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I assume the new site will strip exif info from uploaded pics?
We are working on that now
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I assume the new site will strip exif info from uploaded pics?
From what I can tell, the website will be fully device adaptive, yes? So if I’m on a mobile device, I’ll get ‘mobile friendly’ views of the website. If it’s kind of like how it is now when I currently go from webview to the gallery, and the ‘views’ I get are different (and phone friendly) to what the desktop version looks like, that will be fine. It’s fairly intuitive. And we’ll all be able to help each other get around it I’m sure.
And kudos for a bloody entertaining situation update. Thanks for all! It sounds like it’s been a busy couple of weeks in the 420 offices. Have fun with the overhaul
Facebook/Disqus, however it's still not connected with your forum account, YET. Something that has been driving me crazy for a decade, we are finally going to close that rabbit hole, once and for all.
An entire day? . I'm not even having issues . hopefully the change is for the best.
Not a fan of mobile browser forums so we will see.
I know..... Inside my head the startled voice went " a WHOLE DAY??" Then I thought "Oh....a day off!"
You guys are the best. There may be other sites, but we all know from experience there aren't better.
I've been working on desktop on both devices from the beginning, so it's the speed I'll appreciate. You guys know I appreciate everything you do to keep our playground safe and fun. I look forward to the learning curve.
I keep hearing that forums are fading out, but I don't see evidence of that here. What makes us so different?
Those of you using the mobile app and unable to use the full functionality of the forum (without expending the heroic effort of making a few taps to access the forum via your browser instead of a dedicated app :rolleyes3 ) have my sympathies. Choosing a developer in China to create the mobile app... probably wasn't the best idea, lol.
Shame it wasn't done in some kind of open source way. Not only would the code have been available for peer review (and potential help with patching, if an issue occurred that the developer was either slow to respond to or having trouble solving) for security/safety purposes, but if you decided that you didn't like the way the app was headed, you could just take the last version that you did like and fork it in the direction you wanted.
Probably save "a few" bucks that way, too. That's if the community of knowledgeable people (I no longer count myself qualified to be in that group, lol) stepped up, of course. But that usually happens with a varied enough - and large enough - community, and assuming the... content is considered to be of high enough quality to be worth giving back some time for.
But because web view literally takes 10 minutes a page to load.
Idk why but the app is lightning fast.
I have hardly any reception at my house.
Huh. I grabbed my OLD $25 cell phone (inactive), turned the WiFi on, and "typed" in the address for the main forum page. Then started counting, "One thousand, two thousand..." And got to nine thousand when the page finished loading.
I assume my more modern (but still about three years old and "value-level") cell phone would be faster - but it's actually activated with a carrier, therefore in my name and I have more sense than to use it to access a cannabis website, lol.
Sounds like your issue is with whatever entity your cell phone uses to access the forum.
Different access method? Has lots of things preloaded (talking about the forum structure and such)? You happen to be lucky enough that your carrier hasn't (yet ) realized it's accessing content which the federales do not approve of? You've allowed your cell phone's web browser to "catch" more viruses than Windows does, LMAO?
Cellular reception, you mean? No non-cellular Internet access, either, I take it? Try enabling WiFi anyway, maybe you have neighbors who are as dumb as mine and don't know that they can change their wireless routers' default passwords.
If YOUR neighbors have two brain cells to rub together, I could dig up plans for several different WiFi antennas - up to and including one that uses a 12' satellite dish, if you happen to be halfway up a mountain 75 miles from the nearest connection. But you'd have to set up a relay so that you could then connect to that with your phone. One of (the very many) downsides of using a cell phone as a laptop/desktop substitute is that you cannot simply plug $22 worth of cheap Chinese USB WiFi device into it.
Feel your pain rooster. Till about a year ago our only available connection was hughesnet. Now we're with the times with a DSL modem. :Facepalm. But it sure is pretty here haha.Lol I have no neighbors. And cable internet is nonexistent in my neck of the woods. Hughes net is only option it's expensive and has severe data limits. I use wireless data. It's my ONLY option
You look at the concept of connecting one's 420 Magazine account with either of those two entities as a good thing?
Those of you using the mobile app and unable to use the full functionality of the forum (without expending the heroic effort of making a few taps to access the forum via your browser instead of a dedicated app :rolleyes3 ) have my sympathies. Choosing a developer in China to create the mobile app... probably wasn't the best idea, lol.
Shame it wasn't done in some kind of open source way. Not only would the code have been available for peer review (and potential help with patching, if an issue occurred that the developer was either slow to respond to or having trouble solving) for security/safety purposes, but if you decided that you didn't like the way the app was headed, you could just take the last version that you did like and fork it in the direction you wanted.
Probably save "a few" bucks that way, too. That's if the community of knowledgeable people (I no longer count myself qualified to be in that group, lol) stepped up, of course. But that usually happens with a varied enough - and large enough - community, and assuming the... content is considered to be of high enough quality to be worth giving back some time for.
I’m the dude that can’t use the couple taps to open web view. Not because I’m lazy and don’t know how. But because web view literally takes 10 minutes a page to load. Idk why but the app is lightning fast. I have hardly any reception at my house. Also note that lightning fast here, means taking 1:30 to upload a picture via app. Lol I couldn’t even imagine how long it would take in web view. I know it would take at least 10 minutes just to get to the spot to upload. Lol. So it’s not that I don’t want to use web view. I would love to as there are way more features available. However. I can’t where I live. And if I have to flip through 5 pages on the browser. Well. Count me out lol it would take an hour to visit a journal. But I’m optimistic. And I’m optimistic that service st my house will improve. 2 years ago it didn’t exist at all. I had to drive down the road ten miles. So we’re advancing just like everything else
But currently web view isn't designed with a mob view
Ya know like say NFL. com it sees yer a phone and adds the NFL.com /mobile to it
Thus it's a lesser version of the main Website, faster, easier