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[Fasckira]

After the discussion the other day in The Pub, WG has now ditched the WG Garage and gone for the WG Gallery. The advantages:

• We can keep the term "WGG" and it still works.
  
• Every member can create private albums to show their own special stuff or upload to the main group folders.
  
• The WG Comics will be shown in full glory via fancy slideshow features.
  
• Far more intuitive than the old Garage.
  
• You can upload videos (if you dont want to upload to YouTube or similar).
  
• A couple more that I cant remember right now.

Some of these features, like the video upload, are only available to the WG Regulars at the moment. This is mainly so I can monitor how the Gallery is used in a more controlled environment before making it 100% live. Feel free to have a play around in it and if you have any suggestions or find any bugs or issues then please post them in this thread. At present Ive only created folders for the newer NFS games but if you have screenshots from older titles or car rides to post from older titles then please request them and Ill create the folder.

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[Normalaatsra]

Best WG integration since... since...
Will be looking forward to using this all the time!

[AKO]

Fasckira, on 13 June 2011 - 07:12 AM, said:

• We can keep the term "WGG" and it still works. lolz what a dork.
  
• You can upload videos (if you dont want to upload to YouTube or similar). OMG AWESOME, now I can upload my Sunday Drives without worrying about copyright violations!!!! Good thinking Fasck. Thanks

My notes in red. EDIT: wait do the movies only have a 7MB upload limit too?

Edited by AKO, 13 June 2011 - 01:25 PM.

[Fasckira]

AKO, on 13 June 2011 - 01:21 PM, said:

My notes in red. EDIT: wait do the movies only have a 7MB upload limit too?

Should be unlimited I think, Ill double check later today when I get a chance.

[FrozenStar]

Members albums... me like! Mine will be updated frequently with pictures of Pancakes

[AKO]

Fasckira, on 13 June 2011 - 01:37 PM, said:

Should be unlimited I think, Ill double check later today when I get a chance.

k. I haven't checked yet, but it said max upload size is 7mb, so I wanted to ask. thx

EDIT: How do we create our own albums?

Edited by AKO, 13 June 2011 - 06:58 PM.

[Fasckira]

AKO, on 13 June 2011 - 06:50 PM, said:

k. I haven't checked yet, but it said max upload size is 7mb, so I wanted to ask. thx

EDIT: How do we create our own albums?

Go to the Members bit in the Gallery and when you're uploading an image you can see an option to create a new album.

Technically theres nothing stopping you creating albums all over the place except perhaps a staff member deleting them all and you getting a warning

[AKO]

Fasckira, on 13 June 2011 - 07:20 PM, said:

Go to the Members bit in the Gallery and when you're uploading an image you can see an option to create a new album.

Technically theres nothing stopping you creating albums all over the place except perhaps a staff member deleting them all and you getting a warning

that's exactly what I thought the system would be like, but there is no create new album. just the ability to put the pictures in albums already created by you. no one has there own albums yet.

[PorscheSpyder]

Good, but I'm a bit confused on one point. When I go to upload a photo, after selecting "Select Album," it displays "Your Album" and "Community Album." But I don't see an option to create a personal album with just my cars. Is that an option? Or do I just post 'em under the Community Album?

[Fasckira]

Go here: http://www.world-gar...members-albums/

Then press "Upload"

You should see a button on the new page called "New Album" - you guys not seeing that?

[PorscheSpyder]

Fasckira, on 13 June 2011 - 09:59 PM, said:

Go here: http://www.world-gar...members-albums/

Then press "Upload"

You should see a button on the new page called "New Album" - you guys not seeing that?

No, sir. The only option we're seeing is to select a pre-existing album.

[AKO]

PorscheSpyder, on 13 June 2011 - 10:13 PM, said:

No, sir. The only option we're seeing is to select a pre-existing album.

like I said.

[gRiM]

It's not 100% live as Fasck said, so it's not perfect yet

[AKO]

gRiM, on 13 June 2011 - 11:13 PM, said:

It's not 100% live as Fasck said, so it's not perfect yet

well we were promised this was out of beta, and now it's got bugs, right from the beginning! ME WANTS PATCH NOW!!!. hehe

take your time Fasck, and let us know when we can spam post our pics.

Edited by AKO, 13 June 2011 - 11:55 PM.

[gRiM]

AKO, on 13 June 2011 - 11:54 PM, said:

well we were promised this was out of beta, and now it's got bugs, right from the beginning! ME WANTS PATCH NOW!!!. hehe

take your time Fasck, and let us know when we can spam post our pics.

And videos

[Samantha♥]

I like the idea of Upload Videos! Thanks Fasck!

[LamboGTR]

Finally a place for my videos that are not good enough for youtube or crappy enough for facebook.

[Watcher]

looking good i have to make my unique album soon all i need is some alone time

[Fasckira]

Ok, you can now create sub-albums .... anywhere. In true IPB style its the "all or nothing" approach.

As a result staff will just have to monitor the gallery to stop people posting rubbish all over the place.

We'll see how this goes over the next few days, just have common sense - only create sub albums in places like the members gallerys or within the other sub folders (like you could create a sub folder within "World Garage Media Center > World" and call it "WG Cruise 14/6/11" for example).

[AKO]

gRiM, on 14 June 2011 - 12:18 AM, said:

And videos

yes and videos.

Unique, on 14 June 2011 - 02:30 AM, said:

looking good i have to make my unique album soon all i need is some alone time

;-)

should we be reporting Gallery bugs here, or in the bugs forum?

Edited by AKO, 14 June 2011 - 01:45 PM.