MG 2.3 Is Media Gallery worth buying?

Davyc

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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 :)
 
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.
 
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.
 
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I used the "Sync attachment media mirroring" and nothing happens.
As far as I understand it (and experienced in my forum) it only syncs pictures that are added to the forum after you

a) installed the gallery and
b) configured the sync between the (sub)forums in question into the album of the gallery you created for that purpose.

I did not search very deeply for a solution back then but if there is any it won't be obvious and probably either a cron job or a CLI-option. I suspect the latter (because of the expected running time) but suspect even more that it simply does not exist.
 
As far as I understand it (and experienced in my forum) it only syncs pictures that are added to the forum after you

a) installed the gallery and
b) configured the sync between the (sub)forums in question into the album of the gallery you created for that purpose.

I did not search very deeply for a solution back then but if there is any it won't be obvious and probably either a cron job or a CLI-option. I suspect the latter (because of the expected running time) but suspect even more that it simply does not exist.

I installed the XFMG today, and it does accept attachments from previous days, even from last year; however, it only displays a small portion.

I have attachments from several topics posted by the administrator that are displayed in XFMG, but not others in the same forum and from the same author. I can't find any pattern that indicates why...
 
For the same reason there's no addon for documents

Maybe sooner then you think.....🤫
Seems rather you are creating rumors out of nothing. For one @Alpha1 referred to a 3rd party add on for documents and downloads (or rather the lack thereof) which does not exist due to the resource manager being an old, fat and ugly gorilla, sitting in this space. Secondly the new XF docs you refer to as "potential new documents add on" are obviously something completely different than that if you look at what Chris wrote how they work:


And third, @Alpha1 did not refer to documentation on a website (like the XF docs are) but rather on document management (which the Ressource manager offers in a very crude and painful way, but the new XF docs do not).

So you created the bizarre situation that you made up an obviously wrong claim for a future XF product in a thread about a completely different topic based on a comment of a co-forist that you shortened and this way made misunderstandable, that you obviously did not understand yourself and then created on the basis of this wrongdoing a claim for a non existing product that even if it existed would not fit to the problem @Alpha1 named and you did this despite with just looking at the start posting of the thread for the new XF documentation it is obvious that it is neither an add on nor planned as such, obvious by how it is implemented, and it targets a completely different topic and problem than you claimed it would.

This is almost art. What it is clearly not: In any way helpful or useful. It is just creating FUD.
 
Seems rather you are creating rumors out of nothing. For one @Alpha1 referred to a 3rd party add on for documents and downloads (or rather the lack thereof) which does not exist due to the resource manager being an old, fat and ugly gorilla, sitting in this space. Secondly the new XF docs you refer to as "potential new documents add on" are obviously something completely different than that if you look at what Chris wrote how they work:


And third, @Alpha1 did not refer to documentation on a website (like the XF docs are) but rather on document management (which the Ressource manager offers in a very crude and painful way, but the new XF docs do not).

So you created the bizarre situation that you made up an obviously wrong claim for a future XF product in a thread about a completely different topic based on a comment of a co-forist that you shortened and this way made misunderstandable, that you obviously did not understand yourself and then created on the basis of this wrongdoing a claim for a non existing product that even if it existed would not fit to the problem @Alpha1 named and you did this despite with just looking at the start posting of the thread for the new XF documentation it is obvious that it is neither an add on nor planned as such, obvious by how it is implemented, and it targets a completely different topic and problem than you claimed it would.

This is almost art. What it is clearly not: In any way helpful or useful. It is just creating FUD.
@smallwheels I think there’s been a bit of a misunderstanding here.

I wasn’t referring to XenForo’s new documentation system or suggesting anything about a future XF product. My comment was simply a light hint that I’m working on something in that general space myself, nothing more than that.

I understand the distinction you’re making between documentation and document management, and I agree they’re very different things. What I’m building is intended to address the latter in a way that fits more naturally within XenForo.

No rumors or assumptions intended. Just sharing a bit of what I’m working on.

Appreciate the clarification though.
 
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