Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-9300845-20141011222947

Alright, this has been bugging me for a while, but I kept putting off discussion of this issue.

I've noticed that certain character galleries are grossly overloaded with tons and tons of images. Rather than deleting images, I created several new sub-galleries, namely Gumball and Darwin Watterson galleries divided by seasons, with miscellaneous images left untouched on their respective main galleries. All seemed to be well.

That is, until some users dumped images into certain galleries, which included every single screenshot of character X appearing in a given episode. (e.g. Darwin's Season 3 gallery and a gallery chock full of Juke gracing every single frame. What's even the point of doing such? To dump and catalog every (even remotely) relevant image onto massive galleries that'll only load slowly, especially for those with slow Internet connections?

I discussed this issue briefly with an user (who's fast becoming my good friend) on chat, via private messages, and we both agreed that there should be a limit for the number of images in a gallery. He suggested 70, while I suggested about 100. I'm not sure I want the exact maximum, though; I would prefer to allow some room for images that exceed the recommended limit. (E.g. a gallery that's about 5 images over the limit would be okay, but not 15.)

On another note, I'd like to propose creating sub-galleries for character galleries that are becoming image-heavy, as I've done with Gumball and Darwin's galleries months ago. Doing so will reduce the time it takes for gallery pages to load.

Feel free to submit your comments and opinions. 