I've stopped uploading galleries on e-h years ago. One of major reasons is the absence of convenient tool for uploading and managing galleries with multi-folder structure. So, mostly digital galleries in Artist CG category.
It's somewhat difficult and annoying to properly upload contents of all folders, keep the track of all the variations sets, remember all the page numbers and include them as index in the gallery description. This is also why certain mistakes are more apparent in Artist CG section: duplicates, wrong order, missing sets of images etc.
Uploading such galleries is a chore, and it shouldn't be one. I thought I was the only one with this opinion, but it seems more users share it. Some people just stop uploading certain types of galleries. Although I myself may never return to it, I wish the community could use better instruments to do what it does more effectively.
If at some point admins decide to improve the gallery upload tool, here are things I can suggest: - The best case is when a user uploads a single archive and it gets processed into the gallery with minimal further effort from him. - Properly process Japanese filenames inside the zip archives. - Do not throw away folder names and structure from the processing. Use it to visualize the output for the sorting stage and auto-generate the index for the description. - Detect duplicates and mark them wherever possible. - Maybe also keep the duplicate pages (but not files) in the gallery itself and keep them marked. This way, the gallery will have the original amount of pages but the archive will come without them. - Process PDF files. Tricky, but should be possible. In many cases, the pages are just JPEG files and can be extracted with proper tools. In other cases, it should be possible to warn the user that he may need to process it himself to render stuff at proper resolution. - Warn the user that adding cover is preferable, or help him find it on the internet, based on the product ID or description. Or better - allow him to just insert the original product page URL and suggest a proper title based on it. - With the inclusion of the product page URL, it should be possible to also automatically add it in the description, to inform viewers where they can purchase it or follow the circle.
Along with the above, inclusion of extra information about the original product should help to clearly mark (automatically or by users) digital galleries with specific attributes (tags or whatever) that may be useful: - Sample - Incomplete - Outdated (then automatically warn the uploader so he may either update the gallery with the latest version or choose to leave it as is) - Watermarked - Tainted (e.g. screenshots instead of images of original quality and size) - Optimized (smaller file size but with 100% original quality, e.g. after using PNGGauntlet)
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