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For a history of updates to the site, see the "site update" tag in Atratus's blog.

  • Ongoing: Performance enchancements
    • "Get it working first; make it work fast, second." --that's our mantra.
  • Subscription purchasing not working
  • ​Facebook login not working
    • ​170430 - semi-fixed. Login in working but not picking alternate addresses in the user profile. If you have an existing account where your primary address does not match your FB e-mail, a new account will be created. If the addresses match you will be logged in properly.
  • Line-break problem in "filtered HTML" text mode -  <DIV> tags rendering inline rather than as blocks.
  • Notify people when a photo they are tagged in is commented on
  • "All Day" events not showing in calendar.
  • Extended user profiles
    • Recent activity block 
    • Ability for the user to customise their profile
    • 140426 Bring back block of tagged picture
  • Default "Edit forum topic" breadcrumb has useless unfiltered markup in it, must reconfigure.
  • Need to figure out a way to make tagging more convenient on phones/full-screen
  • Enhance full-screen like button to use images [done] and show count
  • Add social share buttons for pictures and pages
    • Implement Opengraph and other social meta tags for content first
      • TO-DO ​Using a permalink on FB does not show the right thumbnail. 
      • 131121 - Partially done. Sharing buttons available in public photo gallery in full-screen mode
      • 131122 - Sharing buttons now available on image pages, too.
      • 140310 - Sharing permalink URLs directly now grabs the right picture
    • Reference
  • Minor problems with the friends module:
    • need to change spinner on dialogue for one that works on a dark background, and 
    • 140529 token replacement in the feedback notice isn't working
  • Need to add a more convenient way to search for and add users
  • Allow open text tagging for all users (maybe)
  • Integrate with Zazzle API to allow other products from photos
  • Store page for Zazzle products
  • Make "post to front page" an option for comments (for privledged users) rather than simply inheriting the parent property.
  • Visibility opions on new posts are confusing.
    • 151029 Made improvements, but still don't like how grants are on a separate form. 
  • YouTube embedding code screws up plain links to youTube by replacing the URL inside the <a> tag with the embedding code. Need to change the embedding to only act on youTube URLs that are not preceeded with a single or double quote. 
  • 160827 ​​​Need to stop the picture of the day from picking duplicates. 
    • ​160911 Also added all previous PoTD to the table to prevent new duplicates of older PoTDs
  • 160502 Incompatable module version causing problem with comment editing
  • Clean up the way tags appear on blog posts
  • ​Restore purchase photo featres
  • Width is not consistent across browsers for text fields. 
  • Custom user tag doesn't work without closing opion delimiter :
  • 150118 Rating and share buttons in full-page view not working in Firefox under Linux, not sure yet if this is OS specific.
    • Not OS specific. More a "WTF was I thinking when I did that?" kind of bug.
  • 1411?? "Most Viewed" menu items not generating the right values, should be /photogallery/popular and /photogallery/popular/day
  • 140529 No simple way to make a friend request. Need to add a button on user pages.
  • 140508 Clean up user profiles
  • ​140428 Tagged photo queries in gallery and user profile are missing one important criterion.
  • 140426 Breadcrumb paths still need to be configured for blog, friend pages, and some other areas that I can't think of at the moment.
  • 140218 Arrow key navigation in photogallery full-screen is moving 2 images at a time.
  • 131221 Voting system still needs improving. Votes frequently fail and it is not working (and currently disabled) in the full-screen/phone view
    • 131122 - Workaround: made the image node page more usable on mobile devices
    • 131221 - Created a "like" button in the caption bar.
  • 131220 Image view count will not increment in full-screen until image node has been opened at least once (i.e. there is a count entry in the stats table) Change to insert new count if there isn't one already.
  • 131127 If source is blank, show node author on Image form.
