SOFTWARE UPDATE: New photo gallery, photo uploader, and mobile skin, April 23, 2018!
 

Hi all!

Please use this thread to ask questions and report any issues with the new mobile skin, photo uploader, or gallery tools.

Here are a few details and how-to's on uploading and viewing photos in the new galleries. (NOTE: you can still access all your existing photo galleries by bookmarking this link: PPRuNe Photo Gallery)

Gallery Pages (Coming May 2018)

We're upgrading the gallery page to show you more photos all at once. You can now also browse by new options such as “Trending,””Recent,” “Commented,””Popular,” and your own “Albums.” This will allow you to have a custom experience with the new Gallery.

https://www.pprune.org/members/42320...ne-gallery.png

On single photo pages you will see the photo you selected, but it's more than just that; you will also be able to discover related photos, comment, see trending pictures, and also see other photos in the same album.

https://www.pprune.org/members/42320...ngle-photo.png

Uploading photos to your Gallery Page

On the page with your albums and where you upload images, you can upload your photos in many ways:

1. Drag and drop photos directly onto the page
2. Upload your photo with a URL
3. Attach photos from your device

https://www.pprune.org/members/42320...eate-album.png

Photo Uploader (New!)

With the new uploader you can now upload your photos in more ways:

1. Drag and drop your photo (New!)
2. Select photos already uploaded to an album in the new gallery (New!)
3. Upload your photos with a URL (same as before)
4. Attach photos from your device (same as before)

https://www.pprune.org/members/42320...oto-upload.png

Uploading from your mobile phone (New!)

You can now use your phone's camera to upload a photo immediately after it's taken.

https://www.pprune.org/members/42320...ile-upload.png

Arranging your photos

Once your photos are uploaded, you will be able to drag them around to rearrange them in the album, tag, and delete your photos. You can also "lock" your photos, which will prevent them from showing up in the public gallery. If you want more members to be able to enjoy your photos, leave them unlocked.

https://www.pprune.org/members/42320...rrangement.png

Once the attachment process is completed, select the paperclip icon to show a dropdown menu with the option to paste your photos in-line within your post, making the user experience more efficient in adding and managing your photos from all device types.

MOBILE SKIN ENHANCEMENTS

In the NEW mobile skin, we have made it easier for you to navigate on the forums! For example, on the main forum page you will be able to expand and collapse forum headings to access subforums within (with out loading another page like before).

https://www.pprune.org/members/42320...obile-skin.png

https://www.pprune.org/members/42320...obile-skin.png

https://www.pprune.org/members/42320...obile-skin.png

We’ve also made some improvements to the sub-forum pages where you can start browsing different threads in a much cleaner lay out with segmented color coded sections.

https://www.pprune.org/members/42320...obile-skin.png

These changes are designed to be small, incremental improvements to make it easier to differentiate different types of forum text content, and make browsing easier on your mobile device.

Please let us know if you have any issues or concerns,

--Admin

I like it - well done

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That space either should or will contain an ad. Yes the text is small on the desktop skin on a mobile device; please use the mobile skin. You can go to it by clicking the green button at the bottom of the page.

Colourful!
Bombarded now with flickering ads down the right side; the page will not move or allow me to see anything until all the ads are in place, sometimes taking half a minute or more. Perhaps things will improve.

IBobi,

Thanks for the feedback, but I hate the mobile skin. I never use it. The old desktop skin was perfect on my iPhone.

Concur. Why **** with something when it isn't broken???
I don't have a green button. I don't have any button to change skins. Pprune wasn't broken bedore, so why **** with it now???
Because you can do something doesn't mean you should do something! Pprune wasn't broken so why **** with it now???prune
worked fine and was used friendly, now it sucks. Stop ******* with something that works!I
rant over. You can ban me now.

I thought my PC had gone mad...
I've got the PPrune header permanently at the top of the page when I scroll and it covers the forum 'list' at the top.
So far, seriously underwhelmed.

Likewise on my desktop. And there is no section at the bottom of each page to click on to return to that particular forum index.

Agree with previous comments re Pprune not being broken, so why mess with it?

Much, much slower on my computer, and hangs more often than the previous version...
Maybe I'll like it better when I get used to it, but so far I'm not a fan.

Lose the ADS

I haven't done an in-depth nit-pick, but I like just about everything about it! I use the Desktop site on both my iMac and iPad, and only the annoying floating advert on the right side of the page on iPad causes me any grief.

Ah, If only the upgrade on FlyerTalk (also featuring IBobi as Administrator!) had been like this. There are several features of the presentation here that users are asking for on FlyerTalk, so far without success.

(Ah, just noticed the lack of Forum Jump option at the foot of the page, as noted upthread.)

Looks good.

Please could all the thread titles' links have "new-post" appended before ".html". e.g.:

/rumours-news/608145-ultra-long-range-a350.html

becomes

/rumours-news/608145-ultra-long-range-a350-new-post.html

This ensures that when clicking a thread title it takes you to where you last left off.

Currently the links on some pages will take you to the beginning of the thread instead.

This might vary by theme.

Real problems on my iPad. Issues with ads overlapping text, header bar remains over middle of page when scrolling - and I can see audio or video links on posts.

taotoo: I was just looking at that very thread (ultra-long-range-a350) and was surprised to see the page displays in the "old" format. Totally different to this one.

