Airliners.net Site Upgrade Announcement & Discussion

airkas1 · Wed Aug 10, 2016 8:27 am

Barbro wrote:
What I mean is having the line number visible after one simple step, that of using the main search page and Basic search. Otherwise I think the Basic search works fine, and it's now good that in search results you can initiate a new search without cliking back to search page.

On the list there is a suggestion to make the advanced search the only/default search option. No guarantees that this will happen, but it's something we may consider in the future.

Barbro · Wed Aug 10, 2016 12:24 pm

airkas1 wrote:
Barbro wrote:
What I mean is having the line number visible after one simple step, that of using the main search page and Basic search. Otherwise I think the Basic search works fine, and it's now good that in search results you can initiate a new search without cliking back to search page.

On the list there is a suggestion to make the advanced search the only/default search option. No guarantees that this will happen, but it's something we may consider in the future.

Probably a good idea, but doesn't help this problem. The problem is when I search with reg, I am not shown the line number and exact type in results...or are the search results shown differently in different search options (Basic/Advanced)?

kulverstukas · Wed Aug 10, 2016 1:33 pm

Plainplane wrote:
I noticed today that the old formatted URLs to pictures are redirecting to the Airliners.net homepage instead of going to the actual images however.

viewtopic.php?p=19026583#p19019147

tan1mill · Thu Aug 11, 2016 2:29 pm

On the search results page, the only place I see an option to move on to the next page of photos (or the next, next or next) is at the bottom of the page. Can this also be added to the top like it used to be? Thanks.

airkas1 · Thu Aug 11, 2016 3:03 pm

tan1mill wrote:
On the search results page, the only place I see an option to move on to the next page of photos (or the next, next or next) is at the bottom of the page. Can this also be added to the top like it used to be?

Added it to the list.

akiss20 · Fri Aug 12, 2016 1:54 am

Why is the remember me period so short? It seems like it lasts only a few days, if that. This is just setting a cookie lifetime no?

ab2carlos · Fri Aug 12, 2016 3:32 am

I miss very much the old site!!!

nry · Fri Aug 12, 2016 4:30 pm

Found a bug around when I'm logged out. If I log in and go to airliners.net homepage, I stay logged in. If I use my bookmark that goes straight to the Civil Aviation Forum, I'm not logged in.

USAIRWAYS321 · Sun Aug 14, 2016 9:49 pm

Still no progress on the login/logout issue? It's amazing to me that something so simple can be so baffling to the inept crew at Demand Media.

benjjk · Mon Aug 15, 2016 2:24 am

I just want to say, good work on the upgrade which, frankly, was needed. Initially the site was a mess but you have clearly been listening to feedback, and it is now almost excellent.

Not sure what has been said about on previous pages, but I am really disappointed that you reverted back to the old layout for the top 5 photos. Having the big, dynamic presentation of the best new photos was the best way to be greeted by the site - it was my favourite part of the upgrade. New visitors would have been immediately impressed. Now you have to squint to see the photo contents, and it looks very much like it was coded two decades ago. My opinion is that this was a damaging move to try and appease the complainers who won't be happy with anything but the old site reinstated.

Apart from that I am pretty happy with the site now. I am still waiting to be able to open photos to large size in one click instead of two, and the captions need to be immediately beneath the photo, not requiring scrolling down. And annoyingly, twice I have been logged out after typing a long forum post, which means once I hit 'post' I have to log in again, and everything that I wrote is gone.

Mon Aug 15, 2016 7:48 am

USAIRWAYS321, the login issue is on the fix list, but part of the issue is in phpbb, I have the same issue on another forum I run. Logging in grants access both to Airliners main site and the phpbb forum so it's a two part login which makes it a bit more complex. And I also advise you to keep it civil in your posts.

Benjik, the large photo presentation affected photo views, which is very important to the photographers, without photographers, no Airliners.net. In your main profile you can set an option to always display large images.

Airfrance767 · Mon Aug 15, 2016 10:04 pm

Hello everyone. I still have two photos without showing the copyright banner at bottom. This is one of the issues that was supposed to be fixed already?, or not yet.
Thank's. Regards.

airkas1 · Mon Aug 15, 2016 10:20 pm

Airfrance767 wrote:
Hello everyone. I still have two photos without showing the copyright banner at bottom. This is one of the issues that was supposed to be fixed already?, or not yet.
Thank's. Regards.

