No Galleri??

[02Anders]

Hi Guys,

First of all, I'm new to the forum. So if this question has already been asked a thousand times and debated likewise, then I'm sorry....

But is there really no "Galleri" to this forum??

I just love seeing what other 02 entusiasts get out of their 02s!! Personally, I belong to the 'Originale Polizei', but 02 ownership can be so diverse, and whether it's a totally stock 1600-2 with 6V system and all, or a highly modified M2, I think it's sooo inspiring to see what another entusiast has created....

I would suggest a galleri where each of us can post a handfull of pics along with a short story of 'how, what and why' including perhaps vin # and/or other production data such as colorcode, date of production or whatever....

What say you??? If this idea stinks and has already been debated and decided against on this forum, then I will just apologize and crawl back into my hole... ;-)

[Benz02]

Good Idea! It would be nice to have a photo gallery.

[TonyHavana]

Well the pics are there if you know where to look, but I agree, a more permanent gallery would be nice.

Of course, I don't have the smarts to set it up

http://www.bmw2002faq.com/component/option,com_forum/Itemid,50/page,viewtopic/t,281760/highlight,/

[esty]

http://www.bmw2002registry.com/viewImages/viewPictures.jsp?pageNum=1

[InkaSteve]

Hi Guys,

First of all, I'm new to the forum.

Welcome to the forum. Agreed that a gallery would be helpful to see everyone's "ride" in one place. Hang out here long enough and you will probably see many of them as time goes on. A lot are in their signatures or avatars.

Thank you for your nice comments about my touring at the Cars and Coffee.

Looking forward to your participation on the board.

[Mars]

For those that were around when we defected from Roadfly to the FAQ, the original FAQ board had a gallery with member's cars in it. When we converted to this newer format back in '05(?) that feature went away. The pics are buried somewhere in this server!

I asked the guys back then why that feature was eliminated but I never really received a solid answer.

[02Anders]

Welcome to the forum. Agreed that a gallery would be helpful to see everyone's "ride" in one place. Hang out here long enough and you will probably see many of them as time goes on. A lot are in their signatures or avatars.

Thank you for your nice comments about my touring at the Cars and Coffee.

Looking forward to your participation on the board.

Thanx Steve - and I look forward to taking part. Seems like you're a bunch of hardcore 02-entusiasts in here :-D and I already like the atmosphere...

Anyway, do with the Galleri-proposal what you guys feel best. I of course also understand that even if everybody agrees in wanting it, it's still a matter of doing it. Two very different things!! But on other forums that I am active on, it always seems that the Galleri section is one of the most popular. Steve, this would of course also enable me to drool over even more excellent pics of your beautiful Inka Touring - those Ronal alloys just finish it off perfectly for me.

Well, maybe a thing for the future then.... ;-)

Well the pics are there if you know where to look, but I agree, a more permanent gallery would be nice.

Of course, I don't have the smarts to set it up

http://www.bmw2002faq.com/component/option,com_forum/Itemid,50/page,viewtopic/t,281760/highlight,/

And Tony, I'll make sure to get a couple of shots of mine onto that tread as well - thanx mate.... :-D

[scestes]

I think what everyone needs to keep in mind is that when you add something like a gallery to a forums package you get 2 things. A lot of disk utilization, and a lot of bandwidth utilization. There are a lot of free places for everyone to post pics of their cars that are free. If you're so inclined, put the link to your car pics in your signature. I have. I wish more people would. If Steve were to setup a gallery as part of the forums, he would probably have to purchase more disk space, and would most definitely pay more in montly fees in the form of bandwidth. Text is cheap to push out to the masses, pictures are not. With the plethora of free image hosting sites out there, I honestly don't see a need.

[02Anders]

Well, I got some pics on the tread that Tony linked to.

http://www.bmw2002faq.com/component/option,com_forum/Itemid,50/page,viewtopic/p,475706/#475706

Now let's get some more on there.... :-D

[_z_]

I think what everyone needs to keep in mind is that when you add something like a gallery to a forums package you get 2 things. A lot of disk utilization, and a lot of bandwidth utilization. There are a lot of free places for everyone to post pics of their cars that are free. If you're so inclined, put the link to your car pics in your signature. I have. I wish more people would. If Steve were to setup a gallery as part of the forums, he would probably have to purchase more disk space, and would most definitely pay more in montly fees in the form of bandwidth. Text is cheap to push out to the masses, pictures are not. With the plethora of free image hosting sites out there, I honestly don't see a need.

Yeah I've kind of been messing around with a gallery type addition. For one thing we've already got a shedload of images folk have already uploaded. I wrote a little thing that lets you see the images organized by username, but the issue is that the existing thumbs are waaay to big -- so I need to write an image processor to convert all the existing images to a much smaller set of thumbs associated with them.

This isn't very hard at all, but it does take up more space. I think steve k. gave the OK for doing that, but i've been hesitant just because of disk space issues like you pointed out. The ol server doesn't have THAT much extra space.

But the plan is to have all the currently hosted images placed into a gallery of some kind, and then allow registered users add images directly kinda thing.

Just been super busy at work and haven't had enough time to work on it. Also the disk issue .. dono if I want to bomb the server with that much extra stress.

We'll see!

-zachary

[steve k.]

We were looking into adding a section to the site which would be similar to what you are asking. More of a "Cars that i Have" vs. "the pictures that i have" . But my time is limited and that fell on the back burner. I think we'll bring back the idea in the near future. As of now, the Projects Forum should give you a lot of pictures as will the Links section to personal sites.

As for bandwidth, you guys are busy. we are pumping 2.4 gig per day in text files and attachments.

steve k.

[ray_]

Why don't u "sticky" this in the meantime?

http://www.bmw2002faq.com/component/option,com_forum/Itemid,50/page,viewtopic/t,281760/

... or I'll bump it daily!

;-)

Ray

I think what everyone needs to keep in mind is that when you add something like a gallery to a forums package you get 2 things. A lot of disk utilization, and a lot of bandwidth utilization. There are a lot of free places for everyone to post pics of their cars that are free. If you're so inclined, put the link to your car pics in your signature. I have. I wish more people would. If Steve were to setup a gallery as part of the forums, he would probably have to purchase more disk space, and would most definitely pay more in montly fees in the form of bandwidth. Text is cheap to push out to the masses, pictures are not. With the plethora of free image hosting sites out there, I honestly don't see a need.

Yeah I've kind of been messing around with a gallery type addition. For one thing we've already got a shedload of images folk have already uploaded. I wrote a little thing that lets you see the images organized by username, but the issue is that the existing thumbs are waaay to big -- so I need to write an image processor to convert all the existing images to a much smaller set of thumbs associated with them.

This isn't very hard at all, but it does take up more space. I think steve k. gave the OK for doing that, but i've been hesitant just because of disk space issues like you pointed out. The ol server doesn't have THAT much extra space.

But the plan is to have all the currently hosted images placed into a gallery of some kind, and then allow registered users add images directly kinda thing.

Just been super busy at work and haven't had enough time to work on it. Also the disk issue .. dono if I want to bomb the server with that much extra stress.

We'll see!

-zachary

[steve k.]

The problem with Stickying something this big is that it will mess with the view for people who use threaded format.

steve k.

[ray_]

Oh. That's quite true, I would think.

They shouldn't use that format

:-D

;-)

Thanks for the forum, Steve.

Ray

The problem with Stickying something this big is that it will mess with the view for people who use threaded format.

steve k.