Private Icon, show up make no sense

Whatever you open a page, such as videos, photos, files, groups and so on. There are plenty of private icon on the page which

means that you don't have right to take any action on them due to the privacy settings. Then my question is why D7 developing

teams want showing up these private icon which make no sense to this member. Why not put these private icon behind the screen.

If there are 10000 photos on the site and only 5 of them are allowed to view by this member and why need to force this member

to view other 9995 private icons. In the real life, most items on the site will be private to a member. So anyone have same

comments with me or anyone know how to get ride of those private icon from admin panel.

Boonex team's comments on this issue are very welcome.

Agreed.  It's really ugly.  I don't know what they were thinking.

http://www.boonex.com/trac/dolphin/ticket/1726

Houstonlively:

Thanks.

I viewed the ticket you created, but not limit to private photos. It should be all of them, including videos, groups, files and .....

Leonids:

Just not show up when they are private to this member. It's simple from programming view.

I added some clarifications to the ticket.

Guess it won't change HL. I agree, private media should not be displayed.

• status changed from new to closed.
• resolution set to wontfix.

AlexT says: It is impossible ! Every picture is checked individually upon display... so it is possible to check every picture on the page (about 20 pictures) ... but it is impossible to check all images (thousands) before display to select non-private photos for the current user.

Not if I can help it.  Anything is possible if you just stop to apply a little logic.  The script currently checks every single photo in the DB for the current users viewing permissions.  They need to just retrieve just the public photos... that way they don't need to check viewing permissions.  If the current user wants to view their friends albums, they know where to find them... they won't be looking for them on the main photo page. 

Ticket reopened.

Yeah.. I posted like this a while ago....

http://www.boonex.com/unity/forums/#topic/Private-images.htm

I agree... it's annoying.  :/

It seems to me that Boonex is currently comprised of all programmers but they don't seem to have any end-user designers which is the leading cause for these issues.

Maurice, I think that is really the heart of the matter.  Boonex comes from totally a programmer/developer perspective.  Not only do they have no one with an "end user" perspective, but they really don't have any one from a webmaster's perspective, or a community manager's perspective, or for that matter a marketing and business development perspective (note that having begged for years on D6 - you still can't pay on registration).  The new bugs forum is a good example of this - it is not really for discussing things that might be bugs, you are only supposed to post there if you are absolutely positive it is a bug - so what is the point? - if that is the case it should go directly into Trac.

This might get me in a little trouble here, but developers and programmers don't really always make the best site developers.  Need proof? - just look at the sites of some of the best developers here - most don't have more than a handful of members.  They are often great at helping other people, but their own sites, while they may be feature loaded, usually have few members.  The most successful sites are usually done by marketing types - they don't get too hung on features, and some functions might even be broken, but they get members, and they don't even post here all that often.

I'm really talking about myself also, because I am between both worlds.  I know enough about technology to do some damage, but am not nearly as good at marketing and business development as I would like to be.   Back to your point though - the developers shouldn't even be deciding if something is a bug or a serious usability issue - they have a built in conflict of interest.    It looks like D7 is going to take off, so hopefully this will be resolved over time.

Rob

Maybe all the end user people are on strike.  :))

There is a strike?  I grew up in Detroit - I never cross a picket line.

That's good thing Rob.  I hear it could be mighty dangerous to even go near a Detroit Strike line. 

Hi, Guys:

It is my pleasure to review all the reply to my topic.

From the view of programming, nothing is impossible.

The Boonex developing team should make the D7 from the view of users not from the developers.

It seems that Boonex only care the real bugs, but not the fine tuning to make D7 a perfect, powerful and easy to use

for the users. As a end user, I'm very unsatisfactory about Groups of D7, broken privacy, single photo and video album,

single forum, single photo uploading, no photo navigation tools and ... Yes, there are not bugs, but they have high value

to the users, at lease like me running on line society, not dating site.

You can use the mysql base with phpmyadmin ...

Save the table sys_albums

update sys_albums
SET AllowAlbumView='3';

When is private, the value is 2

This solution seem good after test.

If you have an other solution... I take ^^