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Bruce,

The link and the thumbnail no longer match up, and the reason is
browser caching. ...
Forcing a browser refresh from the server side would also work, ...

And something like that happened, the first time I tried to test the symptom. After confirming the delete I was taken back to the album page, and the URLs were updated to account for the deletion. I had made note of the URL of a particular photo beforehand so that I could see the change.

But on my second attempt to observe this I opened a photo to be deleted in a new tab. On this trial when that tab was returned to the album page the URLs had not been updated. Nor had they been in the original tab, still showing the album. I had expected the one in the new tab to have been updated, just like the first test, but that didn't happen.

Arguing over which is wrong (the thumbnail or the link) is just
semantics.

If it looks like a bug, swims like a bug, and quacks like a bug then it probably is a bug. (My apologies to ducks everywhere).

Specifically, I don't think the system is operating as intended in that case. It is certainly a violation of the principle of least astonishment.

but other requests here in GMF have asked for static [or should I say,
"more-static"] photo album URLs for entirely different reasons.

True. Here's an even stronger reason - it causes a malfunction by the site.

And no, I don't classify this as just "a browser cache issue" - in my second test the site loaded a page (the album) which had incorrect links in it. Whether or not the browser is complicit in that error does not IMO make it any less a bug in terms of user experience.

In a worst-case scenario a less attentive moderator than Win might go on to delete the wrong photo, possibly a prized one.

Shal



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