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34 minutes ago, Admin said:

The Members Album section has gone and those individual albums moved to the correct categories, because it had been wrongly labelled in the first place.

The Members Album was only additional element for easier navigation but it was very useful. For example I want to look likesToLick's album mentioned above, but I don't know the category of album and have to seek it through all categories. Is it good?

The only way now to find member's albums is to use "Albums" tab in member's profile - more time and more ckicks

4 hours ago, Admin said:

gallery, which I have now decided we will keep

It's great!

But where is the "Members Albums" button?

1 hour ago, Sophie said:

I find the current software annoying and clunky to use. The steps just to view an image full size for example. I would like to just click the photo and see it in full resolution. Instead of clicking a button which doesn't really do much, and then having to click again to view full size.

Totally agree. Classic gallery format "thumbnail - 1 click - fullsized image in new tab" is the best.

And if the gallery and the forum softwares are independent, I'll be highly glad to return to the previous gallery version.

Look here and maybe you'll get some answers

http://peefans.com/index.php?/topic/7400-gallery-vs-pictures-section/

8 minutes ago, Admin said:

I meant one pinned thread entitled 'Member Albums', and people can request their albums to be added to the list if they're a specific niche/category, making them easier to find. It was just a thought, as I feel having all the pictures together would provide a better experience, especially given there are currently numerous problems with the gallery.

Since you and Steve have put so much work into uploading there though, I am happy to be outvoted on this if you both think the galleries are beneficial.

I've looked one more time to 2017 gallery statistics:

Posters -2, Steve and me

Posted images - better to ask Steve, let it be about 500

Max views per image - 6 (SIX!)

For example, any picture posted on reddit gets ~1000 views at first day

And conclusion is: if you turn off the gallery right now, nobody except You, Steve and me will notice it tomorrow:)

23 minutes ago, Admin said:

What if we had a pinned thread to act as a sort of directory, allowing specific albums to be found more easily?

And we'll get the whole page of pinned threads? There are 59 albums in the gallery now.

In this case it's better to create new section  "Members Albums" 

But imagine any Steve's album of 1000+ pics in thread format(

In the gallery it's 30+ pages of thumbnails

11 minutes ago, Admin said:

Would you be willing to repost some of those albums as threads in the pictures section?

It depends of the future of the Gallery:

"No" - if the gallery will be

"Maybe" - if not

I think it's two different types of content - gallery album is long-time storage and thread is current, dynamic and actual for 2-3 days without renewing

Pros and Cons:

P1. In the previous vesion of forum images, posted in threads were resized to matchbox label or even poststamp size without any opportunity to see full-sized image and the gallery was the only place where you could see normal picture.

P2. I don't know about other posters, but in my gallery albums only about 5% of pics are repeated in threads because I've had my own conception of posting pics in threads and albums.

P3/C1. Only the previous version of the gallery had user-friendly interface and functionality. In today's version you need 3 and more clicks to see picture in full size.

And...

C2. Let's look at the statistic of gallery visiting and viewing in this year. From January till March I was practically the only poster in the gallery with about 10-15 posted pics and with 5-6 views per picture. In April Steve had posted a lot of pictures with 0-3 views per picture.

So the result is obvious - The Gallery is not interesting for the most part of forum memders at least in this version.

But beeing an active poster my choice is "Both"

P.S. Maybe there are not so many forum members who like pictures in hi-res?

7 hours ago, likesToLick said:

Sorry, I can't see any tab called "Albums" on my profile page.

So it means only one - your account is cut off from the gallery and only admin can help you.

Why do you think that this trouble disappeared after simple transferring site to new server?

Do you see the tab "Albums" on your profile page?

Try to click it

1 hour ago, P-Spud said:

I can't think of anything big. It would be nice if we had other choices than "like" for a post as we used to.

Agree 100%

Sometimes we have a very good post (photo, story, link) and want to rate it "hot", "super" etc

12 minutes ago, likesToLick said:

I also do not see "gallery statistics" and "most recent image" on the home page.

There is no "gallery statistics" and "most recent image" on the new home page.

There are Today's Birthdays list instead

It's really pity about the video gallery.

Not only because of my over 400 posted videos.

It was a place where you could find real gems of genre without endless (and sometimes useless) internet surfing.

Yes, I can access the gallery.

It works normal for me and I've added a new pic in my albums.

But there are many lost pictures in the gallery ((

Are they lost forever or it simply means that restoration is not finished yet?

Just test

The second picture is awesome!

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