I would really like to see these items listed in the poll.

Allow user comments/ratings
- This would help build the community aspect of the gallery.

Editable metadata/tagging
- Tagging would help with better searching/browsing/sorting options.

More sorting options

It would be great if we could browse pictures by more than the albums.
- Most recent pictures
- Top rated / Most comments
- By User (i.e. the ability to view all pictures posted by a user in any album)
- By location

RSS/Atom feeds (publish and/or subscribe)

It would be great to be able to "subscribe" and get alerts or updates when new pictures are posted, or some kind of daily/weekly update of the new pictures posted to keep users coming back.

Just my two cents... thanks for all the hard work.

My five cents:

Using the default.aspx and CSS one can already customize GSP quite nicely but some things are hard to do. See this thread: http://forum.galleryserv...ter-ajax-navigation.aspx

I think that would be kind of a quick-win to GSP customization that will not need a lot of work. Letting the admins put HTML fragments somewhere in a "Advanced preferences" sections that gets rendered by GSP 1:1 would greatly be improved.

Besides this I also like features like:

- In-image tagging (eg. tag people or things in photos - something like facebook)
- Tag images (eg. "Sunset", "Sea", "Winter", "Summer", "Mountains" etc.)

Kind of state-of-the art for galleries are:

- Rating
- Comments
- More Sortoptions (did kind of that by hacking GSP)

For me not that important as I did it using facebook integration.

More nice to have (at least for me) are:

- Improved upload experience
- "Per user" stuff (I am the master of my gallery *g*)

Regarding performance and stability I am quite happy with GSP. Did not yet hit them, thought.

Cheers, Marc

I voted for easier skinning / customizing the UI, because I look at the future development with eyes of an average home user, who really does not need things like RSS/Atom (does anyone use that anyway nowadays in times of Twitter / Facebook?). I can agree with the need to take some of the settings from the gallery level to an album level (ie. watermarks). I'd also like to have an option for album order (sorting - why does it even place the newest album at the end and not the beginning of the album grid?

User quota: Maybe good even for home users at least to restrain users from filling the disk entirely.
User comments: Pretty hard to implement (registration, antispam etc.). It might be better to implement Facebook comments. Facebook (or Janrain - mojoPortal uses it and its absolutely cool) login would be sooo great. Ratings are a good idea but have to be anonymous.
UI: GSP UI is very complex given the complexity of the CSS files and very simple visually on the other hand. I personally am trying to make it look more fancy including the EXIF Window etc. It would be cool to share skins and change them inside the app. I wouldn't have to restore original files from backup each time I stop working on my "skin" (of course I'm editing the live app :-) ).
Editable metadata / tagging: I don't really see the need. Of course I don't have my photo album on my webserver, my GSP only manages the read only copy to display on the web. I don't really see any problem in tagging the photos in Lightroom before export.
Improved performance: No need actually. I'm using an old and low-end dual-core Opteron 1210 with 6 GBs of RAM and it's working perfectly.
Improved reliability: It would be nice if there were a possibility to improve large data volumes handling. Especially by bounding the "progress-info" process with the actual operation. I know this would be particullary difficult, but very welcome. When one synchronizes (copies or moves) large volumes of data, the progressinfo process usually fails, but the actual operation completes at the background. I can imagine the difficulties of those, who don't have RDP access to the server to verify if the operation still continues or failed too. Copying and moving data might be enhanced by having progress windows. They are both background processes now.
Improved upload experience: The mechanism is reliable, the progress-info works well and the ability to upload a folder structure in a ZIP file pretty much solves the requirements of multiple files upload.

Hi,
More sort options would be my top priority...with skinning etc as number two as you already can tweak the look and feel a bit with CSS.
With many albums (and media objects) on several pages it would really really improve the user experience if they could, by themselves, choose how to sort the albums/media objects.

Sort albums by created and/or changed date, alphabetically, number of media objects...
Sort media objects by metadata (picture date), created and/or changed date, alphabetically...


Keep up the good work, you have a great product!


