What happened to the photo gallery?

[likesToLick 10,216]

I clicked on the "Gallery" link on the second toolbar today, but the "gallery" page shows no content.   What happened to the photo albums that many of us uploaded?

I only added a few images,  but others contributed a lot.  Are they lost?

[Admin 14,788]

On 2/13/2017 at 11:30 PM, likesToLick said:

I clicked on the "Gallery" link on the second toolbar today, but the "gallery" page shows no content.   What happened to the photo albums that many of us uploaded?

I only added a few images,  but others contributed a lot.  Are they lost?

Did you click on member albums?

[likesToLick 10,216]

On Thursday, 16 February 2017 at 2:27 PM, Admin said:

Did you click on member albums?

Sorry,  I can't find any link called "member albums" anywhere on the site.

[DXR 834]

Same here.  No albums or links to any albums.  Here's what it looks like:

[likesToLick 10,216]

Yes, it looks the same for me.

[Ozabot 63,207]

Click Gallery and you'll see 5 categories: "Public & Outdoors", "Naughty & Indoors"  etc.

Fifth is "Member Albums"

I use Firefox and Chrome on Windows desktop and see all

Edited February 18, 2017 by Ozabot

[likesToLick 10,216]

1 minute ago, Ozabot said:

Click Gallery and you'll see 5 categories: "Public & Outdoors", "Naughty & Indoors"  etc.

Fifth is "Member Albums"

I click Gallery and there are no categories listed,  just the empty page like DXR posted above.

[Ozabot 63,207]

What OS and browser are you using?

I use Firefox and Chrome on Windows desktop and see all

Edited February 18, 2017 by Ozabot

[Ozabot 63,207]

11 minutes ago, likesToLick said:

I click Gallery and there are no categories listed,  just the empty page like DXR posted above

I see the same empty page when I'm not signed in i.e in "guest" mode

[likesToLick 10,216]

6 hours ago, Ozabot said:

I see the same empty page when I'm not signed in i.e in "guest" mode

I know I am signed in because I can post in the forums.

I have tried Firefox and Pale Moon browsers on Windows XP.  Both show the same fault.  Chrome on XP cannot connect to Peefans because it does not support encryption.

[Ozabot 63,207]

Maybe WinXP is the reason of problem?

I am on Win7 and all works normally

[likesToLick 10,216]

16 minutes ago, Ozabot said:

Maybe WinXP is the reason of problem?

I am on Win7 and all works normally

Nothing has changed in my installation.  A feature of this site that worked before has now stopped working.

Microsoft is of course responsible for many problems in the software world, but it may be a little hasty just to blame them without first  investigating the problem in this case.

I will be interested to see what Admin has to say.

Unfortunately Win7 is not available any more.  I must eventually downgrade to Windows 10 I guess,  but I am postponing the misery as long as I possibly can.

[Ozabot 63,207]

I think it's nothing wrong with your installation and the problem is on the other side.

Some feature of this "new design" may be uncompatible with XP or even with version of browser

[likesToLick 10,216]

12 minutes ago, Ozabot said:

Some feature of this "new design" may be uncompatible with XP or even with version of browser

You could definitely be right.   I cannot remember if I have looked at the galleries since the new forum platform was installed.  I don't know if the problem happened then or if it is more recent.

I have a laptop that uses (please don't laugh ) Windows Vista.   Perhaps I should try connecting to the site with that, and see if the problem goes away.

Cheers.

[DXR 834]

Well, I've tried multiple browsers on both Ubuntu and Windows 10, using 2 different computers.   None of those combinations work.   Is the new platform truly incompatible with multiple OS's and browsers?

[Ozabot 63,207]

To be honest I don't like this "new design" of gallery. It's not user friendly at all. And it looks that I'm not alone in my opinion. No visitors, no posters (in this year onle my posts)

[likesToLick 10,216]

4 minutes ago, DXR said:

  Is the new platform truly incompatible with multiple OS's and browsers?

I wouldn't think so.   If you have the same problem with all those combinations I suspect something on the site may need to be fixed.

[likesToLick 10,216]

1 minute ago, Ozabot said:

To be honest I don't like this "new design" of gallery. It's not user friendly at all. And it looks that I'm not alone in my opinion. No visitors, no posters (in this year onle my posts)

I tend to use the forum threads for images,  because it seems to attract more response and discussions.  Also, I usually just link to images that already exist on the web, and that can only be done in a forum post.

[DXR 834]

3 minutes ago, Ozabot said:

To be honest I don't like this "new design" of gallery. It's not user friendly at all. And it looks that I'm not alone in my opinion. No visitors, no posters (in this year onle my posts)

Or maybe a lot of people are having the same problem and just can't see the Gallery anymore.

[Ozabot 63,207]

1 minute ago, DXR said:

Or maybe a lot of people are having the same problem and just can't see the Gallery anymore.

Yes, you are right. Anyway the problem exists and must be fixed

[Ozabot 63,207]

I'm writing this post from desktop with WinXP+Firefox

And I have no problem with Gallery, I see all I want and can add images.

So I have a question to DXR and LikesToLick:

Are you staying logged after entering the Gallery, do you see your nick and avatar in upper right corner, or thtre is "Sign in" suggestion?

[likesToLick 10,216]

15 hours ago, Ozabot said:

Are you staying logged after entering the Gallery, do you see your nick and avatar in upper right corner, or thtre is "Sign in" suggestion?

Thank you for testing with Windows XP.  Much appreciated.  That's very interesting that XP does not cause a problem for you.

Yes, when I go to the gallery page, it still shows my user name and avatar in the top right corner of the page, so I am definitely still logged in.

A question for you Ozabot.  Do you have paid access to the video gallery?  (I do not)  Is it possible that the photo gallery is accidentally being blocked for members who did not buy video gallery access?

Cheers,

L2L

[DXR 834]

54 minutes ago, likesToLick said:

Thank you for testing with Windows XP.  Much appreciated.  That's very interesting that XP does not cause a problem for you.

Yes, when I go to the gallery page, it still shows my user name and avatar in the top right corner of the page, so I am definitely still logged in.

A question for you Ozabot.  Do you have paid access to the video gallery?  (I do not)  Is it possible that the photo gallery is accidentally being blocked for members who did not buy video gallery access?

Cheers,

L2L

Same here.   As shown in the screen cap in my earlier post, I'm signed in, and I do not have paid access to the video gallery.

Edited February 20, 2017 by DXR

[Ozabot 63,207]

To DXR and LikesToLick

Try to logout and login again on Gallery page. Maybe something wrong with authorization protocol

1 hour ago, likesToLick said:

Is it possible that the photo gallery is accidentally being blocked for members who did not buy video gallery access?

I don't think so. I have access to video gallery but I can't connect with access to photo gallery.

Photo gallery always was the part of forum with common access and without any restrictions for use

[Sophie 24,410]

On 20/02/2017 at 2:36 AM, likesToLick said:

Thank you for testing with Windows XP.  Much appreciated.  That's very interesting that XP does not cause a problem for you.

Yes, when I go to the gallery page, it still shows my user name and avatar in the top right corner of the page, so I am definitely still logged in.

A question for you Ozabot.  Do you have paid access to the video gallery?  (I do not)  Is it possible that the photo gallery is accidentally being blocked for members who did not buy video gallery access?

Cheers,

L2L

Works fine for me, and I don't have video gallery access.