Sorry I caused you pain John, that certainly wasn't my intent. I just wanted to let Almo know why one person doesn't find the galleries a comfortable place to interact. If your intent is not that everyone has to post a comment in the galleries every day as is posted above, you might want to retract that part of the message.


Ads - what can I say?
I agree that they are a necessary evil in this kind of setup. There are photo serving sites where for a premium, no ads are shown. I suppose that would be a whole level of unwanted business to conduct on this site.


"Some things aren't selectable - like how to display threads."

Yup. The software isn't as slick as the forums are. I wish it was. Maybe you can be more specific about the way you like to view threads. If the gallery is doing it contrary to most people's preferences, I think I can change it.
The way I like to viewthreads is chronological with new posts appearing at the bottom. I suppose thats a holdover from my paper training. I know others like things threaded and such. It's nice having a choice in the forums.

"It seems confusing to me having shots scattered amongst different galleries according to some scheme I don't understand. Comments made in one gallery do not show up consistantly amongst others."

I'm not sure why you wouldn't understand the scheme. You associate a photo with a category and there it is.
The scheme I was talking about was what is used by individuals to assign there shots to the various galleries. I enjoy abstract shots but that category seems to hold a lot of pictures that are place in there 'right' (to me) category but also added to the abstract gallery just because they can be and don't seem to fit any others - not because they are a good fit for the category.

I can decrease the size of the thumbnails and/or add to the number of thumbnails showing on the main page. Would other people like me to do this? I chose the size of the thumbnails because I thought it was a good compromise. They're large enough to really see, but not so large that the page is really slow. Keep in mind that if I increase the number of thumbnails, the pag will load slower.
I think you have a good median for thumbnail size. We do get to choose how many should be shown on a page (up to 18). Maybe you could bump that for folks with faster connections.

I'm sorry you aren't happy with the gallery. But it's far far superior to what we used to have. I really, really like it and am proud to have it. Do I think it's perfect? Nope. Will we make it better? Yup. Do you have to use it? Nope. But thanks for your feedback. Without people telling me what they like and want, I don't know.
I am happy with the forums I do use though John, and making all us old luddites happy in all things shouldn't be one of your major priorities in trying to make a commercially viable site. I'm glad you appreciate the feedback and wish I could have been clearer about stuff, communication is not my strong point by a long shot.

Starting to thunder here, I better get off the computer.