Best regards,
Martina

Roger,
Feature requests split-up between GSP & GSP DNN version and specific GSP DNN (DotNetNuke). Some of these feature have been in earlier communications to you. Also attached word document with contents below.

Jan-Willem

GSP & GSP DNN

1. Possibility to enter separate metadata templates for the image thumbnails & the compressed image. I attached the samples for 1 image, which shows that the image thumbnail is a little bit overloaded with the caption I created.
   
   I used the template
   Quote:

   <b>{IptcHeadline}</b> <I>{CameraModel} with lens at {FocalLength}, {ExposureTime} at {LensAperture} (ISO{IsoSpeed}, EV:{ExposureCompensation})</I>
   and would like to use only “{IptcHeadline}” as a template for the thumbnail.
   
   
   
2. When changing the caption template all photos need to be removed from the database and “re-imported”. Would be handier if there is a function which updates the caption from a certain album downwards (i.e. keeping the possibility to have different caption settings per album).
   
   
3. If only search icon is displayed it is taking a relative large space in the header. Would like to have it place on same line as the bread crumbs or next to the download album as zip icon. This is esspecially usefull for the DNN module to gain some space on the screen.If header is disabled the search icon is not displayed anymore.
   
   
4. If the option to show the breadcrumbs is disabled it is not possible to go back to the current or root album. So a function in the admin menu to exit it would be welcome
   
   
5. Make it possible for logged in users to mark their favorite photos/albums, which will be shown under the option “User favorites”, where “user” could also be the username. Administrator can define which users/user roles can see these favorites from other users.
   
   
6. Subscribe function for users so they can receive Emails when albums are posted/updated; direct mail, daily or weekly.
   
   
7. Show most recent albums/images, top rated, etc. For DNN this info should be placed in a separate module (new viewmode?). When clicked the album will be shown.
   
   
   GSP DNN module
   
8. Posibility to show googlemap in separate module (a new viewmode?) showing pins for all images in album or only 1 pin when only image is shown. Coordinates based on GPS info in the image metadata or entered manually. TIP for other users: the free program Geosetter makes it possible to enter GPS coordinates manually.
   
   
9. Add a viewmode for only the album info, so this can be placed in a separate DNN module, for example at the left side (albumname, album description, nr of pictures, last updates, last viewed at, nr of views etc.).
   
   
10. Default setting for the GSP module on a page to indicate album to load as default. Listbox which shows available albums to select from. If album does not exist anymore default back to “All albums” (which is also first option in the list box). Why? I can for example put a GSP module on a page called Holidays, which starts at a album called holidays etc.
    
    
11. In top of control settings it is stating “This page applies to: The Gallery user control 'dnn_ctr766_g176' on page '/Gallery/tabid/176/language/en-US/Default.aspx’”. Can be handy for normal users also if it would include the module title and the pane in which it resides.
    
    
12. Would be better to show a dropdown list with available pages for the view mode option “Page to go to when album node is clicked”. For now I typed manually “Gallery”.
    

Hi Roger,

I would really like to see some kind of mobile version of the site for use on a smartphone (.e.g m.galleryserver.com).
I'm not really bothered about a specific phone app.

Thanks for considering this.

Peter

Roger,

Current guests of my gallery are begging to make comments on pictures and videos. I'm sure you already have some ideas, but 3 simple fields might be enough...

Name
Comment
CAPTCHA

Either way, thanks for a great product!

Hi Roger, in time I decided to offer my GSP to one web forum as user galleries storage (user's cars photos). I want to enable user-registering and gallery autocreation, but I now lack the album-quota feature. Do you plan to implement quotas anytime soon? I think setting album number, objects-in-an-album number and max disk capacity available for an user would be really cool. I would set one album, maybe 10 objects inside it and maybe 30 MB disk quota. Thanks!

I have about 10,000 pictures and I currently use Micro-Soft Photo Gallery. A 10,000 pictures have been tagged with the people in each pictures.

I would like Gallery Server Pro to be able to read these taggs and pull up pictures across albums of the requested people.

I hope I haven't missed something within the configuration of GSP but an email confirmation sent to the system administrator when users activate their account would be a small but handy addition to GSP.

Regards

IT Manager