[FEEDBACK REQUEST] If Facer could launch/improve anything in 2021, what would it be?

Creator Requests:

  1. Please fix the issue with font becoming distorted on Fossil (other brands?) when Stroke is used.
  2. Please remove any preview skins for watches that are no longer available, and add current ones - especially women’s rose gold and stainless steel.
  3. Please fix the intermittent problem with Shift+Up keys not working in Creator.
  4. Add an arc to the progress bar options.

Editing to add:
It would be great if we could move a locked bundle to the top of our profile on the webpage so it doesn’t float down and get unnoticed.
As for the unlocked ones, I’ve discovered that with my almost 60 collections, when I move older ones to the top of the list people start syncing and liking those designs as if they were new.
Would it be possible to have the “SHOW MORE” larger?

Thank you for all that you have done to make Facer the BEST!

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Hey Guys.

From my side - I don’t have much to add except please keep up with the great work and pace, Facer Rocks :slight_smile:

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Gauss has already given a wide scope of additions to Facer Creator. In addition to this, there are some major improvements that you need to undertake on how Facer is being presented and glimpsed by the users. Presently, it is very flawed.

  1. Not that I have not featured on these, but, currently the Top Premium and Top Free Charts for the week selections, Editor’s Picks, Staff Picks seem to be very biased to the Facer Creator Partners. Also, these need to be changed every week no matter what. At this point there are a few sitting there for weeks or perhaps over a month. I clearly understand this helps some designers to get high exposure however, it does not live up to the spirit of giving many other good designers a chance to show their skills too. Facer Creator Partners’ creations should have a separate Top Chart view by itself. They are excellent no doubt and therefore need separate space for themselves without competing and mixing with the new designers. The Top Premium and Top Free should be entirely from the fresh creations that crop up every day. Definitely, the selectors whoever they are (without any prejudice here) do not seem to be in line with the user’s likes or choice. If you need to bring out the best among the new designers and creators and more facer creator users, the above said is the way to go.

  2. One of the Users actually complained that Facer seems to be encouraging porn, politics and negative views. I believe that if Facer does like to retain such categories, create separate views and categories other than “Fresh Faces” where this could be dumped and specific users with special permissions could go there. Should someone publish such unpolished watchfaces in fresh faces view, Facer watchface selectors need to screen the published ones and move such discouraging watchfaces to these views/categories with immediate effect.

  3. Many of the current categories such as Elegant Ensemble, OLED Friendly, Fun and Unique, Minimal, Abstract, Natural Wonders, Health and Wellness do not exactly have or represent what they exemplify. So many beautiful designs from various designers have missed inclusion in the above categories. You may want to re-align categories by perhaps identifying criteria they need to follow to add a specific design within.

  4. Also, it is often noticed that non-Facer Creator Pro Users publish the same watchface design in 10-20 different variations of colours all because there is no option to change the theme/colour from within in Basic. This not only congests the Fresh Faces view on a mobile device but, is painful to navigate through. To avoid this, it may be useful to add the themable function in Basic Facer Creator too.

Hope you would give serious thought on the above and incorporate changes. Presently, many Users and designers other than Facer Creator Partners seem to be discouraged and reluctant publishing in Facer.

Looking forward to these changes and Good Luck in the New Year!

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i would like to thank facer for this platform-i can only imagine the hard work and stress it has been on everyone with a name like little labs they have created something that it is gigantic-maybe change the name to enormous labs-lol-this site has opened up a part of all of us we never knew was there-putting our hearts and souls into every watch(you start with nothing and end up with a polished diamond-often ending in painful hands(ive resorted to a bicycle glove)and sunrises-like the saying once you start you cant stop-but its all worth it-i always thought patience was a virtue-now i think not-perhaps obsession for perfection perhaps-its been quite a journey-but a beautiful one-facer is the rocket(hehe launch)and we just along for the ride-its been an eyeopner-and cant wait to see where this roadmap goes-so thank you facer and designers-i would say maybe advertising on you tube or tik tok to get more people aware and bring them to the site-i enjoyed the competitions-maybe facer can launch-some type of monthly theme every month-and make a page for monthly theme for all the desiners who made watches or entered and display all of them on a page

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First of all happy new year to everyone. I’d love to see a curved text feature made available. I am sure I am not the only one to ask for that feature. Days of the week on a curved window would be a great addition.

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Adding more features for creating square faces would be pretty cool, especially number templates and seconds progress rings, which are only available in a circular format right now. I’m just a simple creator, only using the basic tools, but I’d like to be able to use gifs, have colour changing elements like themes and hands colours, and I’d like to be able to set basic app shortcuts in my faces, like for Alarms, Phone, Gallery, and Settings

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  • User preferred hours 12/24Hr digital is not user preferable with a leading zero. (Although found a workaround with code on the forum.
  • Top 100 faces view also on mobile (instead of 50)
  • Color themes for everyone

But overall I’m very happy with Facer!

