@scrivna - a suggestion - is there any way we could see the thumbnail of all of a person's albums when we land on any one of their albums; it would save a lot of time in viewing their work. as it is, we have to go the extra step of opening their albums to see if there's anything new to look at.
From any picture, you can click 'learn more' under the person's name, in the upper right hand side, and it takes you straight to a person's profile page, which gives you thumbnails of all three albums.
@beautifulthing - thanks, yeah - i get that, but what I want to do would be a little shorter - see thumbnails of all the albums on the page of whatever photo (in whichever album i'm looking at) to see if I've already seen them or need to go there to view the latest additions.
@jinximages - oh too funny; if i were to take my list the three, these would be my other two - i'd especially love if the background could be a grey - most photos look really nice against grey - i almost always settle on grey mats - it'd have to be a neutral gray - not too warm or too cold. I hate (is use that term advisedly after the recent hoohaw) - the new white - either the white looks awful or whites against it look awful - even the blue was better though not my favorite.
I agree with all the above, but also is there any way to change the magnify to include the whole photo? As is stands, when you magnify you can only see the top portion of the photo. I'd rather see the whole photo a bit smaller. But this is nit-picky stuff, Ross. I actually do like the new look alot. Now if you could just program your own version of Picnik...
@lauriehiggins Hi Laurie - This has been discussed many times with no clear conclusion as far as I could see. I do believe that the problem is the size of the monitor - I can't make magnify work on my laptop, but I have a bigger monitor mirroring it and it always works there. People have suggested a lot of other theoretical causes, but someone always disagrees that the suggested problem/solution applies. I remain convinced the issue is size of monitor.
@lauriehiggins@reba There is a shortcut key to make the whole photo appear. I'd be able to tell you what it is, but my monitors are huge so I've never needed it. @eyebrows is a likely candidate for knowing this info. He just knows stuff.
@jinximages The dropdown sort of works anyway. Just go to your address line and change 2012 to 2011 and the whole year will drop down for you...well, at least it does for me (running Firefox)
I agree with the above too, but would add that it would be nice when checking notifications to see the whole list rather than just the top 4. It would save an extra step...
@kjarn The main address line on your screen. If you click to open a month (on the tiny calendar icon) it will say e.g. 2012/01 etc. Change the 2012 to 2011 and the whole year will drop down.
Oh and, the reason you "can't see" the entire photo by default, is not a design choice of Ross', it's just a nuance of the standard way you'd do that kind of thing in HTML. HTML being the language web pages are written in.
@reba i agree, it would be great if there were thumbnails of other album shots from a day underneath the main photo, so you could easily see if the person has uploaded more. As it works at the moment, it's really hard to keep an eye on people's other albums unless they happen to pop up in your main homepage at just the right time!
@swilde Yeah - there are always editable direct links. Not so easy on a phone though (which is where I usually need this function). But that's a workaround anyway - nowhere near ideal.
I would like to have a "like" button so you can like someone's comment. Would also like the notification bubble to be much darker (as before) when you have a notification. Would like to get a notificaition email when someone replies to either a thread you created, or if someone mentions you in a thread. And finally would like to be able to send someone a personal message (not "personal personal" you understand, but if you wanted to send a longer message either about a photo they've posted or something they have mentioned.
I would love to see when you're viewing your timeline, and scroll down and down, and then click on a photo, it doesn't take you back to the top of your timeline...so you have to scroll aaalll the way down again.
@jinximages agree, not liking the message icon at all. And I would like a like button...fave often seems a little strong to me. A like button that hooked up to a "what we're liking now" type. Some type of a page for photos or projects that aren't getting views as well...people who need love!
@amyamoeba Not something Ross can solve, however, there are two solutions you can do yourself :)
1. Use a better browser. Firefox will scroll back to where you were on the page, so will Chrome I believe. Only dumb old Internet Explorer won't. Then when you go "back" in the browser, it'll remember where you were, even loading in all the extra dynamically-loaded content if you went that far. Smashing.
