Soon - New website design

[pieter melissen]

Hi Victor, just for the record, I just uploaded a shot of Jonni Ritscher, which clearly exceeds the size limitations imposed by the previous version of the site. And it does not have the ugly watermark that the computers of Marine Traffic apply to every photo.
There are more improvements on the way, so as Hans says, patience will be the key, and at the end we may be able to subjectively judge whether the old site was better (but certainly not safer).

[lappino]

The three fields "Location", "Date of photo" and "Description" are apparently mandatory. When I tried a test upload and did not enter anything there, I got this very error message and the three fields were highlighted with a red border.

I then only ticked "Unknown" with "Date of photo" and "Location" and entered some text in the description field and the upload worked without problems.

So please check whether you filled these fields with data at all. Of course we should enter real data with our uploads. :-)


Regards,
Weserphoto

This feature has a bug that's creating problems during upload.

The site does not recognize information saved from the browser; when entering the data on, say, "Location", if the data is autocompleted from the browser, the location will appear in the field correctly, but you will still get the "red border" and "Invalid parameter" error.

To correct this, data has to be entered manually again, until the site's own data appears. You do not want to use "autocomplete" from your browser. This has to be addressed by the programmers.

[Eddie Walker]

The views are definitely weaker than before; my understanding is that only the full screen views are counted, and since the list photos are larger now, fewer people are clicking the "full screen" button. The numbers of photos uploaded does not seem to be much smaller than before, though...

Are we sure the view counter is working at all, though? I posted this photo 10 days ago:
https://www.shipspotting.com/photos/3409064 which, so far, has had precisely zero views. Okay, a fairly ordinary vessel, but a decent photo at a less common location which I thought might have piqued someone's interest...

[pieter melissen]

Eddie, It may have to do with the way new photos are now being presented. In the past you looked at them one by one, and now your photo will be one of four before the next scroll.   

[Jens Boldt]

Eddie, when I follow your link, I see "Verdi" at Gunness, so far 12 views... (or as it is called now: hits).

[Patrick Deenik]

Hello,

I am trying to upload 2 photo's of the vessel  'MSC Erica"and I get the message "invalid or missing parameter ". Also I get the message that
"no ships Found "while there are 42 photo's of this ship are on this site. I had this problem several times in the last few days.
Am I doing something wrong or are there more people with the same problems ?

Thank you  and all the best,

Patrick

[Patrick Deenik]

Hello again,

I just managed to upload the 2 Photo's above mentioned. After trying several times again I deleted the "Location" and typed the name again and then all was accepted. Do you understand this or am I missing something ?

Thank you again .

Patrick

[pieter melissen]

Patrick, see Lappino's post a little above yours. How it works I do not know, but retyping seems to be a good idea.

[Patrick Deenik]

Pieter,

Thank you for your reaction.That is exactly what happened to me. If that is all,I can live with it.

Best regards,

Patrick

[Eddie Walker]

Eddie, when I follow your link, I see "Verdi" at Gunness, so far 12 views... (or as it is called now: hits).

Thanks, Jens. That seems to have kick-started the views!
I've just uploaded another photo and firstly got the 'invalid parameter' error, which I got around by setting the location to 'unknown', then going back and editing the uploaded photo.

[Patrick Deenik]

After retyping the "Location " 5 times without succes I clicked "unknown "under "Location " and with a possitive result as suggested by Eddie Walker.

Need to be looked at .

Thank you,

Patrick

[seaweasel]

Hello, many thanks to the IT-team for expanding the comments section, that's a very good thing for the community !

Cheers, Hans

[Tuomas Romu]

I noticed that photographs uploaded since the beginning of March have "Shipspotting.com ... Image Copyright

[Tuomas Romu]

A separate issue: what's the blank "ShipSpotting.com Forum" post in the attached screenshot?

[Pieter_Inpijn]

About the front page / home page: the four photos under "Most Popular Last 24 Hours".
Am I the only one that is seeing four different photos each time I go the home page?
Sometimes it even shows a photo that I have uploaded a few minutes ago.
See attached JPG-file.
On the same page the button PHOTOS / MOST POPULAR 24 HOURS shows the correct photos and views.