I apologize for going off last night but if you can get past my swearing I hope you guys can see my frustration regarding image uploading and requesting an easy to use drag-and-drop feature. I took a few pictures to show what I mean and put them in a folder on my desktop as
@Amy Gardner suggested just so I could upload them. And when trying to upload those pictures I encountered another problem. Albums. It seems I wasn't able to upload my pictures without creating an album to upload them too. Why can't I just upload to my personal Member Gallery section like before? Do I really need to create a new album every time I want to upload pictures? WW week 5 album, Kush week 5 album, Kush week 6 album, Kush week 7 album, JH veg album, GC veg album, am I doing it wrong or do I seriously need to create a new album for every upload or set of images? And if I can put them all into the same album why can't that album simply be Member Galleries?
Anyways, on to the images to show the main problem. The issue isn't technically uploading images because I can, the issue is being able to upload them easily using a drag-and-drop feature instead of breaking my finger from all the double clicking through directories or having to have a dedicated folder for 420 uploads where I copy pictures to upload and then gotta delete.
Okay so I go to the Add Media page and click on the Upload File button and I get this:
I should mention I'm using Windows XP so admittedly my file upload looks and works different to those with newer OS's and if I had a newer OS it would look similar to the image
@Bonsaiweed showed and would be easier to use than the WinXP file upload, but with that being said WinXP isn't the problem because everything worked great on the previous website with the whole drag-and-drop and my OS wasn't a problem then so it shouldn't be now. And I'd rather jump ship and find another website with easy image uploading rather than having to fork out several thousand dollars for a new computer that can handle a newer OS just to upload pictures here easily. Anywho, back to the point. So using that Windows File Upload box I then have to navigate through each directory to get where I want to go:
After much double clicking through directories I get to where I wanna go. The upload thingie does remember the last used folder I was viewing so that's good, I thought I'd have to start all over again from that first image. So less annoying than I thought it was. But using this there'd still be a lot of clicking on the Back/Up buttons to go back/up directories and then double clicking to get to the directory I want. Directory hunting aside as you can see I view my files by list or details. Not very useful to view images. I use Windows to navigate my directories and I use a different program to view what's in those directories. But I can fix that problem by changing the view from list/details to thumbnails:
Atleast now I can see my pictures and from here I can hold SHIFT or CTRL to select them all or just the ones I want (from this directory only, I'd have to upload those pictures and open a new upload box and navigate to a different directory to upload other pictures). But the thumbnail size used by Windows is small and the number of images viewable is limited by the File Upload window size. And another problem is that as soon as I click Open/Submit/Upload that File Upload box disappears then I gotta click more to get it back and use the Back/Up buttons and double clicking to navigate directories. Using the Windows File Upload thing to navigate directories is a nightmare. What I would like (drag-and-drop) is to be able to have a separate folder open (or image viewing software) to keep the directory structure open so I'd just have to single click on the + or - to open or collapse directories and single click to view that directory. As so:
See how using that makes things so much simpler and easier than the Windows File Upload? Nothing disappears, no having to double click or back/up, the directory structure remains the same and open and easy to navigate, and this directory structure remains open and stable regardless of using Windows (like above) or using a decent image viewing software (like ACDSee). Using multiple directories to keep things organized may be 'overly complicated' to some but I like to keep my stuff atleast semi structured. But again I use list/details to view my files which isn't very useful for viewing images. But that's simple enough to change the view to thumbnails and I can resize the window to view more thumbnails at once:
Okay great, I can easily navigate my files and directories now and even though I prefer details not thumbnails I can see my pictures to have a better idea which I'd like to upload. But the thumbnail size is small which I can't change (but can in an image viewing software). And because it's just a thumbnail most of the time I'd want to see the full sized image so I can be sure it's a good pic to upload or if it just looked good in the thumbnail but I can't hold SHIFT or CTRL to select multiple files and want to open one to check it out because as soon as I open that image it would deselect all the others (or open them all and give my computer a seizure). And if I've gotta open the picture to full size to view anyways then why not just use a dedicated image viewing software instead of Windows? But regardless of which you used the big problem remains because using a Windows folder or image viewing software to navigate and view my images doesn't mean squat when there is no way to get the pictures from there to here (like drag-and-drop) and the only way to upload is restricted to using just that stupid Windows File Upload thing.
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