[Nass]

I asked Adam to add thumbnails to this forum which he did, very speedily might I add. So I'm just soliciting opinions to see what you think!

link: Post your photos! - PentaxForums.com

[Ash]

I like the idea Nass - at a glance look at the PYP images, but as they are, the images appearing on the page are too large, making it slower to download and end up squashing the text to the right of the screen - anything less than a 1200px or so wide screen would need to scroll to see the text.

I'd suggest thumbnails created by the forum's compression system to limit filesize and image dimensions for ease of browsing.

[Rense]

Yeah, the download time is considerable, so it's making the forums slow....

[Tamia]

I think the icons are too large. Perhaps if they were the size of the Gallery main page. I have to say that I didn't mind the all-text presentation, because it was possible to scan quickly through the long list on each page for potentially interesting entries.

[slowpez]

My load up speed seems to be fine but I find the icons too distracting. They can't be seen all that well and the number of threads per page is so much smaller that I think threads will get lost a lot sooner. How many of us actually go as far back as page 3 to read threads? Not many I fear.

[altopiet]

I must agree with Rense, Tamia and Susan, and if you are going to make it smaller, you might just as well not have it at all, which I would prefer.

[Tamia]

... the number of threads per page is so much smaller that I think threads will get lost a lot sooner. How many of us actually go as far back as page 3 to read threads? Not many I fear.

This is a good point, Susan. There are so many contributions to the Post Your Photos section that even with the text-only presentation, recent submissions disappeared into previous pages rather quickly. Now it will happen even more quickly, especially because some people post several individual photos at a time in separate threads, rather than nest them in one thread.

[Nass]

Weird, I find it a lot easier to use. When the list of threads is just text I don't bother looking at any because it just takes too long to go in and out of 50. With thumbs I know what I'll like and actually go look at it. YMMV.

[altopiet]

especially because some people post several individual photos at a time in separate threads, rather than nest them in one thread.

I've noticed that for a while now and I am actually surprised that nobody mentioned it before. Maybe there should be a limit on how many threads a member can start in that section per day?

[SpecialK]

Now it will happen even more quickly, especially because some people post several individual photos at a time in separate threads, rather than nest them in one thread.

Yeah, that is annoying. However, I found that in long PYP threads (my 50+ image Celebrity Graves, for example), the first page repeats on the next page, which makes it somewhat cumbersome. I moved it to a "thematic" thread that works better.

I liked another forum (which I have mostly abandoned) because there were fewer individual image threads, and the images went into related threads - People, Sports, Birds, etc.

Makes it much easier for locate images, and more streamlined.

[Adam]

Yup, you guys are right. Now the thumbnails are created locally! If you want to narrow photos by type, you can use the prefix filter option.