I give up. The problems just keep multiplying.

FWIW, it's more or less been working as accustomed for me.

Even the this website has gone ballistic thread seems to have been a lot quieter lately than it was a few years ago (not a peep since last summer).

Full disclosure: I do the vast majority of my browsing with JavaScript disabled (simply because I am choosy about who runs code on my computer).

A downside of that is that I usually don't experience the fancier features of most websites.

The bright side is, when websites have fancy features that don't work, I tend not to notice that either.

On my wishlist:

• It would be nice to have .svg included in image types that can be used in a post.
• I've seen others complain that video uploads to the gallery don't work, though I haven't tried to upload a video there myself yet.

 

I'm with Chap as using Opera as my browser seems to make PriusChat reasonably stable. Opera, unlike other browsers, closely follows the HTML standards.

JeffD

 

I don't know what "preview" function @sam spade 2 mentioned, but for the most part, the site has been working A-OK.
Admitted that there are some bugs that need fixes. Yeah, @Danny, if you can fix the PM function not working for some members, I would be very happy Prius Camper. LOL
Good luck.

 

OK, thanks for the explanation. If that feature was working sometime in the past, then I must have seen it functioning. The fact I didn't even notice that the feature stopped working means, I really didn't benefit from the feature... or was it a "bug"? LOL...

 

How about with a smallish size quota, or bitrate quota, or both?

It would be a little extra burden for some posters who aren't used to thinking about compression or re-encoding, but usually for the kinds of video content you'd expect on PC, like "here's how you replace the Knuten valve", it doesn't need to win HD cinematography awards, it just needs to look ok and show the Knuten valve.

For example, when I snapped this image on my phone, it was 1.4 megabytes (sometimes on my phone a simple still image is up to 5 megabytes!), but before uploading it on PriusChat I resaved it on my computer and adjusted the JPEG compression until it was just 52 k, and on a computer monitor it's still more than clear enough for the purpose.



The video I uploaded in this thread I made sure to compress down to a 318 kB .webm file, and it still shows everything it needs to show. But then I had to wrap it in a ZIP file because I couldn't directly upload a webm. So now it's just harder for anybody to view, they have to download and unzip it first.

It would sure be convenient to have a place to be able to upload short videos and such without relying on some outside service like youtube, even if it had limits on size that would force people to think about editing and compression. Those are not bad things to have to think about anyway.

Sounds like a perfect example of the kind of problem that never bothers me because I keep JavaScript turned off anyway!

 

danny, i'd appreciate it if you would just leave things as they are. it's been working nearly flawlessly for quite awhile now.

 

Danny,

You just keep on doing what you're doing. The world is a busy place. I think the majority of us have no gripes and find it hard to get bent out of shape about a free forum. Those who are bent out of shape? They should feel free to move along and develop their own.

 

Danny - Thanks - priuschat is great resource for Prius owners in many locations around the world.
I hope this site is as much a benefit to your IT business and it is to us, all the priuschat members.

IMO you should be very proud of this site if for no other reason than having kept up since 2003, but there are many other reasons why,

Cheers Billy TGB4 2014 !

 

Thank you Danny!!