Title: new gallery/board connection policy, and more.... Post by: cKleinhuis on June 06, 2011, 11:11:48 PM i solely as admin decided that locking of the corresponding board-topics generated by special sections in the gallery does not make sense anymore
experience have showed, that commenting function of the gallery is not enough to deeply discuss an image regard that backlinking to post-topics wasnt available ;) , in the beginning of this forum i thought it would make sense to lead discussions directly to the gallery image, in a one way method but i recently discovered an option in the gallery that allowed backlinking of the boards where the image gotten published in the board, so fyi this is now enabled for all images creating "new topics" in the board, consider that images uploaded to your own gallery do not create those board entries, i hope this will be solved with a "recent images" plugin for the forum to divide "images" from "discussion" beside of that the forum itself isnt well organized and i am now starting to develop a "keyword navigation" for it, meaning i try to get rid of the neccessarity to create an abstract structure via categories, and i want to use self organization in the navigation, and my first attempt will now be to use the keywords as categories, when selecting a keyword e.g. via http://www.fractalforums.com/index.php?action=gallery;sa=search2;key=ULTRAFRACTAL, i will now generate a list of keywords contained within all the resulting images, like a tag cloud... but simply as the category listing replacement.... Title: Re: new gallery/board connection policy, and more.... Post by: cKleinhuis on June 07, 2011, 12:38:52 AM just check it out, i just included the tag browser, currently only one level, but nice to have a gallery tag cloud system by now ;)
browse by theme, and dive deeper by using the tag navigation :evil1: :fiery: :evil1: http://www.fractalforums.com/index.php?action=gallery;sa=search2;key=mandala http://www.fractalforums.com/index.php?action=gallery;sa=search2;key=mandelbulb http://www.fractalforums.com/index.php?action=gallery;sa=search2;key=mandelbulb3d http://www.fractalforums.com/index.php?action=gallery;sa=search2;key=mandelbrot http://www.fractalforums.com/index.php?action=gallery;sa=search2;key=mandelbox http://www.fractalforums.com/index.php?action=gallery;sa=search2;key=architecture http://www.fractalforums.com/index.php?action=gallery;sa=search2;key=spiral http://www.fractalforums.com/index.php?action=gallery;sa=search2;key=name http://www.fractalforums.com/index.php?action=gallery;sa=search2;key=Gestaltlupe http://www.fractalforums.com/index.php?action=gallery;sa=search2;key=mandelbulber http://www.fractalforums.com/index.php?action=gallery;sa=search2;key=menger http://www.fractalforums.com/index.php?action=gallery;sa=search2;key=lsystem http://www.fractalforums.com/index.php?action=gallery;sa=search2;key=julia http://www.fractalforums.com/index.php?action=gallery;sa=search2;key=chaoscope http://www.fractalforums.com/index.php?action=gallery;sa=search2;key=ultrafractal O0 Title: Re: new gallery/board connection policy, and more.... Post by: cKleinhuis on June 07, 2011, 12:44:31 AM so people, start tagging your images extensively !
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Title: Re: new gallery/board connection policy, and more.... Post by: David Makin on June 07, 2011, 02:34:26 AM Can this tagging be applied to text too - threads or even individual posts ? I've been thinking for a while that the search facility is poor, even using Google to do it, and we need some sort of cross-referencing method for related topics in posts - preferably on an individual message basis rather than a whole thread basis. |