Please Bear With Us!!

We’ve suffered a major hit @ZanyPickle.  Something has happened to our image galleries, and it has destroyed the posts.  The images are still there, but the gallery software took a royal dump.  (Yes, this means the eye candy posts too. D’Oh!)

I’m pulling my hair out, trying to get it to wake up.  If not, then we’ve lost a LOT of work, but we’ll just carry on from this point — with new gallery software.  The single posts, and videos are all fine, and we’ve been reformatting the #’s and types of posts to include less albums and more single shot content anyway.

… and now, back to pulling my hair out.

–Update–

I’m about to vomit.  I’m so disgusted with what has happened, that I really don’t want to deal with it now.  Even restoring a backup from last week made no difference, right down to just basic preferences.  There are over 10,000 images that have been abandoned over several hundred posts.  Fixing them 1-by-1 is a daunting task – considering not many people ever go back more than 5 pages.  I have the option of deleting the vast majority of those posts with ease….. I’m feeling a large wipe in the near future, but for now, I’ll just sleep on it.

Ah the joys of a beginning blogger.  At least it’s only several months lost at this point, instead of years.

(now accepting suggestions for gallery options in Wordpress….)

–Update #2–

It looks like the old posts aren’t coming back. I’ve gone through and hidden a large majority of them, especially from the past week. I’ve got to decide on how I want to proceed.

I can:

• Ditch the daily mega posts all together, and just go with ~20 single pic/vid/joke posts a day.  I was doing ~10 galleries a day, but the stats show that not many people actually looked at the entire posts when they went over 50-100 images.
• Streamline them down to just my fave 15-20 pics and put them all on a front page post —ie, scroll-a-palooza.
• Find some other album/gallery solution, and just do random mega posts – ie the Eye Candy, which I can’t put all of those on the front page for obvious reasons.
• Stick with the current method on a MUCH lighter basis – but still have the original problems that lead to this point.
• Manually….. heh, who am I kidding?  There were over 10,000 images in just a few months.

Comments and suggestions are always welcomed.  The emails I’ve gotten so far have carried a lot of weight.  At this point, I’m going with the ~20 single pic/vid posts a day, and will test some series of <10 pics in one front page post.

Stay Tuned, and Thanks for the feedback!

–Update #3–

Well, months later, and I still haven’t found a good way of handling such large posts on a daily basis.  I’ve gone through and cleaned out over 400 affected posts.  The images are still on the server, so maybe I’ll just do a mega open slideshow type thing – or slowly pic through them to make smaller posts.

If you have any suggestions, send them along.  If it can’t handle the thousands of pics each day, I may just go with weekly mega posts of eye candy and such.

Thanks for sticking with us!!