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Please add a pay option for iPhone users who want to purchase individual watch faces. This is currently not the case for Facer users who have iphone but are using Wear OS. As an iPhone user I can pay through the iTunes Store OR I also have a Google Pay account. Thank you.

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Realistic requests:

  • Allow users to sort by popularity when browsing a storefront
  • Fix the shift-arrow command to move one pixel for all arrows
  • Give us the ability to update an existing watch without it going to the top of our publish feed

Debatably reasonable request: Kick an autobanned watch back to Drafts instead of an instant delete. It’s a drag to lose a day’s coding work because I typed a keyword that matches the copyright of some watch I’ve never heard of.

Unrealistic request: layer styles. Everybody already mentioned layer groups, but I’d love a Screen mode.

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Bonjour

Le regroupement des calques dans des groupes

Le classement des cadrans personnalisé par
les favoris
les j’aime
les synchronisation
les commentaires

Quand on créé un cadran rond, il serait bien de voir le format carré directement

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+Detailed face making tutorials, helpful resource or help video for beginners like me
+Adding widgets to the watch face

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Most of my wishes have already been mentioned by others, but I will list a few just to “+1”:

  1. Fix “complex” conditionals (&& and ||). At present it often works in Creator and on Tizen, but not on WearOS or some watch brands.

  2. Time and date calculation “engine” as suggested by @andrew.dowden : Feature request

  3. Curved text

  4. Calculation of hex colour codes by expression

  5. Align Facer web and app functionality. At present some functions are only available via web and others only via the app.

  6. Layer groups

  7. Scripting

  8. Allow Creator Pro subscribers to sell watch faces to non-premium users. Large percentage of sale goes to Facer.

Thanks for a great platform. :slight_smile:

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Hi to all
So I believe everyone covered everything.

I just have a couple of notes that needs attention; I use the Facer app on my iPhone and I receive notifications about new faces published by the designers I follow, however if I click on any of those notifications it takes me to the app home page rather than the desing itself.

The other note, in Creator; if it is possible to have a way of selecting all the elements in a design to apply a certain action like delete or lock.

Looking forward to the new Creator

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Hi
this is my request: add the “T” for the stopwatch tags like the VAR tags to control what to do after start/stop/reset actions.
I mean something like “SWE_T”

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and these are the others in random order…

  • GROUP LAYERS
  • COPY/PASTE between different faces
  • PHOTO TAG to incorporate user photo from gallery or camera.
  • COMPLETE TEST CAPABILITIES to test GYRO, LOCATION, FORECAST etc.etc. directly into Creator
  • 10:10 direct shortcut into Creator’s Time Machine
  • BRIGHTNESS field to add after “TRANSPARENCY” from 0 to 100
  • COMPLETE IMAGES SEQUENCE with all the capabilities of IMAGE TAG
  • SOLVE THE PROGRESS TAG ISSUE to use formulas freely in all the fields
  • IMAGE SEQUENCE TAG INDEX to force a specific image into the sequence.
  • #VAR_n_P# to have a counter starting from 0 and not from absolute time (DNOW)
  • DEPTH LAYER add a field with the DEPTH to control what stays above and visible.
  • ADD the max position in chart for the faces with the syncs
  • DIM COLOR for all the elements and not only for texts.
  • DIM TRANSPARENCY / DIM COORDINATE / DIM DIMENSIONS too
  • NUMBER FORMAT like ###.### to control “0” before and after commas
  • TEXT MACRO like %color or %size to format text directly in the field.
  • VAR STORE tag to store a value into a variable
  • VAR STARTING VALUE to set the starting value for a VAR into Creator
  • VAR TOUCH POSITION to read the coordinates of a touch into an interactive area.
  • STOPWATCH TIME to know when the CHRONO TAG is activated/stopped/reset
  • SOUND associated to the interactive touch (click sound I mean)
  • FLASH expression to substitute (#Ds#%2) - something like flash(interval, resolution)
  • TEXT spacing control to make a fixed or proportional spacing font
  • FIX THE DELAY when returning from AOD mode (for example #ZLP# has a 1 second delay approx.)
  • ADD faded shadows instead of sharp shadows with a parameter to control how faded/sharp
  • ADD shadows for TEXT
  • FIX the text effects that works only into Creator.
  • ROUND TEXT LAYER to have a text formatted into a circle

Rgds
Dario Marnoni

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I would buy the Facer Pro watch maker program without free watch downloads if it was a one time purchase! I will never ever buy a software subscription.

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i would like to see the freezes on the Samsung watches fixed and i would like interactive features (like an app launcher to be put on the free version of the creator.)

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its not going to happen, apple is to stubborn and they don’t like customization

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haha true.

But I can be hopeful :cry:

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I have an old complaint that has never been dealt with. I cannot control which of my collections are visible on my phone. If (as has happened) one of my grandchildren clicks the red heart on one of my collections (the like indicator), it is removed from my phone and I can’t get it back. We need much more control over collections: the ability to delete, combine, remove from our phones, and be able to add them back to our phones.
I also would really like curved text.

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