Poll Gallery - any interest?

[Brogan]

The Gallery is now open: http://cliptheapex.com/media/

Any registered member can embed videos.

Only Premium Contributors, Valued Members and Staff can currently upload images, with the only limit being a single maximum file size of 10MB.
This is subject to review but I need to monitor how disk usage is affected before opening it up to other members.

The categories can be tweaked as we go, depending on demand.

 

[canis]

Can we all just take a moment to celebrate the fact that Brogan has chosen a Psy video to be the first ever upload to the CTA Media Gallery? Could you not bear to share your Cheeky Girls collection?

p.s. Good work mate, looks nice

 

[Brogan]

He seems to be the man of the moment so he gets ID 1.

Thanks chap, I'm hoping it becomes something which will generate content and community.
Media items can be rated, liked, commented on, etc.

User albums will be coming soon so people will be able to upload their own photos and videos to their personal albums.

 

[sushifiesta]

Are videos links to YouTube or wherever rather than uploading to CTA itself? Is that why videos aren't restricted but pictures are?

 

[Brogan]

Yes, exactly

Videos are just embedded, rather than uploaded.

 

[Brogan]

A future update will also allow embedding/linking to images, so that will also be made available to everyone.

Of course the problem with that is a lot of sites don't permit hotlinking and in the future the images could break or change, so it's not ideal.
Having said that, YouTube is more or less the same - go back through old threads and a lot of the YouTube videos no longer work.

 

[Brogan]

I should also add that after uploading an image or embedding a video, there is the option of adding some additional text below it.

Just click Add Caption to do so.

You can see how it looks here: http://cliptheapex.com/media/psy-gentleman.1/

 

[Brogan]

I just thought, we could probably have team folders in the videos section.

That would allow people to embed official team video series like the cutaway series from Sauber: http://cliptheapex.com/media/bmw-sauber-f1-08.7/

 

[Fenderman]

Lovin' it. A wonderful addition to the site. to you guys for making it happen!!

 

[Brogan]

And of course anyone who uploads any media has a "Your Media" page, for example http://cliptheapex.com/media/users/brogan.1/

 

[Brogan]

A new Sport category has been added Senna's_right_foot

 

[Senna's_right_foot]

Brogan you must have read my mind as I was just about to ask if one could be created

 

[Senna's_right_foot]

Brogan - is there any way of knowing when new media has been added without having to go into the Media section and look through it? It's ok now while there are only a few items there - is there any way to have alerts set up to let you know if something new has been added?

 

[Brogan]

It shows in the Recent Activity feed: http://cliptheapex.com/recent-activity/

 

[Senna's_right_foot]

Ah cool

 

[Brogan]

If anyone has any suggestions, please say and I will feed them back to the developer here: http://xenmediagallery.com/forums/suggestions.8/

I can't promise they will be implemented but it doesn't hurt to ask.

 

[Brogan]

Oh and the main index page always shows the latest entries in order of time Senna's_right_foot: http://cliptheapex.com/media/

 

[Senna's_right_foot]

Not sure if it's just my browser but when I go into the images gallery all the writing has disappeared from under the images and has ended up way down the page

 

[Brogan]

Try doing a hard refresh of your browser, all looks OK here on Chrome, Firefox and IE.

 

[sushifiesta]

Fine for me on IE, Chrome, Firefox and Opera on Windows 8 and on my Android phone.