Organizing your images

[Laura F.]

I've been playing with a new image gallery feature that we could use on our forums.

If turned on, you could:

• Organize your images into albums
• Move images between albums
• Select an album for your image while uploading it to your post
• Easily jump from the image page to the message that it appears in
• Upload up to 10 images at a time into your gallery
• Mark an entire album as private so images inside the album are also private
• Comment on and Kudo images inside the albums

It seems pretty useful to me, but I don't have a good feel for how much everyone uses the image gallery functionality.  I know that some users have stayed away from it altogether and continue to use the older method to embed images in their posts.

Thanks,

Laura

[tst]

The only use I have for the image gallery is that I no longer have to attach the image to the post. I really don't need any additional functionality. I suspect the vast majority of the users (at least those who post images) are the same. I wouldn't be surprised if many aren't even aware that you can have an image gallery.

[Ben]

I would like the functionality you outlined.

I could sort my image in Olvia, Fun, Performance, etc then find the I want fast and then use it to get to the original thread.

So count me in.

Ben

[SteveChandler]

I think that images posted from the private forums should be automatically embedded or at least automatically marked private.

[altenbach]

The image gallery in its current form is pretty useless. It cannot be efficiently used once it contains a large collection.

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Laura F. wrote:

If turned on, you could:

• Organize your images into albums
• Move images between albums
• Select an album for your image while uploading it to your post
• Easily jump from the image page to the message that it appears in
• Upload up to 10 images at a time into your gallery
• Mark an entire album as private so images inside the album are also private
• Comment on and Kudo images inside the albums

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These are all welcome improvements.

Here are some additional ideas:

Once an image gets embedded into a posts, it should be an internal copy of the gallery image so it remains in the posts even if the gallery image is deleted. (What good is a time limited post edit window if embedded images can be freely wiped out long after posting by simply deleting the gallery entry? This is a post edit too!).

Of course we don't want this to turn into a full blown foto sharing site with huge albums of the hawaii vacations or grandkids. OTOH, albums with travel photos from NI week would e nice...

[Laura F.]

Thanks for the feedback.

Luckily the albums are fairly non-invasive so if you choose not to use them, you won't experience any change from today.  You'll just have a single default public album.

Another thing I like is that if you setup an album to be private and then select that album when uploading an images (say in a private forum) the image is automatically marked private.

[TCPlomp]

I would very much like the option to HTTP POST an image to the forums with authentication.

Would that be possible?

If that is an option I could extend the Code Capture Tool with an option push images directly into the image box of a user.

Ton

[Ben]

Please let us know when this is turned on. I'd like ot try it out.

Ben

[Laura F.]

Image albums are turned on. You can go into your image gallery to try them out.

Thanks!

Laura

[altenbach]

Thanks.

For those with "Knight" badges, there is a formatting problem when looking at "all images". The badge is cutoff and the name does not show (except for a few lone pixels).

(Same problem for IE9 and Chrome browser)