TimeTexasChris

Thank you for the help and for removing the login. I deleted the account as soon as TI created a separate account.

Thank you very much! This is a huge help and I truly appreciate your time.

NM, I added a Test Image gallery to the Hrotsky Club.

Marc Here is a link to the board. https://bespokenlounge.watch/board/ *****Removed*********

So I guess I didn't actually answer the question you posed Tracy. I don't get that behavior. In the main Gallery, I do get that option because I can set up albums there. But I don't know how to get albums set up in a Club I guess. It isn't in the Club-->Gallery Settings. That only lets you allow Albums, but doesn't provide anywhere to add albums. It doesn't appear to be in the Club-->Manage Club settings from what I can tell. I seem to be missing something somewhere. I would be happy to do a zoom with someone and share my screen and we can walk through it. That may be easier. Also, your site looks really great!

And maybe that's the issue, I haven't seen anywhere to actually add an album. I can set up albums in the main gallery, but can't see how to set up albums in the clubs. I can add multiple galleries within a club, but not an album.

I did forget because it is simply the file folder.

Thanks Marc. Here is the step by step showing the settings and the process of trying to insert a photo into the gallery. From what I can tell, there is never an option to create an album or add an album at any point in the process. Here is the Club settings where it shows that albums are allowed in the image test gallery Here are the options under the Allow Albums option. Here is the club menu, showing the Images gallery where I go to insert the image. Here is the screen when you click to add an image. Here are the options after clicking on the image to edit details (2 images to show all options): This is after clicking + and adding an image. Here is the image inserted.

I think the biggest issue is consistency with the galleries. The main gallery easily allows you to set up albums. When you go to gallery settings in Clubs and add a Gallery, it lets you select a box for "Allow Albums" but I don't see how to create albums within the administrator console nor does it give you the option when you add photos to the gallery. Also, consistent tagging could allow member photos to be used in image panels on the main site and in the clubs to rotate through related photos. For instance, if they post a photo of a dessert, and there's a club devoted to desserts, it would automatically populate an image scroll in the dessert club. People use social media to post photos. To get those people to start using a forum as opposed to social media, the best way is to make it easy and consistent to post photos. That eases the transition, and then you also have the discussion forums/clubs/etc. to keep them engaged. So from the usability standpoint, I think the galleries could be better implemented so they are consistent across the site including clubs. I think the tools are almost already developed, just a matter of getting them working consistently across the forum. I'd be interested in helping develop a strategy for better implementing photos within the forums, but I don't know if there's interest to do that. I will take a stab at laying out a photo management implementation tomorrow or Tuesday. Thanks, I do appreciate the time.

Sorry y'all, I've been out of town and just got back. I'll revisit the discussion here and respond today. Thanks, Chris

Thank you for the response! And that does work in the overall Gallery, but within a Club, that option doesn't come up. It is shown in the options in the administrative panel under clubs as an option you can allow - attached. But when I go to add a photo, it never provides an option. Now I can add a second gallery within the club, but that then gets unwieldy as I would like multiple albums within a single gallery. The second photo shows the "Image" gallery that I added is now included in the menu. Is it possible to have a single gallery in the Menu, with multiple albums under that gallery - similar to the main gallery? It seems the galleries in the main site are treated differently than in the clubs. But I could be missing where you can add an "album" to the "gallery" within a club even though the option is available under the club settings>gallery settings. Thanks!

When setting up a gallery in the club, it asks if albums are allowed, but I don't see how to actually set up an album. I'm sure its simple and I'm just missing it, but would appreciate some help. Thanks!

As a little more information, it seems there's some support gaining for alternatives to Instagram due to the recent changes to make it more like TikTok. A lot of people, at least in the watch community are looking at alternative social sites like WatchCrunch and Vero.co (IG clone without the ads and algorithm driven feeds). In any event, seems like an opportunity for dicussion forums to make some inroads for forums that are photo/IG heavy with some tweaks.

So I wonder if this might be a part of the issue: I've been poking around and it does allow members to have folders devoted to them. But under the settings for the gallery when setting up a folder, it has the following, and I'm wondering if by having this set as Use Default, then I don't know what the default tags are. So maybe I should create Preset tags for all of the categories? Not sure, just thinking this may be why it shows a Tag option in the gallery, but it doesn't let you click on it and include a tag. Thoughts on that? And is there somewhere to set system tags so that it allows people to select the proper tag? Thanks again!

Thanks Marc, it still limits tags unless posting in the Club. I went where you directed, but I'll have to get the guy who set this up originally to provide all of that information. I have no idea what any of that is. Will probably be later this week. Thanks Chris