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@@ -51,3 +51,36 @@ i'm new to ikiwiki, apologies if this is dealt with elsewhere.  -brush
 > This plugin is pretty ambitious, and is unfinished, so I'd recommend
 > playing with  a normal IkiWiki installation for a bit, then trying
 > out this plugin when you've mastered the basics of IkiWiki. --[[smcv]]
+
+----
+
+You had wanted my feedback on the design of this. I have not looked at the
+code or tried it yet, but here goes. --[[Joey]]	
+
+* Needing to create the albumimage "viewer" pages for each photo
+  seems like it will become a pain. Everyone will need to come up
+  with their own automation for it, and then there's the question
+  of how to automate it when uploading attachments.
+* With each viewer page having next/prev links, I can see how you
+  were having the scalability issues with ikiwiki's data structures
+  earlier!
+* And doesn't each viewer page really depend on every other page in the
+  same albumsection? If a new page is added, the next/prev links
+  may need to be updated, for example. If so, there will be much
+  unnecessary rebuilding.
+* One thing I do like about having individual pages per image is
+  that they can each have their own comments, etc.
+* Seems possibly backwards that the albumimage controls what album
+  an image appears in. Two use cases -- 1: I may want to make a locked
+  album, but then anyone who can write to any other page on the wiki can
+  add an image to it. 2: I may want an image to appear in more than one
+  album. Think tags. So it seems it would be better to have the album
+  directive control what pages it includes (a la inline).
+* Putting a few of the above thoughts together, my ideal album system
+  seems to be one where I can just drop the images into a directory and
+  have them appear in the album index, as well as each generate their own wiki
+  page. Plus some way I can, later, edit metadata for captions,
+  etc. (Real pity we can't just put arbitrary metadata into the images
+  themselves.) This is almost pointing toward making the images first-class
+  wiki page sources. Hey, it worked for po! :) But the metadata and editing
+  problems probably don't really allow that.