2. Open links to photos you want to see in new tabs by clicking on them with your mousewheel, or if you have no wheel, holding the Ctrl key while you click them, or if that's a pain, right clicking and electing to open the link in a new tab, or if you're on a mac, Command-clicking. Then you just go off and view those images in their own tabs without altering your main "news feed" tab at all.
@traceysday On your closing point, I made this thing some time ago (which I'm actually surprised to discover still works after the site redesign), although it's a little slow and quite a lot of the people in its database have deleted their accounts, leading to a fair few blank images each time you refresh.
1) A "reply to all" button on the reply thread to a picture. I love to be able to reply to everyone and thank them for viewing my pictures, if you have a ton of comment, that takes so much time and I would rather thank everyone than not thank anyone, but sometimes I don't have the time to go through one by one and hit the reply individually. Then from there you can seek out specific commenters and answer their questions back.
2) I wish when I was looking at the home screen where the pictures of my followers post, that when I comment on their pictures (if I open the big picture) that when I hit my back button that it would go back to where I left off. But instead, I have to scroll back down, load more posts, it takes a lot of time and I tend to give up before I even look or comment.
3) I wish there was a way to know if a picture has ever been on the popular page. LIke maybe an icon next to the picture to indicate its been there? Or an album that includes any of your pictures that ever made the popular page, it's kind of nice to see that, especially if you've missed it. I would also like to know that on the others that I view. What's made the popular page with them? I don't want to miss out on something good!
4) I don't know about anyone else, but often times, I can't get on this page or it takes FOREVER to load, then if I reply, it takes for ever to load. I'm assuming there just must be a lot of people on, playing at the time, that's why it's slow?
@eyebrows - I did see that. Thanks for the heads up. I'm on a Mac... I' will have to check and see if there is something else I can use other than Safari? I've never looked into it, I guess. Thanks!
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Also, while I am happy to see the end of the blue background, a darker grey would be nice - a good mid-grey.
Perhaps a dropdown menu for selecting the month in an album, so one doesn't need to click back through several months to get to where one wants to be?
I'm pretty sure that adds up to one thing I'd like to change...
I also think grouped notifications (e.g. discussions vs photos, comments vs mentions) would be amazing. :) A coding feat though, I can imagine!
@reba @lauriehiggins F11 is your friend. That fullscreens your browser window :)
Still love the site though !!
1. Use a better browser. Firefox will scroll back to where you were on the page, so will Chrome I believe. Only dumb old Internet Explorer won't. Then when you go "back" in the browser, it'll remember where you were, even loading in all the extra dynamically-loaded content if you went that far. Smashing.
2. Open links to photos you want to see in new tabs by clicking on them with your mousewheel, or if you have no wheel, holding the Ctrl key while you click them, or if that's a pain, right clicking and electing to open the link in a new tab, or if you're on a mac, Command-clicking. Then you just go off and view those images in their own tabs without altering your main "news feed" tab at all.
C'est magic!
2) I wish when I was looking at the home screen where the pictures of my followers post, that when I comment on their pictures (if I open the big picture) that when I hit my back button that it would go back to where I left off. But instead, I have to scroll back down, load more posts, it takes a lot of time and I tend to give up before I even look or comment.
3) I wish there was a way to know if a picture has ever been on the popular page. LIke maybe an icon next to the picture to indicate its been there? Or an album that includes any of your pictures that ever made the popular page, it's kind of nice to see that, especially if you've missed it. I would also like to know that on the others that I view. What's made the popular page with them? I don't want to miss out on something good!
4) I don't know about anyone else, but often times, I can't get on this page or it takes FOREVER to load, then if I reply, it takes for ever to load. I'm assuming there just must be a lot of people on, playing at the time, that's why it's slow?
2. Read my previous post in this thread, it's your browser's fault not the site :)
4. Yep!