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I hate Ipernity's Doc Manager. Please, don't get me wrong. I love Ipernity, but the Doc Manager is almost useless for me. What I want to know is, is this an isolated problem (something in my setup) or do other members have similar problems. Some of these problems go back to when I first joined ipernity a year ago and some have only cropped up recently.
Here are some of the problems I have been experiencing:
1. Doc Manager only works with Mozilla Firefox. This is not a big problem, just inconvenient. I normally use IE 6 for my Internet browser. I tried using Doc Manager with IE 6 and it just hangs.
2. When selecting images to post to groups, the set selected is kept only for one drop. If you want to move those same images to another group, you have to reselect the set. I have joined several groups of the same type and would like to post a set to more than 1 group. I cannot do this with Doc Manager.
3. When using the click and drag method of posting to a group, the screen will jump up or down wildly if you are not careful. If you overshoot the top of the frame it will shoot up several pages up or down if you touch the bottom of the group pane. I have not found any info on how to slow down this auto scroll up and down. Sometimes I have to move the cursor up and down several times to finally get to the pane/group I want.
4. Associated with the #3 problem is that sometimes while trying to get to the right pane with the group I want to post to, I accidentally drop my image or set into the wrong group. Then I have to open the group page and delete my images out.
5. If you drop images into a group that moderates the images you cannot remove them from the submission. The host looks at my post as a miss post and may mistakenly think I did it on purpose. I see this in groups I moderate content, where I see flowers being sent to my Sexy Girl's group.
6. Once you post an image to a group, a duplicate group banner is added to the group listing and changes the order of all the groups in the pane. I go to post another image and the group is no longer where it was after the last post. Now I have to go hunt for the new location or I drop it into the wrong group. This new "feature" has just started happening a couple months ago.
7. Doc manager will load all my images (over 5k) every time I start the program. Not a big problem, but if you hit "end" when trying to go to the next group of 10 by mistake, you will be sent down to the very first image I posted a year ago. I would love it if you could limit the images to be posted to a select group of different choices like, today's uploads or ones from a select album or those that have not been posted to a group before.
I am a heavy user of the Doc Manager and use it every day. It is so frustrating to use that I dread having to use it but there really is no alternative if you have many new posts to make every day. Sometimes I think they leave it this way to discourage postings to multiple groups.
Do you have similar problems using the doc Manager? Have you found solutions to some of the problems I have experienced? Do you have a problem that I have not listed? I would like to hear from other users of the Ipernity's Doc Manager. If enough members are having similar problems, maybe we could send this list to Ipernity management to see if they can improve this otherwise useful feature.
Gee Dub
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Doesn't the Ipernity team use this program? If they tested it out they would surely see these problems too.
The poor implementation of the Doc Manager is a sore point for me. The similar program on Flickr works very good. It has none of the above listed problems. I maintain accounts on both sites. In recent weeks I have seen many members who have left Flick to join Ipernity have started coming back to Flickr. The poor doc manager might be one of the reasons. Ipernity is a superior site in every way but this one aspect.
Nellygpro says:
I have all the same problems, to overcome it I open the group page in doc manager and drag the images into it. The long way round, but faster in the end.
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The other bug I constantly get is that groups were a picture is already part of appear on the group list drop down menu, and when I click on it (obviously not noticing the picture is already there) I get an error.
I know lots of these issues are growing pains, and are eventually going to get fixed; I'm glad you are paying attention to the users.
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But speaking of the groups drop-down: By WHAT exactly is it sorted (if it is sorted at all)? It’s not by join date, it’s not alphabetically by title, it’s not by group id, and why does it look like if the sorting start’s all over at a new page in the drop-down?
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daboogieman says:
I only use IE when I REALLY, REALLY HAVE TO, which thankfully is rare.
I do have a failure of the ability to use the Iperuploader, which is really no problem for me as I don't upload that many pics at a time anymore.
I also find so very few and far between "other" bugs, and they seem to go away about as fast as I see them - so I never report them.
As for me and my house: IPERNITY ROCKS!
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!
Christophe Ruellepro says:
The DocManager uses Prototype / Script.aculo.us libraries and we're not always fully responsible when a browser crashes because of a poor memory management (IE6 is a nightmare).
This is why we strongly encourage to use Firefox.
I personally test it under IE7 and with a normal usage I do not see any crashes.
I will answer to all your points soon, I have to leave the office early today.
I wish you and everyone reading this comment a merry Christmas.
Nellygpro says:
Any bugs I meet over the next few days are probably alchol induced.
Have a good Christmas, and worry about the bugs in the new year.
Gee Dubpro says:
I did not intent to be critical of Ipernity's site and features. I simply wanted to know if others were having the same problem. I assumed it was something in my setup that was causing the problem. If the auto scrolling problem was solved that would make things much better. I understand all the variations in systems and browsers would be extremely difficult to test and duplicate individuals problems. The auto scrolling problem has been with me since I first joined a year ago. I use Windows XP and the latest FireFox browser.
Ipernity is so much a nicer place than any other photo sharing site. I know there are probably many other more serious problems that will come up that are more important then the Doc Manager bugs. I have confidence that you will eventually resolve these bugs.
Happy holidays to all the Ipernity Team and any other Ipernity members who happen to view this blog.
Gee Dub
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Rampart Dog brings up another problem that has always bugged me. When selecting images to post, after selecting 3 or 4 it will loose the selection and you have to reselect again. There is no set number either. Some times after 3, sometimes after 6. The only way that it works consistently, is to use the shift key and the last in a row from the beginning.
It is encouraging that Ipernity Team has responded and actually fixes problems that are brought to their attention. Every time I have contacted them they have responded as best they can. With so many problems that crop up running such a site I am amazed that they make time to respond to our often petty problems. Most of these problems are minor irritations and based upon experiences with other photo sharing sites, Ipernity is a much more user friendly site.
Thanks Ipernity Team! I have confidence you will eventually solve all the problems with the Doc Manager.
[euchrid]pro says:
Also, at the moment, I can't select more than one photo to drag at a time! Very frustrating for the 1,000 photos that need organising...
I just e-mailed the Ipernity team, and asked if they could provide some kind of HTML checkbox alternative - it would then be possible to achieve a lot of search functions and sending docs to albums or groups, no matter which browser you were using. Also, if DocManager goes down like this, we're not left with no way to organise our photos...
One way or another, though, I'm sure the Ipernity staff will fix it. They've done a fantastic job over the last 18 months!
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Gee Dubpro replies:
As far as uploading, I use the "up to 100 at the same time" option on the upload page. You can add tags, titles and messages before they are added to your "Docs" as you upload. This works the same even if you have less than 10 images to be uploaded.
They have added a new feature when uploading to set the privacy in a drop down box under each image being uploaded. Before it was a all or nothing option.
One new future feature that is being worked on is a reordering of the albums. This will be a great improvement over the fixed by date created way it is done now.
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