Topic: BP Album v. BP Media

BP Album v. BP Media

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@nahummadrid

1 year, 9 months ago

What is the difference. I’m only now revisiting using BP Album after a couple of years….and last I remember is that BP media was coming into the picture. At that point I bailed on BP Album because I thought it would become to big of a plugin if it became rolled into BP Media. Now I see that Album still exists separate from Media. Will these two ever be merged. I only need Album as is. It works really good.

I hope that they will remain 2 different plugins.

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foxly
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@foxly

1 year, 9 months ago

@nahummadrid

I think it will largely depend on what the users want. If thousands of people contact us and say they want a separately maintained BP-Album trunk, we can probably make that happen. At the moment though, it seems the vast majority of users really want to move on to BP-Media.

^F^

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@nahummadrid

1 year, 9 months ago

@foxly thanks for the response. I really do hope vast majorities start cheering for separate components. I’ve not seen any example of super huge bp plugins do well. So far I see Album doing nicely.

I can imagine, a bp media core plugin needed to enable addons BP Album, BP Video, BP Whatever else is included in bp media. this way the load is adjustable.

foxly
Participant

@foxly

1 year, 9 months ago

@nahummadrid

BP-media is very efficient and uses a modular architecture. When you switch off a block of features in BP-Media, they’re completely removed from the system …like the PHP files don’t even get loaded. BP-Media is actually significantly faster than BP-Album if you have more than a few hundred photos on your site. But hey, if people want to keep using BP-Album we’ll try and keep it updated.

^F^

nm
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@nahummadrid

1 year, 9 months ago

Ok so bpmedia is now available? I was not aware everything I’ve read made it seem like I
t wasn’t. Available

foxly
Participant

@foxly

1 year, 9 months ago

@nahummadrid

Its not available in a version you can use on a live website, but it will be available soon.

^F^

nm
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@nahummadrid

1 year, 9 months ago

cool thanks. I look forward to it.

cupid4
Member

@cupid4

1 year, 9 months ago

I have some related question I intend to use the newest beta of bp album that you made for bp 1.5 , will I be able to update it to bp-media later? or I should wait until bp-media is out?

Michael
Participant

@fanquake

1 year, 9 months ago

You will be able to import BP-Album installations into BP-Media, so yes, if you continue to use BP-Album, you’ll will be able upgrade to BP-Media when you feel like it

cupid4
Member

@cupid4

1 year, 9 months ago

Thanks so much will install it.

asdfgh
Member

@yoursocialbox

1 year, 9 months ago

@foxly hey, just wondering when it will be available? I’m not one of those complainers, just a general question Will it be weeks or months? I can’t actually wait, I get the feeling it’s going to be amazing and well worth the wait.