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Image uploading coming back soon! UPDATE: now testing!

By robin

10 years ago


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    #1 10 years ago

    Hi everyone! Just a quick heads up that the image uploading functionality will be restored soon, most likely tomorrow. It's 23:57 here and I'm calling it a day but the migration to S3 is nearly finished and I'm hoping to launch it in beta tomorrow morning! Sorry for the inconvenience, I know you all like to upload a lot of images and must all be suffering from image withdrawal (Yes, I'm looking at you specifically, Ted)

    #6 10 years ago

    Image uploading is now restored, but please note it's in BETA! I will be monitoring how it goes throughout the coming days.

    #8 10 years ago

    Thanks for the stress testing, I appreciate that! What you will notice is
    a) posting takes a bit longer because images are being copied to Amazon S3 (but the upload is extremely fast from our 200MBit uplink), but still a little extra wait.
    b) Images are now resized, the resolution depends on the subforum it is posted in. For example, images uploaded to tech forums are stored in a higher resolution than, say, Off Topic Bar uploads. Nifty huh?
    c) I also added a little more agressive jpg image compression to keep files sizes down some more. I used to stores these at original resolution which could mean 6-8 MB per image. Ouch! Let me know if the JPG compression setting is okay or if you think an image is showing too many artifacts.
    d) Our whole site now supports SSL (HTTPS) including our CDN! Woohoo!

    I'm still calling all of this beta but initial results look good, so that's great.

    #13 10 years ago

    Sorry I forgot to mention this, story image uploading is in the process of being updated and should be fixed somewhere next week!

    #17 10 years ago
    Quoted from mima:

    what about uploading other documents? I have tried to upload a excel sheet (as both xls and zip) with no luck. The excel is a basic lights replacement and price calculator.

    This is on the to do list!

    Quoted from flynnibus:

    are we ever going to get inline images from other photo sites? So we don't have to upload?

    Nope, sorry.

    Quoted from Crash:

    Robin wants to keep everything cached on the Pinside server, which is a foolproof way to insure against future dead links. However, the option to enter a URL into the uploader interface and have it pull the image automatically would be great. No extra steps needed (saving the file, uploading it, and deleting it afterwards). Plus, this will let you upload animated GIFs from iOS provided you have the link. Saving GIFs to the camera roll only keeps the first frame.

    Yes. But you are only uploading your own photos, right? Not random content from the web to which you don't own the copyrights? Keep in mind that you are legally responsible for the content you post (as is explained in our site rules).

    Direct hotlinking images from other sites may be handy but is also a recipe for dead links. We are trying to avoid those as we plan to be around in 10 yrs. Will Photobucket be?

    The Pinside upload feature is mainly meant for uploading *your own* photos of your games, tech question, game rooms, pinball event pics, Stern factory tours etc etc. stuff that will still matter to pinball fans in 10yrs from now. I don't see much added value of an upload from URL feature other than having to host a boatload of non pinball related pics on our server. Also do keep in mind that storage and hosting is not free so please upload responsibly.

    #22 10 years ago
    Quoted from flynnibus:

    As web matures... links have become more stable as well. As for the dead-content - the relevancy of content expires with age as well. if it's important, the source content tends to be treated as such as well

    I'm not sure I agree. Maybe for news sites etc, but a 2002 thread about fixing an Addams Family power driver (with photos) is just as relevant today as it was the day it got posted.

    Quoted from flynnibus:

    I can say the #1 problem I've experienced loading pages on pinside has always been in loading the uploaded content. Plus, uploaded content is so constrained with the site's options for resolution, size, etc. I'd much prefer a scaled preview, and the ability to load a full res image.

    I'm not sure I understand what you mean? Are you still seeing problems retrieving images since we switched image hosting to S3? We already have scaled previews (displayed at post width) sizes and full size images (after click) for all images.

    Quoted from steve1515:

    I noticed that when I drag and drop pictures to upload the thumbnails don't show up, but when I edit the post, I see thumbnails. It would be nice to have the thumbnails show up when images are initially uploaded so we can know which one is which when writing posts.

    Thanks for the feedback, I seem unable to replicate that issue here. I'm seeing this after a drag/drop:

    Screenshot 2013-12-03 09.33.11.pngScreenshot 2013-12-03 09.33.11.png

    Although I just found out that the problem does exist for PNG image uploads.

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    #32 10 years ago
    Quoted from TeeJayN:

    I see that the Profile Story editor has been updated/changed.
    The Good News
    - I was able to upload a jpg file at the bottom of the editor.
    The Bad News
    - I can no longer edit or add any Text to my story.
    - I can't insert the uploaded jpg into my story.
    - The editor Save and Cancel buttons are non functional.
    - The text frames now scroll behind the editor window making editing non functional.
    I've tried both IE and Firefox with the same results.

    Really sorry, it appears that I pushed some updates too soon (darn source control software). You experienced my unfinished story editor and that's the reason things were all funky.

    The good news is that the story editor was essentially finished this weekend, which means it's now available again and should work (let's called it "in beta"). I still need to add the "story images" box to all story pages though, coming soon.

    Quoted from Crash:

    Text issue fixed yet? Still getting "mandatory parameter text not specified" when posting only an image.

    Nope sorry, issue still open.

    Quoted from LongJohns:

    Sometimes (most of the time) I don't get the upload dialog at all - see link for screen shot image as I can't current upload to this post - using Windows 7 64bit and IE v11 (I know, I know)...
    it does display the dialog sometimes however...
    http://members.shaw.ca/junkuser1988/pinside/pinside.jpg

    I'm afraid Pinside's support for IE is at an all time low at the moment. Not my fault when Microsoft decided to only develop IE for Windows. The main problem is this: I have no computers to test this on, IE only runs on Windows and I only have an old Windows XP laptop.

    I sometimes use Browserstack.com to try and keep the site IE-friendly (or at least working) but to be honest, testing IE is a huge pain for a one-man development team

    Quoted from steve1515:

    I just upgraded to Firefox 25.0.1 to try it out. It still fails on jpg files. Interestingly though, it does work with png files.

    Sorry this issue is still open.

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