Comments on: Updates for 8-2-07 http://www.dropshots.com/blog/index.php/updates-for-8-2-07/ Next Generation Photo & Video Sharing Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:30:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Rebecca http://www.dropshots.com/blog/index.php/updates-for-8-2-07/#comment-565 Rebecca Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:41:43 +0000 http://www.dropshots.com/blog/index.php/2007/08/02/updates-for-8-2-07/#comment-565 Carol...they don't put any of my comments up either. ANNOYING! Carol…they don’t put any of my comments up either. ANNOYING!

]]> By: dan http://www.dropshots.com/blog/index.php/updates-for-8-2-07/#comment-208 dan Tue, 07 Aug 2007 12:35:30 +0000 http://www.dropshots.com/blog/index.php/2007/08/02/updates-for-8-2-07/#comment-208 i do not like the fact that anyone can create a link of my pics or videos to their blogging sites such as Myspace or Facebook. The reason my wife and I joined dropshots was the sense of privacy that the website provided while allowing family members from around the world to eaily view pics and videos. I do not want people who we refrer to the site to be able to copy or link our pics to other sites without our permission. Can you please make your new version more secure? i do not like the fact that anyone can create a link of my pics or videos to their blogging sites such as Myspace or Facebook. The reason my wife and I joined dropshots was the sense of privacy that the website provided while allowing family members from around the world to eaily view pics and videos. I do not want people who we refrer to the site to be able to copy or link our pics to other sites without our permission. Can you please make your new version more secure?

]]> By: Natasha http://www.dropshots.com/blog/index.php/updates-for-8-2-07/#comment-170 Natasha Sun, 05 Aug 2007 15:24:07 +0000 http://www.dropshots.com/blog/index.php/2007/08/02/updates-for-8-2-07/#comment-170 Hi, It's taken me a good 15 minutes to find out how to even contact you - how annoying. Anyway, hopefully this is the right medium. I'm on a Mac, using Firefox, and I can't view the videos properly. I have to hold my mouse over the tab at the top of the page to get the video to show up, and even then it flickers on and off. Basically it's unwatchable. This is a new problem with the new site, I was able to watch videos before. Also, I can't upload videos properly. You mentioned in the blog that this has been fixed, but I downloaded the new Dropbox as recommended and it doesn't work - has the Mac version also been fixed? I drop the videos into the box and they say they've been uploaded in a few seconds, whereas I uploaded about 10 photos the other day and it took a good minute or so... Then there's a play button with a blank screen underneath it on the site where the video should be. Otherwise, I like the new format :o) Natasha Hi,

It’s taken me a good 15 minutes to find out how to even contact you – how annoying.

Anyway, hopefully this is the right medium. I’m on a Mac, using Firefox, and I can’t view the videos properly. I have to hold my mouse over the tab at the top of the page to get the video to show up, and even then it flickers on and off. Basically it’s unwatchable. This is a new problem with the new site, I was able to watch videos before. Also, I can’t upload videos properly. You mentioned in the blog that this has been fixed, but I downloaded the new Dropbox as recommended and it doesn’t work – has the Mac version also been fixed? I drop the videos into the box and they say they’ve been uploaded in a few seconds, whereas I uploaded about 10 photos the other day and it took a good minute or so… Then there’s a play button with a blank screen underneath it on the site where the video should be.

Otherwise, I like the new format :o )

Natasha

]]> By: Nicole http://www.dropshots.com/blog/index.php/updates-for-8-2-07/#comment-153 Nicole Sat, 04 Aug 2007 05:01:46 +0000 http://www.dropshots.com/blog/index.php/2007/08/02/updates-for-8-2-07/#comment-153 I have been trying to download the dropbox for 2 days now and it won't download. I keep getting this "unable to locate dll" message. Please help, I hate the new upload format and want to be able to use the dropbox. I couldn't find an answer no matter where I searched. I have been trying to download the dropbox for 2 days now and it won’t download. I keep getting this “unable to locate dll” message. Please help, I hate the new upload format and want to be able to use the dropbox. I couldn’t find an answer no matter where I searched.

]]> By: Carole http://www.dropshots.com/blog/index.php/updates-for-8-2-07/#comment-151 Carole Sat, 04 Aug 2007 03:56:38 +0000 http://www.dropshots.com/blog/index.php/2007/08/02/updates-for-8-2-07/#comment-151 "No Responses to “Updates for 8-2-07”" no responses? You've not allowed ANY of my comments, and none of my husband's either. Makes me wonder how many others are being suppressed, and how many of them are ALSO begging you to give us back the old calendar view.... It's a darned shame, really: I was going to become a lifetime member as soon as my husband's car was paid off -- in seven months, I think, so you'd have my monthly fee until that point -- but now, not only am I not going to switch to Lifetime, I'm not going to keep paying by the month. My sister was going to be a new paying customer: I got her to sign up for a trial, and she loved it -- until you switched. She's going to go away now. My father-in-law signed up months ago. He hates the new interface. He's going away now. My sister-in-law signed up months ago. She is going to switch as soon as we find a replacement for her. I have posted in my blog, about my disappointment with the new interface, and have emailed those friends who don't regularly check my blog. If you decide to give us the option to view things in the familiar calendar view, please let me know and we will all return immediately! (And we'll be singing your praises to all who will listen, again....) “No Responses to “Updates for 8-2-07””

no responses?

You’ve not allowed ANY of my comments, and none of my husband’s either. Makes me wonder how many others are being suppressed, and how many of them are ALSO begging you to give us back the old calendar view….

It’s a darned shame, really: I was going to become a lifetime member as soon as my husband’s car was paid off — in seven months, I think, so you’d have my monthly fee until that point — but now, not only am I not going to switch to Lifetime, I’m not going to keep paying by the month.

