Do you show how much you have in numbers?

glorff · Post by **glorff** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 1:18 pm

I show them because when I search RS for a series I prefer to look at the galleries with the most first in case I run out of time, so therefor I return the courtesy to others

duotrouble · Post by **duotrouble** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 4:02 pm

I'm in the minority, again.

I don't show the number next to my series. First, I think it looks tacky. But second, and most important to me, is in some cases it makes me feel like I'm bragging (which I do not want to do). Seriously, if you want to know which of my sections are larger, they are the ones split into multiple sections. (ex. FMA, FMA - Edward, FMA - Hankens, FMA - Special)

wELCOME cONSUMER wrote:Also helps me keep track of the number of cels I own overall and for specific series.

But you can do that under "manage cels" in your account.

Cloud · Post by **Cloud** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 4:02 pm

Yes, please tell me.

syan · Post by **syan** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 5:01 pm

I don't show the number because I don't like how it looks. I don't care if others have it or not, because when I'm checking out a gallery for a particular series, I don't care if the person has 1 or 100. I'm not going to not look because they only have one, because that one might be THE one I want to see and and plead for.

Cloud · Post by **Cloud** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 5:01 pm

But I care about it.

Moop · Post by **Moop** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 5:41 pm

duotrouble wrote:First, I think it looks tacky.

Tacky? As in, 'tastelessly showy'?

Thanks ever so.

wELCOME cONSUMER · Post by **wELCOME cONSUMER** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 8:38 pm

duotrouble wrote:
wELCOME cONSUMER wrote:Also helps me keep track of the number of cels I own overall and for specific series.
But you can do that under "manage cels" in your account.

I don't login to maintain my account very often. Actually, I haven't logged in to do anything except blog once in the last few months. I do, however, enjoy regularly looking at my gallery from the perspective of a visitor. It's much easier than digging up cel books and I enjoy seeing the numbers in the main display. I don't see the point of looking at the numbers in "manage artwork," that would mean extra clicking on my part.

duotrouble · Post by **duotrouble** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 8:52 pm

Moop wrote:
duotrouble wrote:First, I think it looks tacky.
Tacky? As in, 'tastelessly showy'?

Thanks ever so.

You're ever so welcome!

You know, I'm always willing to lower your number of Uchihas.

Ah, WC, you see, I'm always tweaking my gallery as well as looking at it from a vistor point of view so I guess we really do have two totally different point of views. Interesting.

aernath · Post by **aernath** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 9:38 pm

I "showed" until there was a thread here last year or so about whether folks liked seeing it. The consensus was that folks didn't like it, so I turned it off.
*shrug*
Woop?

Moop · Post by **Moop** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 7:05 pm

duotrouble wrote:You know, I'm always willing to lower your number of Uchihas.

Bah. Itachi wears purple nail polish and Sasuke tromps around with his shirt open to his navel.

Clearly those boys thrive on tacky.

klet · Post by **klet** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 7:51 pm

I have mine up, but I don't remember if I set it up that way or if the option was automatically on to begin with. As it stands, I don't really care one way or the other, so I'm not going to go change it.

kymaera · Post by **kymaera** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 9:08 pm

My gallery is also there to help me keep track of things, so I like having the numbers up and don't plan to change.

Caroline · Post by **Caroline** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 10:53 pm

no numbers for me. aside from using them as a tracker for personal reasons, the only other advantage is to wow your visitors, *lol*... and sometimes i am definitely impressed by those (100+) next to a section. kudos to you guys!

klet · Post by **klet** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 10:56 pm

I tend to shy away from sections that have 100 cels . . . just because it would take soooo long to look at them all.

I'm thinking about breaking my big three up as it is, just to make browsing easier. "Thinking" being the operative word there.

redwolf · Post by **redwolf** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 11:54 am

For my own gallery, I don't like the numbers. I think my gallery looks sexier without that little bit of extra clutter. If I leave the numbers off, I have a little extra space to prevent my titles from wrapping to a second line. Plus, since I'm primarily collecting sketches nowadays, the numbers don't work so well. I sometimes put up the same sketches, still and animated versions, and I never put up each individual sketch. I like using my sketch thumbnails on every item possible.

However, the reason I originally turned the numbers off was because my gallery has a bunch of "phantom" cels (that I still haven't bothered to arrange so they can be removed), so the counts are all wrong anyhow.

For other galleries, I don't care either way. It's interesting info for a split second, but the actual cel/sketch images are what make a gallery more or less interesting, not the quantity.

klet wrote:I tend to shy away from sections that have 100 cels . . .

Yes. Especially when the gallery owner has the pages set to 4 or 6 instead of 18 or 24. If the owner also arranges the cels in a way that new cels are scattered all over, the small number of cels per page is even worse--I rarely feel like going through 10-20 pages to find a couple of new items.