MG 2.3 Is Media Gallery worth buying?

[Davyc]

I've used the Media Gallery before, many years ago, and I'm considering buying it for my Rock Music site to display band images from various bands, along with YT videos from the same bands. Is this a good bet, or would generating individual forums (article format) be as good as, or even better.

I've not used the Media Gallery since version 1, so I'm well out of the loop. I can play with the front end on here, but what I'm curious about is the back end and how much versatility there exists in terms of manipulating the front end to display various layouts, or is it fixed?

Some help and advice would be appreciated.

With thanks

 

[tajhay]

I've used the Media Gallery before, many years ago, and I'm considering buying it for my Rock Music site to display band images from various bands, along with YT videos from the same bands. Is this a good bet, or would generating individual forums (article format) be as good as, or even better.

I've not used the Media Gallery since version 1, so I'm well out of the loop. I can play with the front end on here, but what I'm curious about is the back end and how much versatility there exists in terms of manipulating the front end to display various layouts, or is it fixed?

Some help and advice would be appreciated.

With thanks

Personally you would be better off using Showcase or IMS from Bob (xenaddons.com).

I use showcase for player profiles (Sports Team).

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[Wildcat Media]

In my experience, its lack of features made it useless for our purposes.

For one, there is no way we can set the sorting order of photos and albums in the gallery. Consider where you might use it like a timeline or history. If you get new additions to the gallery, you want to insert them in the proper place in the timeline. Right now, it just adds them on as "newest" and that's all you get. Sure, we can fudge the name of the item in the gallery to fake an order, but it's 2025 and we shouldn't need to do that.

We can change the sort order order for things like name, date added, etc., but only manually. There is no way that I can find to set a default sorting method for all visitors. And if we could sort on our own criteria (like an assigned sorting order), there would need to be an option for that as well.

We also cannot replace images. Thing again of something like a timeline where, if you find a better version of a photo or have a better scan, it can't be replaced.

It also has a bug that XF staff couldn't reproduce when I reported. I have images of another member showing up with my name as the owner. And the owner can't see his own images. That could be specific to our installation, but who knows? Rather than troubleshoot, that was the last straw that made us stop using it.

It has the start of being a good add-on but it needs some serious attention to make it usable for many of us.