Posts in Gallery vs platform/language mode

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[As this is for an Android audience, moving back to Android category at user request.] @GoToLoop

Moving this off the thread by @noel.

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In general, we move projects to the Gallery. This works well for Processing Java and p5.js, but posts for smaller platform/modes may feel that it hides them from the target audience.

For now, I think we can keep categorizing things as we have so far in general and just be responsive / aware if somebody wants to move something “back”. Discussion and suggestions welcome.

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Indeed, it’s not always crystal-clear which category a post belongs to. :confused:

IMO, the category “Gallery” is a general place where folks can post their work for every1 to find, regardless the target audience or programming language it has been coded in. :smile_cat:

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That is usually my thinking as well – we don’t want 5 galleries. But, in the case of smaller platforms with forum members who are only subscribed only to a specific channel, I can see why one might want to reach a specific audience. Too bad we can’t duel-list things by language and by type. Tagging would do this better.

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You’re right if the OP wishes to target a specific audience only.

However, when folks are looking up for things done in Processing, I think they’ll tend to search through the category Gallery rather than specific 1s.

Also consider that specific categories are more for troubleshooting rather than presenting complete works.

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I would like to argue that every user with a reasonable presence and experience on this forum, has the knowledge of how to target a specific user group.
I would also like to advice to let “messaging” enabled, so that this could be solved by a simple personal message

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Perhaps we do! But not as main categories, but as subcategories. :raising_hand_man:

That is, we should have a Gallery subcategory inside Android category and so on. :bulb:

This way, we won’t have work presentations mixed up together w/ troubleshooting questions. :partying_face:

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Interesting idea. So like Python Gallery, Android Gallery, etc?

If people are subscribed to Android and we made Android Gallery a subcategory, would they get notifications?

If we did that we might need to go through the current gallery and divvy it up.

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Not quite sure, but I believe so.

B/c when we use search for a specific category, we end up w/ posts of its subcategories as well.

Not sure about it, b/c the main Gallery category would still be the 1st place w/ much more visibility where folks go to see what Processing can do.

It’d be up for the poster to decide whether the post go:
The general main Gallery category, the platform specific subcategory or even repost on both!

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@noel, if there was a new Electronics > Gallery subcategory, and everyone subscribed to Electronics saw new posts in it, would you want to use it? Or would you prefer things like that in Electronics?

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Well actually I’m quite satisfied with the structure like it is now. It’s my thinking (and perhaps I’m just wrong about that), that the gallery is for art work; some place where you place some code that you are proud of. Lately I posted a topic with a link for widgets, but also important functions for P4 A, like saveFrame for instance. Until now I’ve never encountered this function on the internet. This was also re-categorized to the Gallery without asking. When I’m busy with other projects and don’t want to scroll all the new topics, I just click on my shortcut to Android, because that is of my most interest. That’s why I think that the functions I mentioned belong to the Android section. The post with the github link you can find here

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I think some people use Gallery for artwork, some use it to showcase “I made a thing that isn’t a Library (this is not a question)”. For example, I started the Rosetta Examples project, and I posted it in the Gallery – although perhaps it could have gone in Libraries.

I don’t answer Android questions so I am very happy to defer to you @noel. If you want to put whatever in the Electronics root and nobody is complaining then I think you should be able to do what you want, and I know that I’ll keep it in mind. I’m happy you are posting, and want whatever makes you happy.

That said, I really appreciate all the work that @GoToLoop does putting things in the right categories, especially from first-posters. We get a lot of stuff posted in the completely wrong place, and it is nice that somebody is willing to help keep the python and the Java in their own channels, etc.

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