[unclearthur]

Yeah, the main project page is a complete disaster, and I haven't heard a word about any changes to it. Zero motivation to post anything there or look through other people's projects (which was my #1 reason for visiting LJ).

You need big, clear pictures in their original aspect ratios. Then projects will look good. Its not that complicated. But I guess it requires customization from the standard forum software, and they don't want to do it because of cost / maintenance etc.......

 

[Admin]

You need big, clear pictures in their original aspect ratios. Then projects will look good. Its not that complicated. But I guess it requires customization from the standard forum software

The smaller images listed on the project home page are sample (smaller) sizes of the actual images, but when clicking on each project, the larger image is included.

~Mike D

 

[sras]

The smaller images listed on the project home page are sample (smaller) sizes of the actual images, but when clicking on each project, the larger image is included.

~Mike D

Not only smaller - also blurry. And unreasonably small.
The purpose of a project preview is to understand the project well enough to see if it is one of interest. Clicking on a project should be to understand in depth - not to figure out what the project is.

 

[280305]

Yes, it's always wise to give the worst possible first impression.

 

[unclearthur]

Not only smaller - also blurry. And unreasonably small.
The purpose of a project preview is to understand the project well enough to see if it is one of interest. Clicking on a project should be to understand in depth - not to figure out what the project is.

Exactly. People don't want to click on a blurry thumb to see what the project is. They want to know what the project is and then click on it if it is interesting to them. On the old site I might click on 1 / 50 projects to see the details. Am I going to click on 50 blurry thumbnails to see if there is an interesting project? No.

I was on a woodworking sub-forum on a social media site the other day. The discussions were not interesting (not a LJ level of expertise to learn from!) but each thread [project] started with a bright big picture. You could just scroll through the threads and see all the projects in full resolution easily. Its not good when a generic social media site can display woodworking projects better than LJ.

Just show full screen width pictures, natural aspect ratio with a title above the pic and the creators name as the legend, one project on top of each other. With the quality of work on LJ, it would look great, and it is so simple. Should really be the home page of the site. Visitors would get there and say Wow, I want to be able to make stuff like that. Regular users can enjoy each others work without 50 clicks.

To me its a no-brainer, and a huge missed opportunity for LJ. A victory of bean counters over common sense ..... but you can cut costs as much as you want, you still need people to come to the site to generate revenue.

 

[CaptainKlutz]

@Admin @Cricket A Question:

My profile lists many ignored users that no longer have accounts on new LJ server software. I can not un-ignore these users to remove them from the list.
All of these ignored users were spam accounts, that I ignored upon seeing multiple spam messages; and I wanted to prevent them sending spam PM after reaching the required min post count.
Shouldn't these no longer existing user accounts be removed from my profile ignore list, as part of the database conversion?

Should only require a basic script to purge all ignore list entries with no account in system, since the interface/database is smart enough to not show the ignore/un-ignore buttons?

Thanks in advance for your attention to this problem.

Best regards from another forum admin.

 

[Mosquito]

The smaller images listed on the project home page are sample (smaller) sizes of the actual images, but when clicking on each project, the larger image is included.

~Mike D

We've been told that a lot, which has never helped.

What we want is the main project page to look like the advanced search results. I can't remember what the excuse was, but it's already built and working, we just want it to be the main presentation too.

LumberJocks Woodworking Forum

www.lumberjocks.com

 

[Lazyman]

Kind of annoying that posting a link for a search like Mosquito did doesn't work for anyone else.

But that does not make me as sad as looking at the way the blogs were converted. I guess we will have to move them elsewhere if we want to preserve them in a useful format.

 

[Mosquito]

Kind of annoying that posting a link for a search like Mosquito did doesn't work for anyone else.

But that does not make me as sad as looking at the way the blogs were converted. I guess we will have to move them elsewhere if we want to preserve them in a useful format.

Not only that, but the link doesn't even work for me lol

 

[CL810]

Not only smaller - also blurry. And unreasonably small.
The purpose of a project preview is to understand the project well enough to see if it is one of interest. Clicking on a project should be to understand in depth - not to figure out what the project is.

 

[ssnvet]

Hi folks,

In general, I like the new website a lot and have figured out how to accomplish most of the normal tasks.

One thing that has stumped me, however, is finding my old blogs.

Are blogs now called journals? I tried filtering the journals tab for created by ssnvet, but all I got was my projects.

Any help finding my old blogs is appreciated. I squirreled away a lot of info. in those and would like to access them.

 

[Lazyman]

Good luck. They screwed up the blog conversions from the old site big time. They are all converted to forum discussions under the topic of Blogs. If they were multi-chapter series they really messed them up by combining them into a single discussion and then repeating the original post of each chapter along with its images with every reply to the post, making them almost unusable. When asked if they would fixed this they said no. This is one reason I will no longer post projects or any more blogs to this site.

Note: Journals are the new way to post blogs. I am going to look for another way to do that going forward.

 

[northwoodsman]

Matt, do you have any examples of what you are looking for? A subject or a title would help. I have had reasonable luck in locating older material. One way is to go into your profile and find "Discussions Created". Currently it shows you have 134 of them. With your mouse click on the number "134" and it will pull them up.

 

[ssnvet]

Thanks for the feedback. I posted some finishing details in my Morris Chair blog that I want to replicate on a matching Ottoman.

 

[northwoodsman]

ssnvet, is this it? Morris Chair Blog Great blog by the way!

 

[Parabola]

Title should be self-explanatory. On the previous site, I had dozens of projects from others that I had saved/pinned (forgot exact verb used by site) for various reasons. I was quite dismayed to pop onto the forum for the first time in a few months and be unable to find them. I really hope this is user error. Can anyone help? Thanks

 

[280305]

I'm afraid that the technical term for the location of your Favorites is Bit Bucket. 😠

 

[Phil32]

All of the projects I had posted on the old LJ site are now in My Showcase. This only includes photos and information that I originated, not projects of others that I "liked" or "pinned."

 

[Lazyman]

Nope. For some reason they did not feel like it was necessary to convert your favorite projects over to the new site. They did convert any forum topics that you marked as favorites. Apparently there are no plans to fix this screw up.

 

[Parabola]

Considering that the well laid out (previous site) projects page was my main reason why I visited LJ, that is unfortunately quite disappointing.
Thanks for the responses. Maybe some day...