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Scale Models / Re: Tall Ship Model in Need of Repair

« on: December 11, 2023, 03:14:27 PM »

Could you provide some images of that model?

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Scale Models / Re: Scratch built coaster

« on: December 11, 2023, 03:12:34 PM »

I noticed many modelers usually build cargo ships with a non-functioning cargo hold - why?  It would be so much interesting to have removable hatch covers & the hold (as how it is in reality) be filled with some "cargo".

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Site related news, functions and modules / Re: Button photo likes doesn't work

« on: November 10, 2023, 02:14:28 PM »

Hi, Hugo!
Today I noticed that after clicking on Like button (either on photo pages or in thumbnails) - nothing happens, the button doesn't become blue & in my list of Liked photos nothing is added.  Tried with a different browser - same issue. 
It was all fine yesterday though!

Hi Denis,

Thanks for letting me know.
I'll look into it.

Cheers

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Site related news, functions and modules / Re: Button photo likes doesn't work

« on: November 02, 2023, 06:51:45 PM »

Notified Hugo Vieira yesterday about it:

Hi, Hugo!
Today I noticed that after clicking on Like button (either on photo pages or in thumbnails) - nothing happens, the button doesn't become blue & in my list of Liked photos nothing is added.  Tried with a different browser - same issue. 
It was all fine yesterday though!

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Site related news, functions and modules / Re: DELETIONS, Important notification

« on: October 28, 2023, 08:08:16 PM »

I feel its a little wrong when the message is sent from a "no-reply adress".
Then its no possibility for me to come with an explanation.

Communication is via the CFD comments. If photographer posted a comment there - admin who reported the photo gets a notification about it, same as if someone of admins posts a comment there - the photographer gets notification about it.

Also I would like to see a list on the website which persons are behind the admin codings like AF, AL, etc.
Now any communication is impossible.
And sometimes I notice that admin team is putting a remark in the description box of a photo.
But how do I know that they did that, a PM would be nice.
Thank you.

Admins' initials are for admins only, regarding who reported the photo or who accepted it to stay. Using initials is kinda obsolete now because the system already shows to admins who reported or deleted/resolved the photo.

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Site related news, functions and modules / Re: Can we have the pages back?

« on: September 26, 2023, 05:14:14 PM »

You do right-click on thumbnail - open in new tab, or click on thumbnail while holding Ctrl, so it will open in new tab.
That's how I scroll while having some 100 or more photos opened in tabs.

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

« on: September 07, 2023, 01:45:04 PM »

My comments are not related to the features but to the look of the site, my views are unchanged since the redesign was first introduced. Basically, it looks as though the site was put together by someone that has no idea about visual design. The site works but it is visually unattractive, the dark blue back ground is wrong as are the 'heavy' orange headings and why is the first word of these headings in bold - and thus even heavier - text?
The photo categories - why does every title picture sit above a dark blue rectangle that is rounded at the bottom corners. This is messy, design for designs sake. The whole thing looks as though the person that put it together found all these different features and was anxious to use them all.
Simple is best!

What if orange highlight was replaced with light blue one?  So the site would have a livery similar to DEO VOLENTE ship...

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

« on: September 04, 2023, 04:48:25 PM »

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.

What if size of thumbnails could be reduced so that on home page you see not 3 thumbnails in width but 5-7?

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

« on: September 02, 2023, 04:18:00 PM »

And while you are busy implementing this great idea about the thumbnails please delete the Copyright part from the site regulations or please finally act accordingly, thank you. Photos from so called collections by unknown photographers are getting on my nerves.

This gives me an idea...  In the Upload page there should be an option to check - my own photo or photo by someone else (fill in the field who's the photographer). Then once the photo is uploaded, at the bottom in the blue bar it should be something like Photo by etc Shipspotting member, or Photo by (other photographer if known). It should be also mentioned in photo details below in the info field - uploaded by etc member, photo taken by (that member or someone else).
Then once info about whose photo is in the system, every member should have a variety of viewing options in their Account Settings - like, which categories include or exclude from viewing in Recent uploads & in Random photos, also option to view or not view photos not taken by members.
I think in this way some would be happy to see only Cruise ships of 50-70s & nothing else, some would be happy to NOT see B&W photos from the 50s, some would be happy to NOT see photos members never took themselves.

