Currently the major issue is simply how to transfer the 6-7,000 images in these galleries efficiently onto the Channel; this should be possible with a script, though tagging detail will be sacrificed (I suppose I can always leave that to users though). Hopefully I will be about this soon.

I am not sure if I will preserve them as pools, since most of them are quite loosely gathered, and two or three tags in a search could fetch them and more.

Even replacing the galleries entirely with a view on the Channel would be possible, though that would need careful consideration.

Another issue is that the Channel does not at current get the sort of feed, Google and social bookmarking exposure the galleries do, so from that perspective they still serve an essential function.

As to how easy the vaious options are to use, that is something I need feedback on - obviously I don’t use the galleries myself in the same way as users do, so it is hard to tell.