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Apparently there is a bug in PHP which makes file uploads very slow. I'm trying to work around this by using perl instead. Hopefully I can solve this problem.
Initial tests of the music upload (and download) system are looking positive. I should have a rough version up by this evening. We've got a lot of bandwidth going to waste.
Weird. The mysql (database) server went down. Not sure why. That doesn't seem too good. It's restarted now, and appears to be OK.
My heartfelt appologies to Jim Louis. After the most recent system change, Email from NOLA was accidently dropped from the front page for non signed in people. My friend Pam from Montana wrote complaining about this, as it is her favorite page. This is now fixed. Sorry sorry sorry.
[upload] is now improved (well, ok, it's different, we'll see if people think it is improved.) It's a little more complicated now, but I think it will be worth it. There is one more change I am still going to make, but that will just be cosmetic.
First of all, I've changed the wording a bit. When making albums there are now three album types. Shared, public, and private. A shared album is what I was (confusingly) calling public before. A shared album can be viewed by anyone, and more importantly, anyone can add pictures to it. A public album can be viewed by anyone, but only you can add pictures to it (this is the default.) A private album can only be viewed by you (and only you can add to it.)
You should try not to make shared albums unless there is a real reason (because these go into everyone lists, so if there is no reason it just makes everybody's lists longer.)
The other change is that you can now make albums inside of albums (inside of albums, inside of albums, etc...) You do this right on the [upload] page. If you uploading a picture and you enter a new album name in the space provided, you then select whether the new album is shared, public, or private, and then under that you can optionally choose an already existing album to which your new album we be a sub album.
So, for instance, I made an album called Austria 2002, and then I am uploading pictures into sub albums (like, 'Knoll winer', and 'Hundertwasser'.) When you view an album in list view it will tell you at the top if there are any sub albums (and give you a link.) If you are viewing a sub album in list view it will tell you the parent album (and give you a link.)
The one cosmetic change still to make is to have the sub albums listed indented under their parent albums in all the lists of albums (right now every album - top level, or below another album - list in one flat list.)
Also, when you view one of your albums in list view you can now do some editing (changing the album name, and the album type - shared, public, private) at the bottom of the page.
Hopfully this will seem more clear once you play around with it. Suggestions wanted. No doubt there will be some bugs.