  • 131127 Move tertiary navigation pane to below the 3-column footer and add links for contact, problem reporting, terms of serive, etc.
  • 131125 Bulk update processes are not working in the album form.
  • 131115 Display modified date/time if it differs from creation date/time for forum, blog & album nodes.
  • 131113 Text editor should not convert absolute URLs to relative ones (buggers up feeds)
    • This may be fixed with the new editor, need to test.
    • Works fine with the new text editor
  • 131110 The upload page is very, very broken in Firefox 4
    • May be time to build a Flash-based upload control. 
    • Built an entirely new upload method with the upgrade
  • 131031 Accept/Reject friend pages are fugly
    • The new version fixes the fugly 
  • Allow open text tagging for admin
    • ​131031 New tagging system implemented with upgrade
  • Add recent friend activity summary to notify block
    • 131107 Added a friends' content view instead
  • Login module should return to currently selected picture if used from the gallery
    • 131031 Fix inherent in new photo gallery 
  • Picture count should show total and NSFW count.
  • Calendar colours should be more in line with the rest of the site
    • May completely redo the calendar since Webcal module is abandoned in Drupal 6
    • 131031 Calendar completely redone with upgrade
  • CSS styles for text editor should match display pages (big job)
    • 131112 Fixed
  • Consider closed galleries for user pictures - not really sure if I want to do this
    • 131031 The whole new upload scheme is based on this idea
  • 101125 Notify people when they are tagged in photos
  • 100402 Share on Facebook button is unreliable, sometimes not picing up the picture, or not picking it up as the first picture.
    • See if the facebook cache bot uses a distintive user agent and have an alternate rendering for the bot
  • 091228 User profiles should link back to photo view
  • 091228 Friends lists are fugly and should only show in the profile and friends pages
  • 091226 Need a better comment-notify module
  • 091130 Photogallery comments aren't integrated with Drupal logins.
    • New comments should create a thread in the forum and subsequent comments would be replies in that thread.
  • 091121 All ordering of photos from site, restricted to tagged people and friends of tagged people
  • 091107 Add ACL module for closed & adult-user forums
  • 090831 The CAPTCHA is broken (again) for photo gallery comments
  • 090824 Font size in comments is not consistent
  • 090815 Photo upload table gets distorted by long file names, merge cells
  • 090814 Extend remove-tag to work with old text tags
  • 090812 It would be better if along with NSFW placeholder for permalinks, if the rating bar and caption bar were empty
  • 090811 Permalinks to NSFW pictures should display some kind of message when the filter is on
  • 090602 Add ability for people to tag friends
  • 090602 Need to add an administrative "tag anyone" function
  • 090602 Need to add an administrative remove-tag option for mistagged images
  • 090602 Friends list is not alphabetized on user profile pages
  • 090529 Photo upload page name picker should also show Drupal users
  • 090528 Need to investigate LJ-style friends-list module
  • New tagging scheme is seriously slowing down "by name" views
    • 090519: Fixed. The Drupal-integrated tagging scheme works a lot more like the old text tags and is waaaay faster. Pages that were taking 60 to 120 seconds to render are coming up in less than a second now.
  • First category in photogallery navigation should not open in name view when no name is specified
    • This is fixed now. While I was at it I also changed the sorting to alphanumeric rather than ASCII order and removed a bug where year navigation was showing for names with no pictures.
  • Current number is useless, show ID instead
    • 081230: Current number has now been replaced with ID
  • "Log in to tag pictures" in photo caption should be a link to the login page
    • 081227: Done. Login returns to currently selected picture
  • Username link in photogallery fails with username s with underscores and other cases where the /users/username link doesn't parse to exactly the same thing as the username.
    • 081119: Solution is to use user/# format for links. If there is no corresponding username, no link is generated.

