This is a question and feedback from one of our members.
He is a well known person in the motorcycle world and his research is impressive.
On our forum he has documentet several very rare interesting rebuilds.
Now he is soon to start yet another one but finds our forum to be very outdated regarding how it handles images so here is his input
Morgan,
I assume you don't allow posting of photos directly to your site because of the storage space required. However, I plan to thoroughly document the rebuild of my 1928 Ariel (which is still making its way through Customs at LAX), possibly with video as well, and the prospect of the mind-numbing process your site requires to resize each photo, upload to the sluggish Photobucket, copy the URL, and paste it into the thread, is pretty unappealing. Especially since computers easily can do all the drudge work, allowing the poster to simply drag and drop a photo and have it automatically resized and inserted into a post. I'm looking into various options and it would help to know if your are planning an upgrade anytime soon that will make posting photos a lot more user friendly.
Charles
Thanks.
This has already been addressed in the Changelogs and will be in the 7.6.1 release:
https://www.ubbcentral.com/forums/u...hreads-7-6-1-not-yet-released#Post259969Morgan,
Well, I might have missed it in that discussion, but it appears images -- if they've been properly sized ahead of time -- can be attached at the end of a post by dragging/dropping into an attachment manager. However, I'd use the expression "close, but no cigar," but you might not understand that Americanism, and it doesn't apply anyway, because attaching images this way isn't even close to being acceptable. They have to be embedded in the text so the text describing each image is located with the image, and not have all the images bunched at the end so the reader has to figure out which image a particular piece of text is describing..
It's hard to believe the guy in charge of implementing this for your site doesn't understand the importance (but, it doesn't seem so), so perhaps I missed it in the thread. What is needed is a way to drag/drop a photo of any size into a thread and have it automatically resized to fit the constraints. The original image can be deleted after resizing so as not to waste storage space. The thread would look like:
The following photo shows the rod attached to the crank:
[photo drag/dropped here]
As can be seen, the rod is cracked, which is clearer in the following close-up:
[close-up photo drag/dropped here]
The rod can be seen flying apart in the following slow-motion movie clip:
[movie clip drag/dropped here]
Charles
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It's hard to believe the guy in charge of implementing this for your site doesn't understand the importance
Sorry, I'm just the new guy here. I was given something from 2005, And I've been working on it with as much time as I can throw at it. Im well aware of how things work in modern times and how people think things should work today. UBB.threads 7.6.0 currently handles uploads and displays them just as Facebook handles them. The text that the user enters is above, and formatted however they want their text formatted, and whatever images, links, files they attach, are placed below their text in a gallery or listed format. This is also similar to how Gmail has done it for many years now.
If I am reading your user's comment correctly, he is asking for a WYSIWYG "Word Processor" style editor.
Thats coming along soon, but there are many other pieces that are getting attention at the same time. There really wasnt much in the way of new/fixed things happening to UBB.threads since it was originally sold in 2009. But there was a lot of much-needed security and minor bug fixes placed in to it by SD up until the end of 2013. Then in 2015, when I came in to working with the software, my goal was to bring it up to the current standards of the day. My first major release brought many many many updates. I'm also posting progress reports every few days.
I guess what I am trying to say here is that; No one is ignoring the requests. They are being worked on.
Especially the one about bringing the software up to modern-day expected-standards.
This is where I came in:
https://www.ubbcentral.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/topics/256313/7-5-9-changelogWhat you're using now:
https://www.ubbcentral.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/topics/258608/7-6-0-changelogSome of whats in the next version:
https://www.ubbcentral.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/topics/259883/7-6-1-changelog-not-yet-releasedAgain, thanks for your feedback. It helps determine the direction this software should take
Thanks!
