Maybe not all people do not realise it yet, but providing this feature will affect the use and popularity of LDM in general:

Those boards which have their member status upgrades dependant upon reputation(Most large boards) will see a firm increase of the use of LDM, as members are eager to get a higher member status and thus contribute new entries to the LDM to get there.

We now manually bump reputation for this and it really gets the LDM going. Because of this, the LDM is growing so rapidly that at this rate, it will become just as important as the forum itself.

Currently no, but it could be changed. However...

Moderation is tied to the entry, independent of its category/ies. So what should happen if someone places the entry into multiple categories, when only one of these categories requires moderation? Presumably, the new entry will require moderation if any of these categories requires moderation?

Hey Andrew...
nothing but continued praise from me, as you know.

few questions
1. I installed teh lightbox add-on... but its either not working or I can't figure out what it does. right now... I don't see any difference when enlarging a thumbnail. it just opens a new window. :/ did I miss something?

2. any chance of getting providing a url (parsed?) to an uploaded file so that people can link it into posts? [*url="uploadedfilevideo url"]myUploadedvideofile[*/url]

3. sorry I think I missed something. I upgraded to latest version 2.2.1... and is it me? or did the jukebox disappear? (mine now just launches windows media player or quicktime... no more window with the speaker and description underneath). or did I forget to turnon some setting (which I can't seem to find). I have the usergroup can_play_musicbox enabled for appropriate User groups. :/
EDIT: ok. I see what happened for number 3. didn't have the icon path set up and was just clickign the link. doh!

anyway...again... aweseom stuff.

different question..
I have two boards. is it possible to import/transfer LDM files/links from one to the other?

It's linked to the magnifying glass icon. When you install it, the icon will do something rather interesting with the picture rather than opening a new winodw. Try it - perhaps you didn't have your icons directory set, so didn't have the magnifier

I have it set so that one group pretty much handles all the files, links, photos in the LDM. However we would like to have one category which allows for other groups to upload/add entries to a specific category. Since the other categories are controlled by a trusted usergroup there's no need for moderation of their files.

I assume in your example that there would be the general moderation setting as it is now, plus a category moderation setting. If both were set to yes I imagine that new entry would require moderation once for the categories without moderation and another time for the category with moderation. But what would happen if the general moderation setting was set to no and the category moderation were set to yes? I would assume it would work for my purposes so long as the cateogory settings override the general ones so that when the general one is enabled/disabled it doesn't override the category settings.

I've been tinkering around and comparing with a few other hacks and I think a beneficial change for some people would be the ability to list the most recent additions, most popular links/files and members who have contributed the most, right on the ldm home page (instead of having to click the dropdown link). so like some side modules on the ldm start page or maybe one long module that's split up into sections. and for those that didn't want to display them or only some they could enable/disable it in the settings.

Can users of the LDM upload their files to the db therefore allowing the site to host the file for them?

Nevermind- found answer to my question :)
(all hail the MIGHTY "search this thread" function!)

hmm... it says to upload the lightbox icon folder in the forum root folder. is that not right? or was I supposed to add the icons into the LDM icon folder (rather than a new folder - "lightbox-icon")
also, I set the regular icon directory... is that the one you mean?

and did part 2 of my other question make sense? or was it one of those soo silly cause I missed something things that you're waiting for me to just realize that I've been a dork (most likely scenario :p)

The files should all be uploaded into exactly the directories supplied in the addon, and then the plugin xml shouold be imported. Once that's done - at least with Firefox and IE6 - the magnifying glass behaves differently. It's a test towards extending the photo album features of LDM.