Misha883 opened this issue on Jul 17, 2004 ยท 22 posts
Misha883 posted Sat, 17 July 2004 at 9:29 AM
As some of you may know, this clickable collection relies on the way 'osity had been naming thumbnails in their database. For example, a thumbnail called "GalleryThumb713428" would link to an image at "http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=713428". The "713428" number in common made all of this magic possible. This LWitG collection was never an official Renderosity operation; just something I had been doing for fun while sorting out all the soft porn from Gallery. This relied on the image naming convention, which was never published or promised by the 'osity management. Unfortunately, for reasons which I am sure are very good, today 'osity changed the manner of naming and displaying thumbnails. Now, every thumb is a bmp with filename "untitled". [Though I'm sure they had very good reasons... anyone else notice how much this slows the download? Otherwise, the bmp is not a problem, just the non-descriptive nane.] So, because of this naming change, this will unfortunately be the last weekly collection of Gallery images. I will be pursuing through official channels how we may recover this feature, as folks here really seemed to like the weekly collection. However with the new naming scheme I do not right off hand see an easy way to do this without a huge manual effort. I deeply appreciate all the encouragement, hugz, and smoochies all of you have rewarded me with this past few months.