jackflash Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 Gallery Last Updated 1002 Days Ago, 2 Years 9 Months Unless I am wrong, the gallery was last revamped on 29 January 2018 - that's 1002 days ago, or 2 years and 9 months ago. Yes, there have been fixes and patches, but nothing new and no suggestions implemented, etc. I feel odd paying to renew my license and having to pay for this app. It's almost as if IPS has taken this app for granted and has forgotten about it. IPS itself doesn't even use on on their own community forum - out of site and out of mind. . .a bowl of not too good. 😐 sobrenome, kmk and Claudia999 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sobrenome Posted October 28, 2020 Share Posted October 28, 2020 The Old Man 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bearback Posted October 28, 2020 Share Posted October 28, 2020 I feel the gallery needs to be more appealing to users, not sure how though. The gallery on my forum always used to get used but unfortunately not been used for some time now. sobrenome and The Old Man 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dll Posted October 28, 2020 Share Posted October 28, 2020 It needs to be better integrated into the community. I'd like to see an option where a user can choose to post an image to the gallery at the same time as they upload it into a post. jackflash and sobrenome 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Management Matt Posted October 28, 2020 Management Share Posted October 28, 2020 It's a little unfair to think of any app as being isolated in terms of updates. Even though Gallery hasn't had a 'tear down' style revamp for 2 years, it doesn't mean that it's not received any updates. Simply by being part of the Invision Community ecosystem, it receives all the updates that the core gets, including UI updates, notification updates, performance updates, etc. Quite simply we do not feel that Gallery needs a major re-invention at this time. sobrenome 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackflash Posted October 28, 2020 Author Share Posted October 28, 2020 33 minutes ago, Matt said: It's a little unfair to think of any app as being isolated in terms of updates. Even though Gallery hasn't had a 'tear down' style revamp for 2 years, it doesn't mean that it's not received any updates. Simply by being part of the Invision Community ecosystem, it receives all the updates that the core gets, including UI updates, notification updates, performance updates, etc. Quite simply we do not feel that Gallery needs a major re-invention at this time. I didn't state that it needed a major revamp nor do I believe that it does. However, some aspects could be improved, which has been pointed out by users for quite a while now. In particular, the view of member albums looks dated compared to the forum. Matt and sobrenome 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PurpleSparkles Posted October 31, 2020 Share Posted October 31, 2020 I deffo wish that albums were on user profiles, via a widget, or just on the view content, and members could create their own albums (with limited number of uploads/ albums they could create) and the gallery tab just be a directory for the albums members upload. Non of my members really follow any of the instructed templated gallery options I make. sobrenome 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morrigan Posted October 31, 2020 Share Posted October 31, 2020 7 hours ago, PurpleSparkles said: I deffo wish that albums were on user profiles, via a widget, or just on the view content, and members could create their own albums (with limited number of uploads/ albums they could create) and the gallery tab just be a directory for the albums members upload. Non of my members really follow any of the instructed templated gallery options I make. You mean like via the "Albums" tab in a profile? sobrenome 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PurpleSparkles Posted November 1, 2020 Share Posted November 1, 2020 (edited) On 10/31/2020 at 11:12 AM, Morrigan said: You mean like via the "Albums" tab in a profile? Kind of. I have a health related site, and so the Gallery tab can be on the main page as a directory, and the album tab on user profiles, with members being able to create only a certain amount of albums/ upload a certain amount of images via their own album(s). I run a non profit health site and so members also want that to toggle with the ability to have their images within their privacy control (i.e "just them", "followers/ friends" they accept; to site members, public). Which they've request this toggle for profile details (such as "about me", statuses, blogs, visitor list, friends/ following list, who can PM them) all which I feel are reasonable privacy expectations to have adjustments on what you wants others to see etc. I know IPB creators don't see the connection between the friends/ follower difference; but taking that away, took away members ability to have the privacy they wanted on their accounts and felt safe with. Edited November 1, 2020 by PurpleSparkles sobrenome 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfarber Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 So what you're suggesting is a way for members to create albums of images, from their profile, disconnected from a category within the software. Is that effectively correct? sobrenome 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morrigan Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 There is a little bit of privacy control but I believe you have to allow for "private albums" at the group level for it: But @bfarber I think they also want something more modular than this. Like "Only followers can see my albums" and "Only friends" even though the current system doesn't have a "friends" thing anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PurpleSparkles Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 (edited) 55 minutes ago, bfarber said: So what you're suggesting is a way for members to create albums of images, from their profile, disconnected from a category within the software. Is that effectively correct? No that wasn't what I was suggesting. The Gallery tab on main forum be a directory for members uploaded albums that they would access/ do on their own page. So it would not disconnect. There could be a "Gallery" tab and albums that are fronted as site owners/ promoted albums and than a list from there of members who have uploaded on their profiles their albums, and depending on what the member selected (i.e follow, register member of site, pubic/ non signed in); they have that ability, themselves, as content uploader to decide -who- gets to see that image in their album. But how members would access making an album could be on the gallery itself or their profile. I feel this would make things a lot cleaner, and effectively allow members to control their privacy of their content (like image shown above by Morrigan), sorry it was a double suggestion. 1. Make it so that only members can create albums (not the pre-templated ones admins do); and make it so admins can prefix how many albums/ images members can upload through albums. E.g 2-3 albums total 50 images all together per member. 2. Privacy setting per member and their preference. Edited November 2, 2020 by PurpleSparkles sobrenome 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morrigan Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 40 minutes ago, PurpleSparkles said: Make it so that only members can create albums (not the pre-templated ones admins do); and make it so admins can prefix how many albums/ images members can upload through albums. E.g 2-3 albums total 50 images all together per member. This is already doable. But it sounds like you want albums OUTSIDE of categories. So Category-less albums. You can already restrict the number of albums and the number of images in each album. See image above. sobrenome 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PurpleSparkles Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 On 11/2/2020 at 12:03 PM, Morrigan said: This is already doable. But it sounds like you want albums OUTSIDE of categories. So Category-less albums. You can already restrict the number of albums and the number of images in each album. See image above. Yeah. I don't understand the requirement for categories. I think members should have a set limit of albums and images they can post in them. But I don't get why they have to be sorted by categories and why albums can't just be listed and below that random image list of new images/ updated albums. sobrenome 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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