Yes, I understood that from your initial post… I was just chiming in so that you didn’t go hunting for a way in the interface (it’s not possible yet). Actually, it’s possible to disable.
Personally, I disagree, but that’s fine. I’d like to leave it alone for about a week and see how others feel about it. If there is a huge groundswell of people saying that it’s wasted space - leaving the discourse.mcneel.com page devoid of any graphical content aside from text and avatars - we can remove it (or see if per-user suppression is feasible).
Hi Dan,
I don’t think it’s appropriate. Reason being most of those images are from McNeel employees, some are not great images (there are better images done by users) and nobody asked for it and there is a gallery already.
McNeel should please stop force feeding us things we have not requested and at least be responsive to requests instead of offering new items that are not asked for. It smells like a marketing scheme especially when the images come direct from McNeel.
I’m for getting rid of it as it takes space and is a waste of McNeel time and we have a gallery already. This forum is for Rhino discussion Why doesn’t McNeel spend more time filling requests and orienting Rhino towards what we want and what we asketh for?
RM
Hi Dan,
I like it. As long as you keep the projects varied and really high quality I think it is a great addition to the forum. I see it across the top of the screen for a moment when I open discourse, and if I want to ignore it I just scroll down as usual. But for me a quick look at some cool projects other Rhino users have contributed is a nice transition into the 3d CAD world from the dreary news about Covid19.
So far it has not shown up on my iPhone. I think that might be less desirable but not sure it really matters a lot.
Vertical makes no sense, just a horizontal band across the top is fine.
Please do! The Gallery Band is a welcome addition to the forum IMHO. This has the potential to encourage users to post their work and for us to learn from each other.
The one comment I have–and this would be about the gallery section in general–would be to encourage users to share their process, method, and tools used when sharing work as a learning tool.
This makes too much sense for McNeel. I find it an unnecessary distraction. It will probably become an annoyance as time goes on. If I have the ability to turn it off, I certainly have no problem with those who want it on.
There were many people who loved going to the Grasshopper3d website to see what was new. It had a vertical band of images and videos with likes and the feeling of going in and seeing something new, some example of a new plugin or someone’s talent was great. I remember getting excited sometime to see the community’s reaction to my work. It was really all about creating and contributing to the community, to see who could do the coolest fucking thing. All that activity was created in a wonderfully spontaneous way, and McNeel decided to just kill it. For me it was a good idea to migrate to the same Rhino forum, but they ignored or didn’t understand the human feelings and potential that was there. Putting up an image band is far from recovering that, but at least it goes in that direction, so I like it.
Hi @dan,
I am using N90 Vido tablet, and Chrome browser, and the gallery band really takes too much space.
“Compact” theme (black or white) is not an option, as it shrinks the topic text size too much, at least for me personally.
I would also be grateful if there was a button in the “Preferences” to just turn off the band.
Those users that like would be able to still use it.
Your position is as legitimate as any, you’ll never see me against a button Besides, if they’ve scaled it wrong for some devices, they have to fix it. And I hope the gallery band doesn’t really overload your cortex, you’d be my idol if you were then able to model with such a small container.
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Besides, if they’ve scaled it wrong for some devices, they have to fix it. And I hope the gallery band doesn’t really overload your cortex, you’d be my idol if you were then able to model with such a small container.