What do you Hope Smugmug is working on???

[dmc]

The Feature Request (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=40139) thread has a list in the first post of requested features (some of which have been long standing)

Smugmug is wonderful at adding features to their site often, but they won't tell us what they are working on right now (for business reasons).

What do you Hope they are working on... come on, join in, this could be fun! Pick your top 2.
Coupons
Packages
Virtual Galleries
Enhance Journal viewing style
Make smugmug XL
Pricing by Category and Subcategory
Better Uploader
Community personalization
Template or gallery tools for a whole category or subcat
Keyword GUI mods: check similar, etc
Allow pro branding in the cart
Allow meta-tag customization
Allow /popular results to show to site owner
Parse/error check for HTML (like missing </div> etc like HTML Tidy
Add Bulk Zoom Thumb as a SmugMug Feature
Homepage Slideshow
Paypal Integration
Owner access originals when logged in.
Better exif (lose the popup)
Add exif link to the share.mg page
Auto-rotate based on Exif, be a user settable toggle
DITCH "negative" and make a COOLING filter.
Filenames in the shopping cart
Message notification of invite to community
Bulk Geo-tagging
Add calendars, cards, photobooks, multi-image items, panorama prints
More video support other than MPG-1
Improve the GUI for arranging galleries
Add Gallery Name to Password prompt screen
Pro's pricing - ajax the pricing allow buyers to see before going to cart
set expiration for pricing, and/or password in a gallery
set default gallery style (starting gallery style, but leave viewer contolled ON)
Category, subcategory passwording
Search in private and or passworded galleries
Make all of smugsearch customizable and theme-able
Comments control panel
Comments page for public consumption (cross-gallery)
Add B&W as an option in the shopping cart.If you don't see your favorite request listed here, make sure it is somewhere in the Feature request thread!

[dmc]

My vote is for #3 (virtual galleries) and #4 (more features in the Journal style) -- easy ones! :thumb

[DodgeV83]

27. More video support other than MPG-1!!!

7. Better Uploader (FTP UPLOAD!!!)

[DJ-S1]

28. Improve the GUI for arranging galleries

If this includes a tree-level view of your entire site - if not, then I'll add that on the end!

[sit]

Category, subcategory passwording
Search in private and or passworded galleries


I'll vote for these two.

Relatedly, here's one proposal I made to support a few weeks ago about enhancing sharegroups navigation that would increase access control flexibility, much like category/subcategory passwording:

I send someone a link to a sharegroup. When they click on it, they are redirected to my homepage, possibly with a custom set of feature galleries. Just like any anonymous user browsing my site, they can view my public galleries. However, where there are private galleries that are listed in the sharegroup, they can view those too. Some UI element would indicate on the index view that these galleries are part of the sharegroup.

[jfriend]

These are the main ones that Smugmug seems to be getting beat by Zenfolio on:
Faster gallery viewing (perhaps including pre-fetch)
Dynamic layout to use all of my window (more thumbs and larger main image), not hard-wired to a fixed width and fixed number of thumbs
Keyboard navigation of galleries - with the above items, this would let you whiz through a gallery very nicely
Faster/cooler slideshow
Virtual galleries or collections (I also need them to work in password protected galleries because I need them for kid sports photos that have to be password protected)These are a few of the nit features I wish Smugmug had:
Ability to opt-out of Google search indexing for public galleries
Ability to opt-out of the Smugmug browse function for public galleries
Ability to set the default viewing style for a gallery, but still allow the user to change it (e.g. start it in Journal, but let them change it to Smugmug if they want)
Ability to view original when logged in and originals are not enabled (I suggested putting View Original in the Photo Tools menu)
Improved EXIF display
More obvious "Save Photo" function (I think it should be a button, not a link since it's an action, not a view)

[kevin.coppalotti]

None of the OP 's list is crucial. I want speed, dynamic sizing which automatically fills the available screen and more speed. Did I mention it needs to be faster?

[Andy]

None of the OP 's list is crucial. I want speed, dynamic sizing which automatically fills the available screen and more speed. Did I mention it needs to be faster?
Hi Kevin, I know this is a big issue for you. Have you noticed any speed difference in the past few days?

:ear

[EdH]

I really hope Smugmug is working on improving the overall speed of the viewing experience. Browsing a gallery on Smugmug is painfully slow compared to Pbase and Zenfolio. I love the way my galleries look on my Smugmug page but browsing through photos is just not enjoyable when compared to the other sites. I'm a huge fan of Smugmug (I have a Power Account) but I've noticed that if I'm ever just browsing for pictures I'll go to Pbase and Zenfolio first because the speed is so much better.

