Gallery is live

[Straylight]

We're out of the initial beta phase now, and the gallery system is now live. There are a number of different categories that you can upload to. A number of additional features will be added in the future, including user galleries and something to display the latest images on the front page of the site.

Enjoy.

[Lehn]

Awesome job 'mate!

[Omega Amen]

So, how will this affect the old Art Corner, Art Contest, and Graphic Design sections?

Also, do you mean that the Gallery is no longer beta? If so, just to note, I still see the "Gallery (Beta)" section title.

[Straylight]

I don't know what's gonna happen to those forums yet, but I expect that we'll lock them eventually, as their functions are now moved over to the galler. Either that or we'll keep them as discussion-only forums.

*fixes title

[JediSonic]

So you can make gallery threads that have more than 1 image in them? lol I think maybe that was a stupid question

[Straylight]

Images will only apppear if they are attached to the first post in the thread (the system forces you to do this). Any other images in the thread are totally ignored by the gallery.

[calbhach]

Wow! Really good job, SL! Must've taken forever to code...^^

[JediSonic]

Uhhh... then why would art corner be obsolete if the gallery only supports one-time artists?

For example, when I first joined I may have though Gypsy had almost no art talent at all if it werent for being able to back-track through her thread Also, isnt it better on site resources to limit people to 1 thread each?

[Straylight]

For example, when I first joined I may have though Gypsy had almost no art talent at all if it werent for being able to back-track through her thread

There will soon be a thing which automatically displays gallery images for a specific username, essentially creating member galleries, and fulfilling the function of the artist threads.

IMO, 1 thread each is a terrible way of indexing the material because you've got to click through loads of comments and crap before you can get the actual images. We originally set the art corner forums up as a compromise - the old MSN forums had a gallery, but when we originally moved to vB + domain, there was not a suitable gallery system to replace the old one. Thus we went for threads. Now, however, we have (what I think) is a better way of organising the information.

isnt it better on site resources to limit people to 1 thread each?

Practically no effect on system resources whatsoever. The only thing I'm worried about is the database size getting bigger and bigger as people upload more and more images. But hey, that already happened anyway. The 'bishies' thread, etc.

Thanks for the support anyway guys.

[inkhana]

The gallery can be found on the main forum page. (Click the forum link at the top of any page)