What are the ID's?

Airfrance767 · Mon Aug 15, 2016 10:30 pm

airkas1 wrote:
Airfrance767 wrote:
Hello everyone. I still have two photos without showing the copyright banner at bottom. This is one of the issues that was supposed to be fixed already?, or not yet.
Thank's. Regards.

What are the ID's?

2837613 and 2835743. Thank's.

na · Tue Aug 16, 2016 1:03 pm

The "Remember me" button still doesnt work and I´m always relegated to the homepage rather than to the topic I wanted to post in.
Thats annoying, and almost two months after the massive website modification not acceptable anymore.

Another fault is that ads are overlying the upper part of the forum pages. I always have to make the browser window as small as possible to make them disappear.

Thunderboltdrgn · Tue Aug 16, 2016 3:54 pm

The biggest issue is that some moderators have gone on a "locking spree" and started locking threads with 200 posts despite that they are only 5 pages long.
5 pages are nothing for a PhpBB based forum. The forum can handle much longer threads then that. 50-100 pages shouldn't be a problem.

Locking a thread on the new forum after just 5 pages is really unnecessary and it disrupts the discussion flow in a thread.

blrsea · Wed Aug 17, 2016 2:46 am

I had made a report on a post, and I got notification that the report was closed. It shows up in the notification counter on the top of the page, and clicking on the "report closed" item doesn't do anything. And the notification counter keeps showing that there is one notification and there is no way to clear that. That bug needs to be fixed

Wed Aug 17, 2016 4:08 am

Blrsea, there is a check mark in the top right corner of the notification area, click that and mark "all read"

blrsea · Wed Aug 17, 2016 4:25 am

JohnKrist wrote:
Blrsea, there is a check mark in the top right corner of the notification area, click that and mark "all read"

Thanks, that worked!

CVGpilot · Wed Aug 17, 2016 7:28 am

I have not come through here in while, I use to visit A.net daily. Today is my first time seeing / experiencing these new changes. So far I am not a fan. Seems the forum is less active as well. Either way lets give it some time I guess.

Or...

We just go back to the old Flight Sim .bmp 737 overhead panel that use to line the top of the webpage. (am old now)

keesje · Wed Aug 17, 2016 1:49 pm

I think the latest improvements restored a lot off the old practicallity of the traditional.

Still miss the high information density of a.net.
- A.net users are not typical internet users.
- On average more visually orientated and techie, probably mostly man
- specialist that love as much info as possible with the boundaries of their screen(s)

topgun3 · Wed Aug 17, 2016 2:12 pm

Really miss the old site too. I understood where to go to get the information I wanted.

Example....where do I go to see a list of top uploaders for the past 30 days? 365 days? Where do I go to see bar graphs of my upload stats?

There are many other things I miss from the old site that I can't find anymore. Due to the destruction of A.net, I have uploaded only 1 photo in the past 3 months or so. I'm also noticing the traffic is way down from before as well.

Is there anyone working on restoring the functionality that the old A.net used to have?

Spiderguy252 · Wed Aug 17, 2016 7:14 pm

One of the niftier features of the old site was the flags available to each username - instead of a profile picture which provides no context here and now.

Any plans to bring them back?

airkas1 · Wed Aug 17, 2016 7:37 pm

Spiderguy252 wrote:
One of the niftier features of the old site was the flags available to each username - instead of a profile picture which provides no context here and now.
Any plans to bring them back?

It's on the list, but at low priority.

olegchaplin · Thu Aug 18, 2016 9:57 am

airkas1 wrote:
Airfrance767 wrote:
Hello everyone. I still have two photos without showing the copyright banner at bottom. This is one of the issues that was supposed to be fixed already?, or not yet.
Thank's. Regards.

What are the ID's?

The same for 2837457 and 2835667

canyonblue17 · Thu Aug 18, 2016 5:51 pm

Haven't checked in a while, any update on the photo editing que coming back?

airkas1 · Thu Aug 18, 2016 5:58 pm

canyonblue17 wrote:
Haven't checked in a while, any update on the photo editing que coming back?

