Server Problems- info for the site admin.

[vivek iyer]

"Server is Having Trouble

Our server can't connect to the relational database, probably because of a

system problem. Please send the administrator email at admin@photo.net and ask

him/her to fix the http://www.photo.net service."

 

This is message being shown every now and then, today.

[philg]

Oops. Thanks. Problem should be fixed now. We made a lot of changes to the server today. Check out http://www.photo.net/gallery/caption-search/ for example for the fancy new mosaic.

[vivek iyer]

Nice change as for as the front page is concerned, Phil.

 

Rest, I am not sure (see Craig Hoehne's thread below).

 

I hope the new design/s will come to some equilibrium and would make the site better.

[giuseppe_miriello1]

Hi philip, Adding a mosaic to the "caption search" is nice becouse adds some more visibility to photos that did not make it to home page, but still i guess the situation is confusing.

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I would divide the mosaic into categories (nature, travel, flowers, landscape), so at least it is a bit more simple to pick up an argument... and then clicking on the image goes to the image, and clicking the category goes to the trp for that category, one month average - i would say 1m average becouse it is intresting, it has many good images, without having the first trp page crowded with 6.50 averages, more difficult to change in time.

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also it could be nice to do a search for caption where category="travel" - for example. filtering for category could straighten results a little.

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[giuseppe_miriello1]

well.. not necessarily only travel... i mean search a picture that has a caption into a specific category, or "select * from pictures where category = nameofcategory" or whatever you sql semi-gods have in mind for us.

[giuseppe_miriello1]

and one more thing.... give a look to this initiative:

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http://www.photo.net/shared/community-member?user_id=617763

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wouldn't be nice if it was photo.net to provide a framework to organize monthly contests on a theme? and a number (1-3) pics a month from the contest being published in home page, or in ad-hoc - good visibility - page? people that complain that photo.net is skewed too much toward trp would be more than happy to prove themselves on a contest, on a closed theme, with real judges that give motivations to their choices instead that johndoe raters....

[seven]

Why limit the caption search function to images playing the rating game?

[giuseppe_miriello1]

You are right, i too would like to see photos "critique only" to show up more often - expecially considering there are *many* of great merit... however i know there is a strong technical reason that help programmers to privilege rated images: they can be ordered. Critique only image, instead, would be necessarily picked up at random by the sistem, there is no way to tell wich is more worth than anoter, or they could be picked up by number of comments (but wouldn't this sparkle out mate comments?), or - my favourite choice - there could be humans picking up pictures out of the rating sistem, following a monthly theme to which willing photographers have to apply and file images.

[aepelbacher]

That's great! Is there another place that carries the link to that mosaic/caption-search page, Philip? Are there other fields that have their own search page (that would work in the same way), such as location or camera or lens?

[natureshots]

I like the new caption search method over the general search but wish that I can search for keywords in a folder title also; sometimes a caption has little connection with the photo.

 

Seven, I search for one of my photos that have not been submitted for ratings and has a unique caption and it came up as the first photo.