Hip hip hooray the gallery is now live.. Come on in and give it time to get used to the new changes I am sure it wont take long to be able to get things as you like them.. Hope so anyway!!

Well, it is up an running! I imagine something like the power being off and everyone overloads the circuits at the moment the power returns..

I did an upload to my gallery and am pleased overall.  I really like the options presented on the upload page, including the one to include or exclude EXIF info.  Somehow the image look a tad sharper than intended but that is to live with, no probs. Doing fine.

I assum ebots will be automatic with gallery comments? Do you know of any options we have to reset?

Overall, congrats to the "rosity and Bondware bunch working through this today. And Thanks!

Blessings and Peace to All.           TomDart.

I will reserve my judgment, like all things there are pros and cons, I felt finding the way around your own gallery is a little long winded.

But at least the awful hot 20 is dust. YAY

Also will reserve final judgment but will live with it...still wonder about ebots on gallery images since I have several comments and no ebots.  I did get ebot on forum threads, like this one.

I cant upload anything at all, well it dosnt show in the gallery anyway when I do!

Even pressed the correct button!

I wonder if anyone else has had this problem.

First impressions though not great.

At least it shows your last views, that should sort out the peepers!

I thought someone said this would be the new and improved gallery....and i´m not impressed. Looks alot messier for one. Sure it will probably take some time getting used to it, just like the forum did....but i still miss the old forum-layout so i reckon i won´t ever think this new gallery is an improvement.

About seeing ones last views.....i think that´s an awful feature. I´m no "peeper", so that´s not an issue. I just don´t see how that can be of anyone´s business nor interest to see what photos i last viewed. Even now i occassionaly get IMs from people asking how come i didn´t comment on their uploads (sad i know) and from now on they can even check to see if i missed it or not.

And didn´t someone say that the number of viewings and comments would return once the conversion was done? And it hasn´t. I usually go back on certain uploads if i see they´ve gotten more comments since the last time i viewed it. That can be uploads that has an interesting rant or whatever, lol. No....i hope i get used to it...but from what i´ve seen so far...i think it sucks. It´s fast though....i´ll hand them that.

Okay...i just took another look and i gotta admit that the statistics shown on the uploads in the box on the right is a neat feature. I agree with Tom though.....it seems like all photos got over-sharpened. :mellow: ....hang....okay so it´s because it gets compressed. If you zoom in on the photo it looks alot better. Just like here in the forum.

P.S And the statistics is a "bit" off too. It says the most commented photo of mine is my latest....supposedly it has 115 comments....but it has 33. And that´s not even close, lol. And i don´t like the fact that all comments doesn´t fit in one page anymore either. Ooops...now i´m gonna stop complaining i think, lol. I´m sure it´ll be great as soon as i get used to it. :tt2:

I like it! Wasn't sure what to expect, but it has good and bad points. I like that my favorite images pop up as thumbs! I don't like the number of days since posting a picture, it should just have the date. I would also like to see the number of views and comments before clicking on an image.

All in all.........I think it looks great! Good job!

What´s "Art charts"? Says it has yet to be calculated. Is that like the old "Most viewed" "Most commented" and so on?

I also like the thumbs on my favorites. That´s an improvement for sure. BUT...what happened to most of them? I can only see one page with 18 favs and i´m pretty sure i have plenty more than that added. And there´s no page i can "turn"....so i guess it only shows the last 18? :huh:

How the heck do you change the background color?  I've tried, seems I'm a background idiot!  :lol:

I think I like the new features with the exception of showing my "recent views".  Sometimes I don't have the time or patience to comment (still on dialup here).  I don't want anyone to think I thought their photo wasn't worth commenting on even though I viewed it... not the case at all... see above reason.

I'll get used to the system, there are pluses and minuses and yeah, I know, you can please some of the people all of the time, and all people some of the time, but you can't please all the people all of the time!  Or, at least I think that's how it goes!  :tongue2:

I do thank the powers that be for their hard work!

