Save photos directly to Shroomok website via Discord Bot

Hello and welcome

This is a quick tech update on what was done for Shroomok project during past few weeks.

Let's start from simple!

LightBox — convenient way to look through article images

If you've are not new to Shroomok, you've got to remember that each picture was opening in a new browser tab. Nobody blamed me for that :) however such behaviour could annoy users.

Finally, I've installed free version of LightBox script which gives an opportunity to slide through all photos within article with no need to leave the page. Simple? Yes. Сomfortable? Hope so!

Shroomok Gallery & Tags

Mushroom Gallery finally shipped!

Here you can find and go trough all (858 at the moment) photos that have been used on a website. Beautiful, isn't it?

Link to the new section can be found in the top of sidebar menu.

To make navigation simpler, I suggest to use hashtags section which you can find at the bottom of Gallery page.

It's still a bit messy because photos were tagged automatically (based on titles).

P.S. You always can take a part and make Shroomok better - just drop me a message in Shroomok Discord :)

Discord Bot to upload your photos on Shroomok website

Last, but not the least.

I love Shroomok Discord community, I love Shroomok website too. I love the idea to integrate them as tightly as possible.

This year, some of you already shared own experience here, on a website. Users with 'writer' role are able to login into Shroomok and write articles. Fantastic! It was a first brick in a bridge between Discord and Web.

From now our community got a new cool member - ShroomokBot!

Birthday was a bit painful, PHP & WebSockets probably not the best friends, but who cares? I've built my first Discord Bot, who I believe, will become a real game changer!

Thanks to DiscordPHP community and, especially, to Robert Snedeker who didn't give me up in hard moment :)

Purpose is to build a grand gallery with tagged photos of harvest, different strains, species, contaminants, equipment, ideas, problems, solutions and so on. Our Discord already packed with tons of cool stuff which can be super usable after some classification job!

ShroomokBot can help with the part of this process. Click on a message with photos you'd like to upload on Shroomok.com, choose 'Apps' -> 'Save to shroomok.com'. Square window with 3 inputs will pop up. Fill the title, description, tags and push 'Submit' button

If everything's good, ShroomokBot will respond with a huge thanks and URL where you can find just added images!

A few moments later it will appear in main Shroomok gallery!

Currently, it's in testing mode so only I can use it. The optimistic plan is to grant permissions on bot to every Discord member, but it needs some preparation first.

P.S All exif-data erasing before upload

Thank you for reading to this moment! You always can make positive impact on Shroomok community, do not hesitate to contact with me, I appreciate it very much.

Have a nice weekend and happy growing!