jaybuddy

The thing I don't like about the new gallery is you have to have 4 letters or more to search. I always wanted to search dog,cat and fox but they only have 3

Arw65

I agree with Jaybuddy- That is one thing that always bothered me- Why is there a lower limit?- many of my pictures i choose not to have a title so i simply put a 'space'- there is no way to search for those with shorter titles.

polenta

So it seems that to go to the OLD GALLERY we have to go to OUR OWN GALLERY and then go to ALL.
Why aren't we allowed to see it directly? The more pics, the better.

clorophilla

There is a "bug" in the new gallery I'd like very much to be fixed.
I'm quoting Chelydra about this:
"the new system has the unintended consequence of turning anything (new or old) into "New and Popular" (...) and there will be times when all 5 "New and Popular" will be just whatever long conversations (or monologues) happen to have sprouted up on random pix"

This is exsctly what happens, often with the (neverthless delightful) Chelydrapaedic monologues, or otherwise with chatting or other useful conversations.

here is a timely found exemple:
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=172875
at this moment in the "recent popular pictures".

Please TD could you feature the system givin a way to exclude from popular pictures those which comments are mere blabbering or chattering fron one or two persons only?

Thank you!!

bluemoon

I wish there were a simpler, more direct way to just get to the old gallery ..a button that said "Old Gallery (all pictures)" or just "All Pictures". I think it would be easier for new members also.

Lizzi

I agree with Bluemoon. The old gallery is the real gallery.

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Thank you for reinstating the old gallery on Think Draw start up. You're stars in my world.

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Ah ... ignore that last remark. I had saved Thinkdraw gallery to favourites. It gave me a short cut to the latest drawings.

Qsilv

To see the "gallery" of what's been being made recently (vs only the most recent by each artist):

In your own "My Picture Gallery", there are 4 boxes along the top.
...change the left one from "Show: [My Pictures]" to "Show [All Pictures]"
...and click "GO"

(...just leave the other 4 alone. "Theme: [All]" and "Order: [Most Recent]" and "Time: [All Time]")


The only annoyance is building the habit of clicking on My Picture Gallery (top right) INSTEAD of Think Draw GALLERY (top left).

...and please don't ask how long it took me to finally figure this out myself.... ::sigh::

Angela

I liked it better when ALL the pics were displayed, and not just the most recent. I keep missing things when the pics are replaced and filed away into the individuals galleries when a new one is created. Never liked this feature.

clorophilla

I keep liking the new gallery - not at all, but appreciate very much the "new users" shortcut. I always go to see what's new there.

The most popular also is interesting, although there is the bug I noticed some time ago.
For the old gallery I often use the Qsilv system, it's quite quick. Also I like to select the "last month" pics in the very first days of the month, selecting the ten palettes one at time, and "most rated" - in this way I can see nearly each interesting pic of the month, and don't miss nothing.

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Those of us who remember the flaw in the old voting system (kindly eliminated by our TD hosts) may notice a flaw in the new gallery. 'Recent popular pictures' can be (and has been) manipulated. At this moment there is a picture in the number one spot with 61 comments. 60 of those comments are gobbledygook and all made by one member, elevating it to the prime position.

Baldur

this is indeed true

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The picture I referred to is 'Jelly bean sicles' ... not Baldur's 'test', created to check out the theory.

Baldur

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=183682

Baldur

if you click to see all popular pictures there mine is at #1

Baldur

it took me less than 5 minutes to get there

Qsilv

hm... Baldur's is not there now, while the jelly bean one still is.

A (potentially) significant difference is that Baldur did almost all of his own "commenting"; the jelly bean acct was flooded with "comments" by another.

It's way easy to make secondary accounts. For TD to filter accts by whether they're from the same IP opens a whole 'nuther can of worms. Frankly it's not that hard to fake IP addresses, if it matters all that much to you to get attention.

If it were to hog more space or time, enough to really disrupt the TD game at large, poor ol' Rachel could/would take her own time and do the ban thing.

Since I don't think we "judge" based on the ones that are "popular", it's more of an oddity, or short-lived encroachment of space... a youngster zooming around the room, arms out, and occasionally making rude noises.

Experience shows that the more attention we pay them, the more it proliferates. Tempting to dish out negative reactions tho, isn't it... ;>

Qsilv

On the OTHER hand, following Baldur's experiment has led me to a whole new discovery (thank you, Baldur):
If you actually CLICK where it says to click -- "Recent popular pictures (show all):" -- you get a whole page of 25 recent popular pictures!

There's even one of mine there --who knew? (I know, I know, I really need to get out more...)

No, honestly, this is interesting because in THIS page, Baldur's "TEST" does show up (in what I guess is Prime Position, upper left anyway). Why doesn't it show on the initial gallery page span of 5 when the silly sickles still do?

Goodness, now I need to wait for things to shift a bit and figure out if it always drops the top left one in that intro strip of 5....

Lolla

Baldur you past the TEST! but I think "Sparkle777" is a little girl too big for her shoes. I noticed awhile ago something that raised a red flag too me and her picture "Cover up your ..." is so inappropriate for a place like Think Draw. I'm sorry for being so direct but I'm really worried for what may come next. She's welcome to draw beautiful pictures but follow the rules.