'Public' for Albums Privacy as default

How to set 'Public' as a default instead of 'Me Only' for albums privacy of photos/sounds/videos?

I was confused when I tried to view other user`s photos and got an 'acess denied' message. I suppose there should be a way to set the privacy of albums to Public as a default? 

Or maybe remove some of privacy options?

This has been discussed several times on the forums and I am still unclear how "default" works.  You can turn on "default" groups and there is also a setting that will allow members to set their default values for everything from their account.

 Hello

You may do a simple custom modification. You need to edit inc/classes/BxDolFilesUploader.php file and find addObjectToAlbum function. Then find the following line in it

$iPrivacy = $sAlbumUri == $oAlbums->getAlbumDefaultName() ? BX_DOL_PG_HIDDEN : BX_DOL_PG_NOBODY;

and replace it with this one

$iPrivacy = $sAlbumUri == $oAlbums->getAlbumDefaultName() ? BX_DOL_PG_HIDDEN : BX_DOL_PG_ALL;

The changes will be applied to new albums only.

Thank you very much Anton, simple and easy solution to a very uncomfortable issue :)

What I am seeing, unless changes were made after my last update, is that albums default to public and this creates a nightmare if members upload explicit photos.  X-rated photos on a community site that is not geared towards adult only is bad news.  It can also get you knocked down by PayPal which does not allow adult sites through their payment system.

 Hello

 You are welcome. :)

Hello 

You are right it can be a problem in some cases, therefore by default Dolphin uses Me Only privacy group for albums. However if you don't have "X-rated photos" in your community and want that photo/sound/video albums will be public by default, then you may apply the fix. :)

Was this changed in 7.1.1 because my default installation of Dolphin 7.1 has albums defaulting the privacy to public.

 Hello

I don't remember exactly but I checked Dolphin 7.1.0 B1 and B2 and both of them had 'Me Only' privacy group by default.

 My website is not adult-oriented and is mostly timeline based, so for my users it will be very uncomfortable when viewing some media content on other users timeline to be denied from access. And for the timelime owner changes in the album can be annoying, especially if it is a new member. I am trying to keep all the possible details like this fixed before putting website into WWW.

I am going through my website every day fixing some small flaws and almost everytime I am finding something new. And those small flaws can really affect quality/popularity of website.

 Just a quick question to be sure- the fix you helped me with will work for all types of files- photo/sound/video?

I see that changes are done in ..FileUploader.php but I just want to make sure if I do or don`t have to do more fixes.

My site is not an adult site but members are free to upload boobie pics if they wish; just don't want those pics being out on the front page of the site where anyone, members or otherwise, can see them.

Hello 

You don't need to do any additional changes because BxDolFileUploader.php is used in Files, Photos, Sounds and Videos modules.