Options
Galleries should not take on community theme
mpdehaan
Registered Users Posts: 14 Big grins
If I share a gallery with a community, browsing my own photo page then gets a non-homogenous look at feel.
Most people chose not to enforce community theme, but for those that set it, it's very distracting.
One particularly painful example is the Lensbaby community -- which adds the moderator's business add over top of gallery photos regardless of whether I want to advertise for him or not. (And I don't...)
To make communities more usable, I would remove the feature that allows them to restyle the user's photostream pages.
Most people chose not to enforce community theme, but for those that set it, it's very distracting.
One particularly painful example is the Lensbaby community -- which adds the moderator's business add over top of gallery photos regardless of whether I want to advertise for him or not. (And I don't...)
To make communities more usable, I would remove the feature that allows them to restyle the user's photostream pages.
0
Comments
A good way to accomplish themeing to me would be -- only allow communities to use the smugmug default theme (grey/black) and to override the user's chosen theme only when visited from community URLs (something like ?from_community=X ???)
Will see what can be done, not sure
Portfolio • Workshops • Facebook • Twitter
I've left everything but DGrin in the interim... as I don't want any suprise theme changes that I don't know about, like people asking where my interest in fluffy bunnies or whatever came from.
Removing the ability to customize the community theme at all may even be better -- it would prevent the advertising scenario.