michael_connaghan

Perhaps a bit harsh, Bob :-)<br><br>How about an even crazier idea?<br><br>

At the end of the day, I think photo.net, as a community, really needs to look at the performance side of the system. There are a number of sites I use several times a day every single day, photo.net being one of them (especially since the membership drive encouraged me to subscribe). Unfortunately, of these sites I use all the time, photo.net is far and away the least reliable, and yet I paid money for it (and I haven't paid money for any others). When it works, the system and the service it provides is valuable enough for me, and many others, to put our hand in our pockets. When it doesn't work it is extremely frustrating.<br><br>

Surely, with a community as diverse as photo.net, there are some people who may be able to help get the performance of the site working a little better? I don't know how the administration and web development is run, and I have no idea of the hardware setup used, but maybe if this or some of the code was made public, then the community could come together to help come up with a way to improve the performance and reliability of the system. How many times in my own job have we brought in an external developer who has taken a look at whatever problem we have faced and pointed to something relatively simple to solve it? I think often a technical team can get too protective of a system, even knowing it has flaws, and sometimes can overlook something that an outsider may see. I am not saying this is the case here, it's just something I see in my own workplace (and with one of my key development staff members a regular on this site, I am probably going to get in a lot of trouble for saying it!)<br><br>

Now, I realise this suggestion, in the days of "intellectual property" probably doesn't have a hope in hell of coming to fruition, but just imagine how much potential this diverse community could achieve if we all put our heads together. You wouldn't necessarily open the discussion forum for such a project up to everyone- just subscribers, for instance, who have a vested and proven interest in the site. There have got to be a decent number of web programmers and developers amongst the subscribers - what about generating a photo.net Request for Comment (RFC) like in the old days of the internet - look how much that system achieved!<br><br>

Anyway, just my 2 cents. Have a great weekend! :-)

...thanks for finally spurring me to take action. Hopefully it will even encourage me to put some more time into photography now that I've made the investment. Photo.Net is a great community, and hopefully these funds can help to improve performance and reliability of the site.

Thanks Brian. Don't suppose there's a way to save this as a default view?

Bob, how do you do this?

Thanks Bob. Yes, I think it would be of huge benefit to be able to search the gallery by camera model, especially as part of the learning process - how often have I looked at a shot and thought "if only I had the right equipment..". By seeing what someone can do with the same equipment as you would be very beneficial. Hopefully the powers that be will consider this suggestion.

Is there any way to search by camera model? I'd love to see what

others can do with the same equipment as me. I tried the advanced

search but it had a message about having been disabled.

I find when I post a new picture, I eagerly check back several times

a day (oh, let's be honest - sometimes several times an hour) to see

if it has been rated and/or commented upon. From the My Workspace

page I can see a list of photos I have requested critique for, and

can also see a notification of the last date a photo was commented

on. But, I can't see what photos have been rated.

I find people will often see a new photo of mine, rate it, then look

back through my old stuff and rate something there as well, but the

only way I will ever know this is if I go through and open all my

pictures.

My suggestion would be for a tabular view which could show the photo

name, last date commented and number of ratings (and perhaps date of

last rating).

What do you think?

Great suggestions. But how do you currently save your 300 favourites? I've never found that feature before

Hi.

 

I have started recently (last 6 weeks) having a problem where I

might open a page (say the recent critique requests page) with a

number of pictures, and after downloading several, it will stop

downloading pictures altogether. If I go to another part of

Photo.net, I will see text etc, but no pictures. If I go to another

web site, again I cannot see any pictures. I need to close all

browser windows in order to start seeing them again.

 

The problem only ever begins happening on Photo.net, and very

randomly - maybe once or twice a day (and I tend to visit 5 or 6

times a day).

 

I am running Internet Explorer 6 with all latest updates on Windows

XP with all latest patches.

 

A colleague, running IE 6 on Windows 2000 has the same, random

problem, which makes me feel it is a problem at the photo.net end.

 

Any suggestions? Has anyone else experienced this?

 

Cheers,

 

Michael Connaghan

Australia