User blog comment:Sarah Manley/Design your own photo galleries/@comment-163250-20100802171107

This has gone on long enough. You implemented a system that was not finalized, that had an impact on a wide range of projects, and continues to cause problems weeks after being added. To say your user loyalty is taking a hit is putting things nicely; the implementation of these new gallery features has been carried out in an amateurishness and unprofessional manner. We know everyone involved in the design was excited about it, and rightfully so, but it was pushed live much too early and at the moment its the contributors to projects on the network that are forced to pay the price for that mistake.

We will work with whatever you decide to use as a final implementation; you're not giving us any choice. But please pull the system for the moment, rework and run it through a thorough testing period, and then reestablish it on the network. Barring that, please alter the default display to mimic the original galleries.

We want to fix the layout of articles containing galleries, but with the continual tweaking to the system, if we do so right now we run the risk of having to start again from the beginning every week. The settings of the old galleries may not be ideal for everyone, but as has been mentioned before, they're what articles have been designed around.