Another Suggestion that Won't Be used: Favorites Efficiency

[Pr0n Glutton]

I'm probably talking to the screen here, but how about allowing a logged in member to have their favorite's drop down box at the bottom of the page of a gallery, instead of having to load another page to add a favorite? I think I already know the answer (if any) but I'm putting this out there as an idea.

[Silversleeves]

It sounds like an excellent idea.

Just from the look & feel, it appears to me that what "drives" the uploader also runs, or runs behind, most of the other pages and full-page functions on the gallery side. I know from what little I've been able to pick up that the Uber Uploader relies on something called Ajax. And it may be that a great deal of stuff on the gallery side does, too, judging simply from the number, frequency and type of errors and failures each part has always exhibited. I'm sure there's someone around (calling anyone whose nick was abbreviated MC!) who could explain it better, prove me wrong with the facts, etc., but I'm mostly giving you my impressions.

Let's look at it without much more "assuming we know what we really don't." The clubs are a joke, it takes three repeats and two pastes to get Descriptions to register with pictures, and once a picture or gallery is deleted, should any of the pictures have had comments linked to them, those comments are now a permanent addition to someone's Profile page. I don't know about you, but I tend to shy away from adding anything to a system that's already proven it can barely handle what it's already tasked to do.

For instance, I'd eagerly give up the whole "personal" Favorites thing just to see surfer-accessible links to the Gallery Tab a certain gallery is part of. But implementing that idea both begets security risks and runs into the whole problem of "What if some people haven't set their tabs up yet? Then what?" And you can't very well "require" folks to do it, not without giving them the courtesy of a how-to in more than just English. On top of it all, it's another "hack" to software that's proven (or the techs have proven by trying a few such) it won't take well to much more tweaking. So there's another one you'll never see.

Too bad, though. It's an excellent idea.

BZT

[Pr0n Glutton]

It would also be nice if moving favorites(the drop down box) to other folders would be faster (maybe it loads on the screen via Java, or appears as a pop-up). Another addition I'm sure won't happen.