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Gallery update

Posted on July 14, 2025 by: Rob van der Linde
Filed under: Announcements, Developments
Tags: gallery, wainuiomata, website

It's been a while since I've posted any updates on the website, but this morning I did a small update to the gallery to support nested albums.

It may not even be initially noticable, but the album list in the sidebar now displays sub-albums rather than albums at the top-level like before. This change was necessary to support nested albums. The downside is having to go up a level to go into another album. Maybe I'll improve that one day with a fresh design.

I have a large photo dump from an old friend to put up on the website, which needs sorting through. He passed away but was a fan of the wainuiomata.com website and it was his wish to put his photos up there. But there are so many photos there, that some level of nesting of the albums will be required.

In other news, we have a Discord now, go to discord.wainuiomata.com to join. The idea is to revive the community we once had going with the forums, however forums are now a thing of the past so we've setup a Discord intsead.

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Reversing temporary mobile fix

Posted on January 23, 2024 by: Rob van der Linde
Filed under: Announcements, Developments
Tags: wainuiomata, website, gallery, theme, zoom, mobile

The other week I added a tiny improvement to the current website theme to make it a little more bearable on mobile. This was to set the default zoom level to 1.0, unfortunately it also has had some side-effects with the gallery which means I will be forced to roll it back soon.

It has made viewing photos in the gallery weird on mobile only, unless you zoom out fully first before clicking on the image. However people won't know that and will likely just see the site as "broken" instead, which is no good.

At first I was thinking "what if we just turn off zoom default of 1.0 for the gallery", the problem with that is it will lead to an inconsistent user experience with some pages looking zoomed in and others not. The other problem with it is that blog pages are also affected by this, not just the gallery.

So the best solution is to roll that bit back I think. Rushing the new design through faster isn't going to happen in these heat levels, it's been hard to function at all.

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