(02-28-2014 03:14 PM)Aeroraptor 2.0 Wrote: Honestly, as much as I support this idea, we're a niche community which are competing with the likes of Fur Affinity and SoFurry. FA for mainly art and SoFurry for lemons/fiction (for which there is a lot of Digimon stuff). We're going to have a hard time pulling traffic from these places, especially by word of mouth since we're so small.
Since I do support this movement though, my wife has suggested we not try a user submitted system unless we have the framework and hardware that has good scalability. Since we're small, this wouldn't be a problem at first (and may never become a problem), but if we do take off we'll need to keep with demand. FA has this problem and it seems like every couple of months that have issues with the ability to scale with its increasing user base. An submission system run by an active admin staff may seem like the only viable solution at the moment.
This is actually the main problem I'm working on. The server hardware is pretty good, and theoretically could handle quite a few. The way I was thinking of is rather than forcing an admin to review everything, which would take quite a lot of time, would be to simply add a limiter to the backend to artifically limit how many submissions it can process an hour. That way there's little admin intervention required, and it's still reasonably fast, assuming a mid-range limit of say, 100 an hour. Thats an image every 40 seconds-ish, which should be PLENTY of time to process it, and server pages for a while uninterrupted.
Then, assuming we go over that submission threshhold, the uplaoder will simply get a "thanks, but we're under slightly heavy load right now for submissions. The system will process yours shortly, there's no need to reupload" message.