Photo pet peev
Photos uploaded without a caption. If you post a personal photo(that you took) it would be nice if there was a caption included just to give context , who, where or when. Don't get too detailed, but a general location and timeframe. Some of the location are very interesting.
I agree with you on the 'adding a caption' as some idea as to the relevance or relationship of the picture is quite helpful. The pictures are almost always nice but having a clue as to how it relates orients the viewer. Maybe they'll change...but I doubt it.
Good Idea. I've added a caption to the photo I've uploaded. I just uploaded another and will have to wait for approval before I can add a caption.
That's a good point Olly, needing to get approval before you can add a caption to photos here. It seems like another poorly-thought out process that is part of the recent website 'upgrade', it should only be a simple bit of coding needed to allow captions to be added at the upload time. I'm sure that I've uploaded photos, noted that a caption could be good but then forgot to go back, the approval process can stretch to a number of days, its easy to forget to keep going back to check.
I agree that captions can add to a photo, context adds to a collection of pixels.
I'm going to add a photo to the media section and a couple of my images here as an experiment to check how easy it is to do so in a thread as well, and add captions as an administrator here, which means that I should have less hurdles to negotiate than as a member.
Uploading photos to this thread wasn't simple! The first photo was uploaded using the basic uploader method, as the 'advanced' method refused to play along. Attempting to upload a second image using the basic method resulted in nothing happening, so I tried the 'advanced' method, which worked that time! They're both attached in this thread now, but there is no option for adding captions. They were taken about a mile along the coast from a local nudist beach in Sussex, England. The coast has high cliffs behind the beach with very few routes down from them, there is no settlement that overlooks the beach and very few points on the coastal path where you can see the beach, up to 170m below. You can wander the beach in both directions from the main nudist area, leaving your things with friends and carrying nothing while nude and free as I am in the photos. The beach is a mix of rocks like those in the photos at the base of the cliffs, shingle/ pebbles and sand, lots more sand is revealed as the tide goes out. You see a wide range of life there - minute creatures in rock pools to peregrine falcons, seals and dolphins, though sadly far fewer of the latter recently. Its a great place to be naturally naked while surrounded by nature. I haven't always had nudist places so close by to visit as often as I can now. I've lived in big cities, I realise how lucky I am now to be able to socialise as a nudist, for free. Everything is entirely natural, apart from washed up man-made junk, a lot of that is from the passing commercial ships in one of the world's busiest shipping lanes - the English Channel/ La Manche to our European friends 40 miles away on the other side. If you want a more detailed caption, let me know!
Uploading a photo to the group's media section went smoother, but there was almost a 15 min delay between uploading it and when I could see that it needed approval, adding a caption was straightforward.
Agreed, I get totally lost trying to upload a photo to a group. Many times I don't ever see them again when I do and the photos don't reference back to the username that posted them. I think that would add to the accountability of photos so people would not simply post those pictures that were found on the internet.
Agreed, I get totally lost trying to upload a photo to a group. Many times I don't ever see them again when I do and the photos don't reference back to the username that posted them. I think that would add to the accountability of photos so people would not simply post those pictures that were found on the internet.
That makes sense to me, since this sites 'upgrade a few months ago photos posted in groups have largely become 'anonymous at unknown location on unknown day/year'. Unless the person who posted them remembers to return several days later (it can take that long to complete the approval process) and add such details. If they're not a paid member there is the likelihood that they'll never be able to do so unless their photos are still some of the most recent 6 added to that groups media section.
Why TN don't let this happen at the time of posting is beyond me. It would not be complicated to enable this.
I think it would be good if more people contacted TT through the 'Website Upgrades and Opinions' in the 'Forum' section to voice their ideas about TN -
https://www.truenudists.com/forum/category/23
"Unless the person who posted them remembers to return several days later (it can take that long to complete the approval process) and add such details. If they're not a paid member there is the likelihood that they'll never be able to do so unless their photos are still some of the most recent 6 added to that groups media section." ~ Nik_Nudist
Until you said that, I had no idea that was even possible. It is a convoluted way of "owning" your picture, but I did just now go back to several groups where I had posted pictures to leave a caption. Yes, it is a tough thing to remember to do. Being able to caption a picture at the time you submit it would be the best way. ~ committednudist
"Unless the person who posted them remembers to return several days later (it can take that long to complete the approval process) and add such details. If they're not a paid member there is the likelihood that they'll never be able to do so unless their photos are still some of the most recent 6 added to that groups media section." ~ Nik_NudistUntil you said that, I had no idea that was even possible. It is a convoluted way of "owning" your picture, but I did just now go back to several groups where I had posted pictures to leave a caption. Yes, it is a tough thing to remember to do. Being able to caption a picture at the time you submit it would be the best way. ~ committednudist
I'm pleased that my comment was useful.
As with so much of this site, particularly since the 'upgrade' there are aspects of this site that are not obvious from the user experience angle, a FAQ or similar on the changes would have been useful, its all bright and shiny right out of the box, but the user instructions are in a strange language or even left out completely.
I've recently approved a few photos for this group, thanks for submitting them, whoever you were. it would be good if we knew who had posted them and where they were taken, so adding a caption would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.
I just read this post and some of the replies brought to my attention that there may not be a caption with some of my photos. Sure enough, when I went back and checked, there were several that didn't have captions because I wrote them in prior to the photo being approved.
What would make life a little easier is the ability to add photos to a group from the photos that I have loaded to my media. I could write the caption there and then put them on whatever group I wish. I don't keep the pictures on my phone often and don't always get them sent to my computer. So each picture gets uploaded twice at least. My media and to a group. Most of them in my media have a caption already.
What would make life a little easier is the ability to add photos to a group from the photos that I have loaded to my media. I could write the caption there and then put them on whatever group I wish. I don't keep the pictures on my phone often and don't always get them sent to my computer. So each picture gets uploaded twice at least. My media and to a group. Most of them in my media have a caption already.
That makes sense to me.
A while back there was an outage with the media servers for TN, photos etc were not available for a short period, yet the rest of the site seemed to function as normal. That indicates that the media is stored on different servers to the main site, so every time a photo is loaded its delivered from a separate server to the one where the web page you're on is loaded from. It's a common way for other sites to load too. If that is the case then it should not be a problem to load group photos from the same servers, in the same way.
I could be wrong.
This is also TN....
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