Omega Forums 2 - Report Bugs, Provide Input. Help Shape The Future Of Our Forum

dsio
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We don't actually use OpenSSL / HTTPS as most forums don't, so traffic to and from Omegaforums and other non-SSL sites is not encrypted. We may look at adding it in the future but its rather uncommon for forums.
 
dsio
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As for other sites, your risk is very low, but regular password changes are always a prudent measure. Also set a quality password wherever you go, and don't use the same password everywhere.

XKCD had an excellent explanation on password security a while back:

http://xkcd.com/936/

password_strength.png
 
Togri
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I have noticed that photos taken upright with my smart phone or tablet gets tilted, when I try to upload them. Can imagine other people having the same problem. Will it be possible to add a rotate function for photos?

I apologize if this issue has been taken up before, but I couldn't find a thread about it.
 
Trev
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Togri Togri
I have noticed that photos taken upright with my smart phone or tablet gets tilted, when I try to upload them. Can imagine other people having the same problem. Will it be possible to add a rotate function for photos?

I apologize if this issue has been taken up before, but I couldn't find a thread about it.

I'll see if there's something we can hack in quickly that will preserve the image orientation correctly.
 
Trev
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Hey Togri,

There's some modifications/fixes added that should resolve the orientation issues you were seeing. We've tested it with several photos from an iPhone taken upside down, etc. It all seems ok now. Let me know if there's any other problems.

Cheers
 
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Hi Trev & Ash,
Lately about 10% of pictures in threads and posts do not appear in my laptop screen (only small symbol of picture). I use Windows 8.1 + Chrome Version 37.0.2062.120 m. There are no clear pattern on what appears and what not. Any advice?
 
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dsio dsio
The accio pictures are actually not on Omegaforums, they're external links to the photo hosting site imgur http://i.imgur.com/Dcdf8AY.jpg

OK so my browser has problem if the pictures linked to external hosting. Any suggestion to repair it?
 
dsio
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Privateday7 Privateday7
OK so my browser has problem if the pictures linked to external hosting. Any suggestion to repair it?

If you click that link does the image come up? It could be that the internet you're on has blocked that third party hosting site
 
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No I couldn't click it. Probably you're right about blocked site. In my country ISP must block porn and other unsuitable sites, however many other innocent sites got blocked, too.
 
MSNWatch
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This IS porn so it is appropriately blocked. Haven't you seen the moniker of LouS ?
 
dsio
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Well imgur does contain a significant amount of porn, probably more so than most image hosting sites. Probably why it happened, I know some schools block it too. On the plus side, the next version of OF does a bit of trickery where the server pulls in images from other sites that are linked and re-serves them itself. Its meant to help us serve consistent image sizes and apply scaling to fit devices used but it doubles as a way to get around this sort of blocking.

We actually finished off that feature 3 days ago and it works really nicely, no more people linking 3000px wide images that make your ipad / slow internet cry, just fetched by our server from the third party site, scaled to sane dimensions, compressed and served by our servers and CDN.

Bit of a ways off on OF3 yet but we're working on it.
 
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MSNWatch MSNWatch
This IS porn so it is appropriately blocked. Haven't you seen the moniker of LouS ?


😁 I am glad they don't treat chronograph as porn here......otherwise OF will be banned.
 
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dsio dsio
Well imgur does contain a significant amount of porn, probably more so than most image hosting sites. Probably why it happened, I know some schools block it too. On the plus side, the next version of OF does a bit of trickery where the server pulls in images from other sites that are linked and re-serves them itself. Its meant to help us serve consistent image sizes and apply scaling to fit devices used but it doubles as a way to get around this sort of blocking.

We actually finished off that feature 3 days ago and it works really nicely, no more people linking 3000px wide images that make your ipad / slow internet cry, just fetched by our server from the third party site, scaled to sane dimensions, compressed and served by our servers and CDN.

Bit of a ways off on OF3 yet but we're working on it.

That's cool 👍
 
Privateday7
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Hi Trev & dsio,
Is it possible to develop group features such as in Whatsapp or BBM in this forum?
For example I would like to create of Indonesian members Group which enable us to communicate in local language.

Just a thought.

H
 
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Hi Trev & dsio,
Is it possible to develop group features such as in Whatsapp or BBM in this forum?
For example I would like to create of Indonesian members Group which enable us to communicate in local language.

Just a thought.

H

You can actually start a PM with more than one member, and invite someone else later.
Don´t know if it has any limitation and haven´t really tried it, but it looks like the group feature in whatsapp to me.

You meant this, or you were talking about any other advanced feature?
 
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I think he'd like to be able to maintain groups of contacts, so you don't need to re-create them every time. We're definitely interested in features like this.
 
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Trev Trev
I think he'd like to be able to maintain groups of contacts, so you don't need to re-create them every time. We're definitely interested in features like this.

Yes. Even there would be some groups around interest like early day Connies or Cal 321 Speedys.
 
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But from a purely selfish point of view, id be interested in both those conversations (admittedly not in Indonesian) so if it were taking place amongst a private group, id be missing out and the value of the forum is diminished for the potential majority...
 
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