Gallery back online

[Wayne]

Thanks to Karlos, the image gallery is now back online with all the data and images from the old site.

Caveats:

Old Amiga Events images
Because the image gallery represents so much hard drive space (over 1/2 our allotted space on the server), I (Wayne) made the conscious choice not to import the images from the old Amiga events at this time.   They are still backed up and can be restored later, but right now we thought it best to concentrate on the other images.

Orphaned images were not imported.  
These include images where the user account no longer exists under vBulletin, or where the image was never attributed to a user.

For some reason we can not yet understand, There are absolutely no user comments on photos anywhere in the database since 2004.  
The database has NOT been changed, or altered in any way since the transition to vBulletin.  There was just something that happened 5 years ago (maybe an upgrade) which changed where myalbum (the module) stored said comments and neither Karlos nor I have been able to find them as of yet.  When / if we do, we'll upload them later.

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Everyone.  Take a moment to thank Karlos for the incredible work he's done for the site.  I know I can't possibly thank him enough, so I need your help.

[Wayne]

Nice work, Karlos. :elvis:



I'd like this feature too. (If not, I suppose we could just overwrite images with new ones using "edit" - but "delete" would be better.)

Ask and thou shalt receive.

[Wayne]

Might it be possible to add a link for "Find all pictures of user XY" in the user profile? And maybe also a link like "see all my pictures" when I enter the gallery?

Let's be very clear here.

There are actually two "albums" if you will.  

1) The public /gallery page that was just reinstated.  Think of this like the old album in that everything is public.

2) The "album" inside your own account, which is more like what I'd equate to Flickr.  It's intended to let you upload personal pictures and to upload images for things like forum posts and news items.

So, though it may be confusing, I'll need you to clarify exactly what you're asking for.

Wayne

[Wayne]

unfortuunately the search in the galleries (public) doesn't seem to be working. and I mean I'm searching for titles

Hmmm checking into it.