Gallery link (from share... Gallery links... gallery) missing photo identifier

[denisegoldberg]

Sometime in the last few days the gallery link has changed.

It used to include the photo identifier. Now when I pull the gallery link I get only the gallery info - so if I use it as is in an <a href= statement the viewer is no longer taken to the photo within the gallery.

Yes, I know, I can change the link - and I have been doing just that. But why? This used to work.

Gallery link pulled on September 26th includes the photo id and correctly positions on the selected photo:
http://www.denisegoldberg.com/Wandering-near-home/Autumn-enters-2010/13836595_v6Es6#1022832290_pVSvT

Gallery link for the same photo pulled today does not include the photo id and positions at the beginning of the gallery, not what I wanted at all:
http://www.denisegoldberg.com/Wandering-near-home/Autumn-enters-2010/13836595_v6Es6

Please fix this!

--- Denise

[Andy]

When you want a specific photo link in SmugMug Style gallery, you'd grab it from the address bar of your browser:
http://www.denisegoldberg.com/Wandering-near-home/Autumn-enters-2010/13836595_v6Es6#1022837019_Lzhpk

When you want a gallery link, from Share>Get A Link - that link should go right to the gallery, and the first photo in the gallery. It wasn't set up properly in the past, sorry Denise.

[denisegoldberg]

...It wasn't set up properly in the past, sorry Denise.
Bummer. Ah, at least there is an east workaround.

But - this behavior has been there for years. I just checked the "How to match your blog..." thread, and in the second post in that thread I noted that I used the gallery link to get the link to the exact photo in the gallery. That post is dated July of 2008. I wonder how many others have been taking advantage of what you refer to as a defect in smug. And I didn't see anything in the release notes about this change; shouldn't there have been a notification about a change in behavior that has been in the product for years?

--- Denise

[docwalker]

Denise, Sorry. EDIT -- My post was thinking about another bug. Andy was correct.