October 5, 2003
Media Uploads
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Ok, so we're testing a new feature that we may pull in the future ... it is media uploads. Officially the feature is said for media uploads, but there is no verification for the files uploaded... they can be EXE, ZIP, MPG, MP3, AVI... whatever. The max filesize is limited to 7 megabytes.
You can upload the files from the Content tab » Media Files.
Once you upload a file, it will how up on your 'content' page. Beta accounts are being granted 4 media file uploads.
In the future, we will be zipping the file up. There are some server limitations right now and I cannot execute the ZIP queries ...
Right now I'm going to test the general interest in such a feature and see if I can expand it to make your journaling experience better.
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We realize that the admin panel is a mess. It's not consistent, and the learning curve in learning where stuff is is a major prohibiting factor for new users. I've started to make notes on how to organize stuff... the new UI will be under development for a few weeks, but please note that we ARE working on it.
If you have any suggestions in terms of the UI, please let us know!
Ok, so we're testing a new feature that we may pull in the future ... it is media uploads. Officially the feature is said for media uploads, but there is no verification for the files uploaded... they can be EXE, ZIP, MPG, MP3, AVI... whatever. The max filesize is limited to 7 megabytes.
You can upload the files from the Content tab » Media Files.
Once you upload a file, it will how up on your 'content' page. Beta accounts are being granted 4 media file uploads.
In the future, we will be zipping the file up. There are some server limitations right now and I cannot execute the ZIP queries ...
Right now I'm going to test the general interest in such a feature and see if I can expand it to make your journaling experience better.
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We realize that the admin panel is a mess. It's not consistent, and the learning curve in learning where stuff is is a major prohibiting factor for new users. I've started to make notes on how to organize stuff... the new UI will be under development for a few weeks, but please note that we ARE working on it.
If you have any suggestions in terms of the UI, please let us know!
Posted by tabulas on October 5, 2003 at 10:24 PM | 44 Comments
Lauryn
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dracil
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will
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MacDaddyTatsu (guest)
LittleKasia19
tabulas
You sure do ask a lot for having a free account ;)
LittleKasia19
Is asking for a lot a bad thing?
tabulas
But we're probably not going to add those smilies... we're quite satisfied with the ones we have now :)
magical
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it's one of the checkboxes.
tabulas
There is no way of notifying me that you've paid unless you respond to my e-mail or send me one proactively as indicated in the paid accounts page ;)
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oogabaloo
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will
pei
Status: Shared Journal Only
& check any shared journals you want to post to.
dracil
will
I hadn't seen that one!
My bad!
a46y
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dracil
tabulas
dracil
Looks like it's showing "null" instead of the correct color.
tabulas
dracil
The actual url of the popup is http://www.tabulas.com/private/popupSmilies.php?style=yellow
Hmm.... I just tested with IE and the smilies show up. I guess Tabulas really hates Mozilla? :P
tabulas
So Mozilla sees the JS popup, but won't load up the page as popupSmilies.php?style= (with nothing there?)
Not sure why Mozilla would fail here... weird.
dracil
I copied the correct url (http://www.tabulas.com/private/popupSmilies.php?style=yellow) from IE to Mozilla, and what shows up in IE properly won't show up in Mozilla (all the images become broken links because their url has "null" instead of the color in it).
I just tried it with http://www.tabulas.com/private/popupSmilies.php?style= and that doesn't work either.
tabulas
Also, in regards to the links... firebird *does* convert the brackets and spaces, but it still downloads the file fine.
dracil
dracil
An example of what happens is that "[4265]My Sassy Girl - Pachelbel - Canon In D.mp3" in the link becomes "%5B4265%5DMy%20Sassy%20Girl%20-%20Pachelbel%20-%20Canon%20In%20D.mp3"
This one works fine, but originally it had an apostrophe and brackets and it didn't seem to like that (it had "Pachelbel's Canon" and "(Movie version)"
tabulas
dracil
tabulas
dracil
The [] brackets don't show up as %5B and %5D to you?
dracil
tabulas
rastuspants
I spent some time today editing the way my journal looked and found it kind of frustrating and confusing. I seemed to be doing the same things, and going to the same places again and again to get things to change. I'm not sure how it could be done better but it seems that the process could be streamlined or made more intuative. But then I'm sure you know this :D
Dracil's point number 7 is almost verbatum what I was thinking on that issue too :D
tabulas
I will fix this up soon =)
de_absolutezero
tabulas
The reasoning here is if someone got ahold of your account, then you would be pretty screwed if there was one or two buttons that controlled the deletion of that much content...
dracil
1)No need for a "view your site" tab. We have the link on the navbar already, so it's redundant.
2)Styles/Journal Styles/Entry Display Style should be moved elsewhere, because it conflicts with the Custom Entry Format. So right now, if I edit anything else in the Journal Styles, I have to go back and re-enable my Custom Entry Format. Perhaps they should be put together.
3)An option to re-arrange the order of our Shared Journals (especially how it appears on our actual journal with the Shared Journal rolling)
4)Usericons would seem to be more at home under the Preferences Tab, next to our profiles, since usericons have a more universal role than just our journal style/templates.
5)Ability to create CSS for custom templates? It would save a great deal of clutter on my templates if I could edit the styles separately and just include a code snippet to load up the styles. :P
6)Contact info in our profiles?
7)I take it the media uploads are only for paid accounts? It seems like a pretty cool feature that most other blogging sites don't have, so it'll set Tabulas apart. IMHO it is also easily abusable, but if it's a paid feature, probably won't cause too much problems. And if for legal reasons, it needs to be pulled in the future, it's completely understandable.
8)Haven't really used the gallery much, so can't comment on that yet. :P
But other than that, seems fine. :)