by Silversleeves on Tue Jul 12, 2011 1:42 pm
And this morning, I completely forgot it was necessary to do what I wrote in that other thread to keep the gallery order the way I wanted it, maybe because for three-and-two-thirds of the four years I've been a member of ImageFAP, it wasn't necessary!
Old habits do die hard, like the one the techs seem not to be able to give up of trying to fix things that aren't broken, ignoring what still IS broken,then adding untested or under-tested features that from conception to crypt are sure to go wrong, and were seldom if ever what folks wanted in the first place. There was nothing wrong with the Frontpage checkbox feature. There is everything wrong with this gallery reordering scheme -- and I have yet to see them fix the modified-date flaw that they created themselves when they deemed that ANYONE who habitually added pictures to their galleries must be a spammer and MUST be kept from knowing any such thing as the last time,to the minute by the Dutch/Bosnian clock, they added spam to their existing galleries. Which, by the way, were set to a 1000-picture-per-gallery limit, so evidently it was deemed unnecessary that Anyone should ever have to Add to a Gallery, although I don't think anyone But a Spammer, would have a thousand pictures ready to upload at any one time!
So folks who wanted to be honest and not confused by man nor machine for being spammers, went ahead and created several new galleries where they may not have done so before. The rest of those who were inclined to upload that way continued in their merry way. Then along comes this drag-n-drop moving scheme, which is really no more than a tease -- you lure people in by saying they can move their galleries about by mouse movements. Then you spring a "GOTCHA!" on them by making it so the gallery they add to, if they're so inclined, is the only one to stay in the Top 5 on their Profile pages -- all the rest are sent to Coventry in reverse chronological order. And all the honest folks who, before the "anti-spam" measure that lost them any clue of when they might have made the evil mistake of adding to one gallery once four or five weeks back, have now got so many more galleries to move galleries QQ, rr, SS, and tt past, one at a time btw, than they would have had had the techs and Brass had enough sense to leave things that were working fine alone, that there's only one word for it:
RIDICULOUS
...but free, as if maintaining a site with paysite features strictly by feeding it ad revenue, then telling members it's OK to block ads from which that revenue is garnered (and here's how to do it, kiddies) wasn't equally bizarre.
BZT
"He has all of Nelson's qualities, except one. He has not learned to disobey."
- Admiral Sir J.A. Fisher, RN, 1914, referring to Admiral Jellicoe