Nice work N!ck, looking good.

Im also in the middle of writing a photogallery for my site, altho its more like photopost then yours, I think it would be kick ass to combine something like yours with mine (main photogallery for submissions and browsing, then each user has his own private gallery for viewing). I wish you luck! GD is a tricky little bastard ;).

It actually isn't so bad, it just takes getting used to. I'd much rather use ImageMagick myself, but my hosting company won't install it because it creates too much server load. :p

Anyway, I can't wait to see what you come up with. :)

I don't care for GD-- no GIF support? Yea yea no PNG lectures till it is well supported.

Nice work Nick, I really like the different viewing options on the main page of your gallery. Mine just recently got some work done to it (the user search, faster displays, cleaner code now).. I think I might add something like that.

Are you tracking the views of each gallery? That is a good way to sort it on the front page as well-- it's become a bit of a competition with my users to see where their gallery ranks in popularity.. so I reset the view stats every month.

The only problem with tracking views at overgrow is that BOG is always on top ;).

Thanks again. :)

I am tracking views, but they're only shown when you click to see a user's gallery. I just might put them on the front page as you suggest, though I'm not sure I have enough traffic going through to reset the views every month. The only challenge is that views are stored in a separate table. Shouldn't be too difficult, but it might not be easy either. :) That is actually a very good strategy for attracting new people to your site.

As for the user search box, I think I'm going to hold off on that unless it is requested (because I really have no place to put it :p).

Also, I'm not allowing anything but JPEG's in the gallery anyway because (1) GIFs are proprietary :p and (2) PNGs have poor compression. So GD suits my purposes just fine.

So, just out of curiosity (and if you don't mind answering), how much Space/Bandwidth are you using for so many members? I think Overgrow.com is about the largest vB community I've seen.

Ah there are larger I'm sure. Some gaming sites are huge..

Hmm my quickstats tell me: 1600 mb database, 860 mb database index. 10+ gigs of photos, haven't checked recently.

nice hacking ! that gallery would be a great addition to many sites ! how far into compleation is it ?

[OffTopic]@ Nick, there are very cool Boats!! :)[/OffTopic]

The Gallery is great also!! ;)

Kars

corsacrazy: I'm not really sure. It's kind of an ongoing project, so I'm not sure when I'll be completely satisfied.
Kars10: Thanks! Race boats are primarily v-drive...it's basically kind of a "hot rod" setup, so that's why people like to show off their polished blown engines and such. :D

N!ck, awesome work man. I love it, when do you think there might be a release?