Recent problems and our planned solutions

That problem is intermittent. Sometimes the post to be quoted appears in the box, other times it's blank and no amount of waiting will make it appear.

P.S. And I've had to click on the Post Reply button twice again to get this to post (P.S. added after first attempt).

 

Richard, I do not know if anyone else is experiencing the same problems as me but I get so far on posting and my internet stops. It only happens on this website. All other forums I am on are ok. It is usually when I am editing and then I lose the whole of the posting I had already posted. Is this something you know about? Now the darn thing won't post!

 

As soon as I started to type this again it collapsed again. I am in despair with it!

 

I don't think it's GC specific

I have been having that exact issue on another website last day or so.

I think it's browser related as only happens on my laptop , and affects several websites that each run vastly different software

 

upload time depends on file size

what size was it?

 

In that case I shall have to look at my browser then. Maybe download something else. Thanks anyway.

 

what browser do you use normally?

 

The moderators are controlling the sunshine now?

If you have a 256Kb uplink (might be faster) I would expect a 1.5MB file to take 48 seconds to upload (unless I've goofed the calculation!)

Dunno what the limit is [on GC] but in effect you are doing:

Upload big-ish file
GC resizes / compresses it some-what
People see a reduced size file

If you can be bothered then better would be:

You resize the image
Upload small file
GC leaves it alone
People see that exact file's image

I crop and then reduce to maximum 800 x 600, and then I save at 70% which I find gives me good quality, but a tiny file (the images I upload are typically 100-150K). That also saves the GC Server a LOT of space (if it was done on all images) which in turn saves £££ of hosting cost - so you would also be doing Webmaster a favour

 

Its not the ultimate in simplicity, as it does have quite a few bells and whistles, but this freebie tool is what I use to Crop and Resize

www.irfanview.com/

 

Testing ....



Hmm, interesting ... today, it works!!!

*Cancels PM to Kristen: but grateful for the offer*

 

Cluthcing at straws:

@Richard.r No chance that the Image Upload could have been using different DNS or somesuch as was trying to post to old IP - and that is now resolving to the correct location?

Can't see how one element would see the HTML for the site and another would not find the location for image upload ... but maybe there is a difference somehow? The DotNet domain wasn't involved was it, for example?

If so then it will correct itself naturally once the name stuff gets propagated around all the ISPs and everyone's caches ...

 

Richard, if you think my problem could be the browser, currently using AVG with Google pickup, what would you recommend I download? I tried Firefox a long time ago but didn't get on with it. What about Google Chrome? Moyra

 

chrome is very good, I use it