Yes, Donna´s right. There´s no way to please us all all the time. And i do appriciate all the effort put into this conversion. I noticed however that the photos have stopped opening up in a new window when clicking on them. Not such a problem for me who opens them up in a new tab in Firefox.

I have a question though....how do one go about getting to ones IM-archive now? I used to follow the drop down menu on the right side of the old gallery and now when it´s gone i haven´t got a clue on how to get to ´em. :huh:

I sound like such a whiiiiiine don´t i? LOL. :tt2:

I posted this in another thread,but it seems like more active 'discussion' about the new format is here...

Before the conversion,I had uploaded my 101st image...but now it says I have 100 images in my gallery...

I looked it over,but I can't see any that are missing...but maybe one is...Is that possible?(I'll check again...)

Also,will we be able to customise our background color,etc?...I'm soooo not a big fan of the white...

I also noticed that after a year  we don't have the 'how many days ago' number...it just says something like 'uploaded ago'...lol.And speaking of which...who cares how many days ago it was?I'd rather know a shot was uploaded  say,October 24th,than that it was 206 days ago...I think the date makes a whole lot more sense,don't you?

All those who believe in psychokinesis, raise my hand.

Okay,this is probably a stupid question,but how do I get to my gallery from here...Do I have to always go through my home page link at the right?

And now for some feedback: EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

I bookmarked my gallery....seems like that´s the fastest way to go.

hee hee zacko if you click on a link that says my options you can select for the users avatar to not show up and this helps the comments page plus there is a check box for opening images in a new window, I'm still figuring our were to upload but that's what I came into work early for. I really really like the whole idea and the look.

I'M REALLY REALLY NOT HAPPY THAT ALL OF MY VIEWS ARE ON ZERO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I do agree the links do seem to go on and on till you get wheere you want but we'll learn... I feel sorry for dail-up subscribers. And i don't like the compressed format of the initial view and then you have to click for the really view... seems long winded to me.

Other than that I like it! Time, good food takes time!

Yay!The kitty's back!!!

LOL That avatar cracks me up.Thanks Vera.

Okay thanks Andreas.Sounds like a plan...although it was soooo much easier before!

Certe, Toto, sentio nos in Kansate non iam adesse.
 

trying to be positive here.. but have to admit there is good and bad. i miss the old way so much and am grieving the loss of "how it was " trying my best to look at only the good but it is hard .. i guess it will take time for  us all to get used too..

You're right Kimmie.And it's easy to focus on the negative.Change is almost always difficult...but we'll all adapt,eventually.I'm sure of it.

There are three types of people in this world:

1. There are the, "Glass is half full" people.
2. There are the, "Glass is half-empty" people...
   .....and then there are the
3. Who the hell's been drinking out of my glass!" people.

How can someone access another person's homepage? I couldn't find that... Are the homepages obsolete? Edit: OK I found that you can access someone's homepage by clicking on the 'profile' link. Ok ok...

I've noticed that if I hold my cursor over a thumbnail in the gallery, all the information (number of views, comments, upload date etc) pops up, before opening the image. Nice!!

Ooh!That's good to know!Thanks Geert.

Certe, Toto, sentio nos in Kansate non iam adesse. ;^P

different kitty but would you prefer the old one back?

artist's stats - click the profile button then the community homepage button then the gallery button and scroll down to view stats, it's so cool. Zacko's on 254 artist's homepages as a favourite artist!!! AMAZING!

Tx for the info Geert, I wondered about that stuff!

Yeah folks will take time to get used to it and I dont like a few things but no doubt there will be improvements as we go along..  Give it some time and then let us know what your pet hates are and we can pass them on for you

is the speep gonna get better? Plus I'm having lots of half pages getting loaded and having to refresh to get the entire page...

PeeWee, this wiggling kitty with the hat always makes my day. I'd be so sorry to see it go... LOL

hee hee leaf forward!!!

And the vote is in the cat in the hat has to come back!!!

Still can’t upload anything

So good or bad is totally irrelevant.