I don't like the way adverts are placed in the thread and separates messages. Can they not just be kept to the top and the side?

Who did the upgrade, the same people who did TSB's site! Hopeless, slow, keeps saying "Pprune is not responding", so you click the button and waste another 2 or 3 minutes. Was not broke, why "fix" it

Desktop here. Any way to get a less bright (less white) screen? Prior lists and threads were more yellow?
A large classic-car forum (V-Bulletin, I think.) did a format update, and one of the retained viewing options in the list at the lower left bottom of the home page is "Classic." Which seems similar to what PPrune had been, and what some would probably select if an option.

I have had to turn my monitor brightness because of the glare. One time to get back to the top of the page to change threads I had to scroll through the entire thread, God knows how many pages of it.

It's jumpy, keeps freezing and I don't like it.

Sadly 'clean, modern look' seems to be the in phrase and happening to many sites these days. Translated it usually means acres of white space and large text.
IMHO, any software developer that even mentions it should be taken outside and shot - well, be sacked anyway.

This mobile skin is awful, but it won't let me out
 

I clicked on this to see what it looks like, and I am now unable to revert to the skin I was using originally. (Default).
Where, in this mobile skin, is the button to select a different skin?
I am using IE on a PC.
EDIT
It gets worse. This is an edit. the tags for edit/reply/report are invisible. White on white. I was only able to guess that a tag was there by mousing over and hoping.
No user control panel access.
No tag/selection to "go to full site"
This is not an improvement.

I don't like the squashed text, due to the right hand Ad's margin on the right hand side. Which is pointless; as I block Ad's anyway! Now a very poor display! Well done Not!

I've left a page open for ten minutes or so trying to get a stuck script to complete, to no avail. What happens is that a script is trying to do something and can't, for some reason, so just displays a continuously rotating pair of black arrows on a white background underneath the last post, with that page then locked up, even when reloaded.

Here's a screen shot showing the problem; the round black arrows are continuously rotating clockwise, with no way out of it other then to log out and then back in again. Going back to that thread results in the same thing happening again at the bottom of the thread, locking it up again. It only seems to happen on some threads, AFAICS (it's not yet happening on this one, for example):

https://www.pprune.org/members/59439...uck-script.jpg

The snag is it seems to lock the page up, so if you want to reply it takes forever and a day for the reply button to come up, longer than I can be bothered to wait most of the time.

The other point is that some sub-forums are still in the old format, which seems really weird to me. It's as if parts of the forum are in one format and parts are in a completely different format. For example, Private Flying still seems to be in the old format, whilst this sub-forum is in the new format. Here's a screen shot taken a few minutes ago of the Private Flying sub-forum, showing it's still in the old format:

https://www.pprune.org/members/59439...old-format.jpg

Something very similar happens when trying to use PPRuNe on an Android tablet with Firefox, except it's the title bar that stays in the centre of the screen whilst you can scroll stuff up and down behind it. The work around at the moment is:

1 - Stop trying to use a tablet to view PPRuNe, as it's just too much hassle.

2 - Scroll right down to the bottom of each page, when the title bar (which is a lot deeper than the old one) will eventually disappear (if you're lucky - this trick does not work on any thread with only a couple of replies to the initial post).

Overall, things seem to have got a LOT slower on Windows, virtually impossible on an iPad, a bit annoying on an Android tablet, but pretty much OK using Firefox on a Linux machine.

There is a heck of a lot more variability between different platforms than there used to be, I know not why, but it does seem that the new version hasn't been tested and debugged properly for use on a wide range of systems. What I find odd is that it seems to work best on a Linux box running Firefox. If anything I'd have expected it to run better under Windows, but Windows and Firefox seem to have a few issues, including the jump from the old to the new format from one sub-forum to another, the jumps in text size on the screen and the strange lock ups with whatever the script is that results in the rotating black arrows at the bottom of the screen, that stop you being able to reply to anything on that thread for around 10 minutes or so, when eventually the "reply" button row will appear.

We're working on the long page loads, thanks for your patience.

I'll log this bug with our techs.

It's called Infinite Scroll. You can turn it off:

https://www.pprune.org/pprune-proble...l#post10129337

You can scroll to the top of the thread and click the "breadcrumb" to go to the index:
Or, you can click the FORUM JUMP button and select the forum whose index you want to see.

The mobile skin is optimized for mobile devices. If you zoom the full desktop on an mobile device you may experience issues. Recommend using mobile skin.

Can you further explain the cursor issue you're having? Is this just on ipad?

As to posting photos, it is in fact much easier than before. Just click the little "picture" icon and follow the prompts. You can upload directly from your device's camera or library, or paste a link.

UPDATE: the new photo uploader is not yet on the site, but hopefully will be later today or tomorrow.

Thanks for the shout-out ;)

RE: FlyerTalk features, shoot me a PM as I'd like to hear what we have here that people want there.

Paul

This is the new way the software handles this functionality. There is a "view first unread" link below each thread title. It's another click but you will get there.

And of course there's still the little down arrow next to the thread title so you can use to go straight to first unread from the forum menu.

Overlap issue already responded to -- please use the mobile skin.

Can you post a link to a post where the videos are missing?

You can try logging out/deleting cookies to go to the default skin. Mobile skin is not meant for desktop devices.