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Sadly not – although it was cool. Since this version is attempting to cross completely over to devices, it’s had to stick to a standard of one-level-deep dropdowns. The reason is because people on devices usually can’t navigate like that. For instance, a hover-dropdown doesn’t work (at least not very easily) on a touch device, so this system was used.
The way around it though not ideal is to simply point to a sub-category page. But I know thats not exactly what your looking for.
@Semmick Photo wrote:
For me you dont have to switch forums. Is that spam thing built in and unadjustable?
No, I chose this forum engine due to how simple and vibrant it was. Sadly its not packed full of features, and not widely supported.
@jsnover wrote:
I have no idea what the Strawberry signifies, but as I like the search engine and Andrzej likes the strawberry, I like the strawberry 🙂
Its the “Rogue Strawberry”
One day in the beginning of Symbio-development when I first introduced symbiocards I saw this strange little orphan symbiocard jumping around, who seemed to have access to everyone’s images…
AJT had found a way to hack the Symbiocard and gave it this unassuming little strawberry icon … soo innocent, so invasive…
So it was called the Rogue Strawberry.
Also have fun with the logo. Don’t worry, when Symbiostock is huge and corporate I’m sure you won’t even be able to use forum terminologies without policing, so enjoy the freedom while we have it 😀
We don’t say “My Symbio-site”, but “My site that is Powered by Symbiostock”. Please be mindful of that as our lawyers have advised us on this issue.
I noticed it too in various places. I don’t mind so much for now, especially because some have invented a few cool variations (and one completely different)
There’s been a few skwabels in the last few weeks. Or is it squables…
Its really just a common forum plague…i figured it was worth mentioning.
This should be the minimum of what you need – styling left to your creative insight though 😀
Wouldn’t it be cool if there were a dedicated widget for it 😉
ClipartIllustration.com by Leo Blanchette
http://www.ClipArtIllustration.com – Professionally designed mascots — a careful blend of Cute and Professional 😀
Hi! Out of curiosity, have you discovered the small step-by-step list on the collections tab? That shows just about everything.
Glad to have you Pete! 😀
This is underway. In the meantime, enjoy all the wonderful stability 😀
@matt wrote:
Is there an Open Source Coders forum anywhere that we could appeal to?
There are LOTS of them. The plugin that is responsible for finding similar images was inspired when I posted a help request in http://www.wordpress.org. Not only was it fully built by someone else, its perfect in terms of code style and functionality. Its a thing of beauty to look at.
WordPress is FULL of photoblogging interests, both theme developers and users. Its just that Symbiostock (like microstock as a whole) is extremely suffocated and we look through horse blinders. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinders
Not only that, most experienced theme designers are far more advanced in wordpress “promotion” and getting their creations out there.
http://wordpress.org/support/
http://www.webmasterworld.com/wordpress/
http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/
(These forums from a quick search)Now if you go into these forums in a non-invasive way and say “Hi, we have a network of 129 sites (http://symbiostock.info/), 90% professional photographers” *boom* you’ve just revealed an opportunity to developers. If you say “We only have a few overworked developers, one of which is responsible for 90% of the code” they will totally get it. They will also appreciate the networking aspect. And after they make some immediate criticisms and do a little showing off, they will probably be interested in getting involved. This project has plenty of room for heros, and believe me, many of these guys will totally correct my errors, then build in standard features I was totally ignorant too.
Now instead of making all you learn how to reinvent the wheel, there’s already people out there building antigravity cars. You just don’t know where they are 😀 Its pointless to have you guys start at the bottom when there are potentially interested developers with 10 years + experience in coding, and a few in wordpress.
What does ALL of this writing of mine equate too? Ultimately anyone who feels motivated may wish to start recruiting developers from open source hubs — matt has a very good idea. They will probably invent their own opportunities, but you are expressing a need, which is what they will see. Also a network like ours is hard to ignore at this point 😀
This was the intent from the start of Symbiostock – I’m happy to see someone taking the initiative on this subject.
If you wish, I will update github so that its perfectly standard. For instance github at this time is hosting files that are non-standard in the Symbiostock install…
If people would like to start unleashing the open source power in this thing, I’m all over it. I’d rather put my energy into simplifying code and commenting it, then running in circles always keeping up with requests.
For instance, a good IDE can recognize code comments, so when you hover over a function, its description is shown. Here’s the one I use: http://www.eclipse.org/
The issue here is that Symbiostock simply needs to be attractive to coders, and have some obvious incentive to get involved.
For instance, if I’m an experienced programmer (or even moderately experienced) and I have no image skills, why would I get involved? Where’s the benefit? Hopefully monetary?
Plrang was the first good example of a plugin builder, but he lost interest for the most part. Not his fault – we should think in all practicality what is turning off him and people like amanda. of course I already know, but we need to solve these issues.
Personal opinion – the only people who stand to benefit as coders must also be experienced in imaging, which is a rare combination.
“Finish making either the base theme or the paid plugin FULLY responsive and mobile friendly “
This can be either deleted or reworded. It is fully responsive, and the footer menu is no longer implemented. The only responsive issues now is simply space-oriented things.BTW, please delete the “cookie cart”. The latest signup method is what we are sticking with. Cookie carts, although seemingly convenient, introduce their own horrors too.
@cascoly wrote:
I’ve posted the latest consolidated bug & feature list http://cascoly.com/symbio/progress.asp
there are a few more items not mentioned, like the batch editor problems in delting entire categories or keywords, and some of the bugs listed may already have been fixed
Now THAT is awesome! Thank you very much for that list. I’ve bookmarked it and it will be my go-to as I finish mopping up. Great job.
