I get the same if my post/ reply contains an emoji

H

There are various reasons a post gets moderated. The lone emoji that Harry mentions is one due to a post having to contain a minimum amount of words.

I would think yours got stopped due to you quoting all the links that Joe had posted ( Joe’s was also flagged up for moderation), many of the spam posts we get will have a list of links so it is the systems way of making sure suspect posts don’t get onto the forum like a list of medications, fake certificates or porn sites.

One good reason to edit any quoted replies to just what is really needed.

I approved it.

Hi, not everything has been carried over, or if it has, it’s not accessible, as some of the pictures that I know that I’ve posted on the old forum, cannot be found, and what a palaver it is to find anything midstream in all the old posts as you have to start at one end and scroll through every set of pages one at a time, to find something mid stream, so now I don’t bother, and I just upload my original photos.

Regards Nick.

The old forum stored managed images very differently from the new one, and it caused many complaints!  To publish a photo, the user had to download the image,  into a special repository, containing ‘Albums’.  Problems included:

• The user had to create his albums and then understand using them was a two-stage process.   Not slick, and unlike anything else on the internet.
• Only JPGs were supported.
• During the download, the forum re-sized the image so that, once installed in an album, it would quickly transmit across the original slow dial-up internet, and speed-up display back when most computers took several seconds to put a large photo on screen.  Unfortunately a big photograph could take so long to copy and shrink that the forum process often timed-out and failed.   So common was this before I upgraded my internet connection from 10 to 60Mbs that I always resized my photos before copying them to the forum.  Yuk.
• For reasons unclear, possibly due to the resize process, images stored in albums occasionally lost their sense of which way was up!  I looked at this problem repeatedly and couldn’t find the cause.   Possibly I missed something obvious, because there are several ways in which a digital image can decide orientation,  but they all seemed to be correct.   When a photo oriented incorrectly, it could only be rotated by a moderator, who could only edit it in a post, not in the album, with some risk correcting the photo would mangle the text, causing another problem taking several minutes to fix.  So I wouldn’t rotate a broken photo unless I knew I had time to fix the text as well, and always kept my fingers crossed when doing it.   Something like 1 in 15 photo rotations would break a post’s text format.
• Lots of time spent explaining to new and not so new members how to post images using Albums, including why the perfectly normal methods used by other web-sites to post images didn’t work.

The new forum doesn’t have these warts!

Although hard to learn and use, the Album approach has one major advantage.  Photos are organised and stored as copies by the forum, which kept them safe whatever the rest of the internet was doing.   There are many examples of websites losing images because members hosted them on a ‘free’ service that disappeared later, or turned off the public display feature.    Also problems where people link to photos they don’t realise require an account or password to access.   (Often the cause when an image works for the owner and no-one else can see it.)

On balance though, the way the new forum manages photos without Albums is an a improvement. More types of media are allowed, and the mechanism is both simpler and like what everyone else on the web does.  Although well suited to average needs, the new forum doesn’t provide a sensible way of organising photographs;  if that’s needed, the user has to provide his own system, which is a problem for enthusiasts who put many images in their posts.   In the run up to the new forum, one of our clever members, sorry can’t remember who, provided a script that would copy Albums back to a PC, retaining the organisation.   I bitterly regret not using it:  although I have all my original forum images, they’re stored in date-time order, making it very difficult to find forum related material.

Dave

On 1 July 2024 at 12:22 JasonB Said:

Images and pictures from the old forum have been carried over in threads.

Albums that may have contained those images have not.

Hi JasonB, yes I’m aware about album photos not being carried over, but my point was that I was trying to locate a post in the old forum that I made, which had a photo attached to it, this was a little while ago, but although I found the thread, which was back in 2018, my particular post and hence the photo was not found, so not everything has successfully been carried over, and after taking a fair while to get to the thread in the first place, I concluded that it’s a waste of my time looking for things in the middle of the old forum.

Regards Nick.

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