Project 52 (Suggestion and discussion)

[MajaMolly]

I'm doing a 365 My camera and lenses have been in their bag and the bag has been in the closet for months so, I'm hoping this is the push I need to get going. I downloaded an app (Photo365) on my phone and it is set to remind me to take a pic and process it. I can then upload the photo (or if us my phone if I've forgotten my camera...if I've forgotten my camera I will use the Snapseed app to process in-phone) to the app and they will all be logged there as well as home.

I will look forward to watching all of your projects. Great idea.

[Letrow]

PM received from Bill;



My original thought was that each member would have their own thread and that would last for the year. However, the level of interest and replies each is attracting, there is a risk they may all turn into "mega threads" that are slow to load and overly long. That said, one new thread per week would be too many and not show progression.

My current thoughts are by quarters (4 off, each 3 months) or like school terms (is that semesters in US?), so (3 off, each 4 months).

I am not really sure what you mean Dave. You seem to suggest that having different threads is too cumbersome for the forum maybe, but after that I lost the thread (sorry) of your story. It seems you are suggesting one thread for everyone to post in each week (or longer periods), but your sentence seems cut off somehow or reads strange to me.
Per quarter or month might be too far apart, because people will be eager to show their process I guess.

Anyway, I have to say that when looking at the Nature & Architecture category, I was thinking that Project 52 was causing quite a disturbance in there. It seems that some over the other threads get pushed to later pages because of this, which is slightly annoying.
A separate category (e.g. under Monthly & Other Competitions) as Ktuli suggested might be a good solution and would make them easier to find as well.
But you seem to be suggesting that we might experience some slowdown in the loading of all the different threads, so I am not sure whether this would be ideal.

[Ricco]

Interesting because there were a few very long threads going round - e.g. the "post your flowers" or "non-square cropped portraits" spring to mind.

But I certainly think there have been quite a few entries into the Nature and Architecture which is clogging that area up a bit. Perhaps the suggestion of moving them to another area is a good one.

Seems to have found a lot of interest though - which is great in itself!

[Geoff F]

But I certainly think there have been quite a few entries into the Nature and Architecture which is clogging that area up a bit. Perhaps the suggestion of moving them to another area is a good one.

Yes, I agree this is something to consider. And if a special category is needed, which means moving posts around, it will probably be easier to do sooner than later.

I can also see potential problems arising with many mega threads which could end up being around 20 pages long, in some cases, by week 52. So having 2 or 3 'sessions' may make things easier to control.

Looking at the results of Week 1, so far, I see that some threads are already nearly 20 replies long, with image re-workings, so they may get a bit excessively long by week 52.

But what do the administrators prefer? That is the most important item.

[Daisy Mae]

I can't tell what I have viewed or missed half the time.

[epmi314]

Very true. I was trying to figure out how to post on mine which is part of the reason I am a bit tardy getting the second image up. I was wondering if I should just edit my first post by adding each image below the last. It would take some scrolling to get to the comments but at least each of the images would be easily viewed at the beginning of the thread.

[Geoff F]

Potential problems like this is part of what was discussed when this project was first considered.

Project 52 (Suggestion and discussion)

Hence the 'rules' here Project 52: Index and FAQ

But yes, I know what you mean and some people are already on page 2; and it's still Week 2.

However, what I am doing is after the end of any comments about the previous week, I change the heading for the following week. Week 1, Week 2, etc. That keeps the photos and comments together; and hopefully, nobody will start making comments about week 2 during week 40, etc.

Although, even I'm not perfect, so at the start of Week 2, I forgot to use the Go Advanced option and enter the new title. Therefore, I just added Week 2 in bold type before the Week 2 photo.

Hopefully, something like this will keep everything manageable. But in many ways, this is a trial project so maybe a few firmer rules will develop as we see what happens.

And as Sharon said, I keep going back over other people's pages because I'm not sure if anything new has been added. But let's give it a couple more weeks and see how it settles.

[FrankMi]

If we find that a particular Project 52 thread gets to be too unwieldly, we could simply start Project 52 Part Deux thread.

[Kris V]

Start e new one each month????

[Dave Humphries]

Threads combined Sharon

Scott, The new Lytebox allows one to quickly scan through all the images in the thread

Thanks Geoff,

Thanks Frank,

Kris, have a look at post #40


Yes I think we may need to change things as time goes on, but it is still very early, so lets see what happens for a little while longer - i.e. at least week 4/5.