0003457: DB entries with pics: support for pic galleries - AniDB Bug Tracker

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0003457	HTML & PERL	Feature Request	public	2020-07-20 14:08	2020-07-22 09:14

Reporter	Hinoe	Assigned To	DerIdiot
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	have not tried
Status	closed	Resolution	fixed

Summary	0003457: DB entries with pics: support for pic galleries
Description	As I see it, this is a single request, but if you prefer, I can break it into multiple requests, one for each type of entry. Please add a feature to support the creation of pic galleries where currently a single pic id is allowed.
Steps To Reproduce	Courtesy of worf: https://i1.wp.com/pokemonnewscenter.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/e9cnXq9-1.jpg It is impossible for a single char pic to capture the design changes over the many years, and I doubt there is room for guises here, so only the requested feature can handle the problem cleanly.
Additional Information	This is, far and away, most important for characters. Floating heads have been integrated on main pictures very often, but this is not always easy to do, and sometimes allowing separate pics would improve things enormously. Characters can also often suffer over the years from minor design changes that do not warrant the creation of guises (important!); see https://anidb.net/forum/thread/101341 for a discussion that touches upon the rationale design changes. It would also be extremely useful for certain tags. There are tags that require multiple pics to illustrate variations of a concept that can be hard to describe in words, such as those related to certain articles of clothing or accessories for characters. Creators could also easily benefit from this when they are active over long periods of time. They look very different at the ages of 20 and 60, and having more than one pic would be helpful to show that. To a lesser extent, I suppose multiple cover images could also be useful for anime, and eventually manga if mangadb ever goes live (we could have a gallery of volume covers). Collections might on occasion also see a use, like for reissues or some such, though I couldn't really tell you much about how the feature might be used for them. I can't see much of a use for this feature on group entries, but maybe that's just me; people handling groups more closely might. I've given a thought to the permissions that should be required for galleries. Maintainers should definitely be allowed to modedit them, but, given that the intended use is more as an exception than as a rule, I suppose users should not be allowed to owneredit them or to create them without creqs. I realize this part might be difficult to achieve, though.
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Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2020-07-20 14:08	Hinoe	New Issue
2020-07-20 14:13	Hinoe	Additional Information Updated
2020-07-22 09:14	DerIdiot	Assigned To	=> DerIdiot
2020-07-22 09:14	DerIdiot	Status	new => closed
2020-07-22 09:14	DerIdiot	Resolution	open => fixed
2020-07-22 09:14	DerIdiot	Note Added: 0004437