Kudos to those that made the gallery changes! I'm sure you all worked hard and I, for one, am very pleased with the results. There are a few things I would like to comment on:

Deleting comments - I think this is a bad idea. Admins/Mods should be the only ones with the ability to delete comments. The old system of making a request to the Mods concerning a disagreable comment was fair and prevented people from valid, constructive comment from being removed at the whim of a member.

My Gallery/Most Recent Upload - The text accompanying the image is not being formatted as it was formatted when the image was uploaded. It's being displayed as string of text. It would be nice if it displayed in the format it was created with. For example, the verses of a poem, instead of displaying on separate lines are displayed as one continous line of text.

My Gallery - the My Gallery link takes us to a summary page that shows the Most Recent Upload, Recent Uploads, Favorite Images, and recent views. One has to cut and past the link from the bottom of the page to get to our full gallery. Clicking on My Gallery should take us to our full gallery, and clicking on Summary should take us to the summary page.

Views and Comments - are not visible under the thumbnails. One has to look at the individual image to see the number of views and comments. Many of us check our gallery page to see which images are getting the most hits to help us judge what techiniques and subjects are successful. It makes it more difficult to rate our images at a glance if we have to view each individual image to get that information.

Permissions, Options and Advisories - Great Idea! Being able to set the kind of comment/critiques wanted or disable comments/ratings all together is a fantastic addition!

Ratings - droping it down to 5 is a good idea. Not many paid attention to the old rating system anyway.

Zoom - another nice addition but there is a drawback, some images get the "jaggies" from being compressed in the default image. It's noticible in the default image and is eliminated in the zoom. The problem is some people may give a lower rating to the image for poor antialiasing or leav e a comment criticising the lack of antialiazing, if they don't look at the zoomed view.  

I'd appreciate knowing if some of the concerns I pointed out will be considered and/or addressed. All in all I am surprised and pleased that the conversion went so well. The new galleries are super, and I find the white background doesn't really detract from viewing the images at all. I do appreciate that we were given the option to change it though. Things are still running a bit sluggish, hopefully that will change within the next few hours. All in all:

I give you guys two thumbs up - Job Well Done!! :thumbupboth:

It's all fun and games...
Until the flying monkeys attack!!!