Have we arrived?

Would that add on allow changing the font for just one site or does it apply to all?

 

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll look into seeing how an add-on works with my browser and 27" display at its native 1920x1080 screen resolution. Of course this is something I'ld like to avoid.

Stylish allows setting for a given site or URL, e.g. in Firefox:

 

@-moz-document domain("photo.net") {

* { font-family: "serif" !important; }

}

 

It can be used also for other transformations here, e.g. the following disables some of the useless wasteful photo.net elements:

 

@-moz-document domain("photo.net") {

#container-photographer-cover, #cover-potd, #navstop-discover, #navstop-develop, #navstop-discuss, .h2-teasers, .p-teasers, #photo-zoom-button-container, #photo-zoom-details-container, li.container-photo, h2.marg-top {

display: none;

}

}

Another important web browser add-on for photo.net is Greasemonkey. The following snippet swaps photos of the day / week / editor's pick with the article grid on the front page. So you can see, together with disabling wasteful elements as suggested above, photo of the day etc. at the top of the page, without scrolling. It's not perfect, but still much better than the original.

 

var container = document.getElementById('wrapper-fullwindow');

var articles = document.evaluate("//div[@class=grid]", container, null, XPathResult.FIRST_ORDERED_NODE_TYPE, null).singleNodeValue;

var photos = document.evaluate("//div[@class=bg-white]", container, null, XPathResult.FIRST_ORDERED_NODE_TYPE, null).singleNodeValue;

articles.parentNode.insertBefore(photos, articles);

I believe you can override the font using Stylish or other web browser add-on.

 

In Firefox (at least for Mac) you can do this in the preferences by selecting Content > Fonts and Colors > Advanced Be sure on the advanced window to deactivate the ability of the Webpage to pick its font.

 

You can pick any font you have but some may not play well with the Web author's spacing parameters.

This site has been absolutely screwy for the last 30 minutes or so. Portfolio pictures failing to load or taking forever, back arrow taking me completely out of a gallery where I had been viewing a picture (today in the Favorite Photographers Gallery, after viewing a photo, the back button takes me out of the gallery and into my Favorite Pictures Gallery.) This kind of thing has happened several times previously, on an almost daily basis. Sometimes checking back later I find that the gallery is again working normally (though hardly well). It's worrisome that nearly 6 weeks after implementation this site is still experiencing such serious glitches. Even more worrisome is that so few people seem to notice or care. Oh, by the way, on my homepage under forum posts, I'm informed I have made no comments. Lucky I'm not a conspiracy theorist.

In Firefox (at least for Mac) you can do this in the preferences by selecting Content > Fonts and Colors > Advanced Be sure on the advanced window to deactivate the ability of the Webpage to pick its font.

 

You can pick any font you have but some may not play well with the Web author's spacing parameters.

 

I just tried this and it does NOT work for PhotoNet. In fact, it only works with some sites (and not many it appears).

 

Sorry for taking anyone on a wild goose chase.

Thanks DrBen. You didn't send me on a wild goose chase but I appreciate your thoroughness in your suggestions.

 

Besides, after zamazal's Style's customized coding demo, I'm going to wait and see if Photo.net can change to a serif font. Since it took them a while to get the paragraph breaks working I'm going to give them plenty of time on forum font style changing. They've got more important things to work on anyway.

Amazing to see how long it takes to upload an image (1,4 mb) to my portfolio. I have finished my attempts. Where are my images? I only see a lot of empty fields. And how long will it take for photo.net to digest the fact that I live in Europe and not in America? I have changed this item a couple of times. But every time i check this it has been restored to America. There is of course a slight chance that I am not aware of the fact that I actual live in the USA. However, generally spoken I am not happy with the new design of photo.net

So, is this it, the brave new photo experience that's suppose to wow and bring in new subscribers by the boat loads? All this change for a little better graphics and minimizing most of our other controls? Well, photo views are down, photo comments are down, photos submitted for critique are running about 6 to 8 images a day, yep a day, and this forum, site help, has gone stagnant with many of the bug issues unresolved.

 

So, is this it? The take it or leave it attitude seems to be working, at least for the leaving part.... Mike

 

 

Well, I started this thread (original post above) somewhat facetiously but now realize that I was clairvoyant. Wish I'd bought a lottery ticket.

