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  1. robmv

    robmv Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    Great effort. I'm viewing the new look ZooChat for the first time on my phone and the mobile-friendly view is a huge improvement.
     
  2. JVM

    JVM Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    THis feels like a dumb question - where is the button to actually upload a new image to the Media section?
     
  3. zoomaniac

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    At the moment, It is hard for me to orientate/navigate in the new layout/design. Will see what time brings...
     
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  4. TeaLovingDave

    TeaLovingDave Moderator Staff Member 10+ year member

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    Looks like I'm going to have to go back and edit all of my past trip report posts then :p so that all the images are in the gallery rather than some attached and some not......
     
  5. Maguari

    Maguari Never could get the hang of Thursdays. 15+ year member Premium Member

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    It's the right-most option on the blue ribbon at the top - 'New Media'. :)
     
  6. Maguari

    Maguari Never could get the hang of Thursdays. 15+ year member Premium Member

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    Sorry - ignore me - that's the same mistake I made the first time. It's ADD Media that you need.
     
  7. TeaLovingDave

    TeaLovingDave Moderator Staff Member 10+ year member

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    I've started the process - what do people think of how the following post looks with the images integrated directly into the text?
     
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  8. Dylan

    Dylan Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    Love the new look. Runs a lot better now
     
  9. robmv

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    Looks good to me. I prefer the images dotted among the text to break things up a bit.
     
  10. azcheetah2

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    YAY!!!! We're back. I was going through some serious withdrawal. Even though I don't post all that much, I still look almost daily. I miss the widget on the right hand side that gave headlines for zoo happenings, though. It's been gone for a few months and I miss it. Anyway, I like the new site. Very clean and attractive. Good job!
     
  11. TeaLovingDave

    TeaLovingDave Moderator Staff Member 10+ year member

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    In discussion with Zoogiraffe in the chatroom, it seems he has received an error message telling him he has reached his daily limit of gallery uploads - given that an upload limit will possibly impact on my ability to promptly replace all the images I had attached to my trip posts with ones uploaded to my own albums, considering how many there are to edit, I would be very interested to learn precisely *what* the limit in question is set at?

    I can't imagine ZG has somehow hit a limit which has always been in place, as I haven't noticed him uploading any more images than he usually does, so I assume this is a new measure - presumably implemented for the same reasons as the disabling of image attachments. You've got me in a bind here ;)
     
  12. LaughingDove

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    I agree with robmv, the pictures look good dotted throughout the text. Also attachments sometimes take some time to load so it could take a few minutes to click through them at the bottom.

    I personally wouldn't bother going through all the old posts and fixing them though.
     
  13. TeaLovingDave

    TeaLovingDave Moderator Staff Member 10+ year member

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    Yeah, I'm not going to fix any of the "German Adventures" posts - eventually I will edit the above-linked post to restore it to the initial condition - as that thread is completed and therefore no disparity of format will be produced. However, I *will* be fixing all the Bavarian and Alpenzoo posts as, given these threads are not yet complete, there will otherwise be a disparity of format.
     
  14. snowleopard

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    Is there a way to see what new comments have been made in the gallery? I have been browsing through hundreds of photos but do I have to look at every single photo to see if there are any new comments? Is there going to be a separate section set up (like before) where new comments were singled out?

    Also, is there any way to tell what zoo is represented in a photo or do I have to hover over every single photo? For example, a close-up view of a sloth bear is great but do I have to either hover over the photo or click on it to find out what zoo the bear is at?

    Lastly, have all the comments been discounted from the overall posts of long-time members? Do gallery comments no longer count as posts? That would be a shame.
     
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  15. LaughingDove

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    Just a quick question of a fairly unimportant feature, but is there a way to subscribe to threads without posting in them?
    In the old ZooChat there was a button for 'thread tools' at the top that allowed you to subscribe to a thread, but I can't see one in the new forum.
     
  16. Simon Hampel

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    From memory that was a Google News thing? I'm pretty sure they shut that service down :(
     
  17. TeaLovingDave

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    Hit the same limit myself whilst trying to replace those images attached to my trip reports with images posted to the gallery - 50 MB :p So is this the total I am permitted to use for a personal album in the gallery full-stop, or merely the total I am permitted to use each day?
     
  18. JVM

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    Yeah, but I can't actually find it.
     
  19. Maguari

    Maguari Never could get the hang of Thursdays. 15+ year member Premium Member

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    Click on Media at the top of the front page, then it appears on the blue ribbon just below the Media icon, and also as a button just above where it says 'Zoo Photo Galleries' at the top-left. :)
     
  20. Simon Hampel

    Simon Hampel Administrator Staff Member 20+ year member

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    Yes, I needed to revisit the limits because I don't actually know how much each person has used. Some people will have used a massive amount and others not much.

    For now I've disabled the quotas - I will need to investigate the best way to manage this.