Zichar wrote:
I just realised we never did talk about Buddhist philosophy during our time together. My colleague gave me a Gibbs slap when I mentioned we talked about the death penalty.
"Of all the things to talk about Singapore you had to bring up the death penalty?!"
We only spoke of the fact your parents have become more ardent Buddhists in their later years. We'll have to continue that conversation when next we meet... perhaps at Leighton's farm...
I sent Fred a link to my post above with this message...
Inquiring minds Fred. What ARE you up to? Losing almost 6,000 pages of posts hurts. What archive? It has only one page in it, not 5,977 as advertised. Could you help us out here?
Curtis, author of what was once a very long thread on FM... the longest, in fact.
We'll see whether he responds and what he has to say IF he does. I wish us all well.
CGrindahl wrote:
We only spoke of the fact your parents have become more ardent Buddhists in their later years. We'll have to continue that conversation when next we meet... perhaps at Leighton's farm...
My take of the same shot Curtis had of Alpine Lake while standing atop Alpine Dam
It was a beautiful day, I wish I had thought of breaking out the tripod and maybe the 10-stop to smoothen out the water
CGrindahl wrote:
I sent Fred a link to my post above with this message...
We'll see whether he responds and what he has to say IF he does. I wish us all well.
Curtis, thanks for doing that. After reading the posts about the new archiving system, I tried to use it. Clearly, it has some problems. I just sent Fred the following PM. Hopefully, if he hears back from enough members (especially his Upload and Sell customers) he'll update his archiving strategy to address our concerns.
Hi, Fred.
I've been an Upload and Sell member here at FM since 2010. It's one of my favorite online photo websites.
After returning from a trip, I checked into the Nikon Manual Focus Nikon Glass thread, where I'm a regular contributor. Unfortunately, I found the thread changed for the worse.
The continuity of the long and very vibrant thread was broken by a new archiving system that appears to have some flaws. For example, when I went into the archive much photographic content was gone, different page numbers appeared for the same content, and once I was in the archive system, it became difficult to go back to current content without closing out the site, refreshing and re-entering the FM site again.
Fred, I can appreciate your interest in keeping storage costs reasonable, but I would recommend taking a fresh look at how the archiving strategy has been applied to your longest and most active threads (like Nikon Manual Focus Glass) so they can get back to a more continuous, content rich and easier to use presentation for your customers.
Thanks for taking the time to consider my feedback.
Foggy14 wrote:
Curtis, thanks for doing that. After reading the posts about the new archiving system, I tried to use it. Clearly, it has some problems. I just sent Fred the following PM. Hopefully, if he hears back from enough members (especially his Upload and Sell customers) he'll update his archiving strategy to address our concerns.
Hi, Fred.
I've been an Upload and Sell member here at FM since 2010. It's one of my favorite online photo websites.
After returning from a trip, I checked into the Nikon Manual Focus Nikon Glass thread, where I'm a regular contributor. Unfortunately, I found the thread changed for the worse.
The continuity of the long and very vibrant thread was broken by a new archiving system that appears to have some flaws. For example, when I went into the archive much photographic content was gone, different page numbers appeared for the same content, and once I was in the archive system, it became difficult to go back to current content without closing out the site, refreshing and re-entering the FM site again.
Fred, I can appreciate your interest in keeping storage costs reasonable, but I would recommend taking a fresh look at how the archiving strategy has been applied to your longest and most active threads (like Nikon Manual Focus Glass) so they can get back to a more continuous, content rich and easier to use presentation for your customers.
Thanks for taking the time to consider my feedback....Show more →
Hi guys,
I'm still looking at some bugs that emerged from this code. This is not about storage costs, it's about site performance. There are 250 threads like this one that are super big and impacting the site in a way that it's crashing the server down almost daily.
This change was done to avoid this from happening while still keeping the data intact and accessible.
So, all the posts are still here. The difference is that they are located in 2 database tables instead of one.
