07-11-2023, 06:51 AM
I just had an idea, since the customs sections for larger franchises like Mario are split up into subseries due to the sheer number of submissions for them, what if on those sections there was a "See also" with links to the related customs pages, since casual browsers might for example wonder why the Mario Customs section has no Fawful sprites, but if there was a link to the Mario & Luigi customs page, they would know that's where they should look for characters exclusive to that series. These links could also be applied to Donkey Kong, Yoshi and Wario customs since those characters all have a strong presence in the Mario series but they all are absent from the Mario Customs page (with the exception of Wario being in some sheets that include both him and Waluigi, but that raises another oddity that sprites of Waluigi go in Mario customs but sprites of Wario go in Wario customs, i get that Waluigi hasn't appeared in a Wario game but it still feels odd the two are separated)
I think the best way to handle this would be on the customs page of the parent series, have links to the customs pages of the spinoff series, and on each spinoff page, have a link to the main one. Having them entirely segregated as if they're different IPs doesn't quite sit right with me. Especially since out of all the Marioverse customs, I only ever see the Mario Customs section in the popular selection, so I can imagine casual users may look for any Marioverse character there and when they don't find it, assume nobody ever submitted any when in reality it's in a spinoff section that you'd currently have to find by sorting by the first letter of it (which you'd only do if you knew it existed to begin with). Or by seeing a submission in it that's either in the latest update or in the recent uploads on the home page.
I think the best way to handle this would be on the customs page of the parent series, have links to the customs pages of the spinoff series, and on each spinoff page, have a link to the main one. Having them entirely segregated as if they're different IPs doesn't quite sit right with me. Especially since out of all the Marioverse customs, I only ever see the Mario Customs section in the popular selection, so I can imagine casual users may look for any Marioverse character there and when they don't find it, assume nobody ever submitted any when in reality it's in a spinoff section that you'd currently have to find by sorting by the first letter of it (which you'd only do if you knew it existed to begin with). Or by seeing a submission in it that's either in the latest update or in the recent uploads on the home page.