Topic: Board Software Updates

[Ultra]

During the next week the software that runs this forum will be undergoing many updates.  Please be patient with us as the appearance of the board is going to change during this process.

[Allemano]

Ah okay!

[Paul Jaray]

that's a relief...

[faksta]

Ah..I have already made a little comment in another thread - the one about hijacking 

[75america]

I don't know if it has anything to do with the new updates, but I can no longer log in through Mozilla Firefox.  But it still works with Internet Explorer.

[Ultra]

I don't know if it has anything to do with the new updates, but I can no longer log in through Mozilla Firefox.  But it still works with Internet Explorer.

Clear your cookies and it should work just fine.

[75america]

I don't know if it has anything to do with the new updates, but I can no longer log in through Mozilla Firefox.  But it still works with Internet Explorer.

Clear your cookies and it should work just fine.

Problem solved.  Thanks!

[Allemano]

The board runs better than ever. May it continue this way!

[Ultra]

When someone saves an attachment an AP watermark is built right in.

[Tom_I]

No doubt I'll get used to it, but my initial reaction is that I don't like the watermarks across the attached pictures.

Any other opinions on this either way?

[Allemano]

what about a less large watermark, maybe only in one corner...?

[Ultra]

We'll gauge reaction and go from there.

[Paul Jaray]

The thing I like the most of this place is that here are the rarest cars.
Nowadays if you google an obscure car, there is the high probability that Autopuzzles is the only place with more than a reference to that car and quite often the only place where you can find a pic.
This is a plus, something others have not.
In few occasions I put a small logo on my pics but I always shared the unmodified version with anyone via PM.
There's no need to watermark pictures that are all around the net, and in some cases (Pnegyesi lates article, for example) the watermark ruin them.

My proposal: add a feature that allows a member to choose if upload the original version or the one with the logo.
If I have to post a Chinese MPV...I can upload the pic I found on the web...if I found an original view of a coachbuilt car, for example, I can add the AP logo....but in any case I can share the unmodified version with anyone.

I'm storing thousands of pics from here...It will be a great damage!

[Ultra]

The board can either put the watermark on all attachments or none at all. I can change the size, opacity and location of the watermark or I can turn it off. If a member wishes to get a pic unwatermarked a pm to the original poster seems a solution.

[Paul Jaray]

The board can either put the watermark on all attachments or none at all. I can change the size, opacity and location of the watermark or I can turn it off. If a member wishes to get a pic unwatermarked a pm to the original poster seems a solution.

I think a poll will be quite predictable...
I'd vote for a quite inoffensive (or none at all) watermark.

[Allemano]

I think a poll will be quite predictable...
I'd vote for a quite inoffensive (or none at all) watermark.

agreed!

[woodinsight]

Agreed also!
The fact that most images are of low resolution should count in the favour of no watermark defacing the image of the car.
I realise that many high quality images are shown in the "Featured Imagery" section and in this case it should be up to individual posters to indicate that their images are copyright.
Personally I think it is a retrograde step to introduce watermarks.

[Djetset]

Watermarked images are a complete no no for me, and will really put me off the otherwise great AutoPuzzles site.  Something more discrete, or preferably nothing at all, gets my voite. 

If some Puzzlers are abusing the site for their own website purposes, as I know a couple are, then they should be warned that this sort of behavious is unacceptble and cease 'stealing' AutoPuzzles images/content for their own personal gain.   Sorry, but overall so far a backwards step in my view 

[Allemano]

Watermarked images are a complete no no for me, and will really put me off the otherwise great AutoPuzzles site.  Something more discrete, or preferably nothing at all, gets my voite. 

If some Puzzlers are abusing the site for their own website purposes, as I know a couple are, then they should be warned that this sort of behavious is unacceptble and cease 'stealing' AutoPuzzles images/content for their own personal gain.   Sorry, but overall so far a backwards step in my view 

Yeah! With watermarks Djetset's pics would be completely unrecognizable!   

I go for the compromise: a small transparent watermark – let's take the red-blue arrow – in one of the corners of each pic.

[Djetset]

Not funny.   BTW, why do non-car pictures (engines and people) escape the dreaded watermark when the vehicles images to do not?!

[Quiller]

I'm another member preferring things the way they were. If we must have an AP watermark, I'm in the camp that would allow members to add a logo if they wish; failing that, a small stamp in a corner.

[Paul Jaray]

I think there are 2 options:
No watermarks at all, and anyone is free to add it to his rare pics
or
Small and inoffensive logo

in each case the material taken from here HAS TO BE credited to Autopuzzles, otherwise the watermarks will became inevitable .
Each one of us can monitor the other sites and report here if anyone is sharing this material without a reference to this place.
I don't care if anyone uses my pics for any use, but it's fair to give this place,( Charlie's ), the right tribute.

[Ultra]

I will shrink the size of the mark and move it to a corner after I get done at work tonight.

[Arunas]

More or less I, personally, agree with PJ's opinion / offer. An ideal solution would be for user to choose whether to add a watermark on his puzzle (ornot puzzle) pictures or not. Small logotype in the corner could also be a solution - probably not the best one.

[Arunas]

I do also know several members here who have registered only to copy pictures from this forum and paste them to others in some cases with mentioning autopuzzles at all. I believe, that a true member should also be a puzzler here not only a "downloader".