This site has a brand new look, as you will have no doubt noticed by now. Change can be a little daunting at first, but rest assured we are here to help with the transition from old to new. Please use this thread to ask any questions/voice any concerns and will do out utmost to get back to you.N.B: Please accept our most sincere apologies for the current speed of the site, we are aware of the issue and are looking to resolve this as a priority.Claire
Have to disagree with you on just one point Bob - I HATE the fact that the site has gone all Facebooky (as you call it - Americanised as I call it) and would not welcome anything at all that takes us further down that road.
I shall be the last person on the planet to use Facebook, Twitter or any other form of antisocial media beyond email and forums - for which I can at least see some point.
Regards
Ian
hi Gardenbirder Im one of them!! LOL
Sparrow, I completely agree with you on this point. That needs to change!
Ben Many thanks for explaining the 4mb issue, I can understand that now. Most of my pics are Jpeg and are almost all over the 4mb limit. So ill have to learn to resize. Thank you for explaing that.
For any one srtuggling to post photos i deleted all my cookies from browser and it worked! So thanks to those who suggested this. I was able to get as far as browsing computer for the photos and selecting the one i wanted to post! BUT, was told that files too large. I have internet explorer10 as my browser so thats some progress.
Hi Bob, hopefully these can answer some of your questions.
Unfortunately, these cannot be turned off at this time. We will investigate this as a possible impact on performance but need to prioritise the recommendations of the software suppliers.
Thank you for advising us of this, we have noted your point and we will address this in due course
This is fix that should be possible, we will review it and get back to you..
Agreed, this is being addressed in the latest batch of styling changes we will be implementing shortly
Currently we are limited to loading one picture at a time; however, we are going to try to address this in the next planned set of styling changes. This will be in the not too distant future. This upgrade is part of our goal to widen the use of the Community and feedback from the Community users will be reviewed and acted upon more regularly.
Lets hope the weekend passes without any hitches and the speed issues are improved on, obviously this is just the beginning of a series of upgrades that will eventually result in a better performing communities site, these things take time but we are working incredibly hard to make them happen as quickly as possible for you all.
Kind Regards,
Ben
Do I smell a focus group? Maybe a Beta site for us to play in and give feedback rather than using the main site? Actually, a focus group at selected reserves would be a great idea - a few hours of "work" then a chance to explore a reserve we may not normally visit. Although, thinking about Minsmere local to me, whilst it has the facilities to host such an event, the Internet connection's probably wet string so might be limiting :-)
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Unknown said: Hi Bob, hopefully these can answer some of your questions. can the list of recent postings at the bottom of the pages be turned off - either permanently or on an individual basis. I consider that they may well impact on the performance of my computer, if not the central site, but most importantly I consider them to be absolutely irrelevant. Reading one post in isolation with no context is something that I, and I suspect many others, will not be doing. Unfortunately, these cannot be turned off at this time. We will investigate this as a possible impact on performance but need to prioritise the recommendations of the software suppliers.
On the previous version the irrelevant lists of "Recent Activity" showed initially, just as these do. We asked for them to be removed and that was done for us. It vastly improved the main page and also gave us more room for the latest posts. (Which have now reduced in number I note.) So what is different with these?
Cheers, Linda.
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Unknown said:don't look at the Loch Garten groups...until iput aside some time for them
Boohoo! :'( (That's a Facebook smiley, by the way - I'm not a total Luddite. Oh, and it's me who's to blame for "Facebooky", it was rustled up to represent the lost gravitas of the RSPB's community forums.
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Sorry Bob, I didn't express myself very well there. I didn't mean to imply that you were saying you actually liked the 'Facebookiness' (another new word!), I just got myself in a tangle in my haste to express my anger that this mess has been thrust upon us on a 'take it or leave it' basis.
The way things are looking I really don't think I'm long for this community, and that saddens me because I WAS really enjoying it and I've learned such a lot from good people like yourself, Alan, Aiki and many more.