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This is a nice option if you're not yet commited to the seperate media gallery -

We don't have or want individual user galleries or albums but are image heavy with general reference galleries.  We got Waindigo to update & compliment his thumbnails add-on with the thread gallery add-on & option to require an image in the opening post in the designated forums.      The gallery view allows us to show gallery forums with multiple columns & rows of thumbnails but still responsive - showing 1 column on smart-phone.

With those add-ons a regular thread is started.  If a member posts a image in a regular non-gallery view forum that we deem worthy of inclusion in our galleries we can just move it.  Also visa-versa.

Using the BD widget framework we have different boxes in the side bar for new gallery posts & new topics. 

This is standard functionality on our current EOL plaform.  The reason we're going to be on XF is we were able to get this functionality written as an add-on.  We had no success getting it written for  other platforms prioir to learning about XF.