All the other features would be great but I think its important to focus on the basic experience first and making things quicker would go a long way toward improving the Smugmug experience.

[kagruso]

26 and 38 for me, but I'm just a basic user! :):

[Cindy]

Since this is for fun... why not enable the voting feature on this thread.
Maybe make it so that everyone could vote for not one or two but all that they're interested in. Is it possible to rate them???
Then the smugmug team could easily see how many want what the most :thumb

BTW: My main FR are in my sig... but there's so many in that list that I :lust for.

[pat.kane]

Search in private and or passworded galleries
Speed of viewing (pre-fetch)

[AnneMcBean]

26 and 38 for me, but I'm just a basic user! :):

... and we love to hear from you! :thumb

-Anne

[dbd]

... and we love to hear from you! :thumb

-Anne

N. Panoramic prints
N+1. Owner access to desampled digital download images

Dale B. Dalrymple
dbdimages.com

[pat.kane]

Cindy, if you're talking about the polling feature, it's limited to 10 items.

I'd like to see smugmug implement something like the feature request voting being done for Gallery. I've never used it, but it looks well thought out. See

http://gallery.menalto.com/feature_vote_released
http://gallery.menalto.com/sfvote_help

[kevin.coppalotti]

Hi Kevin, I know this is a big issue for you. Have you noticed any speed difference in the past few days?

:ear
G'day Andy, yes it is faster, I checked with a stopwatch, it takes around 12 - 13 seconds to move from picture to picture when viewing in 'medium' size, which is faster than I was getting before. It used to take around 20 - 25 seconds to move from picture to picture. I am stuck on 128k ISDN in my remote area potting shed and am not likely ever to be able to get a DSL connection according to the local telecom technician.
So congrats to smugmug the upgrade and reorganisation of servers seems to be working.

[Luc De Jaeger]

I hope they are working on better statistics (unique visitors aside from the hits AND clicks per image besides the hits per gallery).

I also hope they are improving the exif data.

Luc

[claudermilk]

Better statistics are available, Statcounter or Google Analytics. I've had stacounter running for a while & it's nice, though the freebie account is only the last 100 hits. I just added Analytics & there's so much there I'm overwhelmed right now.

Off that list, for me 11 & 28. With 28, definitely something with a treeview like Zenfolio; that's the most attractive aspect of their service missing here for me. Oh, and more than three layers.

Many items on the original list would be nice.

[JimM]

Okay, too many choices listed. Here are my top 3...


Coupons
Packages
Pro's pricing - ajax the pricing allow buyers to see before going to cart

[jfriend]

Better statistics are available, Statcounter or Google Analytics. I've had stacounter running for a while & it's nice, though the freebie account is only the last 100 hits. I just added Analytics & there's so much there I'm overwhelmed right now.

Statcounter and Google Analytics give you lots of new stuff to look at. Some things they don't give you that only Smugmug can:


Better stats with a basic Smugmug plan (you can't use the third party options without at least a power user account)
Stats on who is direct linking to you (the third party options don't give you any data on this and can't due to the way they work). Useful when you want to see who is stealing from your or is consuming your bandwidth.
Stats on where your bandwidth is being consumed (the third party options don't have any ability to do this)
Stats on shopping cart conversion percentages (people who started to buy, but didn't finish). In any ecommerce business this is a closely watched stat.

[Newsy]

For the Basic package, the ability to do a descending sort of stats by hits or MB's consumed.

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[claudermilk]

Statcounter and Google Analytics give you lots of new stuff to look at. Some things they don't give you that only Smugmug can:

Better stats with a basic Smugmug plan (you can't use the third party options without at least a power user account)
Stats on who is direct linking to you (the third party options don't give you any data on this and can't due to the way they work). Useful when you want to see who is stealing from your or is consuming your bandwidth.
Stats on where your bandwidth is being consumed (the third party options don't have any ability to do this)
Stats on shopping cart conversion percentages (people who started to buy, but didn't finish). In any ecommerce business this is a closely watched stat.

Good points, though that last I think Analytics can handle. I'm playing with their goals setups & grabbed the shopping cart URLS when ordering myself a couple of prints. We'll see if I understand their setup right....

[jfriend]

Good points, though that last I think Analytics can handle. I'm playing with their goals setups & grabbed the shopping cart URLS when ordering myself a couple of prints. We'll see if I understand their setup right....

Let me know if you can track shopping cart stuff. Since the shopping cart is not customizable or brandable, I don't think services like statcounter and google analytics are present in those pages, thus I don't think they can help you there. But, if you've found something different that would be interesting to know.

