Any chance the old album could be brought back? Thx again! - MAP
The short answer is no. The old software (PhotoPost) that integrated the photo database into the message board doesn't exist / isn't supported any longer. The integration broke long ago with no-one in the message board development community working a solution. This new message board software we're currently running was completely revamped code wise in the background... so there's very little chance of working an integrated solution with the old software without someone doing the extensive work to develop something. I've looked for alternatives that integrate into message boards, but as you would imagine, there aren't a lot of software companies out there developing software for the message board environment.
That being said, the old PhotoPost database still exists in the background should a solution be found and can be ported over. And while I'm thinking about it... if there are images there that anyone needs recovered, I can take care of that... just PM me.
I'm toying with the idea to revamp the "SShow & SShine" forum, which is our gallery forum to more of a photo album / repository rather than just showing off cars. Still thinking about if and how to mold that. One advantage to going from the old VPS to the Shared Business Host is we no longer have a limit on disk space. We had used up about 75% of our old disk space, which was 75GB. So I think we may be able to increase the number of images and the individual file sizes in the gallery. As far as I'm aware, each image within the gallery forum is reachable using the standard IMG and /IMG tags. But the linking is something you'd have to do manually. In the past, the PhotoPost Album add-on provided a feature to auto-generate the image tags to insert into a post.
More to think about on this one.
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