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Site related news, functions and modules / Re: Soon - New website design

« on: March 01, 2024, 09:21:46 PM »

Forgive me if I've missed a notification, I've just spotted that ShipSpotting now allow Ships Monthly to publish photos off here unless you opt out. As I used to get paid for photos in SM and I can't see how (without buying SM) we would know our photos are being used and expect the payment, therefore I have declined this option.

Is there a specific page on this website site that allows you to opt out?

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Site related news, functions and modules / Re: IMO number

« on: February 20, 2024, 06:24:18 PM »

Hi Brent, Cheers for that reply, appreciate it

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Shipping News and information / Re: Marine Traffic revamp

« on: February 19, 2024, 07:12:51 PM »

Sadly the new owners of MT have totally wrecked what was a perfectly good website to go down the road of trying to extract cash out of everyone whilst offering a inferior product than before. They don't seem to want to listen to any feedback we have im sure sent them in emails and messages on social media - in fact they said in a reply to me that we "the users" had requested all these changes! Well they won't be getting a black penny out of me that's for sure.

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Site related news, functions and modules / Re: IMO number

« on: February 19, 2024, 07:08:29 PM »

Has any IMO numbers beyond 9999999 been issued yet for merchant vessels?

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Site related news, functions and modules / Re: Couple of questions / site slow

« on: February 19, 2024, 01:41:06 PM »

Site seems a bit sluggish opening photos (for me at least today), anyone else?

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Shipping News and information / Re: Marine Traffic revamp

« on: November 07, 2023, 05:41:57 PM »

Does anyone think MT will pay any attention to the less than enthusiastic comments regarding they're update?

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Shipping News and information / Marine Traffic revamp

« on: November 01, 2023, 05:50:37 PM »

Does anybody else think the New Marine traffic look is a step backwards? I think personally i preferred the older look with the sea light blue and the icons as they were....

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Site related news, functions and modules / Re: Couple of questions / site slow

« on: September 13, 2023, 12:31:48 PM »

Still slow for opening photos for me, sometimes over 30 secs or longer.

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Site related news, functions and modules / Re: Couple of questions / site slow

« on: September 12, 2023, 07:24:29 AM »

I would describe it as intermittent, faster than of late sometimes, then sticky at other times.

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Site related news, functions and modules / Re: Couple of questions / site slow

« on: September 11, 2023, 06:52:03 PM »

Did the planned maintenance today go ok?

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Site related news, functions and modules / Re: Improvements to the website design

« on: September 05, 2023, 06:58:30 PM »

Hi Pieter thanks for the reply, appreciate your time in doing that for us all.

I respect what you are saying but there's no getting away from the fact this site has lost many long standing members that used to post on here that preferred the old site's manner for displaying photographs. I took a random photo of a bulker from May, it's a good photo, shows an interesting working ship at a good angle and it has only 20 views...now either no one is clicking on the photo, or the photo is being looked at without the click being required, either way if a photographer sees such a low amount of interest in their subject matter they'll get disheartened and may just resort to posting on a social media shipping page on Facebook for example instead.

We all don't want that, we want a thriving shipspotting community.

The smaller thumbnail suggestion is only what was on the previous edition of the site before the makeover, it worked perfectly well then and i did not hear a grumble about the size of said thumbnails at the time because if you were logged in as a member you'd click the photo anyway to look at it if it interested you. The click was then counted and the poster could see his/her work was appreciated and most importantly would be motivated to post more and so on and so on.... you have to keep people engaged/interested otherwise the cycle will stop eventually.

This is just my humble opinion, some might agree, some might disagree with me and that's absolutely fine with me but it's important to get it out there for discussion.

Regards
Richard

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Site related news, functions and modules / Re: Improvements to the website design

« on: September 04, 2023, 07:00:40 AM »

All this thread show is you can't please everyone......make some changes to suit some members, and other members will be annoyed. It will never be prefect for every member. No site ever is.

I agree nothing is ever perfect, but the whole point of posting photos to share with others is to see how popular a photo can be/viewed. We all know that's one of the main reasons to do so. Nobody can deny this.

The point is if "hits" on photos are going to be so low as they tend to be now, folk's interest in the site will simply wane and postings will dry up. The site's lifeblood is it's photo contributions, without that it dies.

 I know of members that no longer post photos for this very reason. Hence my suggestion to go back to the old site's way of setting up photos so they CAN be viewed as opposed to the current way in which you just  look at them without clicking to go bigger.

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Site related news, functions and modules / Re: Improvements to the website design

« on: September 02, 2023, 12:10:57 PM »

I agree wholeheartedly that the thumbnails now do not require anyone to click on a photo anymore, and even when you do click the photo isn't much bigger with an unattractive couple of black rectangles at either side of the photo.

For a trial period how about going back to thumbnails the size of the old site where you can only open it to full size IF your logged in as a member?

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Site related news, functions and modules / Re: Couple of questions...

« on: August 28, 2023, 05:51:16 PM »

The photos before you even open them are smaller than they were before.

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Site related news, functions and modules / Couple of questions / site slow

« on: August 26, 2023, 08:47:16 AM »

Hi there, is anyone else experiencing a sluggish site, especially opening up photos?....and secondly is it just me or is the photos when opened smaller than they were before?