[Matthew Saville]

I'm relieved to see PANORAMIC PRINTS on that list!

Although in truth I've decided that I really dislike making my photos available just as un-mounted prints at all. No average joe is ever going to be able to receive a rolled-up print and treat it properly.

What would MAKE MY DAY would be if I could sell prints MATTED with 2.5" mat on the sides and 2" mat on the top and bottom, for example.

Framed prints is I guess asking for too much, I gave up on that long ago. But mounted prints, now that I can see happening. Or at least shipped flat, which WHCC can do. Even for 24x36" prints! Either EZPrints needs to offer more services, or Smugmug needs to find some more options.

[cdhames]

Personalized Database access and Forms support so we can further customize and retain our client info. That or some sort of off-site gallery support -basically something that would allow smugmug's gallery service to integrate with an off-site domain. Actually, I'd just like to see better web services integration. It'd be nice if I could throw a flash file in, or some server side scripting. How about all the functionality of a web host provider, without the hosting? :rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl

Oh, and I noticed that EZPrints offers "framed" photos. Could we get that on our list of product categories?

[dcyphert]

Okay, too many choices listed. Here are my top 3...

Coupons
Packages
Pro's pricing - ajax the pricing allow buyers to see before going to cart

I'm all for these too...something else I just discovered is the need to price many prints inside the same gallery that are already sized to be 8x10, 5x7, 4x6, etc...i.e. My business involves creating customized composites (http://propointmedia.smugmug.com/High%20School%20Sports/241476) that are sized specific. I have up to this point been creating individual galleries for 8x10's, 5x7's, etc. For example....I may have 5 prints that are 8x10's and want to make them a certain price and 12-5x7's a different price, etc. This doesn't take that long with the last example but if I have 30-40 prints of different sizes it takes too long.

With the current process I have to set the "gallery" price to what I have a majority of and then open each individual print and price separately the others. This is very time consuming and would be easier to have the option be able to choose the thumbs and price multiple sizes.

My suggestion would to allow the user to choose multiple thumbs in a gallery and have a field to enter a price and format (lustre, matte, gloss) for those they highlite. I hope this was clear as mudd...if anyone has a good suggestion to speed up how I do this I'd appreciate the advice.

[Andy]

I'm all for these too...something else I just discovered is the need to price many prints inside the same gallery that are already sized to be 8x10, 5x7, 4x6, etc...i.e. My business involves creating customized composites (http://propointmedia.smugmug.com/High%20School%20Sports/241476) that are sized specific. I have up to this point been creating individual galleries for 8x10's, 5x7's, etc. For example....I may have 5 prints that are 8x10's and want to make them a certain price and 12-5x7's a different price, etc. This doesn't take that long with the last example but if I have 30-40 prints of different sizes it takes too long.

With the current process I have to set the "gallery" price to what I have a majority of and then open each individual print and price separately the others. This is very time consuming and would be easier to have the option be able to choose the thumbs and price multiple sizes.

My suggestion would to allow the user to choose multiple thumbs in a gallery and have a field to enter a price and format (lustre, matte, gloss) for those they highlite. I hope this was clear as mudd...if anyone has a good suggestion to speed up how I do this I'd appreciate the advice.
Thanks for the suggestions :thumb

[Sledhed]

I have three things (OK 4) on my list of improvements I would like to see.

1. Coupons
2. Make it so I can right click when I am logged in.
3. I love the replace feature, it has cut my PP time considerably, but I would like to replace more than one picture at a time.
4. I know this won't happen and I've read all of the threads why but I would like to upload low res images and replace them with the hi-res when an order has been placed.

[Andy]

4. I know this won't happen and I've read all of the threads why but I would like to upload low res images and replace them with the hi-res when an order has been placed.
You can do this now :)
http://www.smugmug.com/help/proof-retouch-replace

http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=39260

You can smash them. You must have the pixel dimensions of the largest print you want to sell, but you can get the file sizes down quite a lot.

[mcgil]

Search in private and or passworded galleries
Speed of viewing (pre-fetch)

Totally the ones I'm rooting on... either pre-fetch or a faster resizing engine .. cause the bandwith does not seem to be the issue here, right ?

[I Simonius]

The Feature Request (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=40139) thread has a list in the first post of requested features (some of which have been long standing)

Smugmug is wonderful at adding features to their site often, but they won't tell us what they are working on right now (for business reasons).

