the expense of them being unorganized. It will no doubt be dozens of pages long. But it will at least keep them featured here. Once that's done, I can finally work with breathing room at last. I'm going to (attempt to) redesign the menu icons or at least update them. The actual picture archiving will be last.
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Also, I have an announcement concerning the kind of material that gets submitted. Lately, people have been submitting stuff that has pushed other territories and has had less and less focus on strictly female muscle. To this day, some people STILL submit pictures that show NO female muscle at all or very small amounts of it. This is an issue that's getting settled here and now.
This may not be popular with everyone. But by that same token, we need to return to what #FemaleMuscle is about: muscular women.
So from here on out, the following two types of submissions are either no longer allowed or will be kept in one place only, whether there's muscle or not, and I'll explain why for each reason:
1. Anthros/Furries (kept in one place): Furries are a culture all its own. But lately, there have been almost as many furry submissions as there are human submissions. To be blunt, there's an entire website devoted to every form of anthro that there is, and that's FurAffinity. Granted, I myself fall into that category of people who submit mostly anthro submissions. But from here on out, all anthro submissions will be kept to a single folder and will NOT be kept in other folders. People come here to see human female muscle. Not all mind you, but most. It's time we keep the focus of #FemaleMuscle on human female muscle.
2. Fitness level or less women (no longer allowed): Yes, fitness can be considered a form of muscle. But it's more toned than muscular. #FemaleMuscle focuses on bodybuilder level muscle and up. I've already talked about this at great length and pointed back to that journal at least once on a separate occasion:
[link]This time, we're really putting our foot down on this. The character, real or fictional does NOT HAVE to be HUGELY muscular. But she DOES have to be muscular to some visible enough degree. If she just has a bulging six-pack abs, that is fine. She doesn't have to be muscular from head to toe. But she does have to have visible bulging muscle somewhere on her. Since there's no way to adequately define what is considered muscular enough, approval of every submission is being left up to the deciding admin's discretion. We'll do our best to keep a consistent standard, but it's not a promise we can make.
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Please try to understand that we're doing this to bring what has always been known as the Female Muscle Club back to its roots. This includes contests, interviews with various female bodybuilders, and other female muscle related events. Aside from the Gallery though, nothing else will change. Everything else will retain the status quo. However, we're going to try to bring back more of what you all have been enjoying. I can't give you a time table, but it'll come nevertheless.
So with all that said, expect to see the Gallery go through a drastic shift in the next few weeks. But the fact remains that it's become as intricate and loaded as it's going to get. Time to pave the way for another seven years of new female muscle material.
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