Zooville Feedback and bug reporting thread.

[FloofyNewfie]

Awesome. I still don’t know how my account got unregistered but I’ve got it back now. Thank you sincerely again @Mare Lover 1975 and @FloofyNewfie

Absolutely, I don't mind helping people out at all. As for how your account got unverified, it was most likely because protonmail closed your old email account. The forum software will often send automated emails to your email account from your ZooVille account, (new PM notifications get sent to mine, and there are other default settings that will send emails to your account's email, such as for watched threads and replies to your posts if they're enabled or selected.)

However, if your email account is closed the forum software will get a reply from the email domain (e.g. Protonmail themselves) basically stating "this email cannot be delivered to this person" otherwise known as a "bounced email", which the forum software logs. Once this happens your ZV account will likely un-verify itself and basically ask, "Hey, is this email still good?" I might need to take a look at the un-verified notification banner text and maybe add "Check your 'Account details', if your email is no longer valid, to change it." to it. I'd imagine just adding that (which is likely very doable) will probably eliminate some confusion in the future.

 

[moto7220]

I cannot receive other peoples dm’s can send but not receive

 

[Kristy]

@Mare Lover 1975 You fixed this for me once before, and I don't why it keeps happening. There must be a bug somewhere. May I ask you, as your time allows, to fix the top link to my new story on my "About" page? As was the case before, it doesn't go anywhere. Thank-you a lot.

 

[Mare Lover 1975]

@Mare Lover 1975 You fixed this for me once before, and I don't why it keeps happening. There must be a bug somewhere. May I ask you, as your time allows, to fix the top link to my new story on my "About" page? As was the case before, it doesn't go anywhere. Thank-you a lot.

It's working fine for me, probably the site being all buggy again.

 

[Kristy]

It's working fine for me, probably the site being all buggy again.

I went back and, instead of using the "share this post" function for that, I tried copying from the browser's address bar.
That worked. I appreciate your checking on it! (I didn't remember I had posted that, above, or I would have removed it. I'm sorry.)

 

[Der.Zoomer]

I wonder if y'all also have this weird issue where you start to download a video file, the download suddenly aborts and you have to start all over again and in most cases the download then finishes without errors.

 

[FloofyNewfie]

Once this happens your ZV account will likely un-verify itself and basically ask, "Hey, is this email still good?" I might need to take a look at the un-verified notification banner text and maybe add "Check your 'Account details', if your email is no longer valid, to change it." to it. I'd imagine just adding that (which is likely very doable) will probably eliminate some confusion in the future.

Here we go, this should eliminate some confusion in the future. If your account gets deregistered, users should now see this message:

 

[topstud]

Is it me, or are pictures and videos loading really slow on the site nowadays? I have good internet, so I'm wondering if the level of traffic to this site has now reached the point where scraping the limits of our bandwidth from the hosting provider.

Should we start up a collection for an upgrade?

 

[Der.Zoomer]

Is it me, or are pictures and videos loading really slow on the site nowadays? I have good internet, so I'm wondering if the level of traffic to this site has now reached the point where scraping the limits of our bandwidth from the hosting provider.

Should we start up a collection for an upgrade?

I have noticed some people uploading images as losless PNG files which can often reach more than 24MB in size.
A compressed JPEG at 96% quality would be like 4MB or so without any noticeable quality loss, but great traffic and ressource-usage reduction.
Same goes to phone videos uploaded in 4k. They are like 15 seconds long, but take up 100MB or so.
And now imagine 100000 users or more are clicking through all the forums and sub forums over the day.
But my guess is that this site also uses proxies in between to throttle individual connection speeds too.

 

[topstud]

I have noticed some people uploading images as losless PNG files which can often reach more than 24MB in size.
A compressed JPEG at 96% quality would be like 4MB or so without any noticeable quality loss, but great traffic and ressource-usage reduction.
Same goes to phone videos uploaded in 4k. They are like 15 seconds long, but take up 100MB or so.
And now imagine 100000 users or more are clicking through all the forums and sub forums over the day.
But my guess is that this site also uses proxies in between to throttle individual connection speeds too.

Size limits might be good if they could be configured, but the question about bandwidth remains. Plenty of material on this site now and yeah, it's gonna chug bandwidth to serve it all

 

[Der.Zoomer]

I personally would introduce a size and media type limit. PHP can be very easily configured in this regard.

 

[topstud]

I personally would introduce a size and media type limit. PHP can be very easily configured in this regard.

yeah some pages especially in the art section just don't even freaking load. Like no I don't need to see this picture in absurd res, thank you very much

 

[Meg97]

Yes, big size pictures could be a problem with loading pages in some topics. Lot of users don't bother with posting oversized files. Pages can't load correctly, internal unexpected errors can occure also.
I'm trying to reduce size to max 2.5MB per picture. Is plenty of apps to change file size.

 

[Goattobeloved]

It is always a good thing to post big images as attachement in a clickable thumbnais.

Pages load faster, saves bandwidth, and if you want to ser the full quality image, just click on it