(Images: NASA, SpaceX, and L2 artist Nathan Koga – The full gallery of Nathan’s (SpaceX Dragon to MCT, SLS, Commercial Crew and more) L2 images can be *found here*))
« Last Edit: Today at 10:59:00 by Dante80 »
« Last Edit: Today at 10:59:00 by Dante80 - Reason: Typos galore»
I have been having a problem for weeks now with the site constantly reloading and disabling the back button. Initially it seemed to be associated with an ad at the bottom. Something about gadgets one click away. I could reload until some other add loaded instead and it would work. but as soon as that add reappeared the back button stopped working again. That ad eventually went away but the problem is still there and happens almost every time I load a NSF page. I have had problems before and they were usually google ads at the bottom. But now I'm mostly not getting google ads and the problem has been going for weeks.Using Firefox.
A question. Articles posted on the main site frequently have illustrations/renders from the L2 community (btw Nathan, you are a god!). Said pictures are posted in the article in non hyperlinked thumbnail form, pitifully resized. I understand why this happens, since having the thumbnails provides a valuable incentive for the reader to join L2, if only to get access to the full renders. We also "advertise" said assets, both in the articles themselves and on the site sidebar. An example for the former. Quote(Images: NASA, SpaceX, and L2 artist Nathan Koga – The full gallery of Nathan’s (SpaceX Dragon to MCT, SLS, Commercial Crew and more) L2 images can be *found here*))Now, a suggestion. It would be very cool if an L2 member could click on a thumbnail in the article and get to the full size image (the image itself, or the L2 post containing it). I know that we already have access to it, but the way the forum works makes us go on a hunt for them, when we see them on articles. At least, I know I do. There are a couple of ways to make that happen. The most obvious would be to link the site CMS to the forum more so that you can log in with your forum account when you are there. That would need the most amount of coding though, I don't think it would be worth it. Another approach would be the following. When you are on the forum and you do not have L2 access, you can view the L2 subforums but cannot access them. When you try, you get to this splash page. If we changed the forum redirect to the subscription page for guests and non L2 members, then we would be able to provide hyperlinks for article images too. This way, we would get two benefits.1. Be able to reach the image in L2 easily by just clicking on the thumbnail. When you make the article, just link to the post where the image is attached. 2. Provide another incentive for guests joining L2. The disclaimer at the end of the article is one, but getting a redirect when clicking on the thumbnail would provide a more immediate stimuli for getting the access. In most internet sites, all image thumbnails provided in an article are hyperlinked to their full size counterparts. It is natural for someone that reads an article to click on a cool image he sees, and then to see it in its full glory. Thus, this change would in my opinion considerably raise the number of hits on the subscription page, and also provide a more immediate incentive for the guest to make the leap and subscribe.
And another suggestion. When you edit a post, the forum software adds a notification for that at the bottom of the post. Example:Quote« Last Edit: Today at 10:59:00 by Dante80 » Most Internet forums have this functionality, and it is for a good cause. Due to the discussion format, it is valuable to know when posts are edited by the Author. Some forum software suites provide a text space when you edit a post, where you can specify the reason for doing it (for example typos, or additions, etc). I don't remember if that functionality is embedded or SMF 2.0, or if a forum hack is needed for it. When the function works, the end result is something like this:Quote« Last Edit: Today at 10:59:00 by Dante80 - Reason: Typos galore» If we cannot get that though, I would suggest a more modest modification. Most internet forums give a small time period for the user to edit his post before the "last edit" notification is embedded at the end. This is to allow for post-post (sic!) typo modifications, that do not alter the context at hand. For that reason, most forums also disallow circumventing the "last edit" notification, if someone has already posted below you at the thread. Setting the delay to 1-2m before the notification has to be added would be handy for some posters, that tend to write something and re-read it after submitting for typos and legibility. I think that NSF has that function. Hope that helps, cheers..
To them have to have alternative sizes, clickable and with URLs. It'd almost be a full time job and this isn't anyone's full time job....and all for the sake of being a honey pot to social media who love to "rehost" images. Part solution is to watermark images, but that's even more work.
I'm not so keen on limiting edits. There are times when we mods ask people to go back and edit posts. We can do it but it's more work for us. The suggestion of edit remarks/summary is good (and I do it when I edit other people's posts, by hand, unless I deliberately don't want to draw attention to the fact that I changed a swear word, etc, why embarass the member) and it's one that Wikipedia uses to good effect.
Yes, I was talking about a grace period of sorts. If you do pay attention to my posts for example, all of them have the edit notification below. English is not my native language, and I have acquired the bad habit of immediately re-reading a post I made so as to add something, fix a typo or change the syntax of a failed sentence (grammar and syntax in Greek is a bit different than in English, sometimes making my posts seem robotic or simply illegible). Having a small grace period or a way to specify why I edited a post would be very cool..C:
The bottom ad space, which was hosting that troublesome ad, has been disabled while Mark works to ensure the space returns with google ads that don't cause issues. Note, the bottom space is the only space on the site right now where the ad is organic (catered). The rest are set ads, such as Novatech etc.
Thanks. Mark wanted to see if he had solved it, and it seems better in Chrome, but I hit firefox and that fool in a VR headset is still there Passed it on to Mark. Apologies to anyone struggling with this. It really does seem to be that one ad.