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Quick note — changing

.picture-activity-thumb {

float:left;

margin-right: 10px;

}

to omit the float:left in general.css

fixed an issue I had with my child theme in the activity stream with a messed-up ajax comment box.

Just in case that helps anyone else (and isn’t totally obvious heh).

Very impressive work and speed!

I think this fantastic plugin should be abstracted (wording?) for all things objects. Weather it’s images, mp3’s, docs, presentations whatever. There are some major activities that apply to all object handling. Like upload, storage, sorting, tagging, privacy, activity stream, commenting etc. Specific image routines could be in a sub plugin. And the same for docs, movies etc.

Played with latest version and I’m afraid users are not going to get the workflow. The tagging to create groups is going to throw people off.

People are used to:

Creating album and name it

Uploading images to album

Naming, tagging images and saving

The create album part of this workflow is mushed into tagging and people will not want to add tags to all their photos. They are lazy. It would be easier if they clicked an album and then upload button in that album says “add to album”. If they are on the main albums page and click upload then there should be a drop down that lists the current albums and the image being uploaded gets placed in that album.

The tagging system should just be a categorization method.

Example you have an Album of movie posters called action films and in this folder you have several posters with the actor Brad Pitt. So you tag these. Well Brad may have posters in a comedy album as well. So you could tag them and then sort through all images via the Brad Pitt tag.

I agree with Modemlooper. It’s not realistic to expect users to tag every single image. It’s just not gonna happen. The basics should be albums. Then users can tag images, if they want, and all tagged images could then be grouped into tag-albums.

Great work so far!

I second Modemlooper, Travel-Junkie and paulhastings.

I would be also great if the Navigation Tab would called Photos and show single albums as well as albums. I like how facebook highlights albums with a different frame compared to Single Pictures.

http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/9683/bildschirmfoto20100323u.png

One solution would be to make uploads from specific sources apply specific pre-defined tags. For instance, by default a picture uploaded to (via) “Sadr”‘s album would be tagged “sadr” and “personal”, while a picture uploaded to the “Soccer Fans” group would be tagged “soccer fans” and “group”. Additionally, more auto-tags could be defined for each of these.

Ideally, I’d like to see the possibility to easily switch between “local” view and “related” view when viewing any one’s gallery, be it person or group. That means, on the one hand you have all the pictures uploaded specifically to this page, and on the other hand you have the pictures that relate to it based on identical tags. Automatically mixing the two would be annoying when you’ve carefully put together a piece of pictures e.g. to tell a story or showcase a product, but getting a “side-tab” so to speak for related images should usually be welcomed.

I agree with Modemlooper, Travel-Junkie, paulhastings, 21cdb and Mike Pratt. The system is cool but it is just not going to work for a lot of users. You just can’t expect every user to tag evey image, and the thought of having the same image in 5 or six “groups” (tags) with no other way to sort them seems a little annoying.

And without albums this simple task…

Example you have an Album of movie posters called action films and in this folder you have several posters with the actor Brad Pitt. So you tag these. Well Brad may have posters in a comedy album as well. So you could tag them and then sort through all images via the Brad Pitt tag.

Becomes a bit of a mess

Oh… I Second this

+1 for upload to album (choose from list or create new) and tag/name later or at upload time.

Wise choice, mate I think tag based albums are awesome, but the vast majority of our users wouldn’t know what to do with it. When I look at the images of my Facebook friends, then maybe 1 image in 10 has a description attached to it, so expecting a user to tag every image isn’t gonna work, especially not if the use of this isn’t immediatly apparent to the user. It’s a great addon, though, and there’ll be some communities where it’ll work brilliantly…

As a possible feature to add: is it possible to allow individual users to create/import albums from their flickr account, I ask as there was a bpdev flickr plugin that allowed users to very simply import an album from their flickr account, which I guess suits many as it’s quick and easy and they may not have their photos readily available, sadly that plugin and site appears to be completely moribund and another community ‘feature’ that will need to be removed upsetting those members who have used the feature.

Kudos! can’t wait to test on Monday

@hnla – Just post a link to where I can download the plugin you’re talking about, and I’ll go take a look at it and see how easy to work with it.

^F^

The plugin is at this link it required a parent plugin bpdev-core to function

http://bp-dev.org/plugins/bpdev-flickr/

I had a skim through the file to try and see what actually would require updating to make it compatible with 1.2.* but I’m not really anywhere up to speed with plugin coding.

I guess I was thinking hat it might be relatively easy to isolate the flickr api and provide an option to either upload photos or to simply connect and display a flickr album set, but the phrase ‘relatively easy’ is one of those that is easy to write