Between now and early next week.

canyonblue17 · Thu Aug 18, 2016 7:40 pm

Good to hear that que is coming back soon. The updated site - with many of the improvements recommended by users - is a major improvement. There is still a ways to go, but I considered leaving for another site and at least for now I like the way things are headed.

ZeeZoo · Fri Aug 19, 2016 4:18 am

Has the forum activity dropped off, admins/mods?

Posts aren't quite as often anymore it seems.

ArmitageShanks · Fri Aug 19, 2016 1:38 pm

ZeeZoo wrote:
Has the forum activity dropped off, admins/mods?

Posts aren't quite as often anymore it seems.

It seems its following the general trend of Demand Media as a whole over the last few years- a slow, steady decline. What are the causes of this?

I'm sure this will be deleted.

Alsatian · Fri Aug 19, 2016 9:03 pm

Did anyone else note an issue with the photo's number of views ? I do not speak about the fact that the site is currently less visited than a few time ago but some pictures' views are clearly blocked and see an increase by 5 views from time to time (number goes from 15 to 20 to 25 etc...)
Photos ID 3920359 or 3926345 for example are concerned.

dendrobatid · Fri Aug 19, 2016 9:11 pm

I think that hits are not counting at all on many images. They are evidently working on new images but do not seem to be counting at all on older ones.

If you search for anything with a number, the number of hits features in any search which explains many anomalous results. I pointed this out a while back but checked last night by looking at a couple of my own images that had 999 hits. The hits have not increased in about 24 hours though I clicked them and I have checked since and they have not gone up.

Mick Bajcar

PanAm_DC10 · Fri Aug 19, 2016 10:08 pm

Hi there

Views increase in increments of 5 views at a time and not live like when the site first changed so that is why it's taking longer for view counts to increase. Hope that clarifies the situation for you. If they remain stuck please let us know and we'll have the developers take a look into the matter for you.

Regards

Paul

johnr · Fri Aug 19, 2016 11:00 pm

Why????? For goodness sake why?

PanAm_DC10 · Sat Aug 20, 2016 2:26 am

johnr wrote:
Why????? For goodness sake why?

Hi John

Requiring 5 views before processing reduces the amount of work needed on the servers, that is why.

Thanks and regards

Paul

Alsatian · Sat Aug 20, 2016 7:58 am

OK, thank you for the reply. But for the two pics mentioned above ( 3920359 or 3926345 ) it is hard to believe that they have only 10 and 20 views after several days in the database, I am convinced that there is an issue here.

cougar15 · Sat Aug 20, 2016 1:20 pm

hi guys (Crew), well after all the grizzeling, I have slowly found my peace with the new format, thanks for your patience and effort over the past couple of months!
Without reading this entire thread again, any News on the flags in the Forums? Especially with all the new users, it would really help the discussion & often understanding posters motives & opinions . Do we stand a chance of getting those back sometime soon & next to our profile pics/avatars in the posts? thx n cheers
Edit / PS: if we cant get them into the Posts, what about having them when I click on a users Profile at least??

96adrian · Sun Aug 21, 2016 8:44 am

Airfrance767 wrote:
Hello everyone. I still have two photos without showing the copyright banner at bottom. This is one of the issues that was supposed to be fixed already?, or not yet.
Thank's. Regards.

I also have some photos without the copyright banner. IDs: 2844245, 2844249, 2844251, 2844253, 2844259, 2844265, 2844273, 2844277, 2844287, 2844291 and 2844317.

kulverstukas · Sun Aug 21, 2016 8:52 am

Any update on two major issues?

1) Dead links in old format - both to photos and to photo pages? They are still dead (links to photo pages just sends you to main Anet page and jpg links are 404). Can we have a definite answer if this will be addressed or that it's of no interest for DM so we must now just delete our webpages and blogs.

2) Shitty quality of thumbnails of Top 5 photos and their size totally unbalanced with the rest of the main page (all other parts has bigger previews and better quality of rendering). Any hope some person with at least primary school education in design and usability will visit developers and spend couple of hours on page layout?

