Wow!
brotherjug
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This is a really bugged system. I used to host all my client galleries ay SmugMug but had to switch over to Zenfolio over a year ago so that I could go beyond subcategories for organizing my photos and I just felt that the whole Event system was clunky (...I never understood why the client couldn't just pick favorites from the gallery without having to send an event invite),
Anyway, I decided to take a break from editing over 20,000 images for my work to take a good look at what SmugMug is up to.
Thoughts:
BTW. I'm testing in Safari and only been using the Smokey Theme.
1 Smokey theme is great. Customization options are good, but in the video they said it was completely customizable. But without having the ability to do certain things like...reposition or crop a large photo inside the 3:1 (or any other ) aspect ratio, I'm a bit disappointed.
2. Man, I can't get the Events system to work. The clients event page loads the photos terribly slow...crazy slow. Way slower than when they load from normal access to the gallery. It almost seems like it's trying to load a hi res image.
3. Keyword indexing is way too slow.
4. You did all this rebuilding from scratch while leaving the admin and shopping cart areas klunky as hell. I mean, really?
So, I'm bummed. I really wanted to switch my business over from zenfolio to take advantage of the new look (which is great). But on the back end, there's still some lingering issues.
Am I the only noticing any of this?
Please tell me it's something I'm doing.
Mark
Anyway, I decided to take a break from editing over 20,000 images for my work to take a good look at what SmugMug is up to.
Thoughts:
BTW. I'm testing in Safari and only been using the Smokey Theme.
1 Smokey theme is great. Customization options are good, but in the video they said it was completely customizable. But without having the ability to do certain things like...reposition or crop a large photo inside the 3:1 (or any other ) aspect ratio, I'm a bit disappointed.
2. Man, I can't get the Events system to work. The clients event page loads the photos terribly slow...crazy slow. Way slower than when they load from normal access to the gallery. It almost seems like it's trying to load a hi res image.
3. Keyword indexing is way too slow.
4. You did all this rebuilding from scratch while leaving the admin and shopping cart areas klunky as hell. I mean, really?
So, I'm bummed. I really wanted to switch my business over from zenfolio to take advantage of the new look (which is great). But on the back end, there's still some lingering issues.
Am I the only noticing any of this?
Please tell me it's something I'm doing.
Mark
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Heya Mark,
We have had a TON of customers migrate over, and alot of new customers excited to use the New SmugMug. There has been performance issues with keywords, as well as a bug in regards to events. The events bug is now fixed. Can you double check?
The Keywording index is catching up. I promise it will be back to normal soon! I apologize for that.
As for the shopping cart and other features. We are very excited for the New SmugMug. Not just because it looks beautiful, and gives you easy tools to customize and organize, but the way it has been built allows us to MUCH more easily and quickly address bugs and build new features. This is just the beginning. Much better commerce and backend features are in the works!
Michael
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I get it. But I've been at it for almost a day and half and I consider myself fairly good at evaluating software constructively. I hate to bitch about anything.
I'm still getting issues with event display.
This is what you see when you try to hit the 'X' to close out the full screen image.
https://drive.google.com/?authuser=0#folders/0Bz-4Xd7CIKqvYjhLYUpsUUFJcDA