We just passed a huge milestone of 1 million posts and now have 6,300 active users (users who have a valid account). That includes nearly 400,000 comments in the photo gallery too - which is pretty amazing. There have been over 16,800 users in total, register an account since we launched nearly 17 years ago. We passed 900,000 posts 18 months ago - 900,000 posts and 4,500 active users Well done everyone!!
Well whoever made the millionth post gets to go through every single photo in the gallery and put titles on the untitled photos (or free entries to every zoo in the world in the unlikely event you'll want that )
Would it be more useful to sort photos into enclosure photos, animals photos and other photos in the case of each zoo? If I'm honest that's what would be more useful for me and I genuinely wouldn't mind doing that even though I know for sure I didn't write that millionth post...
That's an interesting idea, and would definitely be useful for me as well. No idea if that's feasible or not however.
If you get all of your photographs sorted and correctly labelled, with duplicates and lower-quality ones pruned out, you'll have earned it
I suggested this once and was told it would take too long sort to sort the existing photos into these categories.
Ha, well, yes, as a teenage boy I have a fair bit of time on my hands coming up in the form of the summer holidays I could genuinely do it, it's just a question of: 1) Is it worth it? 2) Are there more useful things to be done?
It would be a great feature though. So maybe it could be something for new photos instead. Old ones can stay as they are but new photos get tagged with exhibit/enclosure and similar by the uploader.
I was thinking something like this: All of the existing zoos would be split into animals, enclosures, and other, but the gallery just for the zoo itself would still remain. It would look like this when you looked at it on the media page on the side: Chester Zoo - General Chester Zoo - Animals Chester Zoo - Enclosures Chester Zoo - Other The three new categories would start out as empty. You would no longer be able to upload photos to the general Chester Zoo category, so all new photos from Chester Zoo added would have to be uploaded to the correct category under Chester. However, any member can move a photo from the Chester Zoo - General category to the correct category underneath. Once all the photos have been sorted into the correct places, the Chester Zoo - General category would disappear. It would take a while of course, but assuming those of us who have a bit of time on their hands start sorting media every once in a while, it would all eventually be moved. I'm sure this would require quite a bit of work to implement, I have no idea if this is feasible or not. It would certainly make things easier to find, though.
I don't think any of that would be feasible or suitable - theoretically when the new software update rolls along, there will be a chance for Sim to add some of the gallery functionality tweaks and search optimisation which has been required since the last update, and which he didn't feel was worth doing until the new update was available given the amount of work it would take things used to be much easier to search through previously.
Given we already have 2,750 zoo galleries, creating 4 galleries for every zoo would end up with over 11,000 galleries A much better approach would be to come up with a consistent tagging structure and encourage users to follow that by tagging their photos appropriately. It would then require the ability to filter photos from a specific zoo based on tag - but that shouldn't be too difficult to implement.
But would this system be implemented from now on or would someone (i.e. me) have to go through all the photos and add tags? I wouldn't mind doing it, but it is more work than the sorting...
Someone probably already did this but 1 million posts divided by 6300 users is almost 159 posts per user.
True, but at the same time - not every registered user has posted either. The total number of users who have ever posted is 5,097
