So what prompted me to write this in the first place was the loss of another hundred or so comments due to somthing that is partially my mistake, and I THINK, partially bad design, I clicked on a link and it opened it up into the child window that spawns the gallery ap which of course kills the java ap with no warning. I'll go 50-50 on that one.
So after spending another 30 minutes painstaking-ly recommenting, I click upload and am confronted with "upload error: user cannot add to album" This happens probably 1 in 5 times I attempt this. I've yet to find a way to get around this other than closing the ap and restarting it. I'm logged in, I have perms on that gallery etc.
I perhaps should have added to my first post that I *do* appriciate the work ANY developer does, it's a lot of work and it's mostly thankless, I genuienly do appriciate it. However, nothing I said in my first post was untrue. The remote is failing, at least for me, to provide what is sorely missing in gallery, and that's a good robust (secure would be nice too) way to upload and comment pictures.
I haven't folled the development of GR, so I dont know where you've been but perhaps it's time to fork and try somthing new. I personally find java annoying and unreliable, maybe a c++/c app for windows would be better. But please take away from this that GR has many issues that hinder peoples(I'm not the only one, I know, I've talked to many people about this) enjoyment of this suite of software.