A NEW Gallery - Image/Video Sharing Area...

[RadioRob]

After almost a year of testing and tweaking, our new image/video sharing platform is ready! 

Our NEW Gallery consists of two major areas (known as "categories"):

• Public Images - This area is basically follows the same rules of the legacy gallery in terms of what is allowed to be shared.
• Pornography (Members Only) - This area is available only to logged in members and allows for sharing of more explicit content.  

We encourage everyone to begin using the new gallery for sharing new images and videos.  The legacy gallery will remain available.  There is too much history for us to try and remove it.  Long term, I would like to *eventually* make the legacy gallery "read only", however I do not have any sort of timeline to do that.  Instead my hope is that as people have a chance to get more comfortable with the new system they will use it more often.  (The initial migration a year ago from Xenforo to IPB also had many folks who did not like the change...  but I'm willing to bet if we tried to move the site back to Xenforo, they would not like it!)

Below are some details regarding the new gallery system to help get you get started in using it:

Albums

When you view a category, you'll see an area that looks something like:

These are "Albums" and they are the equivalent of forum topics.  They contain a collection of related images.  For example in the screenshot above, "The Beef in Back" album is the "The Beef in Back" forum thread found in the legacy gallery.  

The category is sorted by the most recently updated albums with the most recent updates showing up top similar to how the rest of the forums work.  You'll notice without even needing to open the album that you'll see a preview of the most recently added images.  

Here's more detail about what you're looking at:

• The album name and description show up on the left hand side.  
• The BIG thumbnail is the album's cover image.  This is an image that the author can set to showcase an image from within the album that might be their favorite or an image that represents the type of images inside.  The cover image will always be shown in the preview and can be "static".  (If a cover image is not specified by the author, the system will use the last posted image.)  Clicking EITHER the album name or the album cover image will take you inside to the album itself.  
• The SMALL thumbnails represent the most recently posted images inside of that album .  If there are any comments that have been made on the image, you'll see a counter showing the total number of comments on that image.  Clicking one of these small thumbnails will take you directly inside to that image itself.   

Inside an Album

If you open the album itself, by default you'll see something like:

• The left hand side represents the album details.  It will contain the cover image, and details about the album.  This includes the album creator, the number of comments on both the album itself and the images inside, as well as the reactions associated to the album itself.  
• The right hand side by DEFAULT shows small thumbnail previews of each image in the album.  My SUGGESTION is that you change your view from showing the small thumbnails to the big thumbnails.  To do this, find the display settings under the "Add Images" button and choose the center option.  This will show you a larger version of the thumbnails that you can scroll through which will mimic the legacy forum functionality.  (I am working on a way to make the large thumbnail version the default setting, but that will take a little longer to code.)
  
• If you're scrolling through the images, you find one you especially like... you can click on it to see the full sized version.  While there, you can also apply a reaction (like, love, applause, etc), comment on the image, etc.  One of the good features of this system is that comments regarding an image are kept associated to THAT image.  You will no longer have situations where someone could comment on an image that was 5 pages back, etc.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

[BuffaloKyle]

Hey @RadioRob it says I don't have permission to create a new album though. 

[RadioRob]

1 hour ago, BuffaloKyle said:

Hey @RadioRob it says I don't have permission to create a new album though. 

Try now. Sorry a permission problem on the member group.