new gallery No idea why

Never log out as I just use my wee screened net book. The kids do have access atm as the big one has died a sudden death!! Have to say they are not at sll interested in creating gallery' though, or making me a new member of the community!! Hey ho, the gremlins have more ideas than I do!!

It seems I created a gallery last Sunday 25 9 2011 by magic.  

Ohh,  I seem to have created a gallery from the ether, notwithstanding automatic login - for the third time, I think

Hi all, our technical staff have supplied some insight into why this happens, nothing to worry about just a bit of a glitch generated by our efforts to keep the forum ticking over nicely by the sounds of things! Hope this explains it adequately!

Every user who logs into the Community has a personal gallery created for them – even if they only register and then never come back. The quantity of empty personal galleries was having a severely detrimental effect on Community performance. So, to help alleviate the issue, we run a script once a month which deletes all empty galleries. Any user who then logs on after having their gallery deleted, gets it recreated again, just in case they ever want to use it. The reason people see duplicate gallery creation messages is usually because they double-clicked the sign in button – which activates the creation script twice. Sadly community is not clever enough to ignore the second click if it’s done quickly enough.

Thanks for the explanation Ian :-)

I too have just noticed on my profile I've created 3 new galleries!

Very peculiar lol

Becca :-)

I've merged this thread to another on the same issue, see my earlier answer as to why this is occurring!

I can understand me slipping up ref double clicking but some very experienced people are getting the same problems.  I was surprised at how many.

  Ray

Hopefully this glitch will not be causing any further confusion as the 'new gallery' message has now been turned off!