improved photos experience

[Guest guest]

Hi Everyone

The people are making some changes to the photo pages. Please refer to the email below.

In summary, they are improving it.

There will be some automatic changes over the next few weeks. There is no need for any of us to make any changes or do anything.

I expect it will all be a lot clearer when it is done, and we can see the new features and menu options.

Regards

Shireen Mohandes

London, England

From: Team [mailto:groups-feedback@...] Sent: 18 November 2005 21:31andy.bowles@...Subject: - improved photos experience

Dear Moderators,

Starting the week of November 21st, we will be upgrading photos. Not all groups will be affected immediately; the changes will take place gradually over a 4-6 week period.

The upgrade will:

allow for moderation of the photos uploads (in the same way you currently can moderate messages); alert users on the web site when new photos are uploaded; display all recently posted photos on a special "new photos page"; offer a larger display option for photos.

In addition, thanks to some help from the Photos team, photos will now be stored in "albums" rather than folders. The good news is that albums will now display the first photo in the album as a cover photo, and the owners of an album will have the ability to sort the photos.

However, the change also means you will no longer be able to place a photo album in another photo album, nor add photos to a group without putting them in an album. For existing groups that are using these features, folders in your group's photo area that are currently stored in other folders will be brought to the top level; while photos that are currently not in any folder will be automatically added to a new album called "Miscellaneous".

If you want to preview the new photos functionality, you can test drive it at the special photo upgrade beta group we have created. Please feel free to jump into the group and tell us what you think or simply email your feedback to groups-feedback@... Thank you,

Gordon Strause