What do you Hope they are working on... come on, join in, this could be fun! Pick your top 2.[LIST=1]
Better Uploader
Template or gallery tools for a whole category or subcat
Allow pro branding in the cart
Allow meta-tag customization
Homepage Slideshow
Paypal Integration
Filenames in the shopping cart
Improve the GUI for arranging galleries


my order of preferred items with the super extra ultra high priority no> 1 annoyance for me in red

[pwc]

Good points, though that last I think Analytics can handle. I'm playing with their goals setups & grabbed the shopping cart URLS when ordering myself a couple of prints. We'll see if I understand their setup right....

Chris, did you get this working???

[DJKennedy]

#26 for me. Photobooks.

I know Andy (if I remember correctly) indicated that this was in the works but I would really like to see that option sooner rather than later.

I've tried Momento - excellent quality - pricey - only ships to Australian addies.

I've tried Blurb - book dimensions too small (8x10) I would like to see a little larger, and I would like to see Blurbs pages thicker - they feel cheap/thin to me. But Blurb you can go up to 440 pages! And the prices are really excellent.

And if SM goes with selling books, I would hate to see just templates like the others. Momento, for example, uses templates but also has a totally free hand option too ( for placing text boxes, and photos on the page - on the page and your choice of photo size totally scalable).

But that might just be me (and a few others)

[imageinc]

I can't quite limit it to two, but here goes...


What do you Hope they are working on... come on, join in, this could be fun! Pick your top 2.
Coupons - and other approaches to special pricing, perhaps; notably "first/rest" pricing -- the ability to sell a given 8x10 of a single image for $12 for the first print, and $8 for additional prints.
Packages
Virtual Galleries *with* pricing and customization
Better Uploader - I need something where I can see progress in an upload queue, so when uploads break, I know where to restart if it doesn't. The Java uploader doesn't do this, and it seems to be difficult to get S*E to do it too.
Paypal Integration - on both buy and sell sides
Owner access originals when logged in.
Add calendars, cards, photobooks, multi-image items, panorama prints
Improve the GUI for arranging galleries - drag and drop
set default gallery style (starting gallery style, but leave viewer contolled ON)If you don't see your favorite request listed here, make sure it is somewhere in the Feature request thread!
Alas, that was a numbered list, so deleting the things I personally didn't much care about broke the numbering.

And of course, my personal number one hobby horse right now: auto-resequence of galleries based on the filenames in a Picasa XML export file.

Hey; you asked. :-)

Oh yeah: and uploading via scp/ssh.

[3rdPlanetPhotography]

If I have to pick two then I'd selet:

1. Coupons
26. Add calendars, cards, photobooks, multi-image items, panorama prints

[Rando]

- Keywords in private and password protected galleries
- opt out of google search
- virtual galleries
- wysiwyg html customizations (like google pages or iWeb)
- switching to WHCC for pro accounts

[pwc]

- matted prints would be cool but I understand the complexity in doing this and still make a profit
- coupons

[papajay]

Thanks dmc for starting this thread...and hitting on some very familiar, much discussed, topics.

Here' my TOP request:
1. Virtual Galleries (with a twist). Who-ever initially coined the term "virtual" gallieries...was it you , dmc?...is to be "thanked" for giving the request an identity. I'm not certain it's exactly what I envision, but it's a close relative. If what I'll describe below is a "vitual" gallery, then it's what I'd like to see...if not, then I guess I need to come up with a more descriptive name for it and continue to lobby for it (hopefully with the support of other like-minded smuggers).

I want to:
A.) run a keyword search within my OWN galleries (photos of "mom"), then
B.) select a few of the images captured by the keyword search (the best photos of "mom", for example...and they coud be from many different galleries from within my site), then
C.) create a new gallery...I think I'd prefer a real gallery (as opposed to a "virtual" one), by simultaneously copying/duplicating the selected images and adding them to the new gallery.

It still seems like such a "no brainer" to me (as a desireable capability/feature, not that it's necessarily a cinch to develop). Am I all alone?

[imageinc]

You're not alone. I think it was me, actually, though perhaps not.

I want it mostly because it will mean that I don't have to upload Picasa pictures that are in multiple albums more than once.

[papajay]

You're not alone. I think it was me, actually, though perhaps not.

I want it mostly because it will mean that I don't have to upload Picasa pictures that are in multiple albums more than once.

:clap There are at least THREE of us then (dmc, imagineinc, papajay). To the "quiet majority" out there.....PILE ON, and let us hear from you! :barb

[jfriend]

:clap There are at least THREE of us then (dmc, imagineinc, papajay). To the "quiet majority" out there.....PILE ON, and let us hear from you! :barb

Here are my previous votes for viritual gallleries, here (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=13914) and here (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?p=217645&highlight=virtual+keyword#post217645) and here (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?p=127168&highlight=virtual+keyword#post127168) and here (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=13810&page=2&pp=10) and here (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=13978&highlight=virtual+galleries) and here (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=13914) and here (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?p=125693&highlight=virtual+keyword#post125693) and here (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?p=346648&highlight=virtual+keyword#post346648).

