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JohnCh

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I'm sure many of you are wondering what happened to the home page layout.  After prompting from @Vovchandrto better expose the gallery functionality, I've implemented a way that doesn't involve custom code but does come at the expense of pushing the list of forums further down the page.  To offset this, feeds were added to the right that highlight new topics, popular topics and new downloads.  There are no changes to navigation or Activity Streams, so any links in your favorites that go directly to an Activity Stream will continue to work unchanged.  I'll do a poll in a couple of weeks to gauge opinions once everyone has lived with it for a bit.  If people hate it, we'll revert, if people like it, it will stay.  

 

Below is a brief description of each feed.  Simply click on an image or post within a feed to access it directly.

1) Rotating image feed displays up to 30 random images from the Gallery. The feed is refreshed with a new group of images each time you visit or reload the page.

2) Newest Topics - displays the 5 newest topics on the forum. 

3) Popular Topics - displays the 5 topics with the highest post count.

4) Newest Files in Downloads - displays the 5 most recently uploaded files to the Downloads section.

 

Note: if you are viewing the forum on a mobile device, feeds 2, 3, and 4 will appear below the list of forums to maintain readability of that section.

 

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-John

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@JohnCh Thank you for the valiant effort!

 

I'll be an impartial observer in this process and see if you and others like it. I obviously do!

 

Question however. Images show a comment count but I don't have an option to comment on a picture when I click it?

 

There is also a star rating that shows up for everybody's pictures other than Crocs but I can't click any of the stars? 

 

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Maybe it's a permission thing. 

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45 minutes ago, JohnCh said:

It's a user setting that provides album owners with a level of control.  Please see the help article on albums.

 

-John

 

I have both turned on for my Album but I still can't rate or comment on pictures on my album. Can you try and see if you have luck?

 

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I like seeing the gallery getting populated.  I don't know what our system here will support, but I've liked that the lotuselan.net forum I frequent places all thread photos into a common gallery.  I enjoy paging through, but the real value is being able to filter... so if I'm looking for pictures of gearboxes, for example, that is pretty easy to do and quite useful.

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@SENCI don't think the Invision platform supports that, but I'll look into it.  Unfortunately, images inserted into a post are handled very differently on the backend than those inserted into a gallery, creating its own set of problems.  A big one is that unlike a post, gallery uploads are not resized to reduce storage requirements (and for posts, reduce page load times.)  That means we either have to implement small file size requirements for gallery uploads, requiring people to resize images before they upload them, or we have to limit the number of images per person.  There is a long standing ask for Invision to change this and give admins the option to auto-resize gallery images, but nothing yet.

 

-John

 

 

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