change to popular galleries.

[slug]

we've now created a special topic part of the popular galleries page for politics.

the Popular Galleries page at http://www.pbase.com/galleries?view=popular has been the subject of much discussion recently due to many political/election oriented galleries being displayed there.

many people including me were not liking the page being dominated by politics. for a while i ignored this as i didn't want to interfere with the voting system and hoped the problem would just go away.

i eventually removed 5 galleries that were all on the first page from being listed there. these galleries were still completely viewable in their normal locations but simply were not listed on the popular galleries page so it could be about photography and not politics.
the majority of people approved of this,but it wasn't really a solution as more and more political galleries were voted for.

i think ealier today somewhere around half of the first 50 galleries were directly related to the USA elections and world politics.

our solution this time is to separate these galleries into their own page.
additionally those 5 galleries previously delisted are now included again.

hopefully this will allow the popular galleries page to display a variety of interesting galleries without bombarding everyone with politics unless they choose to be.

this was a quick solution to a problem, but we have plans for a more generalized expansion of the concept of Topics. this will go along with expansion of the /cameras and /world and /search pages all with the goal of providing useful and interesting ways of digging through the now 22million photos on PBase.

-slug

[matiasasun]

Slug:
Bug on the Link "show next 8" in populars. It only shows political.

[emily]

Hey Matias,

Everything is working correctly for us. Are you still in the politics topic? If so, &topic=politics will appear at the end of the URL. Just click the 'Return to the regular Popular Galleries' link to get back. I hope this helps.

-Emily
emily@pbase.com

[lord_of_the_badgers]

thanks guys, a simple solution?

It would indeed be nice, if possible, to have a menu system - ie landscapes, portraiture, glamour/nude, issues (political etc), wildlife, macro etc etc... wonder how you'd do that...!

[bmwgsbill]

nice job guys!!!
hopefullly everyone will be happy....well maybe everyone!!!

bill

http://www.pbase.com\bmwgsbill

[castledude]

thanks guys, a simple solution?

It would indeed be nice, if possible, to have a menu system - ie landscapes, portraiture, glamour/nude, issues (political etc), wildlife, macro etc etc... wonder how you'd do that...!

Great idea.. Probably should have glamour/nude be a paid members only selection for browsing.

[ilanphoto]

thanks guys, a simple solution?

It would indeed be nice, if possible, to have a menu system - ie landscapes, portraiture, glamour/nude, issues (political etc), wildlife, macro etc etc... wonder how you'd do that...!

Great idea.. Probably should have glamour/nude be a paid members only selection for browsing.

Or a pay by view - it could be a good source of income for Pbase

[wangi]

Great idea.. Probably should have glamour/nude be a paid members only selection for browsing.

You can get your porn from plenty other places!

[ukexpat]

Great idea.. Probably should have glamour/nude be a paid members only selection for browsing.

You can get your porn from plenty other places!

One man's porn is another man's art...

[lord_of_the_badgers]

yeah but joking aside, the glamour/nude stuff always ends up high in the list. Pretty obvious why too! I know it would be difficult to maintain, unless there was a mandatory "category" selector when you created galleries.

anyone?


btw

I doubt pbase will turn into a left-handed website overnight if we categorised the popular pics tho methinks

[erichmangl]

Slug:
Bug on the Link "show next 8" in populars. It only shows political.

yes, a little one: go to "popular galleries" , click "special topic", click "return to regular popular" and then click NEXT 8 = you come back to political

[gpc]

Great solution. Thanks. It was all getting pretty tiresome.

[slug]

thanks for pointing out that link bug. should be fixed now.

[erichmangl]

yes, works fine now, Slug

can you tell me here please what's the difference between "vote for gallery" and "vote for picture" ?

[matiasasun]

what's the difference between "vote for gallery" and "vote for picture" ?

Please explain that a little Erich...