You know.. I set up a coppermine install and it's a very nice gallery. But the support folks there have made noob-bashing into a refined art. It's very discouraging to see this happen any area, but doubly so from an open-source crowd.
I had a simple question about my setup, so I did a search for that topic in their support forum. After skimming through pages of unhelpful remarks -- which I feel could only make beginners feelt utterly unwelcome -- I came across another reply directing the person to search their forums before asking such basic (as in "stupid") questions. In that response, he said if you search for "such and such" in the support forum, you'll see it's been asked and answered exactly 19 times before. Hmm... okay.
This happened to be the same topic area of my question, so I did exactly that. And would you believe it? I found 19 other threads on this topic where they all referred the asker back to search out their own solution. Not a single time did anyone post anything at all that would answer the question asked. Not one thread.
All I can say is they really do provide a nice product when it comes to gallery applications. So... if anyone here puts in the effort to integrate coppermine with your vB board or you develop your own modifications to share over there... please be kind to the less experienced people trying to accomplish the same thing. They could really use the encouragement and it's this helpful spirit that sets our larger vB community apart from all those other bulletin board systems.
For anyone else who may feel put off by what you read in their forums, at least it's good to know theirs isn't the only open source gallery application available. I've chosen to do away with my coppermine install in favor of another called Gallery 2, which you can find HERE if you're looking for a comparable product that won't cost you anything. (Yes, it integrates with vB and you can design a site around it... you can also use one install to support multiple sites all from one database, if you need a gallery solution for multiple clients/webpages.)
10-26-2005, 02:27 AM
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