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draven
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Forged Alliance Gallery

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after a long vacation, the guild image gallery has been re-added to the site. it can be used to share pictures for guild or forum related purposes.
it is here: http://www.forgedalliance.org/gallery.php
and is also now in the site navigation.

unfortunately the images from the old gallery are mia and my personal collection of screen shots is pretty limited, but i've added a few to get us started. there are different galleries for each expansion, a gallery for miscellaneous in game shots, a gallery for miscellaneous other stuff that can be used for forum posts or whatever else, and a gallery for that scary real life place.

you must be logged in to the forum to be able to add an image, and while this is still pretty basic, it should work well enough for now, so please feel free to add any appropriate images that you want. there isn't much in the way of error checking at the moment, so you might not be able to add an image and may or may not get an error message of some sort, or you might possibly break the whole thing. if you run into any issues, please let me know. also, images and image info is not easily editable or removable at the moment, so make sure everything is correct before you post.

warning: it is possible to abuse this and degrade the responsiveness of the site for everyone. this should not be an issue if the images are limited to being used for the site, but if they are posted to a high traffic site and for some reason draw a lot of hits, that will likely destroy the server, so please do not link to images externally. i do not think anyone would do this intentionally, but if i discover that you do i will probably ban you from the gallery and / or entire site. also, just so everyone is aware, the gallery tracks the user that adds an image, so i will know who is posting stuff, but as i said, i don't expect there to be any issues.

if you have any questions / comments / suggestions / whatever, please let me know :)
draven
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Re: Forged Alliance Gallery

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draven wrote: warning: it is possible to abuse this and degrade the responsiveness of the site for everyone. this should not be an issue if the images are limited to being used for the site, but if they are posted to a high traffic site and for some reason draw a lot of hits, that will likely destroy the server, so please do not link to images externally. i do not think anyone would do this intentionally, but if i discover that you do i will probably ban you from the gallery and / or entire site. also, just so everyone is aware, the gallery tracks the user that adds an image, so i will know who is posting stuff, but as i said, i don't expect there to be any issues.
after re-reading this, it sounds a bit harsh, as a lot of stuff i write tends to :/
it is not my intent to discourage people from posting images, and it is unlikely that the type of abuse that i'm worried about will ever happen, but i just wanted to make sure that everyone was aware that it is possible to negatively affect the entire site if for some reason images draw a lot of traffic to the server.
Jon
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Old school pics inc - I'll try to edit
Inori
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Post by Inori »

I shouldn't have gone through my screenshot directory in reverse order, so a lot of things marked as first kills turned out they weren't the first kills.

-HP
Waterdrop
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WTB edit function !
Waterdrop
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Post by Waterdrop »

It keeps telling to to enter a title even though I entered one.
thandrenn
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I uploaded a few, but then it started choking out with errors about me not entering a title (I did) and it being unable to load a thumbnail. :(
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draven
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Re: Forged Alliance Gallery

Post by draven »

after much delay, i think the bugs in this should be fixed. you should also be able to edit your own images now. the most recent images are now at the top of the forum with the date they were added so you can more easily see new stuff. they just link to the large version of the images, not the gallery. i may or may not do something else with them, but i think it's good enough for now. you may or may not have to clear your cache for things to work properly, as a lot of the css / javascript was updated. if you run into any errors or weird stuff, please let me know. sorry for the delay on fixing things.
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