Posted By: Jasmenvisst on November 8 2010 03:06 pm
Big, chunky, not so very intuitive.
Upgrading is a mess, trying to reinstall from backup as well.
Support is sporadic.
And now it's up to version 3, and they've dropped the support for the uploader! That's how they doing themselves a big misfavour.....
After five years of trouble I'm going elsewhere; If I must be an expert at PHP, MuSql etc. I'll rather do my own gallery instead!
Posted By: Matteo on August 9 2010 06:58 am
I'm using gallery since 2005, and now I've online more than 10000 photos. It is a great piece of software, the best gallery software IMHO.
I enjoy particularly:
- How simple and easy are customization and personalization.
- The amazing Gmap module for geo-positioning photos and albums
Posted By: Hannes on February 3 2010 03:40 pm
This demo would not run unter my Internet Explorer from Windows XP, even though I have entered the site in the Secure Zone. It does only run under Firefox. It does not run under Linux-Konqueror and it does not run under Linux-Wine-Internet Explorer. It would have been very important that I am able to show Gallery to somebody with his own theme, but I can't load it. Given the fact that gallery2 itself does work beautifully, this demo is a shame.
Posted By: Luke on January 15 2010 10:18 am
The demo version is pretty slow and gets a D score with YSlow. No thanks, it's clearly a terrible piece of coding!
Posted By: Ralph on January 19 2009 11:55 am
I've used Gallery in the past, and came back to it several months ago when I decided I needed to change the CMS. It integrated seemlessly into the CMS that I chose for my site. I converted from another gallery that contained over 10,000 user uploaded images. One thing I like is the ability to change templates and place them in a 'local' folder - that way they don't get over-written when it's time to upgrade.
The theme I selected was easy to modify to fit the style of my website. And being able to set permissions down to an individual user, if necessary, makes it all the better.
It was a challenge to get it setup the way I needed it to be, but it's been working now for over 3 months, with users uploading an average of 200 images per month. It is the best gallery program I've used.
I don't find it slow at all. I'm running on a small VPS with 2 G Bytes of memory. I am quite pleased with G2.
Posted By: Lena on October 6 2008 02:56 pm
If you plan to use Gallery for less than a few hundred pictures, know your way around many technical aspects including scripting, love troubleshooting, you found your ultimate toy!
Otherwise, stay away!
Extremely faulty, overly complicated, poorly designed system, slow performance..
Importing images from G1 was a very painful process, each album had to be provided path and uploaded separately. After upgrade I found that many images at the end of albums were not imported at all. I get constant image failures, and they show up after refresh
Resized thumbnails are of poor clarity,
Posted By: eknv on March 26 2008 10:01 pm
I've tested many of these gallery softwares, this is the best one!
Download the full version but don't install the plugins at all, just the core and Remote, otherwise it is really an overkill. Upload pictures through 'Gallery Remote', create user and groups, and adjust permissions as you like.
You could later go to the 'Site Admin -> Plugins' and install those you really need to. I would recommend these:
Search
Color Packs (Deep blue looks great)
Flash Video
ImageFrames (Many options)
Comments
EXIF/IPTC (needs to be adjusted)
I find the default theme 'Matrix' is actually the best one, all the others are either buggy or don't look professional. You could then customize the theme just the way you like it.
Cheers
Posted By: Tine on March 19 2008 03:11 am
I've been using this application for more than a year now & I'm very happy with its features & usability. It is very user friendly specially for a marketing person like me.
Posted By: Veso on December 30 2007 07:26 am
Good product.Thanks !
Posted By: gm on March 14 2006 03:41 am
I tested both Coppermine & Gallery 2 (G2) and I think G2 is far superior in terms of usability and ease-of-use (except for a few advanced features). I did not find G2 to be slow & the themes available for G2 are awesome. Coppermine looks too cluttered. Full marks to G2!
Posted By: Mr Parry on February 22 2006 05:28 am
never known such as bag of bull you cannot do the simplesting of things such as change parts of the language without any problems, including the rubbish documentation. worst gallery ever!
