Open threads prohibiting image upload for all sorts of flimsy excuses

[rhl-oregon]

Here’s the latest head-scratching head-shaking inexplicable RFF experience for me. I wonder if others are experiencing it?

I’ll repeat that: I wonder if others are experiencing what amounts to seemingly random, discouraging, prohibitive, throw your hands up and walk away “actions” by a bot that prevents even the mildest image sharing?

Minutes ago, I try to upload one (1) image from my iPhone camera roll into the “Shooting the Shooter” thread. Image is 355k. RFF-bot informs me this is too large, that it exceeds my allowance, implying that it has toted up a stash or cache of images I tried to post (but without indicating how I could empty that offending cache).

I delete the attempted post. I try a different image. It too is adjudged by the NO-bot to be oversized (less than 490k, the old standard).

I log out. I log back in. Has this emptied the cache the RFF
NO-bot is holding against me? Who knows? Nothing works. The NO-bot has no real function but to say No, like the guard outside the door of law in Kafka.

Forget Kafka, this is about par for Mordac Preventer of Information Services in Dilbert.

The combination of bugs, non-response to posts in the Help Forum, non-Stickies that— if they existed in rational places in the first—might actually enable image sharing?

I’ve had a good run of 10 years at RFF—international friends, mentors, appreciation, good critique, film, digital, you name it. Much gratitude for all that.

But the little software idiocies and apparent lack of attention to a rational system of stickies on How To Operate the New RFF is infuriating. I’m getting close to performing a Viking funeral on my RFF stuff out of sheer GFY spite.

Not really a cry for help, you understand. Though it would be nice to know where Help really is.

 

[rfaspen]

Please don't leave Robert. I could understand a vacation while things sort, but I hope you don't use the nuclear option . You're a great asset here.

 

[CameraQuest]

Robert,

What browser and operating system are you using?

Are you using any sort of privacy software for RFF? That may be the problem.

Also remember to check "remember me" when you log in.

I am having none of the problems you describe and so far am unable to duplicate them.

Stephen

 

[Joao]

I had exactly the same problem when I tried to upload images from Fotki.com , from my desktop and from the RFF Gallery: a message stating that I was exceeding my image uploading limit by 2 or more MB. Same message with the same numbers even when I reduced the image size to under 100 kB.
Following some blessed advice posted here, I uploaded the photos to Flickr and copy-pasted the BBC code (from the Flickr's SHARE button) in the message box. No clicks on the icons were needed. Voilá ! Problem solved.
I was not intending to come back to Flickr , but if that is the way, so be it.
Regards
Joao

 

[Dogman]

This has happened to me three or four times. I just reduced the size and it eventually worked.

 

[JohnWolf]

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OT post. Just curious to try a phone upload myself. Android phone, 3 Mb file in large, medium, and small.

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[rhl-oregon]

Thank you all, from my heart, for responding. I was recently hospitalized after a mysterious internal blood loss, and although the damage seems to have repaired itself, I am one depleted person, and bonking what should be the simplest contributions at RFF is not only frustrating but I run low on oxygen in the process.

Yes, this might be the thing to push me to pay Flickr to store my images for the sake of BB-coding them here. Instagram though has proved to be a versatile platform for sharing the narrative/documentary BW chunks I like to work in—and international response is fast and varied, as though some of my work may be reaching young photographers in a good way, which matters to me as a long term teacher.

I’m relieved though not happy to know, Stephen, you’ve had similar problems. I mostly use Safari, Firefox when necessary. John, I have had patchy success (and the opposite) in posting thumbnail/small/medium/etc. images from iPhone camera roll, but it’s inconsistent, though *I’ve* been consistent; so I have no idea what will work. I hope someone will work it out in a way that shows, Do X for iPhone, Y for Android, Z for iPad, etc. I just can’t spend much time sitting at my desktop/HD/printer now.

Probably a vacation is a good idea for more than one reason. I have a lot of hemoglobin to rebuild; I can’t walk a hundred yards downhill with even a GR, let alone the SL or M10. Probably more endoscopies in my future. But no bleeding out in sleep, I pray.

Bless y’all for your responses. RFF has helped me in more ways than I’m qualified to list. I’m not good with system failures though.

 

[JohnWolf]

Sorry to hear about your health, Robert, and wish you all the best.

The free Flickr service is probably all you need. Google Photo is another free option. I would think Apple has something comparable in the cloud.

Flickr really does make sharing simple. After a few years of use I have one follower and use it only for forum posts.

John

 

[rfaspen]

Sorry to hear about your health, Robert, and wish you all the best.

The free Flickr service is probably all you need. Google Photo is another free option. I would think Apple has something comparable in the cloud.

Flickr really does make sharing simple. After a few years of use I have one follower and use it only for forum posts.

John

For what its worth, I read that the Apple service doesn't like to play with RFF. I think I read that in the "Help" thread about uploading images.

I have been reluctant to use image services like Flickr. I used Ipernity for a long while, but stopped actively using it about a year ago. Why? Its just another step in sharing photos that I don't usually feel necessary. I got lots of photos and either upload directly, or..............print! But everyone has different modes of operation, etc. My wife still uses Flickr and seems happy. There's a free verson.