User blog comment:Ieatrice/New Image Galleries Available in Labs/@comment-3544775-20141018011439

To be honest, this looks bad, I hope this won't become forced change in the future. The current gallery is far more better looking and with better functions.

Overall your are stripping functions (border, image thumb size, square/original shape, etc). The square looking images look bad, because they crop out things. You may click and see the rest, but the idea of the thumb is to see what is the image, not only it's center.


 * "The gallery can be adjusted to show all images by default (up to 100)" - if there is a limit, then it's not "all", after that you end up clicking "show more" again and again.
 * "new galleries are cropped square, to allow for optimal use of space." - yeah, sure, optimal. I can see 8 images on 2 lines, while with the old one I can see 12 with original shape thumb (if "spacing=small", otherwise 5 per line, not 6). The gallery is with fluid layout and on 1920x1080 the thumb square sizes are 300x300, it's way too big and ugly. 12 images thumbs takes up all my screen resolution. And adding that big new global navigations, I won't be even able to see the whole 12 thumbs When I minimize my browser, it's get better, but on maximum resolutions it's just plain ugly and big.

Here is the example with Captain America gallery:
 * old: http://www.imagebam.com/image/e48e7a358483229
 * new: http://www.imagebam.com/image/d104b6358483245

Definitely the old one looks much better, it requires less scrolling and not clicking "show more".