Every album category has a gallery view.
Such as this for the featured pens album.
Edit: I intended to say that I can create an album into which anyone can upload.
Would there be a way of hiding all of the file information? just it kinda looks like a file browser more than one of those swish photo galleries.
I wonder how hard it would be to implement the ability to search the SOYP forum based on a specified number of likes. For example, if you could search SOYP for posts with more than 50 likes it would show you a pretty good selection of popular pens. Want to see more, search for 25+ likes. Want to see fewer search for 100+ likes. Want to see every pen, just go thread by thread like many do now.
I have no idea how hard a "like" search criteria would be to implement, but it would eliminate many of the concerns expressed in this thread. No pens would be singled out as more or less awesome than another, other than the expression of "likes" that already takes place. Those interested could find the more popular pens whenever they want. Nobody needs to make a decision on what to add to a gallery or what to exclude from a gallery. And there would be no separate gallery for anybody to maintain. It's all in the SOYP and people can choose to view it however they want.
Ed
Would be good if attributes were possible when posting a pen such as stating material type, so for arguments sake I could search for metal pens. I appreciate that would be alot of coding, and can understands Jeff's concerns about trying to integrate more with an update looming.
Jeff, just a thought... but rather than touching the forum, would hosting a photography gallery on the web server be possible? it could be integrated into the site just by links being placed on the forum which direct to it or opens it in a sub frame, if that's the correct wording.
Granted this one is a hosted online service, but serves as an example as to how they might be displayed.
Pixieset - Example
I quite like the design of the gallery on my website too, which is hosted by Wix. Not sure where we would find such a gallery as server side software though
Brad - we have a photo gallery - what are its shortcomings?
EDIT: (I gotta stop hitting post so fast!)
I really don't want to add another component into the mix. Importing and integrating get complicated.
Also, I can minimize the amount of data shown on the album page.
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