Questions, questions....

OhLook wrote in post #17321180
The few times I've used the search, it did sort by date, in the sense that the latest posts were at the top of the list, if that's what you're asking.

Pekka has said that Search will be improved. I think it'd be convenient to search by date more easily. I was looking for images for my gallery. My titles for images at Photobucket include the date, so I know approx. when I first posted each one. Where I have many images in a given thread, I had to go through a lot of sets of ten to get back to the early posts. But maybe I'm doing it wrong.

Yeah, I'm not seeing result order by date. I'm not sure what result order is based on. Dates seem to be all over the place (based on the first line stating post by <username> <forum> <date> ).

I do like the History at the corner to list past searches. Nice addition.

Levina de Ruijter wrote in post #17321192
Search results are ordered in such a way that they are most relevant to the search perimeters. That is what Pekka told me. I would personally like to always see them ordered chronologically and with the most recent at the top and then going back in time, because that makes the most sense to me. Like you, OhLook, I usually know just about when I posted something, but if the search results are in no particular order in time, then how do you find your post if you have to browse through maybe many dozens of pages?

Relevancy by default. Okay. Now, is there or will there be an option for sort order? Chronological like you is my first preference as well. I'm sure others may like to do it differently. Maybe a >> for go to last page? Or jump to page? Or option to next 20, 30, 40, 50? Just thinking... something similar to the navigation of threads at the bottom right corner, I guess. I don't consider this too pressing an issue however.

Levina de Ruijter wrote in post #17321192
Like you, OhLook, I usually know just about when I posted something, but if the search results are in no particular order in time, then how do you find your post if you have to browse through maybe many dozens of pages?

At BugGuide, you can give each photo a name, which is visible on the image page only to yourself (maybe also to mods, I don't know). The search function includes this unique identifier. If you use your filename, such as "bumblebee6/15/13," you can easily find the image. We don't have that here. (I wonder, does Search include the Photobucket identifier between the IMG tags?) Incidentally, or not, BugGuide's owner has been promising a software update, BugGuide 2.0, for years.

For this photo, I remembered that I had posted it in Arty & Composition and had used the word "breakwater," which isn't common there. A search for the word brought it up. Usually, there was no such hook to hang a search on, and finding dates in threads required a slow process of opening a succession of pages.

IMAGE LINK: http://s641.photobucke​t.com …2014_zps10b7a96​e.jpg.html

OhLook wrote in post #17321220
At BugGuide, you can give each photo a name, which is visible on the image page only to yourself (maybe also to mods, I don't know). The search function includes this unique identifier. If you use your filename, such as "bumblebee6/15/13," you can easily find the image. We don't have that here. (I wonder, does Search include the Photobucket identifier between the IMG tags?) Incidentally, or not, BugGuide's owner has been promising a software update, BugGuide 2.0, for years.

For this photo, I remembered that I had posted it in Arty & Composition and had used the word "breakwater," which isn't common there. A search for the word brought it up. Usually, there was no such hook to hang a search on, and finding dates in threads required a slow process of opening a succession of pages.

IMAGE LINK: http://s641.photobucke​t.com …2014_zps10b7a96​e.jpg.html

I can see how that unique identifier at BugGuide is helpful in searches. But right now I would be grateful if image search is possible period. I need to find all my images and now I can't. But, ipernity is about ready with their move to Amazon cloude and I will wait a few days to see if maybe the embedded images will be restored. The ipernity staff said they would. So I'm trying to be patient, although that is not something I'm good at...

While posting a image to Camera samples and then again to Lens samples, it only allowed me to enter the meta data to only one.
I don't know if this is by design, but if someone was looking for the meta data in one of those posts, they would not be able to.

Bianchi wrote in post #17322499
While posting a image to Camera samples and then again to Lens samples, it only allowed me to enter the meta data to only one.
I don't know if this is by design, but if someone was looking for the meta data in one of those posts, they would not be able to.

My preference: entering metadata on an image automatically transfers it to all copies, including any not yet posted. But this is an item for a wish list for the distant future. It may not be technically possible.

Bianchi wrote in post #17322499
While posting a image to Camera samples and then again to Lens samples, it only allowed me to enter the meta data to only one.
I don't know if this is by design, but if someone was looking for the meta data in one of those posts, they would not be able to.

Yep, I raised this previously too. I wish that once you posted an image to a thread, then added the exif so that it went to your gallery, you could then post the same image in another thread directly from your gallery so that all exif was already there. Like there could be an "embed image from gallery" button or something

I didn't really understand the response I got but it wasn't positive

I can't seem to find a way to unlock (or edit in any way) a recently locked "For Sale" thread. Am I missing something?

G7-EOS wrote in post #17322968
I can't seem to find a way to unlock (or edit in any way) a recently locked "For Sale" thread. Am I missing something?

That is not coded yet, sorry. At this point feel free to repost until it is available (please mention in post the link to the original thread)..

xpfloyd wrote in post #17322952
Yep, I raised this previously too. I wish that once you posted an image to a thread, then added the exif so that it went to your gallery, you could then post the same image in another thread directly from your gallery so that all exif was already there. Like there could be an "embed image from gallery" button or something

I didn't really understand the response I got but it wasn't positive

I found your post, and raised it up again, this time with a example of why we would want to post a gallery image over and over into different replies.

https://photography-on-the.net …showthread.php?​p=17322983

TeamSpeed wrote in post #17322985
I found your post, and raised it up again, this time with a example of why we would want to post a gallery image over and over into different replies.

https://photography-on-the.net …showthread.php?​p=17322983

Thanks. I don't think I elaborated enough on my original post about it

Pekka wrote in post #17322977
That is not coded yet, sorry. At this point feel free to repost until it is available (please mention in post the link to the original thread)..

I'm just glad I wasn't overlooking something simple! Thanks for all your efforts!

On the old system, when I visited a thread it was marked as read and stayed that way. Now, every time someone makes some inane comment to the pictures it resets and I don't know if I visited it yet or not. To make matters worse, if I did read it before it makes a very abrupt jump to the bottom of the thread that really bothers my eyes. Is there a way to go back to the old way?

Under vBulletin, if you visited a thread and someone later posted to it, it was again marked unread. Same as happens here. And under the vBulletin POTN, unless you clicked "Go to first unread", it'd start you at the very beginning. Now, clicking on the thread title will bring you to the first unread post. So, aside from not offering you a way to go to the very beginning of the thread when you re-enter it, it's working just like the old POTN did. However, you'll notice that threads you've visited have a grey text next to the column of number of replies "go to first unread"; if you've never visited the thread, it won't say anything, and if there's nothing new it'll say "all seen".

Are you sure? Maybe there was an option I changed long ago, but I visit the Photo Sharing section everyday and the threads definitely did not switch to unread when someone posted a comment to the end of the photo.