Regarding photos which were uploaded before such option was implemented, either members themselves should change who's the real photographer of each photo not taken by themselves. Or any viewer should report such questionable photo & the reviewing staff would check the field like [v] "not taken by etc member, taken by __________" & changes would be auto-made to that photo.

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

« on: September 01, 2023, 01:40:39 PM »

As the thumbprints are better on this new site you can view the photos quite well without opening them, hence the lower number of hits.

I second this. After a little scrolling anyone would see this - photos in those thumbnails are clearly visible, so clicking on any becomes unnecessary unless you have to for some reason.
Clicking on From our Galleries brings random photos from the database.

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Site related news, functions and modules / Re: "Favourites" can't save more then one photo of same name

« on: August 25, 2023, 04:03:45 AM »

I guess you added to Favourites photos from different upload dates. When you view Favourites as list then you should see all those photos you just added, but when you view Favourites as gallery then it's sorted by newest uploaded to the site first, not by newly added to Favourites, so the other photos you added but can't find are probably somewhere in the depths of that Favourites gallery.
I did notify Hugo some earlier about Favorites to be sorted by newly added in there in both list & gallery modes.

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Site related news, functions and modules / Re: New photo selection tool

« on: August 17, 2023, 10:48:21 PM »

It better be something like this:

Select all [V]
(below is a list of all photo categories & subcategories selected - member can uncheck ones he doesn't want)

or

Select all [ ]
(below is a list of all photo categories & subcategories - all not selected, a member can manually select certain categories photos from which he wishes to see in recently uploaded on home page)

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Trip reports / Re: Funny rare lucky cases during ship spotting?

« on: May 17, 2023, 03:04:40 PM »

An interesting case right now: I was looking at vessels in port in my hometown, one of them was BARENTS. Then I looked at which one's coming in & it was... another BARENTS, lol!
2 completely different unrelated vessels:
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:363256/mmsi:305059000/imo:9356866/vessel:BARENTS
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:204585/mmsi:273385970/imo:9278600/vessel:BARENTS

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Trip reports / Funny rare lucky cases during ship spotting?

« on: January 19, 2023, 10:01:03 PM »

Something that can be called like that, something hilarious, maybe impossible...

Happened such today. I was walking along the port in my city of Kaliningrad, going to see the offshore tug BALKHAN - suddenly spotted her on Marintetraffic at the local ship repair yard a day earlier - docked at the exact same spot at which I took pics of her almost 15 years ago back in July 2008 (can be found in my first uploads on this site). That tug is usually on-standby at the Lukoil's D-6 oil rig & it's a rare case when it would come all the way to Kaliningrad because the Lukoil's terminal is near Svetlyy.  Besides it's a special ship, since my father sailed on her as 2nd mate back in the years.
So, while walking along the port I was looking at whatever was visible there - our KRUZENSHTERN, SEDOV, some other ships, mostly everything was obstructed, so no point in taking pics there. Suddenly at one certain spot I saw far in the background 4 raised white booms (with distinctive black tips) of deck cranes, everything else of the ship obstructed - it took like 3 seconds for me to figure it out: "OH! That looks like the GREEN CRYSTAL! That reefer I saw back in July 2003...  almost 20 years ago... or well, it could be any of several sisterships, I mean... coooool! 20 years ago & yet now, outta sudden..."
I realized there would be no way of taking pics of her since she was docked in inconvenient place & was very obstructed, so I continued going to see the BALKHAN...

Then at home I remembered to check Marinetraffic what was that reefer anyway - I clicked on it's icon which showed it's indeed the GREEN CRYSTAL!  Lol, could you believe it?  Not only suddenly & finally seeing the same ship I saw 20 years ago (I still have a pencil sketch I drew of her while standing near) but even guessing the correct ship by just it's cranes, I mean it could have been any of her sisterships.

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Site related news, functions and modules / Re: Enlarging full screen photos

« on: January 05, 2023, 03:05:29 PM »

You could press & hold the scroll wheel - dragging the mouse during it would allow to move the enlarged photo how you want.