AKE0404AR From United States of America, joined exactly 13 years ago today! , 2534 posts, RR: 50 Posted (10 years 7 months 1 week 3 days 10 hours ago) and read 2743 times:
I have been uploading to this site more than 2 years now and have pretty much enjoyed it so far, not that I am going to stop, but nowadays it takes ages for the "http:www.airliners.net/addphotos" / upload page to load.
I have asked some fellow a.net user about 2 months ago and it seems that everyone has the same problem.
LOT767-300ER From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 1, posted (10 years 7 months 1 week 3 days 10 hours ago) and read 2727 times:
I agree Vasco
Itll load the space for the file path but itll stall for a bit for all the other stuff to come on....I dont know why the heck it does that. Its not an user speed issue too because im running Cable not 56k and it stalls for a while.
Thomasphoto60 From United States of America, joined Jan 2000, 3723 posts, RR: 25 Reply 4, posted (10 years 7 months 1 week 3 days 9 hours ago) and read 2664 times:
Well as I stated in an earlier thread, for me it is a whole lot worse. In addition to the long load (which never happens) I keep getting those dreaded 'screen freezes'. Frankly while I hate to see anyone else suffer, I am however relieved to see that a few others are having difficulties as a result perhaps now these problem(s) might be addressed.
Clickhappy From United States of America, joined Sep 2001, 9444 posts, RR: 72 Reply 5, posted (10 years 7 months 1 week 3 days 9 hours ago) and read 2657 times:
AIRLINERS.NET CREW PHOTO SCREENER
it is slowest during the sites busy times, which seem to be (in my local time, Pacific time zone) 6am to 1pm. If you do it in the middle of the night it loads much faster. Maybe give it a try on off-peak hours.
ExitRow From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 6, posted (10 years 7 months 1 week 3 days 9 hours ago) and read 2661 times:
Here's another suggestion that relates to the upload process (and may be augmenting the problem).
I just had a bunch rejected for a minor, technical infraction. I repaired the problem and went through the whole (re-)upload process from scratch.
Is there any way we could, for example, just re-upload the image only? So this way you don't have to re-enter (typing or cut 'n paste) ALL the information over again. It took me an hour to re-upload 10 images yesterday. And one of them got rejected again because, despite typing the correct information in the "Aircraft and Other Aircraft Generic" fields, my 727-022 image showed up as a Boeing 022! REJECTED! Badinfo! (So I re-re-uploaded it with proper info.)
Maybe there could be a "re-upload of rejected photos" page that is similar to the appeal page? Where all the info is retained and simply the image is replaced with a new one?
I think this would relieve a lot of workload from not only the photographers, but screeners as well as perhaps there won't be any typos or badinfo on the re-uploads. I can honestly say my mind was bleary from all the uploading I've done in the past three days and it was harder to detect typos...
Sukhoi From Sweden, joined May 2006, 371 posts, RR: 8 Reply 9, posted (10 years 7 months 1 week 3 days 8 hours ago) and read 2632 times:
Hi All,
The whole site is slow today for some reason we have been having real trouble screening. You guys are lucky you want to try waiting for 50 pictures to load in one go!
I'm sure Johan has the situation under control, fingers crossed!
BO__einG From Canada, joined Apr 2000, 2759 posts, RR: 20 Reply 10, posted (10 years 7 months 1 week 3 days 7 hours ago) and read 2616 times:
yeah, it happens to me as well.
I find the best time to upload is around night time. Midnight seems to be fairly quick on the loading times, but how many of us will actually wait until then.
The Upload directory tab thing loads immediately, while the other menu colums take a while longer.
Bo
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Dazed767 From United States of America, joined May 1999, 5447 posts, RR: 53 Reply 11, posted (10 years 7 months 1 week 3 days 5 hours ago) and read 2601 times:
I have the view the medium sized photos because of the time it takes for a large photo to load (have cable modem BTW). I think we're all pretty much experiencing the same problems. Hopefully it will be fixed soon.
Luchtzak From Belgium, joined Dec 2001, 468 posts, RR: 9 Reply 12, posted (10 years 7 months 1 week 2 days 2 hours ago) and read 2517 times:
Hi all,
here is a good tip: in stead of using internet explorer 6.0 to upload your pictures you better use opera 6.05 (free)
Why? If you have multiple pictures and want to add another one with IE the info is lost but... with Opera all the information stays.
