Before the poll was posted I was certain I would vote for a seperate sub forum.
Instead I voted to allow each member to have a “photo diary” thread, which sounds like a good idea as a show case of each member’s work.
I respect that point, but think of the loading tmes. There are a number of threads on the forum where people come back to post on (remember the old models thread, that was started by Allen a year or two ago) and whilst I found it interesting for the first few weeks, I then refused to look at it because of the time it took to load the shots. Everytime I scrolled up the page to the latest posts, the page would carry on jumping down as older photos were gradually loaded in the thread. I think this makes sense, I’m not sure if anyone else knows what I mean?! If photographers were to have a ‘diary’ thread, it would soon build up to several pages long, and people would be put off clicking on it, because of the frustration of waititng for all the previous photos to load aswell.
IMO, there is a solution based on this idea though. A weekly photo diary per photographer. It doesn’t have to be strictly controlled as in “right, delete his new thread, it’s onlys 6 days since his last!” but just in general. The photographers should go back to their old thread if they’ve already posted photos that week. That way, it’s gonna get a couple of pages long at the most, which is fine with a majority of people being on broadband. And then once it’s been approximately a week since their last, they’re free to post a new thread. I’d say there were maybe 10 consistent phootgraphers on here, which is only 10 threads per week. And then I’d say there’s maybe 10 other photographers who post when they can, and they’d still get a fair chance to have their photos viewed as much, whereas they wouldn’t get that chance in a sub forum.
Even if 30 photographers turned up one week, that’s only like 5 or 6 threads per day! That means there’s no chance of any discussion threads of interest being pushed off the front page.
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