access to images

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access to images

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Generally, any published image/file is beyond Antville’s permission control. 
This is 
due to images and files being served as static files, ie. they are served 
differently from 
e.g. stories or polls.

Thus, any published image – even without tag – is out in the open and 
potentially can 
be found.

The problem with the described approach is that it breaks consistency with the 
tags 
section. As under the hood tags and galleries are treated the same, the code 
would 
need to be refactored extensively – which I would like to avoid, especially 
as this is 
exactly the opposite of what I try to achieve in code.

Nevertheless, the described issue is about people not being aware that images 
uploaded to Antville are publicly accessible. Thus, I suggest we add this 
information 
to the image/file upload form.

Original comment by [email protected] on 18 Jan 2010 at 10:36

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Original comment by [email protected] on 18 Jan 2010 at 11:13

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I don't consider any published image/file being beyond Antville’s permission 
control
a problem, not at all. Even if that weren't rooted deep in Helma and could be 
changed
in a minute I would prefer it the way it is because that enables users to easily
insert images and files to comments on other blogs using the respective macros, 
even
when the blog they uploaded the content to is set to closed. 

I think that since their introduction a couple of years ago, 
imagetopics/galleries
are flawed from the ground. As it is impossible to add comments to images, they 
are
inferior to inserting image macros in stories or comments, and as the macro code
isn't displayed, galleries can hardly be used to sort images to be able to 
easily
pick those that one wants to publish. 

I mean: http://foo.antville.org/images/ displays all images, but when you have 
stored
thousands and want to retrieve a certain one, you either have to find it in the 
long
list or, in case you used galleries, right click the image to get its URL and 
then
fumble around with the URL. 

I would prefer tagged images to be displayed in a list like on
http://foo.antville.org/images/ - i.e.: as thumbnails, with delete- and 
edit-link and
macro code. And instead of galleries for publicly displaying images: inserting 
the
macro code in stories and comments. 

Could that be changed by a modification of skin(s)?

Original comment by [email protected] on 18 Jan 2010 at 7:11

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Your suggestions also would break the tags/galleries conjunction.

And instead of digressing further from the issue’s actual subject I consider 
to rethink 
the whole tags/galleries and/or stories/images presentation one day (not for 
1.2, 
though).

I feel the problem you are describing is rooted deeper in how contents, esp. 
images 
have to be managed in Antville, generally.

Original comment by [email protected] on 19 Jan 2010 at 12:52

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Original comment by [email protected] on 1 Feb 2010 at 2:01

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Original comment by [email protected] on 29 May 2011 at 9:08

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Original comment by [email protected] on 28 Jul 2013 at 8:50

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[p3k]

Closing this issue as galleries have become more like slide shows with 1.5