Gallery BARELY WORKS

But what exactly is not working? I use it literally every simming session.

Yeah, it hangs for me when I do searches for lots and often tries to tell me nothing is available under my keywords or hashtags when I know for a fact there is. Then I'll search again and it will cough up some selections.

I do agree that it's probably just really weighed down now with so much content and so many users. I actually started downloading my favorites to my library because it can be a hassle to try to sift through them nowadays.

"Babykittyjade;c-18254557" wrote:
But what exactly is not working? I use it literally every simming session.

Everything, and I mean that in the literal sense, if it won't connect then I can't search for anything as LiELF's comment explained, Plum forbid I can, then it's a mess of the most popular and then the newest a line down even if I've ticked the MOST POPULAR option.

To sound like I'm whining, It's just everything! And I do mean EVERY. THING. Even the POPULAR NOW options throw up a corrupted combo of the mild favorites and then something posted maybe 2 moments ago, which points at their servers maybe not handling deliveries of data and logging them right, which again, I'm not surprised if it were the case, however as a poor excuse for a builder, the gallery is where I go to find my sims a house, or bar or club, somewhere to spend their time, otherwise they have to put up with my disasters, and for years the sims team promoted the gallery, and still do, even though it's barely functional!

I can 99% assume the console version is near enough the same, if by some miracle it isn't and console simmers can freely download whatever they wish without issues.

"MichelleW;c-18254840" wrote:
My gallery will often not allow me to view only the creators that I'm following. It will say I'm not following anyone. I also struggle with getting search results. This became an issue for me when I went from origin to EA app

Mine makes me think I've been banned! Or blocked as certain accounts content simply won't appear or appears in pieces, even Maxis!

It's been an issue long before the app! seemed to be around last year/mid last year, with all the updates it's a fair assumption to point that as the root cause

I also have noticed that the functionality of the gallery has severely gone down hill. What frustrates me the most is that majority of the time the gallery won't show me lots of the creators I follow. If I go to their specific page yeah it'll show me some but even then when I try to filter, sometimes it still tells me nothing is available. I even unfollowed a few creators and you'd think it would make it easier for the gallery to have less to sift through when trying to search through the following tab. I genuinely wish they would fix it, if they even can.

The only thing that I have found that doesn't work is selecting which packs you have so that the gallery won't show you uploads that use a pack you don't own. It's very annoying because this would be super useful.

Sometimes, just do a search for a 40x30 lot, for example, and literally nothing shows. Then I check the cc box and some things show, then I uncheck the cc box and some things show, maybe like 15 lots, back and forth over and over. Once in awhile, I get good results. Hashtags for world names works on and off--like there are really NO nightclubs if I search by "delsolvalley"??? This has really ramped up in the last few weeks.

Setting aside the "I'll show you all the packs so you buy more" filter shenanigans, the galley is a mess for me. It’s extremely slow, the popular filter only shows the same old stuff because the other filters are not enough to make it budge. When I search in tags it doesnt return results or it buffers for ages and then returns crossed out results. I stopped using it and rely on whatever I have saved, I can't stand it.

I so miss my followers. It’s way too quiet in the Gallery now.??

> @Ninoosim said:
> Setting aside the "I'll show you all the packs so you buy more" filter shenanigans, the galley is a mess for me. It’s extremely slow, the popular filter only shows the same old stuff because the other filters are not enough to make it budge. When I search in tags it doesnt return results or it buffers for ages and then returns crossed out results. I stopped using it and rely on whatever I have saved, I can't stand it.

This!!! I'm incredibly frustrated because I just want to view the creations that ONLY have content from packs I already own, and there is no way to do that. You would assume that's what selecting the "Show Owned" option would do. But no, that function is basically useless. On top of the frustration it slows down my loading time SOOO much. I basically never use the gallery because of it.