Have a place where we could write a caption. That would be cool.

10/11/2002 6:56:50 PM

i agree

10/11/2002 10:58:28 PM

bttt

10/27/2002 1:04:00 AM

and paging, don't forget paging...

oh, ,and make it so you can change the order...

oh, and let us pic the resolution...

oh, and install a photoshop program on the site so we can save time altering them for wacky picture posts

oh, and let us upload movies too

oh, and while we're at it can we make it so we can play mp3s using tww?

oh, and i would also like to be pampered and treated like a small child, BECAUSE APPARENTLY IT'S TOO MUCH WORK TO FIGURE OUT WHAT'S GOING ON IN A DAMNED PICTURE

10/27/2002 12:32:27 PM

yea, i'm glad you summed it up. thanks, bro.

10/27/2002 12:43:16 PM

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"oh, and i would also like to be pampered and treated like a small child, BECAUSE APPARENTLY IT'S TOO MUCH WORK TO FIGURE OUT WHAT'S GOING ON IN A DAMNED PICTURE"

quit being a cunt. is this section not for feedback??? fucking idiot. Ive seen other message boards with captions and it is a really cool feature that isnt hard to fucking implement.

10/27/2002 2:41:47 PM

how do youo know it's not hard to impliment? it could require them scrapping the entire site design and rebuilding it from the bottom up in order to do something like that... if it was as easy as you claim it would ahve already been done in Jake's spare time

10/27/2002 3:23:50 PM

yea, i figured if it was so easy, it would be done... but this is still the feedback forum, and smath wasn't trolling, so bugger off you wanker

(sorry, was just watching lock, stock....)

10/27/2002 3:48:32 PM

i seriously doubt it's that hard... though i wouldn't use it if they did implement it

10/27/2002 4:08:47 PM

I don't think it would be too hard to implement picture captions. I mean, the very easiest thing to do would be to create a new database with a map of picture filenames (or however they're keeping the UID's for each picture....) to a picture caption string. At that point, all you would have to do is create a page to manage the captions in your gallery, and edit the main photo galleries pages to show captions in addition to pictures.

It probably wouldn't look too good performance-wise, but I think that might be the easiest way to implement it...

-bigginal

10/27/2002 4:36:01 PM

currently there is no data (descriptions, captions, etc) associated with photos because the only method that we use to keep track of them is the file system.

mostly because of the redundancy of certain photos in multiple galleries, I have thought about moving to a database-filesystem hybrid for the photo gallery. with this the photo would only exist once in the filesystem, but could exist in many peoples galleries. the database would also allow easier ordering, categorizing, etc.

the main problem is that we already have so many damn links from the message board into the photo gallery. in a transition to the db-fs hybrid, we would have to either sever the links or create some pretty intensive routines to convert everything over... i've always avoided it because of this.

10/27/2002 4:39:31 PM

I like the hybrid idea that you have, Jake. It sounds like it will be pretty decent in both usability and performance aspects. I can also understand your lack of desire to move everything over to that system...I mean, severing all of those links isn't necessarily going to be a fun thing to do, but I think the increase in functionality and ability well warrants the upgrade.

After all, the only threads that are really going to be affected by this in all likelihood are the Hottest Girls and TWW spottings threads, and since the people who visit those threads will probably repost the pictures that were in them anyway, I wouldn't really worry about it.

-bigginal

10/27/2002 4:50:31 PM

Hybrid Theory

10/27/2002 5:52:15 PM

yea i wouldn't worry about severing those links.... i mean you gotta consider how many other links point externally and almost all of those get killed eventually (check out the AYBABTU thread - its full of red Xs)

10/27/2002 6:19:45 PM

this may be a stupid question, seeing as I know almost nothing about this, but is it possible to clone all of the current images to the new system, but leave the current system online? Everything new would be put into the new system, but the old system, as it is, would be left online somewhere so that no links are broken. You would have to use more storage space, but the old file system would never grow. Seems like it might work, but then, I probably dont know what I am talking about.

