My gallery has been like this from the beginning from the year and in between I have reset my pc I have repaired my pc, and I have fixed bugs with my game so I'm assuming this is an online error from...
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I did some testing on this issue and I think some of these changes were done on purpose. This change seems to have to do with privacy settings on the users account. I did some testing with MapleSimmer and changing the account settings enabled me to see her stuff again, wenn I couldn't before.
Your privacy settings are on your EA account. Remember, it depends on the other users settings if you can see their stuff or not, not your own. Changing this for yourself only allows others to see yours.
Click on Settings in EA app (either on the three lines or under your Avatar)
Under Privacy click on Manage. This will open a web browers.
scroll down to privacy settings and click the arrow.
Set the option how you want these. These are the people that can then actually see your stuff on the gallery. It takes up to 24 hours to become visible.
This was probably changed because of the many stealing and other complaints and people just wanting their own space in the gallery.
I do think this has three flaws currently.
- Maxis should be available to everyone.
- For me, people that are hidden through the followers page do still yield in results in the gallery. Not sure if that's how it's supposed to work cause if it is, I don't really understand the reasoning for hiding the rest.
- I would prefer a separate option for the gallery and not tie it to my profile details.
Hi crinrict
Thank you and MapleSimmer for testing and finding this issue is tied to a user's EA privacy settings for their account. Your post with the pictures of how to locate and change these settings worked to solve the issue for a friend who had suddenly turned anonymous for me, yet he could still see me. My settings were for friends but his were not. He didn't even know how to reach that setting through the app but now we are back to normal.
By virtue of the fact this thread is still shown as under investigation, I hope this change is not yet set in stone. If it is, EA needs to do a post in the info hub, or a gallery post of some sort so simmers aren't plagued with the inconvenience this change has caused. I was more upset by this change for him because when he once again became visible to me, I saw he had lost almost all of his followers. If one doesn't recognize the avatar of the creator to put a name to it for doing a general gallery search, then the alternative is to unfollow. I unfollowed someone for this very reason. All I could remember was that it was a former Sim Guru that I had followed to download a sim from at a later date. I did not recall the name and after unsuccessfully trying a few out just went the unfollow route.
I also find it completely ridiculous that Maxis is now showing as anonymous with no shared builds, although a gallery search will reveal builds. I also think there should be a separate option for the gallery privacy settings, rather than having it tied to profile details. A simmer should be able to leave their profile private if they so desire but be visible on the gallery for builds they care to share.
Perhaps part of this post is feedback but I simply had to thank you for sharing your testing results which fixed an issue my friend and I had been so perplexed by. It is greatly appreciated.
