New forum & Photo gallery software up for testing

[Steve St.Laurent]

Not to mention the albums being hard to navigate and never being in alphabetical order.

Hammer, looked back over your post and saw this. You can view the member galleries in alphabetical order as well as by the newest photos posted (so you can keep up with new stuff posted, etc), most active, and most views. Click on the member galleries link on the main page and then in the box above the pics you'll see a sort by drop down box - pull that down and change it to alphabetical.

 

[Jeepr]

I'm having the same problem, it prompts for a userid/password and mine doesn't work.

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

As said above and posted in the first thread:

When you go to the forums you'll be prompted for a test username and password - type in test for both. Then login to the forums with your existing username and password. The user database is from back in december so if you've joined since then or have changed your password it won't work (unless you remember your old password). Thanks in advance for your help.

I had to do that because the license agreement for vBulletin doesn't allow you to have a 2nd copy except for testing purposes AND it can't be accessible to the general public. By putting that first prompt there that you have to log in as username test password test that makes it legal.

 

[B KIRK]

Steve, will we be able to link pictures in the current reader rigs to the new software, of will it work on only the present links?

I have a "hidden" album that contains a lot of charts, tech pics, etc.

If not, will there be a option in the new albums to have a hidden one.



Thanks, Brad

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

There is an option to create a hidden album in the new software. You click on My Albums and then click on create an album and there is an option there to make it a private album. I'm not sure what you mean by linking pictures in the current readers rigs to the new software. If you mean the forums you'll be able to link to existing pictures that you have in the readers rigs section just like you do now - the readers rigs section will not be going away, it will still be there - you just won't be able to add new photos to it or modify existing ones. All new photos will go in the photo gallery software. If you mean have pictures that are in the current readers rigs section show up in the photo gallery you'll need to reupload those to the photo gallery just like they were new pics. I hope that answers your questions.

 

[B KIRK]

Yes, I meant the reader rigs to forums.

Wasn't very clear on that.

Thanks Steve.



Brad

 

[dmhollister]

Just tried to upload a large picture from Moab and the upload screen worked for awhile and then came back with upload failed error. This pic was very large over 2,000,000 bytes. Is there an upper maximum that the photo software wont resize from?

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

Theoretically there shouldn't be but I would guess that depending on your upload speed it may take so long that it might time out. How long did it go before it came back with the upload failed error? I just tried uploading a 2. 1mb image and got the same thing and then uploaded a 1. 8mb image and it went through. I'm pretty sure it's because it's timing out.

 

[dmhollister]

I have a fast cable modem. It only took about 1 min 30 sec to timeout. Does the upload program time out or does my upload timeout?



just resized the pic to large email size in microsoft picture manager and tried again and recieved this error:



"Your file of 517. 1 KB bytes exceeds the forum's limit of 173. 8 KB for this filetype"

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

Aha, after digging further there is an upload limit of 2mb set on the server. I need to think about whether we should increase that or not - 2mb is a pretty large limit and the pictures will be resized down from that anyways.

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

What type of file was it that you were uploading? bmp, jpg, gif? My guess is that it's a bmp image. It looks like it can only resize jpg, gif, and png files. The image libraries do not support resizing bmp's.

 

[dmhollister]

My wife takes large pictures with her digital camera to ensure no graininess when enlarged. The file type was a jpeg.

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

That's strange because I've uploaded (and many others have too) many jpg's that were over 178,000 bytes and under 2mb. You shouldn't have any problem with jpg files as long as they are under 2mb.

 

[Jumbo Jet]

Clicking on First Time Help in the Beta Test Forum puts me back into the current production forum.



I have been using IE v7. 0 and Firefox v1. 0 and all seems to be good so far. But I am easy to please!

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

Clicking on any of the menus up top except for the discussion forums menu and the photo gallery menu will bring you to the current site. The only things changing are the forums and the addition of the photo gallery. All of the other menus up there are other parts of the site

 

[rbattelle]

Steve, any changes to the way it handles multi-page threads? I've always wanted a "show all" button like some other software has.



If you get a chance, put a big multi-page thread out there so we can see how it handles it. Like the "Great Smoke Stories" thread or something.



On edit:

I notice under your name you've got that big "SUPPORTING VENDOR" icon. Are you just testing that feature?



Any chance we could have the ability to put an icon under our name? Or are we going to start getting "categories" based on post count?



Ryan

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

Actually, there's a show all button in this version too - click on the thread tools pull down just above all the posts and you'll see "show all posts on one page". There's no way for me to move a thread over to the test site so I can't do that. The supporting vendor thing under my name was just for testing because I didn't have any posts there by a person who was a supporting vendor. We're discussing the possibility of allowing avatars under your name now - juries still out at this time.

 

[CUMMINZ]

Is that 2mb limit a per photo limit or per post limit?



CUMMINZ

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

2mb per photo

 

[16919]

The first pic is the better one.....