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I'm not 100% sure what the question is here, but it seems you want to compare X3 "gallery" layouts vs inserting images into your content manually? The difference really isn't too difficult to explain:

• X3's own "gallery" layout is very powerful for automatically creating galleries, in a wide range of layout combinations, from any amount of uploaded images. This is basically one of the core features of X3, which make it a "photo gallery"
• Inserting images into content manually, is very tedious (as I'm sure you are aware). It's really only something you would want to do if you are adding a lot of text (like a blog post) and really want to post images inside your texts.

Dane wrote:Is it possible to extend the automatic logout?

Depends what you mean "extend". The X3 gallery is already meant to be flexible, allowing a handful of different layout options (rows, columns, grid, slideshow, styles etc), something which is previewed in the pages on demo.photo.gallery. As you can see, there are a lot of combinations.

As for inserting images manually into content, then you are doing everything manually also, and layouts are limited. You would need to use HTML just to create some basic grids. Normally, you would only consider this if you want to mix images inside your content (text).

Dane wrote:https://www.linsenschuss.de/blog/Astrof ... _12082025/

For me, this works fine, and is also simple integration because you are using X3's own gallery. I like the "large" thumbnails. The only thing I would mention, is that I would perhaps set "context" module to "narrow" or "narrower", because the text looks a bit too wide to read comfortable (should be as wide as a page in a book). In your case, you might think there is a lot of text to read before the user gets to any images ... You could perhaps add a button at the top that scrolls down "see images", just so the visitor is aware, and so they have a shortcut, but it's not necessary.

The other option of course is to mix text/images manually from the "content" section, but that becomes more clumsy, and doesn't necessarily provide a much better alternative.

Another option for blog-like gallery pages where you want text, while still keeping it automated, could be using "vertical" or "vertical split", and have your texts as longer captions.
https://demo.photo.gallery/galleries/landscapes/
https://demo.photo.gallery/examples/gallery/screenbox/
https://demo.photo.gallery/examples/variations/split/

Dane wrote:But if you want to show one or more images between certain texts or descriptions, the gallery is not ideal, as it always appears at the end.

Yes of course, but this is kinda logical. If you want to create a "story" with images mixed with text, that will always be a manual process. Not only because you need to manually insert text and photos, but also because there is no "automated" process that could handle this for you.

Dane wrote:https://www.linsenschuss.de/blog/Astrof ... 11-EdgeHD/

This is a nice layout for a "story" for those especially interested to read and understand the article. Although it could theoretically be possible to alleviate AI to build such a layout, I think it's too early to bring that into the conversation.

Dane wrote:I like the split function of your examples. I use this option for my startpage: https://www.linsenschuss.de/

Indeed a good way to emphasize captions alongside photos, although not necessarily a sufficient replacement for manually built "story" pages.

Dane wrote:To return to my first post as an example. I have four images in the gallery there. Would it be possible to insert each photo individually as a “split” between the text? In general, is it not possible to split the gallery displayed at the end and distribute it throughout the text?

How would X3 know where to "split" the gallery though? Or where to "distribute" the text? That is why I mentioned using a layout with image captions, as that's the only programmatic way to have images->text aligned accordingly.

Theoretically, there could have been some option in "content" section to perhaps insert images "some text [images 3,4,9] more text", but this doesn't solve the layout, and it's not really any better than then inserting images manually ...

Dane wrote:There was a misunderstanding regarding my logout request. This question did not refer to the gallery, but to the forum here. I had written my text and wanted to click on “send,” but then I was logged out, and the entire text was lost, and I had to rewrite my post.

Sorry, I misread "logout" for "layout".

Unfortunately, this forum is a bit dodgy at times. I would like to replace it with Flarum in the future (the same one I use at forum.files.gallery). When writing a post, to stay safe, I would recommend: 1. First refresh the page when you are on the "post" or "reply" page, and 2. Copy the text into memory at periods when writing, just in case it vanishes for some reason.

Dane wrote:This time, there is a video in the post, which is displayed first. So far, so good. But as you can see in the example, the video is displayed very large. Is there a sensible way to display it a little smaller? So that it fills the page on mobile devices, but is reduced in size accordingly in the browser on PCs?

When videos are added automatically, they will simply inherit the "width" of your gallery module. If you only have one video, why not instead "hide" it from the gallery and insert it manually into your content? This way, the video will already be limited to the same width as your text, which is probably optimal.

Optionally, you could use some custom CSS to limit the width of videos on large desktops, but the outcome will be same or similar to adding it into the content section.

Dane wrote:So that it fills the page on mobile devices, but is reduced in size accordingly in the browser on PCs?

It already does that now, and would also do that if you add it directly into the content. In your case, you really just want to limit the width on large screens, while keeping it max width on smaller/mobile screens.