Thanks for the explanation Fred. I wonder if there's a way to have long threads like these have different views, so the default view would show a limited number of pages, and then one would have to select an option to see further back, or the whole thread. I have seen that concept used in rangefinderforum.com
Just a thought, and I am sure easier for me to say than for your techs to program.
Nippon Kogaku 10.5cm f2.5 PC, LTM version, on Leica II, with Adox CMS 20 film. I like the contrast with that film, best for bright sunny days which today is not.
ljuset wrote:
At the moment I would prefer less outward changes in order to subdue my inner turmoil...
Moments in purgatory captured with the 16 F3.5 fisheye:
Sorry to hear about the "inner turmoil" Eike. Hope it is not anything too traumatic and that you and your family are well.
Good to see you stop by and love this rather dark meditation. I guess winter is like this in the northern climes. Minnesota had its occasional harsh winters, but there generally was a bright sky. I experienced more darkness in Seattle which was in many ways more challenging that the cold and snow of Minnesota. But I do like this photo. Hope to see more of you on the thread.
saph wrote:
St. Patrick's day parade, a little early, in Baltimore last weekend.
Nippon Kogaku 10.5cm f2.5 PC on Leica II, with Adox CMS 20 film. I like the contrast with that film, best for bright sunny days which today is not.
First of all... I didn't think ANYONE in Baltimore was talking about ANYTHING other that the basketball victory of a small college in your neck of the woods over the NO. 1 rated team in the country, Virginia. It was the first time a 16 seed in the NCAA tournament beat a number 1 seed. You can celebrate St. Patrick's Day any old year, but this basketball win is for the ages...
Besides, what are those Scots in kilts doing at an irish celebration? Ohhh... the Irish have kilts too, I just learned after a search. But I wonder if these are authentic? We'll have to ask Colin about this.
I'm glad Fred showed up to tell us what is transpiring. Obviously, I didn't realize the site was having performance problems. I also didn't appreciate that there were 250 long threads, though I know for a fact none were as long as this thread. I suggested to him that he include a link to the archive at the top of each page where the "search thread" feature is located. I'll await whatever code work is necessary to make the archive available before passing judgment on this whole affair. Honestly, it would be just fine. I would hope that not only text, but all photos with working links be displayed as well.
Thanks for your comment Jeff. We all want this to work for Fred AND for the folks who call this corner of cyberspace home.
We will leave the kilts for our friends across the big pond to comment upon I was surprised to drive right into a backup in downtown Baltimore last Sunday, until I found out streets were closed for St. Paddy's day parade.
UMBC was very little known not so long ago. Before its sudden dive into March Madness yesterday though, its been gaining quite a reputation as a powerhouse for education in IT and cybersecurity.
Back at you Chin... I'm home at the moment and have access to processed photos from your visit. These two were taken with the 135 f/2.8 K AI in Samuel P. Taylor State Park where you wanted to get up close and personal with some redwood trees.
As I feared, the photos I posted in the early days will not appear in the archive... not because of anything Fred has done but because Picasa from Google is not treating me very well. As I mentioned some time ago, Google wanted to stop users from working with Picasa, hoping that photographers would move over to their product, Google Photos. They were scrambling to keep up with Facebook and thought if they could get folks committed to Google+ they might be able to compete. Joining Google+ wreaked havoc on my Picasa account which had hundreds of albums and thousands of photos. I decided to stick with Picasa UNTIL they shut it down. By that I mean I couldn't add new photos. They did agree for some period of time to maintain those albums and honor links already created. I could NOT, however, re-link to those photos. In fact, they are unavailable to me in any form. My guess is that when Fred moved early post to the archive the links were broken... so all of the photos I posted before switching to Flickr are gone... which is a bummer given how much of my work is in the thread.
I just discovered that the links DO work... the images simply aren't displayed. That is a relief, though I don't imagine a great many people are longing to see my old photos... except perhaps the ones from Turkey and the Netherlands... Clearly, a work in progress.
