So it's been nearly 2 months now after the maintenance of the Gallery and as someone who used to be active and create for the community of people on the Gallery I would like to address the concerns and also link the current issues that haven't been resolved so far to my knowledge.
If you resonate and encounter the same issues on your side, feel free to press "Me Too" and/or add your voice in the linked AHQ threads.
As you probably know, there was a maintenance for the Gallery from May 30th until June 1st. What sounded like overall improvements has from my point of view rendered the Gallery almost unusable as a result and unfortunately I don't see much progress being made to resolve reported issues.
Admittedly I haven't been happy with the state of the Gallery long before this maintenance for a variety of reasons and have been gone now basically for years.
I used to love the Gallery though as a creative space where I could share my creations and follow & interact with other people that did the same. I miss that time and I was actually hoping that the maintenance would make some things better.
To some degree it did. In particular, I was happy to see the performance improvements. But looking at the vast amount of issues and how little progress has been made, I'm not sure what to think.
I feel like the Gallery in its current state is basically unusable. Not only was the social function abolished overnight - which has been completely disheartening for those who have a close social circle on the Gallery. There are also technical issues that make navigating and finding content on the Gallery highly unpractical.
Below a list of current issues in relation to the maintenance as reported on the AHQ bug report forum.
'Item Name' search results are not accurate
Stats are missing
Gallery: Followers & Followed People are gone
Follower Names starred out
Download Numbers Lower After Maintenance (June 2023)
Some Maxis favorites are no longer favorited
Uploads Are Shown Multiple Times
Uploads are not getting any new downloads (seems like this one actually started happening again(?) after the 1.99 patch)
Also the News Feed has not returned yet. Although it was announced that it will be gone "at launch", considering it has been a while now, I'm linking this (feedback) report here as well:
Gallery missing News Feed
What makes it worse in my opinion is the uncertainty resulting from the lack of communication from EA to (proactively) address the concerns (besides the acknowledgement on some of the linked bug reports which I do appreciate). As far as I can tell, the issues that people encounter have not been anticipated pre maintenance and still the last official statement sounds like it was a success.
Below the original statement from the patch notes on May 30th and on Twitter about the Gallery maintenance. Two minor issues have been adressed in a patch on June 13th but the listed issues above still remain.
This is a 4to2 conversion from Somik&Severinka, low poly. Available at breakfast time. You need the Corn Flakes Serving Tray from HERE (but I included it in the download).
We brought you some formal wear on this fine Friday!
4t2 Business Suit Med
Found this one suit that was never converted! No wonder, because the textures were… questionable XD They’re for CU, TM, AM, and EM, they have the appropriate morphs. There are 5 recolors, and you can choose if you want the other ages repo’d to the AM files, or not. 4t2 Shoes are by MDP.
Download 4t2 Business Suit Med Repo’d - Alternate
Download 4t2 Business Suit Med Standalone - Alternate
4t2 Mob Boss
Something for the ladies! They’re for TF, AF, and EF, they have the appropriate morphs. They come in 12 colors (6 originals, and 6 without the chain). You can choose if you want the other ages repo’d to the AF files, or not. Boots are by Sentate.
Download 4t2 Mob Boss Repo’d - Alternate
Download 4t2 Mob Boss Standalone - Alternate
Chic Suit
A mashup! Of MDP’s 4t2 Suit Pattern, and my 3t2 Country Chic. They’re for CU, TM, AM, and EM, they have the appropriate morphs. They come in 8 colors, and you can choose if you want the other ages repo’d to the AM files, or not. 4t2 Shoes are by MDP :)
Download Chic Suit Repo’d - Alternate
Download Chic Suit Standalone - Alternate
That’s it! I hope the contents of this download post suit you (he-he)
its pretty simple, but every thing has subfolders and should be pretty easy to get familiar with or edit to your liking!
Here are some of the subfolders that is included in there, the clothes, hairs, build mode, and buy mode categories have custom sub folders with the object you want to replace's original name. So you shouldnt have to worry about duplicate defaults anymore!
