New Gallery Categories

New Categories, Clarification, and Requests!

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Navarr
July 30, 2011 at 12:19am
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July 30, 2011 12:19am
In an effort to improve the categorization of the Galleries, I've added some new categories!

Under Audio, there is now
  • Podcast
  • Instrumental
  • Singing
  • Plays (also for Dramas!)

Under Animation & Videos (Previously Animation & Flash)
  • Animations (Gifs and Non-Interactive Flash Files)
  • Games (Flash Files designed to be played as a game)
  • Interactive (Flash files that are interactive, but aren't really games)
  • Let's Play (For Cooltrainers to post their LP videos)
  • Video Podcasts (For Video Podcasts and Vlogs)
  • Videos (Previously Movies. Really a Catch-all)

And I've added a brand new major category "Streaming," so you have a proper place to put all those Streaming Notification Images, with subcategories:
  • Art
  • Let's Play
  • Live Podcast/Talkshow
  • Music
  • Plays & Dramas

Additionally, if you are uploading screenshots of a video game do not put them in Animation & Flash -> Games. Screenshots belong in Photography -> Screenshots (Thank you!)

If something is categorized incorrectly, feel free to report it using the Ticket tool, and a staff member such as myself or a gallery mod will properly categorize it. (File as Galleries -> Wrong Category).

Are there any other categories we need? Feel free to submit a request in this thread!

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Kat
July 30, 2011 at 12:36pm
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Meowth, that's right!

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July 30, 2011 12:36pm
Very nice, adds a bit more order! :)
Timothy
July 30, 2011 at 7:35pm
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July 30, 2011 7:35pm
The Streaming section should allow you to link directly to images instead of uploading them. That'll allow to use scripted images to keep the info automatically updated, like this one that I made for Frosti here: http://tacosareawesome.com/online/image.png
Navarr
July 30, 2011 at 7:47pm
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July 30, 2011 7:47pm
Timothy: No.

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Timothy
July 30, 2011 at 7:58pm
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July 30, 2011 7:58pm
Any reason in specific, or do you just hate me? I know you hate me but am not sure if that's the reason.
Kat
July 30, 2011 at 9:33pm
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Meowth, that's right!

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July 30, 2011 9:33pm
Too many issues with safety, copyright, hot linking, bandwidth. Safer to control data on our end.

anthonyrossbach
July 30, 2011 at 11:57pm
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July 30, 2011 11:57pm
It is very easy to make a image do a redirect. Also it is hard to make a checker and for the site to check each image before load. and the image if broken can cause bad rep for the site. Or linking to a huge image or GIF in a hope to crash the browser. But the worst, Tracking of pages, users and history of users by the server the image is on.

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Timothy
July 31, 2011 at 6:09am
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July 31, 2011 6:09am

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It is very easy to make a image do a redirect.
Simply untrue.

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Also it is hard to make a checker and for the site to check each image before load.
Doable with most livestream websites.

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and the image if broken can cause bad rep for the site.
Surely a 'this image is hotlinked, so it isn\'t our responsibility' is good enough?

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Or linking to a huge image or GIF in a hope to crash the browser.
I've never loaded an image so large that it crashed my browser.

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But the worst, Tracking of pages, users and history of users by the server the image is on.
How is this 'the worst'? I have a tracker image on the signature of almost every forum I use. (This one recently excluded.) I track almost anything I post, purely for the sake of future statistical analysis. I fail to see why this is so dangerous.
Navarr
July 31, 2011 at 11:30am
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July 31, 2011 11:30am
Timothy

It is very easy to make an image do a redirect. Here is some example code:

code:
<?php
   header("Location: http://somewhereelse.tld/image.ext");

Adding external images as a feature to our site is not going to happen. Certainly people post external images using the [img] tag, but we are not going to create a gallery for them.

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RubyPikachu
July 31, 2011 at 11:40am
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July 31, 2011 11:40am
"And I've added a brand new major category "Streaming," so you have a proper place to put all those Streaming Notification Images [...]"

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Timothy
July 31, 2011 at 2:03pm
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July 31, 2011 2:03pm
@Nav: I tried this, and it didn't work... and if it's possible, why allow images at all?
Navarr
July 31, 2011 at 2:09pm
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July 31, 2011 2:09pm
Timothy Because images are needed. But we don't plan to add third party content that could disappear at any time to our galleries. That breaks our user experience. We also don't want such images there. End of Discussion.

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Silvair
July 31, 2011 at 3:35pm
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July 31, 2011 3:35pm
Oh man this is great! Especially the stream category, haha.

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