NEW SOFTWARE "AMASS!" FOR POTN: WHITE PAPER

Mark0159 wrote in post #17094923
see it's been that long that I have forgotten.

Mark, I was just thinking the same thing, that it's been so long that I have forgotten half of it! But I'm sure it will all come back to us the moment we see AMASS again.

Levina de Ruijter wrote in post #17094977
Mark, I was just thinking the same thing, that it's been so long that I have forgotten half of it! But I'm sure it will all come back to us the moment we see AMASS again.

I'm sure we will, we will be like photographers with a new camera, testing out all the features and in a months time forgetting most of them

It will be fun to see what the new forum can do. I sure can agree that so many webpage design programs have so much stuff in them that there is no way anyone could ever figure out what it is all for.

Just looking at the code of the old forum, what I found interesting was the key words. The forum as of today (meta data keyword wise) is up to the following cameras, Canon 5d Mark II, 1d Mark III, 50d.....

Nogo wrote in post #17095148
It will be fun to see what the new forum can do. I sure can agree that so many webpage design programs have so much stuff in them that there is no way anyone could ever figure out what it is all for.

Just looking at the code of the old forum, what I found interesting was the key words. The forum as of today (meta data keyword wise) is up to the following cameras, Canon 5d Mark II, 1d Mark III, 50d.....

AMASS is being coded single handedly by Pekka from scratch. I assure you that HE will know EXACTLY what everything is for.

rrblint wrote in post #17095158
AMASS is being coded single handedly by Pekka from scratch. I assure you that HE will know EXACTLY what everything is for.

That is why his hard work is all the more appreciated!

Pekka wrote in post #17094210
...upgrade downtime...

Don't know why, but I got a wee schoolgirl giggle outta this.

Looking forward to giving it a go, Pekka.

BearLeeAlive wrote in post #17095563
Don't know why, but I got a wee schoolgirl giggle outta this.

Looking forward to giving it a go, Pekka.

still into wearing skirts, Jim?

Nogo wrote in post #17095148
Just looking at the code of the old forum, what I found interesting was the key words. The forum as of today (meta data keyword wise) is up to the following cameras, Canon 5d Mark II, 1d Mark III, 50d.....

Meta keywords are not used by search engines any more, but history is fun

Pekka wrote in post #17096220
Meta keywords are not used by search engines any more, but history is fun

Oh? Good to know...
(Might explain why one cannot find my own website when searching for my name... Google -> stupid...)

On this note:
Any planned timeframe for the release of AMASS?
(Obviously, plans can change...)

Pekka wrote in post #17096220
Meta keywords are not used by search engines any more, but history is fun

Most interesting. Read up on that and I can fully understand their reasoning behind that. I have looked at many websites that listed keywords that were real popular but not even remotely related to the website in question.

But..... I won't chase that rabbit on here. The original topic is interesting enough not to get sidetracked....

Pekka wrote in post #17096220
Meta keywords are not used by search engines any more, but history is fun

What are used instead?

RichSoansPhotos wrote in post #17099583
What are used instead?

Guess it is actual content plus user response.

RichSoansPhotos wrote in post #17099583
What are used instead?

I think the basic culprit is that many pages do not really have any text content! If you do something like php's strip_tags($html_sourc​e) for the page source, you can see how much actual textual content there is.

IMHO the important thing is the content on the page and how it is marked up semantically. Use header tags instead of large font sizes on spans or divs, use img tags with direct urls instead of scripted (js or other) images, do links as a href and not javascript redirects, give divs ids or classes that describe their contents.

Other things that come to mind: use microformats where they should be used (AMASS uses hReview for review threads: http://microformats.or​g/wiki/hreview), avoid redirects, do not load the initial page content via AJAX...

Google I/O 2014 seemed to advocate use of http://schema.org/docs​/gs.html so it is good to gradually start using those where applicable. I'll add http://schema.org/Revi​ew to AMASS when I have time.

Pekka wrote in post #17094210
In short: AMASS is ready. The next step is tweaking the upgrade procedure (that takes some days), then putting AMASS on the new server, inviting people to check it out: first the old beta team and mods, then many more, if not all.

Final beta should be a short one (no more than two weeks), no new features will be added to final beta and if all seems ok I'll put my time to further tweak slow parts of the upgrade procedure (slow task being 10 million image verifications). to make upgrade downtime as short as possible.

I would assume that you could precompute the information for all existing photos right now, and then just make a quick check if the images has been changed during the update procedure.

Doing mod tools took much more time than I thought, but they are really cool and canning spammers is so easy and fun that mods wish now that they could hit that button Overall, since the beta phase there are many changes done here and there, new features and better ways to do things.

Damn - we report all the new spammers and miss out on the actual fun of getting them evicted

pwm2 wrote in post #17101099
Damn - we report all the new spammers and miss out on the actual fun of getting them evicted

One hates to think what would happen if we, mere members, had the ability to evict people. Our numbers would decline rapidly, I fear...