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Hi Paul, I noticed the same thing. Unless it is a request from family it seems a shame. Would be nice to remember his legacy and commitment to the site.Yes it would be very sad if that was the case.
Paul, that is strange, as an Admin you should be free of adds, the only thing you will get to see from time to time is a ShipExplorer pop-up, but no other adds.Thanks Pieter I think I have worked it out , I hadn't realized sometimes I'm not logged in hence the adds.
"This is the comment i get when i enter shipspotting.comI
"You are seeing this message because ad or script blocking software is interfering with this page.
Want to hide ads? Upload 50 photos within the last year or 500 in total.
Please disable any ad or script blocking software, then reload this page."'
Is there anything that would stop you to upload 50 plus shots?
Please remember there is no such thing as a free lunch.
Hello dear members,Thanks Hugo I really appreciate your detailed explanation but could you or someone else put it in layman terms for someone computer illiterate like me I really still cant understand how it works sorry.
Addressing the issues on the photo view counter. I'll need to explain a few things so please bare with me.
On 2022-07-29 a refactor of the counter was deployed, which changed how the views are counted.
Previous to this date the views were being counted on the server side as was on the old site. This means that all photo page requests resulted in a new view added to the counter. No matter if the page was eventually served to the user, if the user closed the page, clicked on a link or even clicked on the back button immediately (lets say less than 1s) after requesting the page. Also all requests from bots (search engine indexing bots, ...) and generated link previews in various applications (Whatsapp, Messenger, ... just to name a few) resulted in a new view being counted.
As you probably can imagine this is not representative of the "User" views.
Just so there is a clearer picture here are the total daily numbers around the day of the deployment:
Day ShipSpotting Photo Views Google Analytics Photo Views
From 2022-07-30 forward photo all views are counted on the client side, this means that the user requests the photo page to the server and only when the page finishes loading on the user's browser there is a request back to the serve to count a new view for that photo.
This represents a more accurate view count, but it is not without it's disadvantages.
There are circumstances where this request to count a new view can fail even if the user is in fact viewing it.
Some of them could be:
- server being too busy to process the request
- user having adblock enabled (this view count request is flagged as an advertisement pixeltag by some adblockers)
- an instable/very slow internet connection (the request can timeout)
Further to this, and is common to both methods of counting views as it comes from the old site, the counted views are buffered for some time on the database for each combination of photo id and user IP address. Only then they are processed and counted for the corresponding photo.
I believe this was implemented to prevent artificially increasing the view count by repeatedly refreshing the photo page.
Here, in the buffer, is where I believe the issues are occurring, as nowadays the IP address is not a true indication of a unique visitor.
Long gone are the days when each user had it's own unique IP.
This buffer is up for refactoring soon, with the expectation that it will result in a more accurate view count.
Hope this post creates a clearer picture of the process and answers at least some of your questions.
Cheers
Hi Paul, I think the issue is that users a frustrated with the site, still a lot of issues. My big issue is that ads continue to override the pages I am viewing. I previously spent many hours scrolling through, now at best 10 minutes per day. I have now joined fleetmon not as good as the old site but ok. I know what the owner was trying to achieve however does not work for me. CheersHi Tony,
Paul, I am not aware of that, I am now using the first generation Canon 1Dx, the third generation also features RAW photography (My son shoots in RAW on the second generation)Pieter I was reading a story on the net a while ago and basically with the newer cameras coming on the market with some them now having 45-50 meg pixel there is no real need to shoot RAW.
https://www.photoreview.com.au/tips/shooting/recent-developments-in-the-raw-file-format/
Here is a link to what we are talking about, plus another one with more practical aspects.
https://www.borrowlenses.com/blog/raw-file/
