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

 

[PhineasD]

No, it doesn't work with older attachments.
New attachments go into the gallery, and when you view the attachment in the gallery, it provides a link to the thread where the attachment was posted.

I uninstalled XFMG and reinstalled it. Now it mirrors the old attachments, which is what I wanted the addon for.

The problem is that when you sync, you lose any changes you made by moving an attachment from one category to another within XFMG.

 

[Ricsca]

Can you see all the photos uploaded to forum threads before the gallery was installed in the gallery?

 

[PhineasD]

Can you see all the photos uploaded to forum threads before the gallery was installed in the gallery?

Not all of them, I only see 1900 of 39,000, but I don't understand why. With the first installation, it didn't show any, now it's showing 1900. I don't know what's wrong...

 

[Ricsca]

If the gallery retrieves old images from the forums, it certainly does so with a cron job and takes time because it has to scan all the messages in the forum.

 

[philmckrackon]

I like Bob's AMS

Everything Bob does is first rate...