10/28/2002 12:07:20 AM

^but if you do it that way then none of the pictures that were already in people's galleries could have captions or anything else done to them, i don't think.

10/28/2002 12:22:18 AM

i vote for over haul.. with a prewarning of course, so that we can all gather our current pics onto our computers and re-upload later

10/28/2002 1:20:11 AM

^(if they have time hahaha)

10/28/2002 3:17:33 AM

guys, we're not actually going to lose any photos. they would still be in your galleries. we would just have a bunch of red X's all over the message board because the links are pointing to the location of the old files, not the new files. anyway, i think i am going to go through the message board to fix all of the links.

10/28/2002 8:27:49 PM

just out of curious, but will all the pics people have posted in the past be gone? Would those have to be fixed too?

10/28/2002 8:46:12 PM

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"guys, we're not actually going to lose any photos. they would still be in your galleries. we would just have a bunch of red X's all over the message board because the links are pointing to the location of the old files, not the new files. anyway, i think i am going to go through the message board to fix all of the links."

10/28/2002 9:17:52 PM

why quote? i know what he said..... i was talking about the pics that have been posted in threads, not galleries. delete a pic from the gallery = red x in the thread if it was linked to it.

10/28/2002 10:33:31 PM

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"i think i am going to go through the message board to fix all of the links"

Obviously, you don't know what he said.

10/29/2002 12:33:40 AM

thank you Bunnicula, I tried

[Edited on October 29, 2002 at 12:48 PM. Reason : ]

10/29/2002 12:47:08 PM

i really doubt he would do that.... seems like a lot of work.

10/29/2002 11:18:54 PM

i believe he's already started it, bc he's just that damn cool.

10/29/2002 11:34:40 PM

you know, making this sight period was a damn lot of work.

10/30/2002 12:15:56 AM

paging is important!!! people are complaining!

eh, i need to delete some anyway.

10/30/2002 1:13:19 AM

It is for things such as this that people should go premium.

10/30/2002 1:34:35 AM

what? for paging? or for captioning...

the guy who posted this thread is premium...

10/30/2002 7:23:49 AM

I meant the amount of work that Jake and Joe have to do to do things that we want.

10/30/2002 3:57:40 PM

^^then why don't you do it?

10/30/2002 8:45:46 PM

although the new modifications will add captions and folders, the folders will only be available to premium subscribers. I am also considering limiting photos to 100 per folder. having 500 photos on a page is absolutely ridiculous.

the main implication of this is that non-premiums will be limited to 100 photos. i will keep all of the photos currently in the gallery, but anyone over 100 photos will have to cut back before they can add new photos. the photo gallery is really what is killing us bandwidth-wise. if you want over 100 photos, you're gonna have to cough up $2.50 a month!

10/30/2002 8:53:38 PM

*the peasants rejoice*

10/30/2002 9:18:26 PM

Whoa! one of my suggestions is going to happen! Awesome CrazyJ!

10/30/2002 10:12:22 PM

hey now.... i was the FIRST to ever suggest it

10/30/2002 11:12:21 PM

but look who he responded to

10/31/2002 1:25:13 AM

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"although the new modifications will add captions and folders, the folders will only be available to premium subscribers."

but the captions will still be available to non-premiums?

10/31/2002 8:42:47 AM

$$ talks

10/31/2002 10:54:01 AM

I don't think the captions should be available to non-premiums

10/31/2002 11:16:32 AM

I think they should be allowed for everyone. Because captions really benefit others looking in your gallery as opposed to benefiting you (such as HTML and email)

10/31/2002 11:30:53 AM

^^true

10/31/2002 11:49:41 AM

bttt

1/3/2003 2:41:31 PM

I actually wrote about 80% of the new photo gallery a few months ago, but got sidetracked. I'm not sure when I'll be able to put on the finishing touches!

1/5/2003 11:21:14 PM