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Site related news, functions and modules / Re: New category.

« on: November 12, 2023, 11:40:43 AM »

'The Streets of San Francisco' for one which as we know is as well known for its port as it is its name.

Fixed it ....The yellow freighter from the opening credits of The Streets of San Francisco

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Shipping News and information / Re: Marine Traffic revamp

« on: November 03, 2023, 06:26:52 AM »

Their reply to me included this:
While the new map layout was a business decision, it is crucial for us to be aware of what dedicated users such as yourself are thinking about this change.
That makes it sound like cost-cutting was the reason to change the maps.

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Shipping News and information / Re: Marine Traffic revamp

« on: November 02, 2023, 10:58:28 AM »

The consensus of comments here isn't in favour.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QJknKiP9_Y

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

« on: September 05, 2023, 07:53:45 AM »

Therefore if have changed the title of the topic, because it feels like an unjustified insult to all those who work hard to please all who use this site, and as you can see from the reactions have different opinions about what they think that all users would want the site to be.

So the short version is that my comments are ignored and you just don't care..
Just get used to it
No surprise there.

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

« on: September 01, 2023, 12:51:27 PM »

The "most popular" answers itself - they may be old B&W images but some would say that the ships were better looking in those days so do have merit. 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.

My complaint is that when you open the site, the only images you see ate the top 4 and you have to dig deeper to see anything else.
The Top 4 keep getting views and nothing else has a chance to be seen until they finally expire.
I don't understand how old B&W images can get 40 hits only an hour or two after uploading, when wonderful contemporary images struggle to get 20 views in 24 hours.
Perhaps there are a huge number of members who have little interest in coloured images and seek out the ancient ones?

But that doesn't matter.
What does, is that the website in its current form hides almost all other images that are being uploaded and doesn't give them the exposure they deserve.

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

« on: September 01, 2023, 04:30:29 AM »

I'm sick of this website design.
Whenever you log on, the only images you see are just the top four"most popular" and everything else is buried and only visible if you want to dig for it.
The previous version of Shipspotting was a good showcase for ship photography.
When you logged on you saw a range of images, displayed larger and you didn't have to dig to find them.

And almost every day, the top four "most popular" are old B&W images of old ships with no particular photographic merit.
There seems to be a never ending supply of these old images and every day they rocket through the pack and get to the top in just a few hours.
This means that a couple of hundred great images that have been captured by members are hardly seen by anyone.

When I post high quality images now, they are lucky to get 20 views, where once they would frequently have 100 or more views.
This is only marginally better than putting them in a shoebox in the back of a cupboard.
I can't see much point in continuing to post images when they are unlikely to be seen by more than just a handful of people.

The current website design has had a good trial and it's failed.
It's time for a facelift to make Shipspotting better for people who want to see pictures of ships and photographers who want to show their hard work.

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Help and Advice / Re: Unknown Sailing Vessel 511 m Aqua

« on: July 03, 2023, 02:04:34 PM »

If the vessel you saw was sailing yacht, it's not the hydrogen powered Aqua

Aqua is 112 metres long
But according to this article won't be completed until 2024
https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/worlds-first-hydrogen-powered-superyacht-644-million

There is a vessel called Aqua between Calabria and the NE of Sicily.
Its MMSI number is 232029797.
It's showing up on Marinetraffic as a sailing vessel.
Click on the map here to see where it is now ....
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:7853362/mmsi:232029797/imo:0/vessel:AQUA

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Site related news, functions and modules / Re: Not accepting photos...warning that photo is not proper size

« on: March 05, 2023, 07:27:17 AM »

What size were the images>
The site requires image sizes between 768 x 768 pixels and 4000 x 4000 pixels.
Marinetraffic accepts larger images.

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Site related news, functions and modules / Re: Likes to photographs

« on: March 04, 2023, 01:47:20 AM »

Another yes vote from me

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Site related news, functions and modules / Re: What happened to Shipspotting.com ?

« on: September 01, 2022, 07:44:25 AM »

That has always been the case....

Not like it is recently.
It was common to see 20-30 views, but <5 views for the majority of images uploaded in the last week is something else.

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Site related news, functions and modules / What happened to Shipspotting.com ?

« on: August 31, 2022, 10:47:06 AM »

I've noticed that my recent uploads have had very few views.
Had a look at views for images posted over the last week and most have <5 views !!!
So much for the new-look website.
It's been a dismal failure and shipspotting.com is as good as dead now.
What a disaster it's been.

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Site related news, functions and modules / Re: Hello to the ShipSpotter community!

« on: May 20, 2022, 03:51:19 PM »

You need to read the latest Terms & Conditions re the site

To promote contributing photographers and increase traffic to the Website, ShipSpotting reserves the right to make available links to submitted photos for other websites or applications

It's failing to increase traffic to Shipspotting.com
It used to be that the view numbers of the most viewed pix each day were 300-400.
Now they are usually <100 and sometimes <50.

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

« on: May 12, 2022, 02:05:41 AM »

It seems that the Report to Moderator function for the forum doesn't work.
There are a bunch of recent spam posts that are still there despite reporting 24 hours ago

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Site related news, functions and modules / Re: Strange headings in Forum

« on: May 11, 2022, 11:14:48 AM »

It's the work of a spammer (Ydgfghjh) trying to sell American football themed T-shirts.
Why haven't they been deleted by now?

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

« on: May 06, 2022, 01:39:40 AM »

@Owen Foley:
What seems to be your problem?
 

The navigation is clunky and the site doesn't look interesting.

The contents of the site is still the same, depending on uploaded images of your likes of course, navigating around might have changed a bit but so what. An extra click to get the ad out of the way? The site design is not interesting enough? OMG, big deal.
Relax and enjoy, have a drink! 

I'm not the only member to have suggested this, and the significant reduction in the number of views that photos are getting makes it clear that the new website just isn't working near as well as the old one did.