 

Can anyone honestly say that anything of substance has changed since this dog was released?

• The "Back" button is still an adventure. Kinda odd that it works on every other site on the internet.
  
• Galleries are still a jumbled mess.
  
• It's still impossible to track both our own comments and others without email help. And even with email it's an entire portfolio search to find the image with the new comment.
  
• Every browser on the market seems to respond and behave differently. Again, really odd that all other sites seem to work just fine on all browsers.
  
• Speed is still lacking, even though this has reportedly been the number one work item.
  
• I remain convinced that neither the programmers or management ever opens the photo critiques, otherwise they would recognize it's unusable.
  

I could go on and on with all the issues that fill this so called "Help" forum, but they've all been repeated ad nauseam and nothing is being done.

 

All this frustration has taken the joy out of the Photo Net that I've used and enjoyed for 10 years and I've decided to release the stress. I just spent part of two days deleting every image from my portfolio, ten years worth of comments, help and fraternization with some of the nicest people on this globe. A sad end just so management can attract "new users" from the Tweet and Facebook zombies. Isn't it sweet how they all "like" each other. By the way, that doesn't look like it's working so well, the same 30-40 members seem to frequent the site.

 

I remain hopeful that somewhere around V15 some of the function we lost from V1 will return. A shame all my old friends won't be around to see it. I'm outa here... Mike Mancil

+1 to Mike's comments. I am also deleting all my photos and leaving this site. I joined in 2001 and became a better photographer but there is no progress (or progress reports) to fix issues in new PN version. This is no longer fun. This used to be a PHOTO site and not a FACEBOOK site. How sad!

Mike, were you able to delete all your photos? I understood people were still not able to do that. Several folks have mentioned they thought they deleted photos only to return to their galleries to find them not deleted. I've kinda been waiting for the delete function to work. From what I've experienced, there's now a clumsy way to know if comments have been made on your photos by going to your library. I've knocked around there to see what that entails and it's cumbersome at best. I'm still waiting to see if further improvements will be made to the critique side of the site. I understand portfolios still can't be reasonably organized and have seen no new official info in quite some time. I won't waste my time on my PN portfolio until some new info is put out.

Mike, were you able to delete all your photos?

Looking at his portfolio and not finding any images, I'd say that he succeeded. And so did Bill Boyd. Deleting seems a drastic step that cannot be undone and might be regretted should either one of them choose to return.

 

I've been a member of PN since 2001 but became only active with photos in 2005 or thereabouts. Left in 2007 over issues with ratings and other shortcomings of the site. Returned again, exclusively to the forums some years later. Never saw a reason to delete all my images (I cleaned up some though to make space for new ones). Should I decide to turn my back on PN again (temporarily or permanently), I probably leave the images behind. No harm in that. And leaves the door open for a possible return.

Edited April 25, 2017 by Dieter Schaefer

Thanks for the info, Dieter. Sorry to lose Mike and all the other good community members who've left recently.

When I first encountered the new interface, without any warning, I vociferously complained and was banned for over a month. When I came back, I found very little was different, so now I rarely login anymore because I don't find the site appealing, it does not draw me in, and having to login so often is absolutely ridiculous, makes not sense what-so-ever, no other site I frequent does that. BTW, can we delete our account?

HOWTO build a website.

Get a copy of The Non-Designer's Design Book Robin Williams & learn some basic graphic design & typography.

Get an old Dreamweaver 1.0 off Ebay for peanuts, if you're lucky.

Create the most basic blank white page with the words Under Construction, look at the generated html, & instantly realisze that as a photographer therefore working to the highest standards, you need to hand ball.

Work hard, learn some html, & strictly adhere to W3C, get a green light through their free Validator, then you can proudly put a W3C logo on your site. I cannot see what I am typing here because there are things wrong with this site.

HOWTO build a website.

Get a copy of The Non-Designer's Design Book Robin Williams & learn some basic graphic design & typography.

Get an old Dreamweaver 1.0 off Ebay for peanuts, if you're lucky.

Create the most basic blank white page with the words Under Construction, look at the generated html, & instantly realisze that as a photographer therefore working to the highest standards, you need to hand ball.

Work hard, learn some html, & strictly adhere to W3C, get a green light through their free Validator, then you can proudly put a W3C logo on your site. I cannot see what I am typing here because there are things wrong with this site.

