I'm currently working on a major re-write of MFG's image gallery software. The gallery is now so big that the current system is starting to show signs of stress.
Most of the changes will be on the back-end, and won't be visible to users. However, I'm also planning to add a few new features while I'm at it. Here are some ideas that I've been thinking about. I can't do them all, though, so I would be interested in hearing what you think -- or if you have other ideas that aren't on this list:
- Discuss -- per image and per folder
- Search (probably based on file or folder name only for now)
- Add image keywords / tags, and searching on them
- Breadcrumb (to make it easy to go back to an earlier folder)
- Create different sized wallpapers from a given image
- Member image upload into a "Member's Images" folder
- Show which folders have new images, with a "New" icon
- Sort by image size
- Sort by date added
- Reversable sort direction
- View all images (not just those in a particular folder), sorted in the same ways as folders (hits, name, rank, size, date added)
- Create an avatar-sized image
- Show number of users currently online
- Vote from the image detail page