"Birds are, quite simply, little miracles - and as such they require care and consideration."
Magnus Ullman
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I have no idea - I'm very new to Flickr and I haven't figured the site out yet.
Our herring gulls are red listed birds. Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.
Your upload speed isn't that much lower than mine, Clare. If I were you, though, I would routinely reduce the size of your photos so that they don't exceed, say, 1.5 Mb. Bearing in mind that the screen resolution of most people's monitors is usually only 72 or 96 pixels per inch, there's little point in uploading high resolution images as the difference won't be evident. You should always retain the original image.
Tiger makes a good point about Flickr. There seems to be less of a bottleneck when uploading photos and you can do a batch in one go. Flickr allows each user 1 Terabyte of storage and as far as I'm aware there's no restriction on how many uploads per month you can make although I think there used to be.
I use Flickr to store my better photos and it's relatively easy to display them on here using the "YouTube/URL" option in the "Insert/Edit Media" dialogue box. You can still only post them one at a time on here though. You can also set up a slide show if you don't want to go to the trouble of inserting all the photos individually.
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Tony
My Flickr Photostream
So did the RSPB answer any of my questions? or have they brushed it under the carpet again. why am I not so surprise.
Hi Limpy,
I have read and re-read your posts on this thread and these are the only questions to the RSPB that I can see you have actually asked:
1. You haven't mentioned what is replacing this yet....can we all assume that you're not going to bother?
2. Will anything be done?
3. Will we get a response to this thread?
In response to those questions Maurice did come on here and try his best to respond so questions 3 is answered.
Unfortunately we do not know the answers fully to the other 2 questions, clearly it is not a good state to be in having a system that does not work properly and clearly a multi-image uploader is better than the current system but in all honesty until the digital review is over the teams cannot look at these issues properly and for now the current system will just have to be tolerated.
As I have stated of course the RSPB does not want to discourage people from posting photos on here, we want more photos and to test the system I uploaded a series of shots this morning which ironically all worked fine in one swift go which I know doesn't help you but does prove that it can work for others.
All we ask is that you be patient, put up with it as best you can and know that at some point we will do all we can to try and amend the problem.
Kind Regards,
Ben
I have to admit to knowing very little about upload or download speeds but it still seems to me that the software or hardware used by this site to enable photos to be uploaded is the key to this problem. It took me around 15 minutes the other morning to upload 3 photos all of which were around the 1MB mark. At the time I uploaded them there were only a few users online so I can't see that 'excessive demand on the system' would be a factor in this. The fact that people seem to have no issues at all uploading to sites such as Flikr would suggest that any blame laid at the door of broadband speeds or file sizes shouldn't really apply here. It would stand to reason that the same faults would then be apparent with Flikr. If people are moving off to use Flikr instead of here, I find this quite sad as this is a great community and where better to find out about, and indeed to promote the RSPB than on the RSPB community site? Surely encouraging people to come here,and stay here, is more in the interest of the RSPB than to watch people come and go and apparently do very little about it. I do accept what Maurice has said and can only hope that this issue is resolved at some point. Personally I will struggle on with my uploads beacause I do think that this community and the users on it are worth it, but getting back to what Limpy first said, it is SO frustrating at times.
Paul
-EDIT- X post with Ben.
My bird photos HERE
Many thanks Ben, some of my questions have now been answered during our phone conversation.
Kind regards.
Limpy.
Thank you Limpy, was good to chat.