I wouldn't put it so fiercely right now. But I have to confirm that the majority of my users have never heard of right-clicking. Of course, the very young, experienced internet generation. But I am often quite surprised at how difficult middle-aged people find it to do functions that should be taken for granted.
Even today, after 15 months after the change from vBulletin/Photopost Pro, many (!) members still complain in my Gallery that it is not as it was then. Photopost Pro was technically a piece of crap. But with the change to the XenMedia Gallery I have a considerable collapse in the use of the Gallery (not so in the forums!). Users avoid it, don't surf through it, delete their whole albums, because they don't like it anymore. It's dramatic, really. Even after 15 months still.
In any case, I will have to change the template to get the largest possible image display for the screen by clicking on the image. That's a real must!
Without it, my users would rip me up in the air and just walk away. I just don't know if simply opening the JPG helps or what makes more sense. In the same window? Never! User would close the window after viewing the single photo, then the screaming would be just as big. With target=_blank in a new tab? Mmmmh, better, but confusing. I have to say, the lightbox was the best solution for my users.
Is a lightbox still somewhere in the jQuery code, so I can access it with a template change,
@ChrisD?
Otherwise, I find removing the toolbar quite positive, to eliminate complexity for things that are rarely used... But the lightbox is already missing - maybe please offer it as an option?
And another important point, because I mentioned it above (I'll also will open a suggestion): one of the main reasons for the violent reactions after the change from PhotoPost Pro (really, even now after 15 months still!) is that you can't surf over the single users. Sure, you have links to user albums on the profile pages and the MemberCard and you can search in the Gallery for an album of a user.
But there is no filter, no overview (as in PhotoPost), with which you can easily see the users as 1x thumb each and thus browse pages alphabetically (option: chronologically sorted by newest picture in an album) through the users and when opening the thumb of the user see all their albums and images. Or do I still oversee it?
My members are a community, they share, they like each other, unlike in the social media / Facebook groups. It is not about fast 10,000 likes for a picture, it is about worthy presentation, appreciation, order. That can only deliver a very good gallery. And I do not run a photo community, although most of my members behave like this...
Attachments in threads have their place, they are good for the threads. But they are not an alternative for a valuable gallery.
And the lightbox is missing
), plus browsers open a new tab... expected something like FB, which is not a new tab. You enter/escape. No lightbox, just a foolproof button.