Yeh I agree with Zacko the last views is a pretty naff idea (worse than the hot 20) my comment about peepers was tongue in cheek btw

I think I will probably just stick to the forum, at least until they can get it half right.

I giant leap forward for RR and one even bigger leap BACKWARD for members.

Better things to do/worry about

Hi guys/ girls!

Very mixed   experiance in a first day or so  in a gallery! I have a very slow loading what ever reason. Wasn't that bad 2 days ago...anyway! The old face of R.R was much more user friendly, but with time I think we will adopt a new version. (like it or leave it)....and why we would leave it? We like it here, under one roof all the  R.R .P (renderosity photographers).

They might set up a wish list one day how we would really like a gallery face and options...who knows? As Danny said, on a way small change can enhance the whole R.R

seeyus around like before   Tunde

As best as I could tell by visiting other artist's profile and galleries, "Recent Views" does not show up there.  I think this feature may be for personal use and not visible to others. Is this correct?

If "Revient Views" show me what I have viewed and others cannot see it, that could be helpful. If others see it...well, oops! Not a good thing.

Zacko...you could click on all sorts of stuff you really don't normally view and paint an entirely new personality.. IF Recent Views is public and not private.

Someone help! Is Recent Views private for the member only or visible to all?

recent views? I can't even find the button!

And i'm bummed my ebots aren't working even thou they are selected to work...

I´m not worried about people watching my recent views and then paint a picture of my personality based on that. I probably open up 97 % of all uploads anyway, even now when i´m not commenting due to lack of time.

And Gert, that´s some might fine tip you gave there. I did not know that. It´s definitly a niffty feature, way to goooo!  BUT it only works for me when i´m using IE. When i´m browsing the gallery with Firefox it cuts off the information and i only get the name, date posted and size. The rest of the info, like number of views and comments doesn´t seem to fit. Does anyone else experience that same problem? :huh:

The more i browse, the more i get used to it. And now, a few hours later, i aint nearly as pessimistic as i was this morning when i woke up and witnessed the change for the first time.

P.S My e-bots aint working either PeeWee.

At the risk of repeating myself... oh wait, I am repeating myself... does anyone know how to change the background color?  And then I suppose the text has to be changed too cause I like viewing photos with a black background. 

If I can figure this out, I think I'll quit whining..  :lol:

Donna, if it is like the forum, then you have to do it browser-wide. It can't be done in RR. Doug posted a way to do it a while back. Still looking around, not sure what to think yet. Speed-wise, things are super slow today. I had problems uploading and image, and somehow it uploaded twice. Neat trick, are we no longer limited to just one? And no eBots from the Galleries yet, still waiting on that. Ahh, progress is painful sometimes... :b_sweat: I think the recent views is just viewable by us alone, not everyone...haven't found it yet even. =]

The recent viewings seems to be under "My Summary"...and that´s something only we can look at ourselves. And that´s also where all our favs have been moved.....so now i can´t see  who you has are your favs for instance Kort. Tell me if i´m wrong....but that´s how it looks to me now. And that sucks. But the thing that sucks the most is that i can´t even view my own favorites anymore. Only as many that fit in one page....sigh. So it´s only showing the last 12,18,24,36 photos you added to your favs depending on your gallery-settings. Why can´t you view the others???????? And why can´t i get the info i want from moving my cursor over a thumb using Firefox????? Only Internet Explorer can fit it all in there....sigh. God i´m whining alot today.....better go get me something to eat...might be because i´m running low on sugar or something...... :bored:

That whole thing about not seeing all our favorite images,really bums me out...It seems we have to delete our recent ones to go further back...and sigh,I have some from so long ago I'll probably never see them again...like dedis from over a year ago.

Such a shame...

As far as the background,if we changed the way the forum looks,(when Doug posted how to do it),how come it's not automatically doing the same thing to the gallery?You would think it would be RR wide...

