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Media page issues

I thought this deserved its own thread, as it's [possibly?] not related to the issues with the forum tweaks.

In the 'Media' area, when uploading photos I fill in assorted fields, but when viewing the photos, I'm not seeing some of them. Specifically, each image has a 'description' field, but its contents do not appear anywhere [that I've found] when viewing the photos.

I went to my album page without being logged in, and viewed some pictures. I think I tried everything that might result in seeing the descriptions, but came up empty. For example, I looked at images' 'information' tab, I viewed the album as a slideshow, I clicked on images, I scrolled down the whole page, etc., but no sign of descriptions.

Where are they? As a random visitor, I'm not seeing them.
 
The Media area is an absolute mess right now. I was hoping this was a feature that would "just work" but there's lots wrong with it right now. We'll first be using the Media Gallery to display slideshows of devices so before moving onto user integrations. We might have to push it back a bit, though, because we've got a lot of other things we want to do.

Thanks for reporting this to us... we may take "Media" out of the nav until it's ready... unless you like it there to play with things. Let us know either way!
 
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Okay, thanks @Rob. Yes, I do like playing with it, so if you leave it accessible I'd appreciate it.

Also, I'd be more than happy to test new features, try to break them, report issues, etc. I have nothing but time on my hands, and I'm well enough now that I can spend some time every day doing stuff on my computers/devices. If you don't know, a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I was a programmer and sysadmin on UNIX/Linux. I'm very familiar with launching new features...after trying my best to break them! :D PM me if you'd like.
 
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It's been a couple of months, so I thought I'd bring this up again, since it's still a problem.

After entering a description for each image in my album, I don't see it anywhere when viewing the photos.

As before, I've tried various ways of viewing them, but I never see their descriptions. Here are various shots:

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As you can see from the first shot, I've definitely entered a description...it just doesn't display anywhere. :thinking:
 
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