Posted By: Andy Staudacher on February 9 2006 02:45 am
If G2 is slow for you, try a PHP Accelerator / Cache like eaccelerator. It does wonders for G2.
Also note that the upcoming G2.1 (RC 1 in a few days) has built-in page-caching (can be turned off and on). At the expense of less dynamic features (no view count) you can speed up your G2 with page caching tremendously.
Posted By: Kevin on January 28 2006 10:34 am
G2 has always been extremely fast for me.... and as far as the size:
The sizes are zip/tar.gz
gallery-2.0.2 Typical 5MB 3.4MB
gallery-2.0.2 Full 8MB 5.2MB
gallery-2.0.2 Minimal 3.6MB 2.7MB
gallery-2.0.2 Developer 9.5MB 6.3MB
Posted By: Cadence on January 16 2006 07:59 am
Yes I am also having trouble using this as well considering the amount of Ram they require. Try something more light weight like Zen or Plogger if you want something simple and easy.
Posted By: Jos on January 9 2006 07:16 am
by the way, it uses an stunningly 16MB RAM per VIEWER!! I can tell you, hosts are not happy with this.
Posted By: jos on January 9 2006 07:14 am
Gallery2 is easy to setup, has nice support and quiet some modules but it's just that what digs it's own grave: it's SLOW! Yeah, I used gallery1 before and it wasn't really fast but gallery2 is no improvement at all. I have parsetimes of over 2 seconds approximitaly. I do not like it, it's just too slow for my server and Coppermine is just much faster.
Posted By: Andy Staudacher on December 12 2005 07:54 am
> Nice, but no multilanguage yet.
Not true. G2 had multilanguage capabilities since its alpha stage. G2 is translated into various languages, for a complete list see: http://codex.gallery2.org/index.php/Gallery2:Translations#List_of_Translations And you can add translations for your own content too such that the user has a fully translated experience (content + navigation).
Posted By: Danny Gunawan on December 1 2005 11:14 am
This one has good design and so much incredible modules. If you want to build a gallery website as a designer or photographer then G2 is currently your best choice.
Anyway, I refuse to use G2 for my website gallery because its size (11 MB before extract?). Too much good modules and features that I didn't need to have.
Posted By: Petr Jancik on November 21 2005 10:50 am
Nice, but no multilanguage yet.
Posted By: Andy Staudacher on September 20 2005 06:10 am
Note: The installed package of G2 does not contain all available G2 modules. There are already over 40 modules to extend the functionality of G2. Installed are here only 15.
Plus there is a growing number of G2 themes to change the look and feel of G2.
Gallery Website
Download Gallery
Gallery Docs
Gallery Forum
Gallery Wiki
Gallery 2.3.1
Big, chunky, not so very intuitive.
Upgrading is a mess, trying to reinstall from backup as well.
Support is sporadic.
And now it's up to version 3, and they've dropped the support for the uploader! That's how they doing themselves a big misfavour.....
After five years of trouble I'm going elsewhere; If I must be an expert at PHP, MuSql etc. I'll rather do my own gallery instead!
I'm using gallery since 2005, and now I've online more than 10000 photos. It is a great piece of software, the best gallery software IMHO.
I enjoy particularly:
- How simple and easy are customization and personalization.
- The amazing Gmap module for geo-positioning photos and albums
This demo would not run unter my Internet Explorer from Windows XP, even though I have entered the site in the Secure Zone. It does only run under Firefox. It does not run under Linux-Konqueror and it does not run under Linux-Wine-Internet Explorer. It would have been very important that I am able to show Gallery to somebody with his own theme, but I can't load it. Given the fact that gallery2 itself does work beautifully, this demo is a shame.
The demo version is pretty slow and gets a D score with YSlow. No thanks, it's clearly a terrible piece of coding!
I've used Gallery in the past, and came back to it several months ago when I decided I needed to change the CMS. It integrated seemlessly into the CMS that I chose for my site. I converted from another gallery that contained over 10,000 user uploaded images. One thing I like is the ability to change templates and place them in a 'local' folder - that way they don't get over-written when it's time to upgrade.
