cohost support

I know it's already planned but I'm posting this just so people can vote for it too. It'd be really helpful for us artists to have this feature.

My mockup/suggestion is already referenced in the bug tracker card but I'm putting it here as well in case others might have other ideas/additions/improvements to it:

As someone who ran away from deviantART and ended up here, yeah, absolutely need a way for me to organize my posts so people can find my writing, comics, art, profiles, refs, etc.

Would love to have this feature on CoHost! This would help bring in a lot more artists. As far as I know, the only other social website that has this is Tiktoks "Collections".

I would like to say that, even though in practice I have seen it be buggy, Pixelfed has a pretty good gallery feature (bugs aside) called "albums" that lets you create multiple albums, and when you post new content you can choose an album (or maybe multiple albums? I've never tried) to add it to. Albums can have the posts in them reordered, and the albums can have descriptions and a banner image; it's not like having a profile within a profile, since it has a different look, but it works great for everything from "pics from my trip to Rome" to "my art portfolio." As you work on and refine this feature, referencing the parts of Pixelfed albums that work well (and leaving behind the parts that don't, like the bugs) might be good. Though, you might already have a complete design in mind that's better than anything I or the Pixelfed dev have thought of, so please ignore me if this comment isn't of any use

A gallery that could also generate automatic sub-galleries from tags would be a killer feature for artists. Lightbox-style browsing of the images would also go a long way.

Just wanted to mention this as others have said already since it's not in the mockup I made, but if possible, the ability to actually reorder your media in the gallery would be perfect. I know cohost isn't supposed to be an art-focused site but it's a feature that many art gallery sites don't have and it would make the site very appealing for artists imo, especially when the subs come around.

The reason I'd like the reordering is so I can repost stuff from my art backlog and sort it properly by the date I made them, since I didn't post all my art here back when I joined and I'd love to do that without my old stuff being mixed with my newer stuff.

This is awesome, especially with the folders

this would be huuuuuuuge, probably my #1 most wanted feature.

i have no creative talent, but i am very attractive. a feature like this is vital for the comfort of this site's most attractive users. we need to be able to make it immediately clear to visitors that we are very attractive, so that we can be treated accordingly. great mockup, this feature would be very appreciated

amazing mockup!!

I *love* this idea - it's so nice

 Just chiming in to say I LOVE this mockup, I'd adore it!

Just chiming in here to say that I absolutely love this idea -- this is, like, the holy grail of social media features to me and I'm surprised I've never seen anyone do it (Not that I've used that many different social media websites, in fairness). Giving users a media gallery is great, but giving  users a media gallery that's customizable is, like, a dream come true. As an artist, I'd love to be able to throw all of my art posts into a media gallery, reorder it, and sort it into folders.

The idea of the posts in the gallery being added, curated, and categorized by the user themselves would also, I imagine, make this feature useful for more than just artists -- if we don't limit which types of posts can be added, then people writing essays or poems or fics or other kinds of text posts could also use it to put all of their best things in one place for their followers to access easily.

Giving users control instead of adding all media to the gallery automatically isn't just useful for users who want to be able to curate and organize their things, either -- it also solves a bunch of logistical problems that I imagine the devs might face creating a media gallery for cohost (How do we determine what counts as media? Any post with image attachments? Well, a lot of people are using inline images. What about embeds? We probably don't want the media tab grabbing every post with a link in it. Do we count HTML and CSS stuff? That's such a broad range of post types, and there's no good way to include them without either including a bunch of posts users might not want in their gallery, or excluding posts that they do want in their gallery).

Pinned posts kind of serve this purpose for now (I love that I can pin more than one post!), and I've been using it to keep a bunch of my favorite pieces at the top of my profile, but it still leaves a lot to be desired. I have a lot of art I'd like to keep easily accessible at the top of my profile, but even after just three or four pinned posts it starts to feel like something of an obstruction people visiting my page have to scroll past every time, rather than a cool showcase of my stuff.

So, yeah, I love, love, love the idea of having a media gallery, and making it customizable and curatable would be the absolute best way to do it (and maybe the only way to do it, in cohost's case, with the nature of the site being the way it is).

(edit: i could've sworn i'd seen some talks about filtering options somewhere from the staff, but i cant find it at all in the bug tracker page, so uh, never mind that part unless it Does become a thing eventually (i hope it does))

to continue a thought i had in another thread, i'd like to ponder out loud what kind of factors the Media Type would be based on, because im a big fan of this style of categorization, being able to look at just the images folks have posted on their Tumblr is a great convenience, but unlike on Tumblr, Cohost doesnt have like, a 'make X type of post' prompt (text post, image post, quote/audio/video etc), and i've seen some folks just post a single image or two as like, a 'header' image, but for stuff like long-form text blog posts, so Automatically categorizing those under an 'image' label would probably not work..  

and on one hand, just letting folks pick their own Labels of posts (separate from the Gallery Folders they can put them put into) could let folks customize their page as much as they'd want (as suggested by the OP of that other thread i linked to), but if combined with future Filtering options, having some baseline Standards like Tumblr's 'text post' or 'image post' types could go a long way to let folks more Easily curate their own feed/browsing experience (tho maybe that's getting out of the scope of This Feature's topic, lol)