Is there currently a way or are there any plans to make this feature on by default? I've had to manually turn it on several times just in the last few minutes.
It will probably become the default after the UI is finalized. I don't want to make it the default while the UI is still subject to change.
The only thing I question is the value of still seperating scores and faves as the difference between these two is negligible at best now.
I have considered doing this, but not any time soon. Even before, around 90% of upvotes came from Gold user favorites. Now it's more like 95% of upvotes come from favorites. People say they want to upvote separately from faving, but not many people actually do.
The problem with keeping them separate is that we don't really have room to show both scores and favorites everywhere, and even if we did, it would be mostly redundant.
@evazion could you guys/gals make it that if you upload a post/comment that you have automatically liked the post like they do on Reddit?
You're free to favorite/upvote your own posts or comments if you want. It's not automatic because heavy uploaders may not want their favorites filled with their own posts.
You could just make it so that favoriting a post doesn't automatically upvote the post.
Wontfix. Most posts would have a score of near zero if this were the case.
I'll throw my support in for favourite and voting visibility being two separate options as well. I'd appreciate it.
Wontfix. It's a single option for simplicity and so that naive users can't shoot themselves in the foot. Otherwise it would be possible to do things like make your favorites private and your upvotes public, but oops, each favorite is an upvote, so your upvotes reveal your favorites anyway. Or you make your favorites public and your upvotes private, but oops, 99% of the time you only favorite, so your favorites reveal all your preferences anyway.
Frankly, the only reason privacy exists is because it was added a long time again and it's too late to take back now. I think private favorites were a mistake, and that everything on Danbooru should be as open and transparent as possible. If you really want privacy, you should use a throwaway account, just like you do on Reddit or Twitter or any other site when you want full privacy.
1. Collapse the taglist
I have thought about some scheme where the taglist is partially collapsed by default, with only the most interesting or relevant tags shown by default and all the bullshit tags hidden. This relies on having a good definition of tag relevance.
(Cue all the "but how can I live if I can't tell right away if a post is tagged eyebrows visible through hair??". You'll live.)
2. Move the score controls
Beneath the image, in the same place as the favorite controls.
I'm probably going to move the score and everything else in the Information section to beneath the image, Youtube-style. This is probably going to be another "reeeee, this is different and I hate it" moment, but people can deal with it.
3. Have voting hotkeys
There is already favoriting/unfavoriting hotkeys. There should also be voting/unvoting hotkeys.
The problem is that keyboard shortcuts are designed to be used one-handed, but there aren't really any good shortcut keys left that make sense mnemonically, and are easy to use with only the left hand. This is probably going to require changing existing shortcuts.