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Before I checked them, I thought maybe Alexa wasn't capturing all the different "new" server prefixes, but it looks like they've got them (market., excalibur., camelot., etc).

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Quote - Members have always been restricted to deleting/editing their own posts within 15 minutes of posting them. After that, they can't. It has always been this way (or at least it has been for the past couple years, since well before the changeover). This is because being able to delete/edit a post at any time would potentially make many threads no longer make sense, and could pose problems when one member complained about a TOS violation and the violator deleted/edited before the moderator could get around to fixing it, etc. We will not be changing the way this works. This is a permanent feature. If for intellectual properties reasons you want one of your posts deleted, you can send it to a moderator and I'm sure they will be more than happy to do so for you. N

Editing posts has been restricted to fifteen minutes from the time of posting a message, but you could indeed delete your posts at any time before the recent forum changeover. I've done it myself on one occassion and I have read many, many threads where this had been done (it would just state "Message deleted by username). Often it was the first message that was deleted and sometimes that meant you couldn't even tell what the whole long thread was about.

Whether that was a good policy or not can be debated, but to say it was always prohibited after the first 15 minutes is just plain incorrect...sorry...

pitklad, I'm NOT an expert on this, so other people can chime in...(but since no one else has yet) I tried for a few hours last week to change the CSS coding so that text of forum posts would ALWAYS be white, and just couldn't get it to work. Even though most of time it was white, there were always a few entries that came through black and thus difficult to read if your background is especially dark.

If the light background is hard on your eyes, the best answer I've found is to have white text & a medium gray (or blue-gray) background, that way even those occasional bits of black text are readible.

Sorry i don't know more...

Thanks for implementing this so quickly and smoothly...adding the option to disable the pop-ups over the thumbnails was a really pleasant surprise, too...thanks for listening!! Nicely done folks!

I'm also really happy you made a separate & prominent thread here in the forums...quickly getting the word out about these new viewing options is fantastic...newsletter & frontpage stories are a good idea, too, since so many members never visit the forums...

Excellent work and greatly appreciated!! :thumbupboth:

I agree with you, Miss Nancy...completely...

nods to Puntomaus

yep, what she said...

williamsn wrote:

Quote - Images will only be resized if uploaded larger than the max display size for that section. Otherwise they'll simply be copied. N

Oh, okay, good...thanks!

StaceyG wrote:> Quote -On upload, a transitionally-resized image will be created to supplement the image uploaded by the artist. This will be a high-quality image resized by our software, not by your browser.

   Stacey, I do have a follow-up question on this point. Is it a safe assumption on my part that whatever the script or algorithm or command (sorry, don't know the right term) you'll be using to direct your software to create the extra "resized" image, it'll first check the width of the artist's original uploaded image and if that is 700px or less, your software will do nothing? We wouldn't want extra .jpg compression added unnecessarily.

Obviously, one absolute control the artist can retain under this new gallery plan is simply to make their uploaded images smaller (less wide) themselves. That would ensure that viewers would ALWAYS see only the artist's original work. For example, several images in my gallery have a portrait orientation and are about 750px wide, so my choosing to use 700px myself wouldn't be a big change. But if Rendo's software is just going to alter it anyway, I'd lose that control plus I'd be wasting my time trying to make the original image 700px wide in the first place.

thanks for your help...

Thank you, Stacey, for going to bat for us on this issue. I would have been a little happier if the default setting for the viewer was "Show images according to artist preference" instead the showing the resized image by default. But this is a big improvement on where things stood last week and is a worthy compromise. Thanks again!

drawbridgep wrote:

Quote - Not sure if it's been mentioned, but having a thumbnail, an intermediate and the full size image are exactly the same way that CGTalk and DAZ3d display their galleries.    I don't think there was big fuss about that, mainly becasue that's the way it always was. 

Rendorosity has had over 1.2 million images posted by members...DAZ or CGTalk a tiny fraction of that total. There are many reasons why Renderosity had become the place to showcase artwork online, but none of those reasons include the resizing of artists' work. The ease of use the old gallery format had made browsing the galleries a fun and efficient process. Adding extra clicks to accomplish what could be done so easily before just makes no sense. The reality is that many viewers will never click through to the artist's original composition, and that means that the current set-up hinders the achievement of the gallery's mission...to showcase artwork!

We're not simply against any change, and very few people have suggested bringing back the old setup. My initial reaction to the new layout was very positive, but when I found that the artwork (as many people view it) was an altered version, that fact trumped everything else...it's just wrong for a site dedicated to artwork to do such a thing.

Hey PJF, thank you sooooo much!!! That's just superb and I really appreciate you posting this!

Yes, I AM using your wonderful set-up for the galleries...and yes, I found the same problem with the text in some of the forum posts being in black...one day this past week I wrestled with the forum CSS code for a couple hours trying to make all the text light-colored...hehehe...couldn't get it to happen...so I gave up with the black-background idea!! LOL!! Yours looks excellent!! BIG thanks to you...and best wishes for a happy Sunday!!

yep, what Doc000 said...

Thanks, Stacey...I really do understand that tons & tons of things are going on all at once, and stable servers, etc are a top priority.

And I'm really not trying to be difficut, but we're still getting the message "to see what can be done" instead of "yes, we agree...we've had all these other things going on with the server problems, etc, but as soon as those problems are behind us we will change things so there is no resizing." If we heard that message from you, we'd all relax and we'd be patient. But we hear no commitment, no recognition that the Rendo folks share our priorities. In the absence of that, we've received the message that the design may be the priority, and as artists showcasing our artwork here we find it very difficult to live with that.