I'm not sure of the best way to describe this but I was curious if there was a way to have a sort of hybrid between the forum and image gallery? What I am envisioning is having a category for say Portraits and within that someone posts a picture of their cat with a title and that is considered a "thread" that people can then post under with their own profile information like in the regular forums instead of just has quick comments similar to what you see on blog posts.
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Hi, @Rowyn Watts what an interesting vision, in fact there are many of forums based on photographs, other visual media. Authors can share their works and other members can respond sharing their works too. Could you explain why didn't forum work for your case? What were you missing?