Post #443376 by Humuhumu on Sun, Mar 29, 2009 10:22 AM

Introducing Image Galleries

Critiki has over 2,500 images—a massive repository of photographs and archive materials from tiki locations, past and present. Up to now, the only way to see these images has been to go through Critiki location-by-location.

There have been many times I've wanted to be able to just look at all of the menus, or all of the postcards, or all of the matchbooks, from all of the locations, in one gallery of images.

This is one of those things that is easily within the realm of possibility, but making it so took some work. I had to go back through all the existing images to mark them according to their contents. It's been a lot of work, but looking through tiki images is one of my favorite things to do, so it was hardly a chore.

I have to say, the reward is wonderful. Critiki has a new way to browse: by Images.

I will be rolling out a new Image Gallery each day. The first one is A-frames.

Seriously, it's straight-up tiki porn.

Images Are Now Credited to Usernames

Critiki has used real names for image credits, because I want to have a record of who really owns which images. But now, if you've selected a username for your Critiki account, that will be used to give you credit, instead of your real name (your real name is still kept in the records behind-the-scenes). If you select a username, all the pictures you've uploaded to Critiki in the past will be credited to the new username. (Some very early Critiki images may not make the switch -- let me know if there are images of yours that don't switch over to your username, and I'll fix it.)

You can select a username by logging in and going to Edit Profile.

Frequently Asked Questions

I've added a FAQ to Critiki, let me know if you have any questions that aren't answered by the FAQ.