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Uploading bookstore and library images is back; multiple now allowed

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1timspalding
Sep 19, 2010, 9:34 am

After a hiatus, you can now upload "venue" images again.

The new system allows multiple images per venue.

Example: Brookline Booksmith
http://www.librarything.com/venue/13/Brookline-Booksmith

2keristars
Sep 19, 2010, 10:29 am

Hoorah!

I just added the photos my brother took for me over the summer to two venues, but I got something weird: the first time I did it for http://www.librarything.com/venue/54794/Chamblin-Uptown I put the copyright info in the wrong spot, so I clicked to edit the photo and instead it deleted itself. Also, after I re-added it, with the attribution in the proper spot, I found that my profile picture had switched to the one I'd stored, waiting for this day.

It was very strange, but seems to have been settled, so I don't really know what happened at all. I'm just happy to have venue photos working again. Yay!

3theapparatus
Sep 19, 2010, 10:59 am

The deleted photos when editing is a known bug. There's a couple of threads on it already. Happened with me just recently with the Bruce Boxleitner photos.

Looks like it's been happening a lot lately. Look at all those blanks:

http://www.librarything.com/log_helpers.php?view=pictures&span=168

4_Zoe_
Sep 19, 2010, 11:11 am

What are the guidelines for venue images?

5lilithcat
Sep 19, 2010, 11:16 am

>3 theapparatus:

The blank on the photo I tried to upload wasn't due to an attempt at editing. For some reason, it just didn't upload from the Flickr URL.

6keristars
Sep 19, 2010, 12:14 pm

3> Fun! Somehow I didn't notice reports about the editing photo = deletion thing, but it didn't seem as strange to me as my profile picture changing afterward.

7ryvre
Sep 19, 2010, 2:02 pm

Yay! Thanks for bringing this back!

8lemontwist
Sep 19, 2010, 2:16 pm

Sweet! The only thing is, how on earth do you see your pictures after you've uploaded them? I can't see any link to photos of venue, or more pictures, other than clicking on the primary images and figuring it out from there.

9lemontwist
Sep 19, 2010, 2:19 pm

Also, if I click on the see full gallery page: http://www.librarything.com/gallery/venue/11 I get an error:

Gallery: Error

Not a gallery type.

10Nicole_VanK
Sep 19, 2010, 2:19 pm

Haven't looked around much yet, but take Tim's example. If you scroll down a bit you'll see the other pictures below the map.

11timspalding
Sep 19, 2010, 2:33 pm

I will look into the deleting bug. I had it happen to me, but then not the next time. Not sure what the bug is "hooked" to.

But for the next few hours I am picking apples in an orchard in Maine!

12timspalding
Sep 19, 2010, 2:33 pm

>9 lemontwist:

Ah, the gallery should be disabled for venues. I'll look into that. A file didn't get pushed.

13lemontwist
Sep 19, 2010, 3:24 pm

10- Thanks. That's totally below the fold on my laptop screen and I didn't think to look down there for photos.

14r.orrison
Sep 19, 2010, 6:16 pm

New photos aren't showing up in the Helpers log (I've just done six I've been sitting on for months):
http://www.librarything.com/log_helpers.php?view=pictures

15timspalding
Sep 19, 2010, 10:25 pm

>14 r.orrison:

Fixed now.