Leslie Reid Posted March 9, 2017 Author Share Posted March 9, 2017 (edited) 9 Mar (Glenn Palm) Thank you for your feedback, it is important to let us know how you feel. We are listening, just because we don't reply to all - doesn't mean they are not read. We're a relatively small team trying to build something for us all that is much more sustainable. To users that were very familiar with photo.net yes - clearly this is quite a change. There were many reasons for the change - as always there is never just one reason, but starting with the explanation here - which in and of itself is an important piece to remember - but then look beyond that - new users were not taken with v1 (ie the old photo.net) they were not uploading at the rate they were between 2000-2010, what we had was (as you described) a club like atmosphere for users that were used to the way things were done - but new users more and more were not taking to v1, leaving us with a trend we had to reverse. Now of course - we can have our differing opinions on this, but with v2 we have upgraded the photography presentation (kind of important to a photography site) and upgraded the forums to something that will have regular updates and upgrades. We have upgraded our CMS ( content management system) and have new fresh content being loaded in which we will be integrating throughout the site. Both CMS and Forum updates and upgrades won't be custom build every time these upgrades and updates are done. This new platform allows us many more possibilities the old platform did not. Yes - mobile presentation is important - look around everyone is (sadly) on their phones and as of now it is 1/3 of our traffic. The old site was not mobile friendly at all. In the end the community is the people within it and much less so the platform they operate within - but we will continue to keep improving on this new platform - we could not continue to build on the old platform - it was not sustainable given it was early 90s tech - AOL server programmed in TCL. Custom build, 1 mechanic, no parts available - no owner of photo.net would continue to invest there. (link) Edited March 17, 2017 by Leslie Reid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leslie Reid Posted March 9, 2017 Author Share Posted March 9, 2017 9 Mar (Glenn Palm) On paragraph breaks: Please report back if it is not working, but Jin fixed it and we've tested and released. It was inconsistent, which was one of the issues but Jin seems to have solved the riddle. (link) [editorial comment from LR: :) ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leslie Reid Posted March 17, 2017 Author Share Posted March 17, 2017 16 Mar (Glenn Palm) Update 3/16 https://www.photo.net/my/settings Show / Hide Share buttons Gallery / Profile / Photo by user preference Custom light dark themes to Gallery / Profile / Photo see (link) for screen shots explaining new functions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leslie Reid Posted March 17, 2017 Author Share Posted March 17, 2017 16 Mar (Glenn Palm) Will have [a new update post] soon - another release is being tested now before it's live. (link) Database went through an update, we will be posting scheduled outages in the future - the tech guys are often working when I am not available to post which is what happened there - we were down for ~ 15 minutes however our up time is still at 99.5% - you happened to visit in the .5%. Apologies - notices will be posted in the future. (link) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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