Too Many Artist Images In Groups?

A very good point Karen. The Photography Only Group that I am Administrator for has over 128,000 images and as you say is slow to load. I took over the role in 2021 from a previous administrator and over time removed many images that were not photographs as that is the theme of the Group, also removing many images that were not family friendly. One other thing I have tried is to encourage Group members to place their photographic images in theme related Discussion Threads, i. e. Landscapes, wildlife portraits etc, with some success. Yet the initial problem remains on the main images page even with the restriction of only one upload to the Group per day from each member. It is difficult to see a way forward with over 1700 members in the Group after I also removed many members who still showed as members even though they have closed their FAA accounts.

And what if the image is featured?

>"No one is going to sift thru over 100,000 images" - The same problem exists with groups on Facebook and everywhere. Some solutions may have already been proposed on FB because this problem is widespread.

Did anybody look up possible solutions on FB?

Tibor you don't loose the feature even if the image were to be removed

The loading has nothing to do with how many images are there, it depends on your internet connection or the one of whoever is looking

The number of images in groups have nothing at all to do with page loading times

Each page shows the same number of images whether you have 1 page, or 100 pages. Only one page is opening, so only one page is loading. Only one page, not all the images pages. As you go to a new page, just that one new page is opening.

So groups image numbers has nothing to do with page loading time

If you have 100 features, that will slow down opening. Hence us requesting you keep to 30 featured images so only up to 30 are loading at a time

I didn't think an administrator could even delete images from a group. Using the remove button only puts them into the rejected category.

Hello Karen. I made a visit to your group and clicked on the images link, and I agree it takes and unreasonable amount of time to load images. I did same on both mine and other groups I follow with a similar number of images, and the images link worked much faster than your group.

Yep. Too many images in some groups.

If a buyer in interested in a group subject, they may scroll thru 2 or 3 pages. But if your image is buried back on page 50 you may be SOL. My personal advice is to view the group. If your image / name is not on the home featured page or on the first 5 pages or so, you should consider quitting the group.

Had a hard time finding the group to see how slow it is.

It's possible that due to large number of images, it's a big ask from the database to find and sort through the results, even if it's not actually loading the images. It still has to query through or return over 100K worth of results to determine which images to load on page 2 for example

Maybe you can split the large group into "sub-groups"...titled separately. Like Hotel Lobby Lighting. Hotel Lobby Furniture. Hotel Rugs. Or into groups of dominant colors if applicable. Green Lobby. Blue Lobby.

'It's possible that due to large number of images, it's a big ask from the database to find and sort through the results, even if it's not actually loading the images. It still has to query through or return over 100K worth of results to determine which images to load on page 2 for example'

That is not the case Jason. Going through a big database needs milliseconds. Otherwise a search on google would need days.

Again! Please read carefully

The number of images in groups have nothing at all to do with page loading times

Each page shows the same number of images whether you have 1 page, or 100 pages. Only one page is opening, so only one page is loading. Only one page, not all the images pages. As you go to a new page, just that one new page is opening.

So groups image numbers has nothing to do with page loading time

If you have 100 features, that will slow down opening. Hence us requesting you keep to 30 featured images so only up to 30 are loading at a time Karen has over double that on her home page which, by the way, opened just as fast as any other group for me. SO not too many images in groups but too many on her homepage.

I agree with you Abbie! What Karen is talking about with her hotel group, if I'm looking at the correct one, it takes much longer to load the images tab than the other top groups with similar number of images? https://fineartamerica.com/groups/hotel-lobby-artworks-1-per-day.html?tab=overview

No difference for me at all. She's got too many featured images