Outdoor Photography Canada

One of the things I have noticed that is missing on the new forum is the ' search'  feature. How do we do a search for a specific topic without having to scroll through all the posts.

The only small thing I would change would be to allow a post to receive instant email notifications.  I know on other forums I participate in, I can subsribe to a post and get an email every time someone adds to it.

Other than that, well done I thoroughly enjoy the site!

Roy, the two posts above my last one look awfully much like Spam.  Your IT guys should deep-six these and prevent these guys from posting on this forum in the future, if that feature is available to administrators.

Cheers,

WesternGUy

It would be nice to not have to scroll back up to the top of a discussion thread to return to the main forum.  Perhaps the "return" links that are posted at the top of each discussion could also be posted at the bottom somehow, then I don't have to scroll back to the top to return to the main forum.  Most other forums give you some form of an option to do this, either from a list or selection box that will display a list of things you can return to when you are at the bottom of the discussion.  Some of these threads get fairly long and it is a bit of nuisance to have to scroll all the way down to the bottom to read the latest posting and then scroll all the way back up to the top to return to the main forum or others.

WesternGuy

P.S.  Why are there no smilies?  Every other forum seems to have them - even my e-mail has them!

Okay the issues of previewing your posts and replies are now fixed so that you do not have to preview your text. Also descriptions that are added to uploaded images will now show.

Keep the comments coming so that we can continually improve this site.

Cheers

Roy, I am finding this "two-step" process of getting something posted to be a pain in the you know what.  I frequent a number of photography forums and some others related to techie things and this is the only one I know that forces you to "Preview" your offering before it can be posted (Saved).  I must confess that I do not understand why this is necessary, I mean if I make a spelling mistake or something similar, I can simply edit the post and then save it again.

In my opinion, this process is definitely something that you can do away with and the sooner the better.  It will eventually turn me off from even bothering to post anything on this forum, because it is very frustrating thing to have to do - Preview then Save...and no Smilies to boot!!

Regards,

WesternGuy

After using the site for a few weeks now, I find that I've gotten into a regular routine of browsing around.  For the most part, I'm getting used to the way it works. But, one thing that I find annoying is that the information entered in our "contest" images does not appear on the initial viewing.  I would bet that a lot of people don't realize that there is more information about our images when you click on the "tags subjects". 

I think the contest part of the site would be much more interesting if information entered about the images was visible underneath the image.  I believe that small stories about the image by the author would inspire other people to comment much more than they do now.

Thanks for reading.
Andre Denis

Yes, I've hit that odd spam filter message a few time.
And all I was trying to do was give a url to a post or image somewhere.

Some of the other annoyances at least for me :)

1. I've also gotten a enter captcha on some posts, no idea why, and I really I  mean really hate captchas. Especially If you are already logged in.
2. Mentioned this one before, no way to delete a erronous post (at least not that I can see)
3. Not fond of the way the input box inserts <p></p>  anytime you try for a line break,
   have to re-edit each post by going to its html source to get it to format nicer,
   IE: replace the extranious <p><.p> with a simple <br />

One annoyance would be the difficulty in getting the images we upload to appear, or when we link to a photo hosted elsewhere it does not appear.  The images will appear in the edit screen for posts, but not the general forum.  Also, when the image uploader cautions that images are not to excede 2mb and you attempt to upload a 5.63 kb file the message comes up that you are over your space quota seems odd.

The second annoyance at this time is the message that comes up when you enter a post and the screen displays the warning that the post has triggered the spam filter and will not be accepted.

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"The selected file snowscape_-_outdoor_photography_canada_1292614311051.jpeg could not be uploaded. The file is 5.63 KB which would exceed your disk quota of 2 MB"