Gallery being sorted by "Popular Now" by default is a problem

Dumb question: Is there a way to get rid of search results that have CC?

It’s disappointing to download something that looks really nice, but then find out it’s CC, so I don’t get to see the beautiful CC mesh or whatever it was.

I love, love using the gallery for many lots and sometimes for Sims, so I’m curious if there was a way to filter that...?

"TwoHorses;c-16650027" wrote:
I don't know if it's really a problem. For a while now, I had one sim in my gallery, with zero download. Since the update, I got 16 downloads in 1 day. I think it's because of the "random from the gallery" that people can now use in CAS. It probably got my sim more exposure.

That's been a feature for as long as I can remember.

Totally agree, I used to get at least a couple of downloads right after I uploaded something to the gallery (my most popular thing ever has 111 downloads, so I am definitely not rolling in downloads anyway), now even that has gone away. 'Popular Now' is a feedback loop when it's the default setting, and I really don't care for it. It feels like uploading into a void now.

edit: I also sort of hate it because it's easy to forget to switch it to one of the other filters when you're searching for a specific person on the Gallery and whoops, you get no returns at all because they haven't uploaded something in a while.

"bunny-gypsy;c-16650184" wrote:
Dumb question: Is there a way to get rid of search results that have CC?

It’s disappointing to download something that looks really nice, but then find out it’s CC, so I don’t get to see the beautiful CC mesh or whatever it was.

I love, love using the gallery for many lots and sometimes for Sims, so I’m curious if there was a way to filter that...?

On the left side of the gallery, under where it says 'Advanced' there's a box that says 'Include Custom Content'. Un-checking that should filter out CC.

"simmerLella;c-16650188" wrote:

"TwoHorses;c-16650027" wrote:
I don't know if it's really a problem. For a while now, I had one sim in my gallery, with zero download. Since the update, I got 16 downloads in 1 day. I think it's because of the "random from the gallery" that people can now use in CAS. It probably got my sim more exposure.

That's been a feature for as long as I can remember.

I'd heard that it had been gone for a while, and they brought it back with this patch.

I agree with this, the only simmers getting uploads and faves will be famous youtubers who can hashtag their names, like Deligracy or Sim Supply (not to criticize them). As soon as they post a new building or CAS video, everyone will be searching for their builds and sims in the gallery.

"horseygirl24;c-16650235" wrote:

"bunny-gypsy;c-16650184" wrote:
Dumb question: Is there a way to get rid of search results that have CC?

It’s disappointing to download something that looks really nice, but then find out it’s CC, so I don’t get to see the beautiful CC mesh or whatever it was.

I love, love using the gallery for many lots and sometimes for Sims, so I’m curious if there was a way to filter that...?

On the left side of the gallery, under where it says 'Advanced' there's a box that says 'Include Custom Content'. Un-checking that should filter out CC.

Thanks! :smile: I’ll be sure that it stays unchecked, then! (I must have accidentally pressed it or something, lol.)

Wanted to chime in on this as someone who regularly creates, uploads and downloads from the gallery, because I feel this is a really important issue with the potential to drive away regular creators - so I had to make an account here...

The switch to pop now default is a BAD idea. Like Ginzu19 mentioned, if you had any content already in 'pop now' when the gallery changed, you would notice the insane amount of downloads. It goes to show that a good percentage of users, never checked the pop now tab before and either don't know how to or don't care to navigate the gallery. This is leaving new content completely invisible.

There are some features about the gallery update that are cool, like the follow button and hashtag changes, but the default needs to be changed back to newest - it helps keeping the playing field level.

I'll also mention here that the gallery sync seems to be all messed up again with missing content, duplicates, and so on.. Was slightly better until the gallery change.

It's getting REALLY frustrating EA, would have been satisfied with the gallery just running smoothly and synced properly rather than changing stuff that didn't need to be changed.

Just to add, since this update my cache is filled with a hundred or so thumbnails of the new lots and households I skimmed through from the Gallery and I am going to have to clear my cache every time I check it. I don't know if this is Windows 10 trying to be helpful (Prefetch style) or it is a fault with how the Gallery is presented.

When I checked the cache the day before the update there were just a few blurred household images in it (none of mine) even though I had looked at the Gallery several times. Seems a good way of spreading viruses as some are in code unreadable by any app. on my PC. 388 JPG, 1 .dat thumbnails, 5.5 MB approx.

I'm very disappointed in the new default setting for popular now. I'm a decent builder but I don't really have time to promote myself via youtube, etc., but at least with the way it was prior to this, there was a chance my builds would be seen and downloaded a few times.

With this change, it seems almost as if EA is saying they don't really care about the small creator. I mean seriously, popular now builds are popular because their creator has time to promote and/or has a huge following but this new change seems to shut out the creator just starting out.

On top of that, I was just in the gallery and there was nothing showing under "newest" or "popular now" and my own catalog was empty. The gallery was glitchy to begin with, this "update" just made it worse.