Maybe we can ask Johan to give us the full HTML-coding of the uploadpages so we can make a ghost-page to upload our pictures on let's say: www.mysite.be/a.netupload
Alaskaairlines From United States of America, joined Jan 2002, 2054 posts, RR: 17 Reply 14, posted (10 years 7 months 1 week 1 day 22 hours ago) and read 2515 times:
Same story on this end, takes a while for it to load!
Carlos Borda From United States of America, joined Dec 2000, 538 posts, RR: 52 Reply 15, posted (10 years 7 months 1 week 1 day 22 hours ago) and read 2508 times:
Maybe it's just me... but I can't say I've ever had a problem with the upload page. Works just fine for me and on average I upload around 800kb size images using IE6 and cable modem.
Alaskaairlines From United States of America, joined Jan 2002, 2054 posts, RR: 17 Reply 16, posted (10 years 7 months 1 week 1 day 21 hours ago) and read 2497 times:
The page always load for me, but takes about 2-5 minutes, I am on a dial up modem.
Karlok From Netherlands, joined Mar 2002, 839 posts, RR: 1 Reply 17, posted (10 years 7 months 1 week 1 day 12 hours ago) and read 2465 times:
Yes... I have to wait a while before the whole upload page is shown.
It always stops after the Select File field and then after a time the rest is shown
Kingwide From United Kingdom, joined Aug 2001, 838 posts, RR: 21 Reply 18, posted (10 years 7 months 1 week 1 day 11 hours ago) and read 2463 times:
I don't know how the underlying page is constructed but I'm willing to bet that the data for the drop-down boxes comes from the database or some other offline storage, like a load of files holding the data. There's then a process which grabs this data and spits it out as proper HTML to generate the list boxes. IT's probably this code that's at fault. Possibly solutions are to optimise the code, the medium it's stored on or to render the page once and then cache that version and present it to everyone else.
Luchtzak From Belgium, joined Dec 2001, 468 posts, RR: 9 Reply 19, posted (10 years 7 months 1 week 1 day 7 hours ago) and read 2423 times:
Kingwide,
this really sounds like an excellent idea. I allready tried to fit in the HTML-coding in my website. But I get stuck with 2 of the dropdown-boxes.
I believe Johan made it easier for the database-guys to arrange some menus.
Question for Johan: what about the idea of making satelite-websites around the world so the uploading-proces would go faster? Maybe you can e-mail 4 or 5 guys with a aviation-dedicated-airliners.net-spirited website?
APP From United Kingdom, joined Feb 2000, 546 posts, RR: 7 Reply 20, posted (10 years 7 months 1 week 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 2404 times:
22 minutes and page still didn't upload fully, couldn't wait any longer, got to go to bed, never really had a problem 'til today.
I'll try again tomorrow!
APP
Bruce From United States of America, joined May 1999, 5027 posts, RR: 17 Reply 22, posted (10 years 7 months 1 week 1 day 2 hours ago) and read 2398 times:
Same here....it does stall after the file select box and I have cable-modem ISP.
Also, I'm with ExitRow...I'd like to see a re-upload page to re-upload ONLY rejected pics where all the info from the original stays in. It would save photographers an awful lot of time....
so we can spend more time shooting
bruce
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Manzoori From UK - England, joined Sep 2002, 1516 posts, RR: 37 Reply 23, posted (10 years 7 months 1 week 22 hours ago) and read 2381 times:
On the subject of re-entering the info whe uploading, I've found that with IE6, when I place my cursor in the manual entry fields (i.e. Reg number) if I press the down arrow cursor key I get a drop down menu of ALL the entries I have ever made for that particular field, making the whole re-upload process considerably easier for me.
Of course if someone could furnish me with speed reading goggles.....
Hope that helps
Rez
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Tsentsan From Singapore, joined Jan 2002, 2016 posts, RR: 16 Reply 24, posted (10 years 7 months 1 week 20 hours ago) and read 2386 times:
Got one suggestion abt the upload page..
When we first load it, could we just save it on our hard disk and fire it up whenever we want to upload it? Not sure if this would work.... anybody knows???
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25 Manzoori: Problem with that is (I think) that when the database is updated for different aircraft types, as seen recently, then the locally saved version will b
26 Administrator: Hello, I am fully aware of the "beast" the upload page has become after years of adding more and more information and functionality to it. We are work
27 AKE0404AR: Thanks Johan for the input. I guess we all are looking forward to it. Vasco
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