My Personal Gallery 2 Wishlist

Before you read this, please note that these are my own personal thoughts and wishes, not an offical post from the Gallery team.

There are a couple of things I, personally, would love to see happen with Gallery 2:

  • Akismet Plugin
    We all know spam sucks, and Akismet does a great job moderating comments for lots of different web applications. Gallery 2 could really benefit from the same service.

  • Flock Support
    Flock natively supports several online solutions, how cool would it be if you could also post your photos to your Gallery 2 installation directly? This seems like a feature more people than me are looking for, and I'm sure some Flockstar out there has the capability of making it happen? After all, both Gallery 2 and Flock has pretty open APIs. Of course, a FireFox plugin would be great too, but that falls into the same category doesn't it?

  • Scheduled publication
    I would love to see a Gallery 2 module that lets you scheduled publication of items, as well as scheduled removal. Most useful in photoblog situations I think, but it's a feature I would like to be able to use on my photoblog. I love automated things.

  • Improved RSS module
    Gallery 2 has a pretty good RSS module, but it could use an overhaul to make it a bit simpler to use. As far as I'm concerned the current module has to many options, and is to difficult to set up. After all, most users only need a site feed, an album feed, and a comment feed. Right?

So, if anyone has the know-how, dedication and free time available (very likely, I know), I would be eternally grateful if someone decided to tackle one or more of these challenged.

Now, I said it.

April 10, 2007 at 1:40am | 8 Comments
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  1. coComment - , on January 1, 1970 at 1:00am, said:

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  2. Jonathan, on April 18, 2007 at 11:23pm, said:

    Agreed. Particularly the Akismet part. CAPTCHA's? Come on. This isn't 1996. :o)

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  3. h0bbel, on April 19, 2007 at 12:12am, said:

    I do have one problem with Akismet though, and thats the centralized information gathering it does. Not only does it make your own site rely on a third-party service that might disappear at some point, it also gathers a lot of information on valid comments as well as spam.

    But, for a lack of a better alternative, Akismet would be a good choice.

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  4. Evan Hamilton, on April 20, 2007 at 1:14am, said:

    Hey h0bbel,

    Gallery is being considered for Flock integration...I will add your vote to the list. Hopefully we'll see it in 1.0.

    Keep on Flockin',

    Evan Hamilton
    Flock Community Ambassador
    evan at flock dot com

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  5. h0bbel, on April 20, 2007 at 10:48pm, said:

    Evan: Thats great!

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  6. bv, on May 16, 2007 at 11:31pm, said:

    I personally like Akismet, even though it does feel a bit like Big Brother watching.

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  7. alix, on May 24, 2007 at 7:23pm, said:

    Amen on improving the RSS. Does Gallery2 even currently have a site feed?

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  8. h0bbel, on May 24, 2007 at 11:33pm, said:

    Gallery 2 has a site wide feed, yes.

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