PS: How do you think, this thread became more and more dead because people loosing hope or because they are progressively more and more happy with new A.net?

dutchspotter1 · Sun Aug 21, 2016 9:16 am

Good morning,

The last few days I noticed some very annoying ads from Justpremium. See screenshot below. I have this at my Windows 7 PC with both IE and Chrome.
Is anybody else experiencing this too? Did the Airliners.net crew decided to implement this? If yes, please remove it ASAP. Thank you.

LatAmFlyer · Sun Aug 21, 2016 9:52 am

dutchspotter1 wrote:
Good morning,

The last few days I noticed some very annoying ads from Justpremium.

Download Adblocker and you'll never see those damn ads again forever.

https://adblockplus.org/

kulverstukas · Sun Aug 21, 2016 10:12 am

LatAmFlyer wrote:
dutchspotter1 wrote:
Good morning,

The last few days I noticed some very annoying ads from Justpremium.

Download Adblocker and you'll never see those damn ads again forever.

https://adblockplus.org/

Can you also give me advice how to do it on Android 5.5 and higher?

airkas1 · Sun Aug 21, 2016 5:52 pm

cougar15 wrote:
any News on the flags in the Forums? Especially with all the new users, it would really help the discussion & often understanding posters motives & opinions . Do we stand a chance of getting those back sometime soon & next to our profile pics/avatars in the posts? thx n cheers Edit / PS: if we cant get them into the Posts, what about having them when I click on a users Profile at least??

It's still on the list, but there are bigger fish to fry first. I've added your last sentence to the list entry as a suggestion.

96adrian wrote:
I also have some photos without the copyright banner. IDs: 2844245, 2844249, 2844251, 2844253, 2844259, 2844265, 2844273, 2844277, 2844287, 2844291 and 2844317.

I've passed them on, thanks.

kulverstukas wrote:
Any update on two major issues?
1) Dead links in old format - both to photos and to photo pages? They are still dead (links to photo pages just sends you to main Anet page and jpg links are 404). Can we have a definite answer if this will be addressed or that it's of no interest for DM so we must now just delete our webpages and blogs.
2) Shitty quality of thumbnails of Top 5 photos

1: Haven't we been over this a million times now already? I don't know what else to tell you, other than the info I've relayed from the developers.
2: I've added 'Reviewing top 5 thumbnail quality' to the list.

kulverstukas · Sun Aug 21, 2016 9:06 pm

airkas1 wrote:

kulverstukas wrote:
Any update on two major issues?
1) Dead links in old format - both to photos and to photo pages? T

1: Haven't we been over this a million times now already? I don't know what else to tell you, other than the info I've relayed from the developers.

Three or four will describe it better. But can you just put it straight? Like just YES or NO?

dutchspotter1 · Mon Aug 22, 2016 6:58 pm

LatAmFlyer wrote:
dutchspotter1 wrote:
Good morning,

The last few days I noticed some very annoying ads from Justpremium.

Download Adblocker and you'll never see those damn ads again forever.

https://adblockplus.org/

Not the solution I am looking for.
Any update from the A.net crew please? Thanks in advance.

alberchico · Mon Aug 22, 2016 11:08 pm

Is anyone else getting a weird front page layout. Is it a glitch on my google chrome browser or a new style ???

DLX737200 · Tue Aug 23, 2016 1:03 am

alberchico wrote:
Is anyone else getting a weird front page layout. Is it a glitch on my google chrome browser or a new style ???

I'm getting a mobile like layout. Big pixelated images and everything stretched out.

CPierre · Tue Aug 23, 2016 1:42 am

alberchico wrote:
Is anyone else getting a weird front page layout. Is it a glitch on my google chrome browser or a new style ???

Getting the same on Firefox (and Explorer 11) today :cry:

PanAm_DC10 · Tue Aug 23, 2016 1:52 am

Hi All

We released an upgrade today and it appears that there is a display issue on the homepage especially for medium sized screens. The developers are aware of the issue and we hope to have it resolved shortly. Sorry for the inconvenience..

Paul

Airfrance767 · Tue Aug 23, 2016 4:51 pm

airkas1 wrote:
Airfrance767 wrote:
Hello everyone. I still have two photos without showing the copyright banner at bottom. This is one of the issues that was supposed to be fixed already?, or not yet.
Thank's. Regards.

What are the ID's?

2837613 and 2835743. They appear without it yet.

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