Album support?

[oracle2b]

Can you support the viewing of Albums on imgur.com ?

[ubershmekel]

In theory, yes. I wonder how this should work though. Perhaps I should show the first image and up/down arrows should appear when an album is displayed? I don't think redditp should just "inline" albums as more slides, though that would be the easy solution, because then large albums would steal attention from other images which got more karma juice per image.

[ilydlci]

I just got the following error when trying to display a Imgur album:

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'width' of null
at script.js:615
at Object.convert (EmbedIt.js:47)
at Object.embedit.embed (EmbedIt.js:126)
at createDiv (script.js:613)
at slideBackgroundPhoto (script.js:572)
at startAnimation (script.js:484)

Since the Imgur albums convertor calls the embedFunc callback with null.
I would call this an issue because although albums are not supported, the page should not break (instead it should show some error message and skip the unsupported link).

[Droyk]

So what happened @ubershmekel will album option ever come?

[ubershmekel]

I apologize, I realize albums are important and it's been a while. Especially for subreddits like /r/behindthegifs which are awesome. I would like to modify the way urls are converted to support many more kinds. Something like this: https://github.com/ubershmekel/urlpedia but I'm not yet quite sure about the details.

[Droyk]

I can understand that but my question is when you are going to implement it?
If you are just going to wait around then it will be too late this feature was requested on 2012 and now it is 2017.....
it's been 6 years and you are still thinking....

[ghost]

I think the best way to go about it, if you choose to work on this, might be to (as you said) display the first image, but have a separate redditp-like subapp (under redditp.com/a/..., perhaps) that just does a specific imgur album, and it could be opened with a particular hotkey.

[ubershmekel]

I agree a hotkey or a button should just allow browsing through the album.

[ghost]

@ubershmekel I might take a crack at adding imgur album support (just for browsing them at the moment) if you aren't already working on that.

[Droyk]

So after 7 years any updates?