Site Upgrade 11/29/2022

[nywaw]

Some of you may have noticed a short interruption for an upgrade.  All went well and we were back online quickly.

One of the things to note is the main landing URL for the site has been restored due to a bug that was fixed.

You'll want to bookmark https://www.nywoodsandwater.com

It may be appearing still as https://www.nywoodsandwater.com/discover/6 still, but it will go away on it's own when you visit the URL above or click the site's logo (NY Woods & Water currently but SOON to be updated!) at the top of the page.  Note even my current browser cache keeps loading the /discover/6 URL, so you can either clear your website data/cache or wait for it to expire/clear on it's own

If anyone sees any issues, please let me know!

[Robhuntandfish]

dunno if anyone else has seen this as well but the old HNY site you used to have to upload to utube to load video.  Ive been able to load video directly to this site. nice feature.  Thanks for keeping up on it.   

[nywaw]

16 minutes ago, Robhuntandfish said:

dunno if anyone else has seen this as well but the old HNY site you used to have to upload to utube to load video.  Ive been able to load video directly to this site. nice feature.  Thanks for keeping up on it.   

Video is a tricky thing with browsers and devices.  This site does allow for video upload but it's limited to 100MB files (they get big fast!).  The other side of it is depending on what format you recorded in and on what device, it may not be natively playable by another person's device and browser.  This is a silly proprietary nature of companies (i.e. Apple MOV not being visible on Chrome browsers natively).   So it's a PITA you'll see others have issues with.

YouTube is excellent at what it does all around for video but most importantly embedding their video allows for playing on any device or browser.  Unfortunately I don't have a way (yet) to allow members to upload directly to the site's YouTube channel (which is as new as the site and pending logo, etc).  Once upon a time they used to allow for emailing videos that would then get uploaded to a YouTube channel but they stopped that.  So I'll keep working on another solution, but until then we have the ability to upload here and hopefully most can see what is!

[Robhuntandfish]

2 minutes ago, nywaw said:

Video is a tricky thing with browsers and devices.  This site does allow for video upload but it's limited to 100MB files (they get big fast!).  The other side of it is depending on what format you recorded in and on what device, it may not be natively playable by another person's device and browser.  This is a silly proprietary nature of companies (i.e. Apple MOV not being visible on Chrome browsers natively).   So it's a PITA you'll see others have issues with.

YouTube is excellent at what it does all around for video but most importantly embedding their video allows for playing on any device or browser.  Unfortunately I don't have a way (yet) to allow members to upload directly to the site's YouTube channel (which is as new as the site and pending logo, etc).  Once upon a time they used to allow for emailing videos that would then get uploaded to a YouTube channel but they stopped that.  So I'll keep working on another solution, but until then we have the ability to upload here and hopefully most can see what is!

 

[nywaw]

Looks good to me!