Still adjusting here...and no ebots for me either. :(

And now for some feedback: EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Well, I haven't had a lot of time to look at all the stuff, but I'm not overly impressed with it yet. I really don't like the fact that I can't see all my favs. I do like all the extra features for it, but I'm finding them by accident. It's a little hard to find what I want and then I find something else totally different. Did that make sense? lol Anyway, it'll take a lot of getting used to. sigh I guess I should spend more time here so I don't feel so lost. :)

You're not alone,Danielle.I'm clicking all over the place,too...It seems so roundabout to me.

Certe, Toto, sentio nos in Kansate non iam adesse.

Hopefully these are things that will all work out and all of our faves are not lost. Andreas, if you go to manage favorite images (from your homepage), you should get the complete list of all of your favorites. Perhaps they will make multiple pages in the future. All my favorite artists are there too, whew! And I most certainly think My Summary is the only place that one can view THEIR OWN recent viewings! Whew again, I'd hate for everyone to be exposed to my Poser depravities! :scared: As for rolling over an image and getting the info, it works for me too using Safari...have yet to try it with FireFox ...okay, just tried it. Yes Andreas, it only shows some of the info. right click, scroll down to properties and click. All the info will open up in that window, you may have to drag it wider. As far as backgrounds, it looks like you can go into My Options and edit the CSS profile to change the background colors, etc. When some HTML savy person makes a tutorial for this, please let me know! Marlene, I suggestion you make bookmarks for your Gallery, Homepage, Photo Galleries, and Forum. It is what I do and it saves mucho time. Oh yeah -- YEAY, no more Hot20! :m_wave:

This is what I've been trying to use under "my options".  No matter what rule I use and then "save changes", no changes are made.  I'm sure I don't know the proper stylesheet rules and that could be the problem.  Any ideas?

Oh yes, a tutorial for the css would be more than helpful!  :lol:

I have had a similar problem when I change my avatar and save changes. The old one still shows up for me until I purge my browser's cache and restart it. Perhaps the same thing is happening to you with the changes there, just not showing up?

I'll do that,Kort....when I can get into the galleries,again... :unsure:

Certe, Toto, sentio nos in Kansate non iam adesse.

YAAAAAAY!!! I noticed that the scroll-over also works with Firefox now. Keep working you RR-gnomes you...keep working...getting there....we´re slowly getting there. :b_tonguewink:

Well that's certainly good news!

I doubt therefore I might be.

I wrote in an earlier post above about the scroll-over Andreas. :)

I think they have disabled the recent views now, last night BST I could see recent views for all members galleries that I visited.

Anyway I haven’t been able to upload anything!? But I am going to give it another shot, so if it’s a no go I will probably take a gallery sabbatical.

For anybody who has firefox please try this fix

1. Download the attached file (user.js)

2. Locate your firefox profile folder

• On Windows XP/2000: C:/Documents and Settings/[User Name]/Application Data/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/xxxxxxxx.default/ (where xxxxxxxx is a random string of 8 characters)
• On Windows 95/98/98se/ME: C:/WINDOWS/Application Data/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/xxxxxxxx.default/
• On Mac OS X: /Users/[User Name]/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/xxxxxxxx.default/
• On Linux: /home/[User Name]/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxxxxx.default/ or ~/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxxxxx.default/

1. If the file "user.js" does not exist, copy and paste this file into it. If it does exist, edit the existing file with a PLAIN TEXT editor (such as Notepad or BBedit, NOT Word or TextEdit) and copy and paste the four lines from the attached file onto the bottom of your existing "user.js".
2. Restart Firefox
3. If you need the file I  will  have to send it to you as I  cant seem to upload it here without a valid extension code

Oh aparently the galleries are down?

"Error: License tampering detected for 'gallery'"

That the mesage I got! ?

Now I see that the direct link to the Photography Forum in the Gallery has disappeared...???!!! I was so used to that; now I have to go via the general top bar to get to the forums and then scroll down to choose the Photography Forum?

Uh oh Simon, you're in trouble now! Heheh, I got that message too yesterday. Geert, the simplest workaroung for that is make the Photo Forum a favorites link in your browser and use that to get there. I have mine in by favorites bar so I can click it whenever. Of course, it isn't working just now...

Attached Link: other functionality issues