joshroot Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 If you go to any single image page in your gallery, you will now see a "more photos by <your name>" box on the right side next to the comments. There will be three thumbnail images picked randomly from your portfolio. There will also be a text link to your full portfolio. The purpose of this is to encourage viewers to dig deeper into photo.net portfolios. A user might have come to your image page via a google search, or a image you placed in the critique forum, or by a link sent to them by a friend. What we want to do is to help give them a reason to view more of your images. The photographers on Photo.net have some great images and we want to help them get viewed. This is good for us, as it encourages existing users to become more involved with the site (instead of just critiquing one image of a particular user's, perhaps they will critique three) and it encourages new users to explore the site and perhaps join our community. It is good for our users because it help encourage more visibility of their images and hopefully increases views/comments/ratings/sales/jobs/etc (whatever reason a particular user has for presenting work on photo.net). One important note, images that you have in "hidden" folders will NOT show up as thumbnails. We figure that people have any number of reasons for using the "hidden" feature, and we do not wish to mess that up.<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Laur Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 Thanks, Josh. Although now it's possible that visitors will have three convenient new reasons NOT to wonder if my portfolio's worth a look! Note to self: <i>get those crappy shots out of the portfolio.</i> In fact, that may be one of the side benefits of what you've done, here... folks might take more time to ensure that their collection is - as randomly poked at - a better representation of their good stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lex_jenkins Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 Very cool feature, Josh. Help yourself to an attaboy from my fridge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter_daalder Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 I'm assuming that this new feature might be based on the displayed thumbnails from our workspace page?<p>Either way, it is a terrific improvement to the overall image browsing experience on PN! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael R Freeman Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 Very nice addition, but can I make a suggestion? I think the page would be better formatted if the three "More from this user" thumbnails were displayed horizontally under the image being viewed (above the tabs for "Details", etc.). The way it displays now the lower right section of the page formats a little bit "funny". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshroot Posted March 20, 2008 Author Share Posted March 20, 2008 Michael, My worry with putting the thumbnails where you suggest was that people would find them distracting from the larger image. It does look like the text of longer critiques is crowding the thumbnail box a bit. So I'll see if we can adjust that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aepelbacher Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 YAY! Thanks, Josh! I have been pondering asking if you could do something like this anyway ... because I have actually enjoyed seeing random older images of mine on my workspace page and wanted others to see the same kind of thing. You rock! (Oops - I almost put two exclamation points in my glee. But I corrected my error before hitting "submit". :-D) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aepelbacher Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 Another question, Josh - will the photos change? I clicked through several photos and tried reloading, but kept getting the same three images (both on some of my photos and some of another PN-er). Curious... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshroot Posted March 20, 2008 Author Share Posted March 20, 2008 Quite frankly, I had thought they were going to change. But perhaps they are on a hourly or daily schedule. Or perhaps we are holding off on that until we get the database load stuff under control. I'll look into it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshroot Posted March 20, 2008 Author Share Posted March 20, 2008 I was correct, they change every hour. Keeps the load on the database down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aepelbacher Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 Got it! Thanks again, Josh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Laur Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 Here's a thought: can we make sure that the images being randomly selected are only coming from galleries that the member has marked to make visible? I'm sure I'm not the only one that has a gallery set to hidden, where some scratch images (used in a posted discussion, etc) are kept. These are an important part of how I use photo.net, but should be confused with "other photos by me," if you know what I mean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aepelbacher Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 Matt, in Josh's original message: <i>"One important note, images that you have in "hidden" folders will NOT show up as thumbnails."</i> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Laur Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 Lou Ann: That's really embarassing. Thanks! (Sorry Josh... I do try to actually read what you write, really). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordonjb Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 This is a great feature. I have already come across several superb images I had not seen before. I recall suggesting to you, back when you implemented this feature on our work space, that it would be good to see the same on our members page. Your idea is a much better place to put this feature. Thanks for the upgrade guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike_stemberg Posted March 22, 2008 Share Posted March 22, 2008 I have been forced to 'delve'! Not that I am complaining. I have discovered so many more meaningful images and meanings from my 'clicks'. More 'value-per-click'. I am a happier customer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aepelbacher Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 I just want to add that, after a few days of watching the thumbnails somewhat closely (on my pages and on those of others), I am so happy with this change. I have decided to try to do a one-for-one deal, where if I am going to comment on someone's recent image, I'll also use the thumbnails to comment on an older image by the same person. I'm finding treasures that I hadn't previously seen ... and am getting comments on older images in my own portfolio that haven't been touched for a few years. Yay! Thanks, guys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timoripatti Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 Josh, great improvements indeed, thank you. BTW, would it be possible to add a feature to "details": now that we are able to check how many times an image has been looked at - how about being able to check also how many times the image has been downloaded by viewers? cheers, Timo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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