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Greg,

Would you mind sharing WHAT it is you don't like about it? Perhaps share what would make it better for you?

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Yes -- please do. Your voice could change it, especially if you can provide some suggestions for usability enhancements, etc. I'm definitely open for suggestions, concerns, problems, etc.

If you just don't like change .. I'm not so sure I can help you out there.

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Nah, it's just like getting a new car...Say you've driven an automatic all of your life, and you feel rebelious and proceed to get a 5 speed manual. It takes some time to get used to. Undoubtly in like a month, I'll probably change my mind and actually use it and appreciate it; as for now, being a virgin to it, I'm still a little afraid to get my feet wet. My dislike is the same as if you've driven a standard for years, and on a buisness trip you have to rent a crappy rental car. Say, a Plymouth Horizon...which happens to be an automatic. You'll be cursing at it, trying to find the imaginary clutch, and fiddling around with the knobs. Thats me right now, I usually don't adapt well to change, so throwing this all at once (granted it's not done) is just a little hard to take in.
I have a completely irrelevant suggestion Brandon, the image attachment thing...improve it please? Sometimes I'll upload an attachment...and it will never show. So I upload it again, and behold...Doesn't work!

Sorry, Just want to clear it up.

~Greg

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"image attachment thing" refers to what ..

Attachments in threads, CD-Media papers, or CD-Media photo ..

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Attachements in threads...sorry about not specifying (thought there was only 1)

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Next time it happens, send me a PM with the error message it is giving you (if any) and maybe e-mail me the file and I can try to attach it. I haven't heard of anybody else having trouble, but who knows ..

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A few more changes/enhancements made last night:

1) You can delete your own tag additions if there has been no voting. I've made mistakes adding tags and I hate that I have to wait for someone to vote it down. So now, if you add a tag 'frc47' and you meant 'frc74' you can delete it (before someone votes yes/no).

2) I added Who-Am-I and avatars to the user info under the title. This serves two purposes: recognition based on avatar/whoami, as well as giving more room for longer titles. Let me know if this screwed up any spacing or anything in your browser.

3) You can move your own discussion threads out of the 'Extra Discussion' forum, into a more relevant/prominent place in the forums. If it's a picture of your bot, move it to the Robot Showcase subforum. If it's a paper dealing with motors, move it to the Motors subforum. The picture gallery moderators will be helping keep this organized, too.

That's all for now -- thanks!

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One of the great things about CD-Media (from a development standpoint) is how easy it is to make a list.

At lunch today, I came up with six quick lists that will help you tag items with no tags & vote on pending tags. All of these pages, and more, that provide miscellaneous functionality will be listed on a page linked in the upper right, under everything, labeled misc. Once that page starts to get more content, it will probably look a little better than it does now.

So if you're bored, and want to tag some items, or vote on some tags, that's the place to start.

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Question:

can you add in under help the standard format for a scrimmage?

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Alright, a request for everyone who's tagging.

You know that little box that appears next to the field to add new tags? READ IT. I've had to vote against about 1,293 different tags that, while the information was right, was formatted entirely incorrectly.

Remember: FRC1293 (not 1293), "Great Lakes Regional" (not Great Lakes Regional--the quotes count--or GLR), and add in all the proper fields for a regional (for example, "2006" "Florida Regional" "Florida Regional 2006" and "Regional").

Thanks to everyone who is tagging the right way, though!

<edit>By the way, I tried to tag http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/23584 with fvc80, but it instead gave me a comma as the tag. Is this a bug or feature or somewhere in between?</edit>

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I'm also getting the "comma" bug. It some of the pictures have a ton of commas on them.

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I got that a lot of commas too... it seems that phrases that aren't pre-approved (or something) aren't accepted. For example, when I try to tag photos, the only name accepted is the person in the photo (or something like that).

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I noticed a lot of pictures are getting just the name of the image file as the title. When picture discussion threads come around, they get the same thing making for inefficient browsing. Do we need to force the uploader to enter a custom title?

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I was thinking the same thing. I vote that the uploader be required to enter a title.

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'Require a title' will need some re-work of the photo upload, since it's on a separate step. I will probably end up moving it all to one step, but for now .. :shrug:

The 'comma' tag is a bug -- we saw it previously with the '-' bug. I increased some debugging in my log files to catch it -- I'll have to investigate later today.

I'll be adding a 'Tagging Standards / Style Guide' to the FAQ, eventually, which will outline the proper way(s) to tag items. Hopefully I'll have that started in the next day or two.

-Brandon