Want to try out the new gallery before it goes live?

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• MI

  

  Mike

  Sep 24, 2014

  On a very brief look - seems it will be easier to sort for users  and presumable categories can be refined with time.Looks good to me

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• DE

  

  DesertRat

  Sep 24, 2014

  So far I like what I see. The pics are actually larger than the thumbnails and they can be blown up to full screen size and more. Hopefully you can do the same thing with the pics on the profiles.

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• ST

  

  Steve

  Sep 24, 2014

  Thumbnails all show 0 likes, although full-sized show actual numbers.
  

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• ME

  Member

  Sep 24, 2014

  [quote]The new style is a good improvement especially functionality and ease of navigation, I think it will promote more members to adding more new gallery pictures and better drive more people to buy full memberships. Keep up the good work Teamtrue... Pip
  [/quote]Ditto Pip good evaluation....
  

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• JO

  

  John

  Sep 25, 2014

  After I flagged a photo, it blew out of the gallery completely and took me back to this page in updates.  It actually closed the tab of the browser altogether.
  

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• JO

  

  John

  Sep 25, 2014

  Sort does not seem to be working or the photo dates are displaying wrong.  The default sort is displayed in the pull down as "newest" (I agree).  But the dates seem to be very old and not in reverse chronological order.  The actual sequence appears to be random.  The sequence did not change even when selecting newest in the pull down.
  
  
  However, when I selected a keyword that resulted in no photos displayed, there was an option at the top of the screen to "clear filters."  Clicking that removed the "newest" option from the criteria.  Then when I selected "newest" from the pull down, the sequence appears to be newest first.
  
  

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• JO

  

  John

  Sep 25, 2014

  Oh yes.  Overall, I really like it.  Nice work.

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• JO

  

  John

  Sep 25, 2014

  Like buttons (up/down arrows).
  Just my opinion...
  
  Up adds a like.  Up again reduces the like.  Might be better if it does nothing.
  Down changed zero to a 1.  That not good.  Down again put back to zero, OK
  
  Down reduces 50 to 49.  That is not correct.  There are 50 likes.  A "dislike" should not reduce the number of actual likes that were posted.  There should be a seperate number for likes and dislikes.
  
  All this should be more consistent so folks actually record what they intended to record.
  
  
  Doing this right will encourage more posts.

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• JO

  

  John

  Sep 25, 2014

  Navigating through the pictures using left right arrows, both next to the pictures and at top left of photo window.....
  With sort on rating, was navigating through pics using right arrows.  On pic #74 clicked on the left arrow.  It skipped 73 and displayed 72.  It did this consistently on repeated tests.  The user experience is such that going back to the previous picture did not work.  Did not happen on all, just this one.

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• JO

  

  John

  Sep 25, 2014

  I suspect this is just a result of migrating data for test environment, but none of the photos have any comments posted.  I was however able to post a comment.

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• JO

  

  John

  Sep 25, 2014

  The user name of the poster and its link to their page is provided top left.  This is great.
  Navigation error....
  Clicking on the user link took be correctly to the members page.  Great.  Now how do I get back to where I left off in the gallery?  Clicking the back arrow of the browser to me to the main gallery page and lost my previous place.  Makes navigating a little less fun to start over.

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• JO

  

  John

  Sep 25, 2014

  Picture Categories....
  Can we add "Couples"
  
  Also, is there a way to correct or add categories to a photo?  This will add to the user experience when they are more complete/accurate.

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• ME

  MemberOriginal Poster

  Sep 25, 2014

  Wow, very helpful feedback John. Thank you very much. Can you tell me what browser/OS you're using. That might help track down some of the more bugs I was unable to replicate.
  I've fixed most of the errors you specified and added arrow key keyboard shortcuts for Prev/Next and Like/Dislike .
  The like system was devised to just be a running tally, but never go below 0, since many pictures are user personal photos, it's might be rude to show that a photo has a negative score. That may change in the future if people don't like it. I did fix the 0/1 bug you specified though.
  There are no comments because there previously was no comments it's a new feature :)
  I've got a metric ton of photos that need to be moderated and I'm thinking about crowdsourcing the moderation and tagging of them to users of the site but I'm just trying to figure out how to write a multiple user approval process.
  If I can figure this out , I'll probably reset all the views/likes on the gallery since it would take the gallery to about 20x it's current size
  

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• JO

  

  John

  Sep 25, 2014

  TT1,
  Sincerely happy to help.  I notices the link to a member already fixed by opening a new window.  I like that approach a lot.
  The like dislike thing I feel a little differently about.  Not sure you were getting my point as I agree to be "member friendly."  The way it is now, if I click dislike, their current score goes down one.  In my mind, someones dislike should not reduce the number of likes.  The photo earned 50 likes, it should have 50 likes.  My solution would to not have dislikes at all!  Why should anyone voice a dislike?  No need.  If we do have a dislike button, it should have a separate count.  But I vote delete the dislike.

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• JO

  

  John

  Sep 25, 2014

  I was using Google Chrome Version 37.0.2062.124 m on a PC when I did my testing.
  
  Also, left arrow in the gallery window will not get you to photo # 1.  Won't go past 2.

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• AL

  

  Allan

  Sep 27, 2014

  FWIW:  "Bugs" aside, I like the new format....
  

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