P.s., Tim_Lookingbill, please, any words of wisdom about Tahoma/Verdana.

If we're working with a minimal choice of fonts on our our box.

P.s., Tim_Lookingbill, please, any words of wisdom about Tahoma/Verdana.

If we're working with a minimal choice of fonts on our our box.

Just looked up Tahoma... http://www.identifont.com/find?font=Tahoma&q=Go

 

...and I much prefer it over Verdana. For san-serif font the up/down/angled strokes need to be even and consistent across all the characters which Tahoma fills the bill. San-Serif fonts that don't have this visual quality tend to have their thick/thin strokes get exaggerated viewing on backlit displays of various resolutions and smaller text size fonts.

 

But I just want to toot my horn about my most favorite font I used to design brochures- "Italia"... http://www.identifont.com/find?font=Italia&q=Go

 

Love the slanted top serifs on lower case characters.

Well, I started this thread (original post above) somewhat facetiously but now realize that I was clairvoyant. Wish I'd bought a lottery ticket.

 

Can anyone honestly say that anything of substance has changed since this dog was released?

• The "Back" button is still an adventure. Kinda odd that it works on every other site on the internet.
  
• Galleries are still a jumbled mess.
  
• It's still impossible to track both our own comments and others without email help. And even with email it's an entire portfolio search to find the image with the new comment.
  
• Every browser on the market seems to respond and behave differently. Again, really odd that all other sites seem to work just fine on all browsers.
  
• Speed is still lacking, even though this has reportedly been the number one work item.
  
• I remain convinced that neither the programmers or management ever opens the photo critiques, otherwise they would recognize it's unusable.
  

I could go on and on with all the issues that fill this so called "Help" forum, but they've all been repeated ad nauseam and nothing is being done.

 

All this frustration has taken the joy out of the Photo Net that I've used and enjoyed for 10 years and I've decided to release the stress. I just spent part of two days deleting every image from my portfolio, ten years worth of comments, help and fraternization with some of the nicest people on this globe. A sad end just so management can attract "new users" from the Tweet and Facebook zombies. Isn't it sweet how they all "like" each other. By the way, that doesn't look like it's working so well, the same 30-40 members seem to frequent the site.

 

I remain hopeful that somewhere around V15 some of the function we lost from V1 will return. A shame all my old friends won't be around to see it. I'm outa here... Mike Mancil

Mike

We noticed you were missing- and you are sorely missed. I hope you reconsider. It takes folks like you to make anything work. I understand your frustration- it is shared almost daily :) but, there does seem to be some improvement. I'm sure getting all the code figured out is a daunting task. I don't participate in the facebookishness of the whole thing, but do try to keep up personal comments. We would like to keep in touch with you. If you want, drop us a line - gregverena@gmail.com Are you frequenting another site? Yours is a deep loss to the community, such as it is.

Take care,

Greg and Verena

hope you see this.

Will have one soon - another release is being tested now before its live.

I hope it's more like the old site. I think this one should be trashed. Nice layout but the old system was much more fun and even the wonky ratings system ...I miss it all.

I hope it's more like the old site. I think this one should be trashed. Nice layout but the old system was much more fun and even the wonky ratings system ...I miss it all.

Marie- where and when did Glen say this- you mean there's hope?

Marie- where and when did Glen say this- you mean there's hope?

He said another release is being tested before it's live. I think it means changes are coming? Hopeful.

Marie, the question is, and I'd like to know as well, where and when did Glenn say this. Though you quoted Glenn, it's not a quote from this thread. Is it a current thread or could it perhaps be a past one? I've heard no other talk of a new release and would be thrilled to learn there's a completely new release coming, one that's functional on the portfolio and critique side. But I'm a bit skeptical.

Here's a font design suggestion...

 

File:Cheltenham sample.svg - Wikipedia

He said it above on March 16. I think it means they are working on a new one....not yet released..

Marie, the question is, and I'd like to know as well, where and when did Glenn say this. Though you quoted Glenn, it's not a quote from this thread. Is it a current thread or could it perhaps be a past one? I've heard no other talk of a new release and would be thrilled to learn there's a completely new release coming, one that's functional on the portfolio and critique side. But I'm a bit skeptical.