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Yet more problems uploading photos.......when will it stop?

Limpy
09/03/2014 20:12
The uploading of photos on the community is becoming very off-putting. Why is that, you might ask? Well, first you have to crop every photo before you can think about uploading and then when you go to upload you get errors appearing - sometimes you have to upload the same photo two or three times for it to appear. When you are uploading more than one photo it becomes a real nightmare and it is off-putting - you get to a point where you begin to think 'is it worth it?' or perhaps that is what the RSPB wants - for us to stop uploading photos to the threads. If they do what us to stop they should say so. If they don't they should get their backside in gear and fix the problem (and really sort out a way we can upload more than one photo at a time). If you are all wondering what has prompted this then I will say that I have just watched my wife spend hours posting eighty-three photos on her latest thread - at least half of them took two attempts to post. I have got some photos to post from our visit to Minsmere yesterday but I am now reluctant to share them as I know it will take me a ridiculous length of time to crop them and then post them. At the very least you should consider giving everyone a Good Egg award for having the sheer persistence to post any number of photos. You haven't mentioned what is replacing this yet....can we all assume that you're not going to bother? Nobody has mentioned this subject for a very long time now. Will anything be done? I doubt it. Will we get a response to this thread? I doubt it. I know we are not the only ones having problems posting photos so I think we are owed an answer to this question.

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  • 13/03/2014 13:35 in reply to TeeJay

    Thanks, TeeJay - I've just run your test.  We have a download speed of 9.75 and an upload speed of 0.72.  I also had a play with the resizing funtion on some photos Limpy took at Minsmere yesterday - I hadn't tried this before and he has now posted a thread, so many thanks!

    The one thing I don't know is just how slow are our speeds?  I don't know much about this at all.

    Our herring gulls are red listed birds.  Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.

  • 13/03/2014 14:04 in reply to Clare

    Clare Bailey said:
    The one thing I don't know is just how slow are our speeds?  I don't know much about this at all.

    My download speed is 31.37Mbps and my upload speed is 2.03Mbps

    If the RSPB webspace is the problem one could always use a different space like Photobucket and the hotlink the pictures to the RSPB.

    That traditionally is the way it has been done. 

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  • 13/03/2014 14:06 in reply to Tiger

    Blimey, Tiger - is that normal?

    Our herring gulls are red listed birds.  Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.

  • 13/03/2014 14:08 in reply to Clare

    Clare Bailey said:

    Blimey, Tiger - is that normal?

    It has been like that for quite a while for me and is going up to about 50Mbps for download. 

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  • 13/03/2014 14:10 in reply to Tiger

    So I gather a download speed of 9.75 and an upload speed of 0.72 is not good?

    Our herring gulls are red listed birds.  Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.

  • 13/03/2014 14:18 in reply to Clare

    Clare Bailey said:

    So I gather a download speed of 9.75 and an upload speed of 0.72 is not good?

    Well it is a matter what you want to do with it. Twelve years ago when broadband speeds were 500K download (I have no idea what the upload speed was)  that seemed wonderful compared 56K costing 1p a minute. As with everything, time moves on.

    The reality is that shifting large quantities of data to cyberspace is still slow and I tend to avoid it. 

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  • 13/03/2014 14:20 in reply to Tiger

    To be honest, Tiger, the main thing both Limpy and I want to do is upload photos without the frustration.  

    Our herring gulls are red listed birds.  Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.

  • 13/03/2014 14:36 in reply to Clare

    Clare Bailey said:

    To be honest, Tiger, the main thing both Limpy and I want to do is upload photos without the frustration.  

    Well photos are a lot of data if you are loading a lot of them. It is like the roads. You get traffic jams when lots of cars come out at once.

    The internet is like piping. There are only so many pipes and you connection is most like the limiting one. 

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  • 13/03/2014 14:42 in reply to Tiger

    Are you also implying that sites like Flickr will have many 'incoming pipes' while the Community will have much fewer?

    Our herring gulls are red listed birds.  Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.

  • 13/03/2014 14:52 in reply to Clare

    i may be wrong about this but doesn't Flickr have monthly upload limits? 

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