 

Facebook Login not Working:

Facebook Login not Working:

​170430 - semi-fixed. Login in working but not picking alternate addresses in the user profile. If you have an existing account where your primary address does not match your FB e-mail, a new account will be created. If the addresses match you will be logged in properly.

Went down the rabbit hole and

Went down the rabbit hole and fixed a few other comment-related things that were bugging me.

  1. The way images pages appeared in the "everything" and home-page views when commented on. 
  2. Changed "submitted by" to "comment from"
  3. Fixed the format of the permalinks in the dates
  4. Cleaned up the "Recent comments" block and view.

Haven't done a site update

Haven't done a site update for a long while. I've kind of forgotten some of the things I have fixed. There have been tweaks to the automatic feeds out to social media. I've fixed up the in active user maintenance and added some additional hoops to trip up spambots and some other back-end stuff that probably only I ever noticed anyway.

Breadcrumb paths still need

  • Breadcrumb paths still need to be configured for blog, friend pages, and some other areas that I can't think of at the moment.

Most areas are now done. There are still a few more screwed-up paths out there, but I'll tackle those on a one-by-one basis.

Voting system still needs

Voting system still needs improving. Votes frequently fail and it is not working (and currently disabled) in the full-screen/phone view

  • 131122 - Workaround: made the image node page more usable on mobile devices
  • 131221 - Created a "like" button in the caption bar.

131220 Image view count will

131220 Image view count will not increment in full-screen until image node has been opened at least once (i.e. there is a count entry in the stats table) Change to insert new count if there isn't one already.

  • Insert was actually there, but with a syntax error. Oops. 

131201 - Improved performance

131201 - Improved performance of thumbnail generation in the gallery and fixed a weird problem with certain thumbnails as homepage images not coming out at the desired dimensions.

131204 - Fixed a problem with the toggle NSFW link the gallery menu showing the wrong initial state if an adult user has the NSFW filter off by default in their profile.

131121 - Sharing buttons

131121 - Sharing buttons available in public photo gallery in full-screen mode. The AddThis widget does not handle posting images to tumblr or Pinterest properly so those buttons are included manually. It's a shame, I wouldn't mind seeing the metrics on those, but I'd rather have it work right for the end user.

131115 Display modified date

131115 Display modified date/time if it differs from creation date/time for forum, blog & album nodes.

  • Done, but will only show on nodes modified since the upgrade since all the migrated content has a changed timestamp of the time of the migration.

OK, I haven't updated this list for a very long time, but that doesn't mean I haven't been working. Over the last several months I've been working diligently on a complete rebuilding of the whole site, which will address all the outstanding problems here and add a lot of nice features I've been wanting to do for a while. It's nearly ready to let loose on the world, hopefully by Christmas or so. It's all a function of time to work on this vs. other pressing matters.

Over the last couple days I've been sneaking in some changes that drastically improve the load time in the photo gallery for events with hundreds of photos.

100402 Share on Facebook

100402 Share on Facebook button is unreliable, sometimes not picing up the picture, or not picking it up as the first picture.

  • See if the facebook cache bot uses a distinctive user agent and have an alternate rendering for the bot
    • Sure enough the fb cache does use a distinctive user agent and the problem is fixed. Using the share on facebook button in the gallery quickly and properly picks the image being shared.

Fixed a bug with the Facebook RSS parsers that was causing the generated feeds to be invalid so the aggregator wouldn't load them.

> Photogallery comments aren't integrated with Drupal logins.
* New comments should create a thread in the forum and subsequent comments would be replies in that thread.

This is working now. I toyed with the idea of keeping the old comments available, but it slowed down the caption block too much so I decided against it in the end. Perhaps I'll put something together to transfer them from the old system.

091121 - Ordering Photos

091121 - Ordering Photos

  • The long-awaited shopping cart is up and running (at least I think it is... I'm not 100% sure the PayPal IPN is working.) A person must be tagged in the photo or have friends tagged in the photo to be able to purchase it. And, of course, photos I don't have the high-res copy of are not available.

090815 Photo upload table

090815 Photo upload table gets distorted by long file names, merge cells

  • Fixed. Turned out to be a little easier said than done... one of the "what the hell was I thinking?" code moments. I probably should have had more coffee before I started.

090811 Permalinks to NSFW

090811 Permalinks to NSFW pictures should display some kind ...

  • An image explaining that the NSFW needs to be turned off to see the requested image now shows when a permalink to a NSFW picture is followed.

# Add ability for people to tag friends

Done. Does not work with old text tags.

# 090602 Need to add an administrative "tag anyone" function

Done.

# 090602 Need to add an administrative remove-tag option for mistagged images

Done. Does not work with old text tags.

# 090602 Friends list is not alphabetized on user profile pages

Created new block that also shows user pictures.

Need to investigate LJ-style

Need to investigate LJ-style friends-list module

  • This is installed. I'm not 100% happy with the functionality at the moment, but I think I'll deal with what's outstanding as individual issues. Also, I'm going to put the resolutions in as comments rather than just updating the list so that this thread stays current.