Feedback needed

[John]

Thanks for everyone's comment's, I will leave it as it is for now, I think the gallery is an important part of the site that's why I've been putting off the upgrade.

[Guest]

Howdy John,

I was going to post back when there were only five (5) replies to this thread, but I wanted to do a little research first.

If I understand correctly, if you were to upgrade this site, we will lose the photos in our albums, both personal albums and "collective" albums.

I was an administartor for a canadian chatroom for several yrs and originally they used the gallery that came with the original chat program. Then they upgraded, lost that galery and had to find a new one. For awhile, they had people send their photos to one of the other admin's for the admin to add to the new gallery....this worked for only a short while until the admin became overwhelmed.

So, the chat site owner decided to give www.frappr.com a try. This is what the chatsite uses to this day.

Personally, I am not a big advocate of FRAPPR, however, there are other sites out there that can be incorporated directly into "our forum". One such site is found here:

http://www.bravenet.com/webtools/photocenter/

The above site allows you to incorporate "bravenets" photo album into the forum by simply "copying and pasting" bravenets photo album code onto the forum webpage.

It allows for "image linking, public and private albums, visitor uploads, and offers customizable colors and an upload manager"

You might give bravenet a good looking over and even contact them for any questions you may have about compatibility.

Now on to another similar site, http://www.ourmedia.org/ I have used this site while a member of another forum, "highflyingcards" which is a cardmodel rocket forum. it allows for uploads to personal and private albums but I am not sure about its being able to be incorporated into the forum thru the use of html code.

Now I had also thought that you might consider speaking to Peter Davis over at the cardmodel forum www.cardmodels.net , they also use the same program we use and he may be of some help, or possibly, you could collaborate and "help each other" in some way. "Two heads are better than one" afterall. If you wish to contact Peter, you can send him a private message here: http://www.cardmodels.net/forum/member.php?u=3 I would just explain the situation and ask if he has run across this same predicament.

Peter is the man that recently re set up the cardmodel forum again after a "hack attack".

Anyway, I was wanting to do abit more research and since you stated that you were going to "leave it alone" for abit longer, it does "buy me some time", but I wanted you to know what I had found so far and some of my thoughts on the situation.

I hope that this has been of some help, have a good day,

Greg

[Greyhead]

Personally I think the “do nothing” decision is the right one for now, as Richard says in the future things may well be different. That's why I hadn't voted in the poll.

[Guest]

Howdy guys and Gals,

I concurr with the "do nothing" proposal. Unless there is just something really spectacular about the update, I believe (even though I would never attempt to speak for everyone), that the majority of the people are happy with the forum in its current state.

Now if there are technical issues such as space and file limitations in play with the current version, and we have or are about to reach those limitations, then I could see where something would need to be done in the near future.

have a good day,

Greg