Thread:MrBlonde267/@comment-220364-20120406012031/@comment-220364-20120406144523

Appolgy accepted, and I probobly came off a bit more snarky than I should have.

To be honest, I don't have a problem with the images being numberd. But it implies some sort of rationale order in the numbering. If the order is derived from upload date, then it is purely an internal, back-end, arbitrary conveniance. That order will but heads with presenting information to someone using the galleries as a reference (side note that would also be why I'd prefere to see date and artist captions in the gallery). If the order is open to change, and that may be a big if since it could be labor intensive, I'd like the option of at least asking that the numbering be changed to match a printing history order. That, place the gallery in that order and tag it "Can we get the images moved to match?".

(side note 2: I'm also now wondering how this works with images that do not share the name of the gallery.)

I like consistancy as well, but I also see a difference between small galleries, under 12-15 images, and larger ones. All of them exist to give someone using the database and good visial reference for the character. Smaller galleries can easily do that with a logical presentation - you don't have to scrooll way down to get to the "recent" stuff. Larger ones, etiher by it being a well used character or one that has had mancostume and identity changes, are going to need to prioritize. Part of that is having a good cross-section in the first 16-32 images. Part would be to section the gallery by ID and include a ToC. And part would be biasing the first set of images and the section order to the more recent and or most important.