[Cindy]

:clap There are at least THREE of us then (dmc, imagineinc, papajay). To the "quiet majority" out there.....PILE ON, and let us hear from you! :barb


Filenames in the shopping cart
Virtual Galleries
Coupons
Packages
Paypal Integration
Add calendars, cards, photobooks, multi-image items, panorama prints
set expiration for pricing, and/or password in a gallery
Enable search in password protected galleries AFTER they've entered their password.
Category, subcategory passwordingOh yeah... can you'll take care of my toothache too??? I hate dentists :rolleyes
:rofl

[papajay]

Here are my previous votes for viritual gallleries, here (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=13914) and here (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?p=217645&highlight=virtual+keyword#post217645) and here (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?p=127168&highlight=virtual+keyword#post127168) and here (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=13810&page=2&pp=10) and here (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=13978&highlight=virtual+galleries) and here (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=13914) and here (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?p=125693&highlight=virtual+keyword#post125693) and here (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?p=346648&highlight=virtual+keyword#post346648).

Thanks for digging back into the posting archives (to 2005), JFriend, to pull up these references. I've only been a smugger for a year, myself, but see you (and others*) have indeed been on this bandwagon for quite a while!

*AJ Weinstein, imagnineinc, digismile, ask, mario, dmc, and Cindy, I see (to name but a few).

I suspect Smugmug is (I hope) actually working on this (and that they're just not telling us they are so they can surprise us with the great news one of these days)...it's an obviously good feature request that just isn't going to go away until the development guys at smugmug actually make it happen.

[lynnesite]

#1 coupons
#2 packages
#11 branding the cart so it doesn't say smuggy, etc.

[richpepp]

1. Search in private and or passworded galleries
2. Category passwords
3. Multiple guest username/passwords (not even close to essential though - just nice. The first two are really needed).

I would love to put our whole archive up here to solve lots of sharing problems but there are for example a group of pictures of children that we would like available but there is no good reason for making available to the world (but we would still like to find by keyword). It would even be fine if the search only worked when people were logged in and then worked for the whole site rather than just the particular passworded gallery.



Loving the rest of smugmug though :D

Rich

[Andy]

Here are my previous votes for viritual gallleries, here (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=13914) and here (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?p=217645&highlight=virtual+keyword#post217645) and here (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?p=127168&highlight=virtual+keyword#post127168) and here (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=13810&page=2&pp=10) and here (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=13978&highlight=virtual+galleries) and here (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=13914) and here (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?p=125693&highlight=virtual+keyword#post125693) and here (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?p=346648&highlight=virtual+keyword#post346648).


:lol3 what is this, Chigago in the 20's?

[jfriend]

:lol3 what is this, Chicago in the 20's?
Vote early and often :wink.

In all seriousness, I just wanted to remind folks that we've been requesting this type of feature for nearly two years (before the competition had it) and now some of the competition has what looks like a decent implementation. We haven't heard anything about whether this will actually be in the roadmap or not so we conclude that all we can do is to continue to remind you that we think it's important.

[Andy]

Vote early and often :wink.

In all seriousness, I just wanted to remind folks that we've been requesting this type of feature for nearly two years (before the competition had it) and now some of the competition has what looks like a decent implementation. We haven't heard anything about whether this will actually be in the roadmap or not so we conclude that all we can do is to continue to remind you that we think it's important.I've got nothing more to add beyond our last postings (can't find them right now) but they are along the lines of "we'd like to have this and it's on the list.." but as usual, we have no public timeframe or anything like that. Thanks John!

[heatherwhite]

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ie, i have one gallery of wedding photos. the couple and their immediate family would log in with one password and be able to order prints at cost, because they paid up front for everything. and with the other password (same gallery), extended family and friends and guests from the wedding could order prints at a profit for me! that way i don't have to suck up space with 2 galleries with the same photos. wouldn't that rock?

(this is also posted as a new thread)


my website (http://leighnoel.com)
my smugmug (http://leighnoel.smugmug.com)

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[Andy]

dual passwords..

Hi, we have a sticky features request thread, too, in this very forum :thumb

Thanks!

[Craig Ridley]

I vote for a multi-currency shopping cart so prices can be displayed to users in their local currency and not just US$.