In reply to Photos Module Update in Dolphin 7.1

Andrew Boon•5th of June 2012•to houstonlively

Basically, you'd find that Facebook doesn't have any browsing pages for albums from different people. Only one person's albums, sorted by time. Dolphin is different from Facebook though, and your comment makes good sense for it, so we'll see what we can do.

As for the block with album photos for browsing... We've been trying a few things, but it's a tricky case. In your example there's a very custom Flash slideshow, and we had similar Cooliris thing, but it appears to be not so straightforward see more

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prolaznik•5th of June 2012•to Andrew Boon

getting rid of the blue padlocks would be a huge accomplishment :D

btw nice work on the albums.

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houstonlively•5th of June 2012•to Andrew Boon

I was just using the flash as a quick example to illustrate the layout. We both know that intuitive navigation is everything. Aesthetics is secondary... Facebook is living proof of that.

A thumbnail strip gives the user a way to quickly view every photo in the album, and something like that is very important..... then if you could just update the big photo and comments via ajax. The thumbnails don't have t be displayed very large ... you could size them down for the strip via css, then popup see more

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houstonlively•5th of June 2012•to Andrew Boon

And no... Facebook doesn't have browsing pages for collective albums. Pretty smart, those folks at FB. I can't stand the shared photo concept.. never have, never will. It makes every site look like another dating site. But as long as you have it, and we're stuck with it, my point of being able to somehow filter the albums that are displayed, is really important. Without some sort of filterable results, all you have is a random collection of unrelated photos from a bunch of people you don't know. see more

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