- Community
- AI
On May 11 members could rate every group portrait and flag it for redesign, and every group in the catalog had a portrait. On May 14 each group moved from a single portrait to a gallery, and members' votes choose which image leads.
Flags close the loop. The most-flagged groups rise to the top of a redesign queue, a fresh portrait is rendered, and it joins the gallery to be judged instead of replacing what was there.
Cards on region pages and the homepage flip between a group's portraits on hover, with voting right on the card. A member can judge a face without leaving the page.
Under the hood
- The data model moved from one image per group to many: each render is stored as its own gallery record with the prompt it came from, and nothing is overwritten.
- Votes are recorded per member per image, so every portrait in a gallery is judged on its own, and tapping a vote again clears it.
- The cover is recomputed on every vote and every new render. Ties go to the newer image, so a fresh portrait gets its turn at the front until the votes decide.
- The winning portrait also becomes the group's share image, so link previews follow the community's choice.
- List pages fetch every gallery on the page in one query, and in-card votes apply optimistically and roll back if they are not accepted.
- groups with a portrait
- 100%
- portraits in the first galleries
- 1,550
See it on the site
Related build notes
- Sep 25, 2026Voted off the page: readers now replace portraits that look offWhen a majority of readers say a portrait looks off, the site renders replacements, promotes one and says why on the page. Twenty faces changed in a day.
- Aug 5, 2026One tap under every portrait asks: does this look right?The Verdict Strip puts one question under each portrait, needs no account, and hands every reader the next face nobody has judged.
- Sep 8, 2026The fourth dimension: comparing the models that draw the peopleFive text-to-image generators, ten peoples, 200 renders scored against real-photo baselines, and a blind vote with the model names hidden.