My sister was going to be a new paying customer: I got her to sign up for a trial, and she loved it — until you switched. She’s going to go away now.

My father-in-law signed up months ago. He hates the new interface. He’s going away now.

My sister-in-law signed up months ago. She is going to switch as soon as we find a replacement for her.

I have posted in my blog, about my disappointment with the new interface, and have emailed those friends who don’t regularly check my blog.

If you decide to give us the option to view things in the familiar calendar view, please let me know and we will all return immediately! (And we’ll be singing your praises to all who will listen, again….)

]]> By: Debbie http://www.dropshots.com/blog/index.php/updates-for-8-2-07/#comment-144 Debbie Fri, 03 Aug 2007 23:34:16 +0000 http://www.dropshots.com/blog/index.php/2007/08/02/updates-for-8-2-07/#comment-144 A couple of comments ... since your new version is buggy, perhaps it might be helpful to run both versions (old and new) for now, and let people choose the one they want to use. That's what Yahoo! did. They improved their webmail, but you could choose to use their Beta version or the old one. I used the Beta version because it was so much better and there were no bugs. If you do that, I think you'll have less frustrated clients, and you'll still be getting feedback. Also, there aren't enough links after we log in ... meaning, it's great to have the blog when you want to read in-depth, but we need it to be so user-friendly that we don't have to think or read much. People just don't have the time anymore. We shouldn't have to read a blog with all these instructions just to use the site. It should just be very apparent to all users what has to be done in order to take advantage of the functions. Hope this helps. A couple of comments … since your new version is buggy, perhaps it might be helpful to run both versions (old and new) for now, and let people choose the one they want to use. That’s what Yahoo! did. They improved their webmail, but you could choose to use their Beta version or the old one. I used the Beta version because it was so much better and there were no bugs.

If you do that, I think you’ll have less frustrated clients, and you’ll still be getting feedback.

Also, there aren’t enough links after we log in … meaning, it’s great to have the blog when you want to read in-depth, but we need it to be so user-friendly that we don’t have to think or read much. People just don’t have the time anymore.

We shouldn’t have to read a blog with all these instructions just to use the site. It should just be very apparent to all users what has to be done in order to take advantage of the functions.

Hope this helps.

]]> By: oliver t griswold http://www.dropshots.com/blog/index.php/updates-for-8-2-07/#comment-141 oliver t griswold Fri, 03 Aug 2007 19:45:14 +0000 http://www.dropshots.com/blog/index.php/2007/08/02/updates-for-8-2-07/#comment-141 another thing that's seems to be gone was the very cool sense of time that the old views imparted by using the horizontal lines to represent time between the photos. really liked that and don't see where it is in the new format. another thing that’s seems to be gone was the very cool sense of time that the old views imparted by using the horizontal lines to represent time between the photos. really liked that and don’t see where it is in the new format.

]]> By: oliver t griswold http://www.dropshots.com/blog/index.php/updates-for-8-2-07/#comment-140 oliver t griswold Fri, 03 Aug 2007 19:42:23 +0000 http://www.dropshots.com/blog/index.php/2007/08/02/updates-for-8-2-07/#comment-140 the ordering of the photos is now a bit odd. we have the days in descending sort order but the photos within each day sorted in ascending order. this makes for some very disjointed viewing of photos/videos which span midnight. please also consider adding a recent photos/videos added view where one could see the recently added stuff regardless as to when the photo was taken. thanks. the ordering of the photos is now a bit odd. we have the days in descending sort order but the photos within each day sorted in ascending order. this makes for some very disjointed viewing of photos/videos which span midnight. please also consider adding a recent photos/videos added view where one could see the recently added stuff regardless as to when the photo was taken. thanks.

]]> By: Whitney http://www.dropshots.com/blog/index.php/updates-for-8-2-07/#comment-138 Whitney Fri, 03 Aug 2007 19:22:33 +0000 http://www.dropshots.com/blog/index.php/2007/08/02/updates-for-8-2-07/#comment-138 Sorry Guys...but, I really don't like the new format at all. Seeing all of the pictures at once when you open up your home page is very overwhelming. It doesn't have an option to save my password each time...so I have to reenter it daily. Plus, you can't see my titles and comments that I've spent so much time adding to my pictures. Sorry guys...but, I think it's a flop. Sorry Guys…but, I really don’t like the new format at all. Seeing all of the pictures at once when you open up your home page is very overwhelming. It doesn’t have an option to save my password each time…so I have to reenter it daily. Plus, you can’t see my titles and comments that I’ve spent so much time adding to my pictures. Sorry guys…but, I think it’s a flop.

]]> By: michele rathbone http://www.dropshots.com/blog/index.php/updates-for-8-2-07/#comment-137 michele rathbone Fri, 03 Aug 2007 19:03:17 +0000 http://www.dropshots.com/blog/index.php/2007/08/02/updates-for-8-2-07/#comment-137 I still don't like the new format... and I was such a devoted dropshots user. I can't get my captions to save... and I followed your directions but when I pushed enter... the captions disappeared. I can't delete 2 videos that malfunction. I've dragged them to the trashcan numerous times, but they reappear the next time I open dropshots. I also don't want to type in the password everytime I view my own or my friends photos... I used to be able to save the passwords. Please go back to your old format... I still don’t like the new format… and I was such a devoted dropshots user. I can’t get my captions to save… and I followed your directions but when I pushed enter… the captions disappeared.
I can’t delete 2 videos that malfunction. I’ve dragged them to the trashcan numerous times, but they reappear the next time I open dropshots. I also don’t want to type in the password everytime I view my own or my friends photos… I used to be able to save the passwords.
Please go back to your old format…

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