On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 09:45 PM, Larry McDavid wrote:
But, I can't find a way to get directly to the photo album thumbnail in the 35 pages of Photo albums.
Is there a way to do this?
Duane's answer ("No") is unfortunately an accurate summary of the situation.
When the group of which I am a moderator migrated almost exactly 2 years ago we had to carry out a rapid weeding of the Photos to get within our 1GB storage allocation. On closer examination of what was retained it became obvious that after several years of benign neglect on Yahoo some radical action was required to sort out what we had into some semblance of order by removing the fuzzy, the duplicates (or near duplicates) the pointless, and so on. Near - duplicates were a real problem, often spread out over a number of Albums with often largely meaningless titles. Most of the clutter was down to members being able to create albums and upload into them without moderator intervention; this continues to be the case because we don't want to be heavy - handed in any way about what is suitable and what isn't. (NB:
not suitable doesn't mean what you think it might!)
Albums were renamed and their contents shuffled about to create some sort of order out of the chaos. In the end I made an
external index which resides in our wiki, with each entry being a link to the relevant Album; in a few cases the index links to individual photos within an album, and in some others the links are to sources of photo material hosted elsewhere than Groups.io - with the various outside site owners' permission of course.
We have not prevented members being able to create and fill albums, which means that over time disorder becomes a problem again so when the total occupied space creeps up a bit I sneak in after dark (so to speak) and get rid of it again; no - one seems to notice, which makes me wonder just how much our members actually use the Photo Archive.
Yes; it was a lot of work initially but the result is a much tidier and user - friendly system. I keep meaning to ask Mark if he could make the "front page" of the Photos Section either Owner - configurable or at the very least an alpha - numeric list of Album Titles; with a bit of care they can be listed in any order the owner wants by putting something like "01, 02...) in front of the Album Title.
For obvious reasons now is not the time to make any such request... and I'm not sure how much traction it would get anyway.
Chris
