Changes Pending Migration

[SENC]

Excellent, Jeff, and many thanks.

If you need a hand in the review, I'm happy to help and suspect there are others willing to contribute some time, as well.

Henry

[prezoom]

Wow! In the middle of scrolling, up pops the new version. Looks great.

[John Larkin]

Thanks Jeff!
Merry Christmas and a prosperous new year.
John Larkin.

[elansprint71]

As always Jeff, thanks for all you do in the background; this place has always been an excellent resource and it's easy to take for granted how much effort it keeps to maintain it.

As a 50+ years accredited motor-sports photographer I hope that adding photos will be easier under the new regime; it was a bit of a pain previously! I do have "one or two" Elan photos going back to the dark ages.

Thanks again.

[jcocking]

I have posted a poll concerning Social Media Logins.

Due to the overwhelming results, we will not implement any social media login capabilities.

[The Veg]

Jeff,

Great news on the new forum software. Will the image file uploads still be limited to < 1 MB?

Thanks,
Dan

The new system is currently set at a 4MB limit.

That's still smaller than the file size of the pictures that many modern phones' cameras produce, as they get ever higher and higher resolutions with every generation. Just looking through the last twenty or so images taken by my phone I saw sizes ranging from 2.1 to 7.6 MB.

[mark030358]

As always Jeff, thanks for all you do in the background; this place has always been an excellent resource and it's easy to take for granted how much effort it keeps to maintain it.

As a 50+ years accredited motor-sports photographer I hope that adding photos will be easier under the new regime; it was a bit of a pain previously! I do have "one or two" Elan photos going back to the dark ages.

Thanks again.

Which I'd very much like to see.

HNY Pete

[Lotus Guy]

As a web admin for my Lotus Club, I hope that one day a developer creates an add on that automatically resizes photos to say 2MB when posted. Larger photos take up space on servers, which then has to be paid for.

[SENC]

As a web admin for my Lotus Club, i hope that one day a developer creates an add on that automatically resizes photos to say 2MB when posted. Larger photos take up space on servers, which then has to be paid for.

Agree! I do think there are some forum software that do this, as I don't have the same issue on certain forums. But I've gotten reasonably adept at using PhotoEditor on my phone to quickly crop and/or resize photos for those that don't.

[jcocking]

Here is a video that overviews the system we are migrating to. The video was produced in 2021 and is a little dated. It will provide an insight of what the new system will look like.

The part that provides the overview starts at 1:30 and ends at 11:00. After the 11th minute, it gets into the admin side of the system.

https://youtu.be/z3qp_uB46FA?si=y2Y7R-qTm68sA_Z4&t=108

More info as we get closer.

[l10tus]

Sounds good, will pictures be easier to upload like thru, What'sapp.perhaps? As using the existing system is stone age!