The theme I selected was easy to modify to fit the style of my website. And being able to set permissions down to an individual user, if necessary, makes it all the better.
It was a challenge to get it setup the way I needed it to be, but it's been working now for over 3 months, with users uploading an average of 200 images per month. It is the best gallery program I've used.
I don't find it slow at all. I'm running on a small VPS with 2 G Bytes of memory. I am quite pleased with G2.
If you plan to use Gallery for less than a few hundred pictures, know your way around many technical aspects including scripting, love troubleshooting, you found your ultimate toy!
Otherwise, stay away!
Extremely faulty, overly complicated, poorly designed system, slow performance..
Importing images from G1 was a very painful process, each album had to be provided path and uploaded separately. After upgrade I found that many images at the end of albums were not imported at all. I get constant image failures, and they show up after refresh
Resized thumbnails are of poor clarity,
I've tested many of these gallery softwares, this is the best one! Download the full version but don't install the plugins at all, just the core and Remote, otherwise it is really an overkill. Upload pictures through 'Gallery Remote', create user and groups, and adjust permissions as you like. You could later go to the 'Site Admin -> Plugins' and install those you really need to. I would recommend these: Search Color Packs (Deep blue looks great) Flash Video ImageFrames (Many options) Comments EXIF/IPTC (needs to be adjusted) I find the default theme 'Matrix' is actually the best one, all the others are either buggy or don't look professional. You could then customize the theme just the way you like it. Cheers
I've been using this application for more than a year now & I'm very happy with its features & usability. It is very user friendly specially for a marketing person like me.
Good product.Thanks !
I tested both Coppermine & Gallery 2 (G2) and I think G2 is far superior in terms of usability and ease-of-use (except for a few advanced features). I did not find G2 to be slow & the themes available for G2 are awesome. Coppermine looks too cluttered. Full marks to G2!
never known such as bag of bull you cannot do the simplesting of things such as change parts of the language without any problems, including the rubbish documentation. worst gallery ever!
If G2 is slow for you, try a PHP Accelerator / Cache like eaccelerator. It does wonders for G2. Also note that the upcoming G2.1 (RC 1 in a few days) has built-in page-caching (can be turned off and on). At the expense of less dynamic features (no view count) you can speed up your G2 with page caching tremendously.
G2 has always been extremely fast for me.... and as far as the size: The sizes are zip/tar.gz gallery-2.0.2 Typical 5MB 3.4MB gallery-2.0.2 Full 8MB 5.2MB gallery-2.0.2 Minimal 3.6MB 2.7MB gallery-2.0.2 Developer 9.5MB 6.3MB
Yes I am also having trouble using this as well considering the amount of Ram they require. Try something more light weight like Zen or Plogger if you want something simple and easy.
by the way, it uses an stunningly 16MB RAM per VIEWER!! I can tell you, hosts are not happy with this.
Gallery2 is easy to setup, has nice support and quiet some modules but it's just that what digs it's own grave: it's SLOW! Yeah, I used gallery1 before and it wasn't really fast but gallery2 is no improvement at all. I have parsetimes of over 2 seconds approximitaly. I do not like it, it's just too slow for my server and Coppermine is just much faster.
> Nice, but no multilanguage yet. Not true. G2 had multilanguage capabilities since its alpha stage. G2 is translated into various languages, for a complete list see: http://codex.gallery2.org/index.php/Gallery2:Translations#List_of_Translations And you can add translations for your own content too such that the user has a fully translated experience (content + navigation).
This one has good design and so much incredible modules. If you want to build a gallery website as a designer or photographer then G2 is currently your best choice. Anyway, I refuse to use G2 for my website gallery because its size (11 MB before extract?). Too much good modules and features that I didn't need to have.
Nice, but no multilanguage yet.
Note: The installed package of G2 does not contain all available G2 modules. There are already over 40 modules to extend the functionality of G2. Installed are here only 15. Plus there is a growing number of G2 themes to change the look and feel of G2.