Hi everyone,
Have just had a look at the Smile site. It is easy enough to get into it,
but the pictures, shown on a grid of over 1100, are all mixed together and
not all that useful without their captions, names and tags. If you click on
one of the pictures it loads quickly, but so are the unrelated pictures
next to it. It takes much longer to move back to the grid of all the
pictures.
Have these photographs been left all mixed up because they were transferred
en masse (i.e. as if it was one big file)? Could it be that it has sorted
the lot by date only (as there are no tags I cannot see the date each
picture was uploaded.? Will we be able to create 'albums' with new uploads?
What about uploading captions and comments or is the lack of these just a
teething problem? What about the fact that one could enter via facebook,
does that make Smile less secure?
I can only comment on what I have seen as I am not as computer savvy as you,
Clay or several others in the group.
Happy lace making,
Joepie, East Sussex, UK
-----Original Message-----
From: Clay Blackwell
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 9:15 PM
To: Arachne
Subject: [lace] Webshots Smile
Hello all -
After several emails back and forth with Avital, we decided it would do
no harm to put our Webshots pictures on Smile and see how it works.
It only took a very few seconds for all of our pictures to appear.
However, there are some serious shortcomings to this new program, and
unless these things are changed in the near future, I'm afraid we will
not be happy with it.
1. While it appears that all of our pictures transferred, there is no
folder system. Furthermore, it appears that the pictures appear in the
order of last in, first seen. And at this point, I don't think any of
the pictures added in the past 24 hours (to Webshots) has automatically
come over. (There is an option to this effect, I believe, but I may not
have set it.) So without this organization, it is a bizarre mix of
pictures with each person's pictures scattered around. It would be very
hard to find anything in all of this.
2. None of our annotations about the photos came with them. No dates,
descriptions, names, etc. I don't see any way of adding this
information either!
3. The owner name and password remain the same. But one particular
thing concerns me: it is easy to delete a picture, and virtually anyone
who has access to the file could inadvertently hit the wrong button and
wipe out the entire file. Likewise, there is no provision for settings
to be secured so they can't be changed.
So, go take a look, and if you see pictures of your own that you may not
have on your computer, you may download them! I encourage anyone who
has contributed to retrieve your photos so that in the future, if we
find a better substitute for Webshots, we can upload them again. Please
respect the rights of others and don't download someone else's pictures
without their permission.
The addy is <http://smile.webshots.com/>
Tell us what you think!
Clay
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