Announcement New Feature - Random Pics From Community

[Nifty-Chicken]

What if you started a thread where everyone could post random pictures to and it could pull pictures from just that thread?

Interesting idea, but the main point of this feature is to bubble-up old and interesting posts and threads from the past that might be buried.

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

UPDATE:

I'm working with a developer to find a fix for the issue with this addon slowing down the main forum index. The big issue is the huge volume of pics it has to sort through to choose which ones to pull from.

Here's what we've been brainstorming:

1. Setting the addon to "cache" every 5 minutes. So, only 1 view of thousands will be "slow" while all the others in the 5 minutes should be very fast.
   
2. Load the pics after all other content has loaded vs. making the whole page wait for that block.
   
3. NEW: Creating a new "more" button or link that goes to a page with 50 thumbnails. This will be browsing heaven for lots of undiscovered content on one page!!!

I'm still mid-discussion / contracting with the developer on this, but I think this could be a great addition to BYC.

What do y'all think about this stuff, especially the new page idea?

 

[casportpony]

Being a visual person, I like it!

 

[Kiki]

I love the new page idea!

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

Good news: We're moving forward with this project!!

Once we've coded / tested it, I'll have a better idea of when we can turn it back on!

A big "THANK YOU" to our PFM's, sponsors, and community's support of advertising, that allows us to pay for improvements like this!

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

We've been coming up with some really cool updates to this addon. I'm actually glad it had some problems because it's forced us to review it, and now we can make it even better!!!

 

[nessa.morg]

We've been coming up with some really cool updates to this addon. I'm actually glad it had some problems because it's forced us to review it, and now we can make it even better!!!

When will the add-on be available again? Just wondering!

 

[casportpony]

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

When will the add-on be available again? Just wondering!

No idea yet since we're still developing and testing it. Once I have a better idea, y'all will be the 2nd to know

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

(... but I'm hoping within the next week)