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@Taylor Finn Yeah, so I even went back to raw photos from 2014 and I can't get it to happen either. Sorry! Not sure what I can do at this point!

Doing another test...

So unfortunately, I can't seem to re-produce the problem. I uploaded photos directly from my iPhone, one portrait and one landscaped, raw pics without any processing or any changes at all, and then I did the same with two photos from my desktop and they both worked fine. I did some searching around and this seemed to have been an issue on the Invision forums in 2015 or so (about the same time when we had the issue on our old forum and there was a fix for it) but I haven't seen it be an issue lately. So I'm not sure how to fix it at the moment.

Doing a test...

Huh. Weird. Not that I’m aware of. But I can most certainly look into that. What kind of device are you uploading from?

So no.... not really. The editor will save your text if you browse away and then come back, like if you accidentally hit the "back" button or something. But to do a proper "draft" you should probably edit in another program and then copy/paste into here. The fact that it is much less tedious to insert and move around photos in this editor probably makes the post draft feature a little more redundant with this software. I think it would be pretty easy to paste in text that is formatted for where you want to insert the photos, and then just drag them in.

Ahh, I found it. Yes, that must have changed when I changed the @robbalvey button color. I made another change to make poll results AND username tags a bit easier to read!

Which thread was that in? I'll check it out...

@DarWorking on this now... let's see if this new color is at least a little better?

Best part of Busch Gardens Tampa's Howl-O-Scream? Getting to ride all the coasters at night!!!

Ahh! Good find! I'll look into that one...

It really still depends a lot on the coaster. The newer GoPros do much better in low light, but here still needs to be "some" light. Take a look at our Steel Dragon 2000 Night POV for a great example of how I wish all coasters were lit up at night to film on!

A lot of people have also been asking about ways to see "latest posts" in a thread. Here's another interesting feature added to the forum.... If you hover your pointer over the topic title, a box will appear that gives you a preview of the latest post. Obviously this is desktop only but it works great! If you find other interesting features of the forum that you really like, please post them in here!

Great report! I've shared this on our other social media platforms as well!

Comment on this...

There's honestly a ton of "little features" like that all over the place that I love with the new forum. It's overall just a more "professional" piece of software and it shows!

FIXED!

All of the Park Index photo issues should now be resolved.

Yes, exactly. I think mainly because the photo section of the old forum was a mod that we later added and then had re-written. This one is fully integrated. Also, as far as photo size goes, I chose 2,400 on purpose. Figured that would be a good size. But your original photo should be uploaded to an unlimited size if you click on it. I thought that would be super handy for people uploading higher res pictures.

Here are two different ways to add a photo and write a caption. It's so insanely easy. Anyone who can't figure it out has to be overthinking it... how to make a caption.mp4 From your desktop, you can literally just drag in a photo into your post, and then write a caption under or above it. Or from your mobile phone or from your desktop folders, you just "choose file...", upload it, and then click the little + to add it to the post, and write your caption where you want it to go. This is such a HUGE upgrade from the old forum. Sorry, but I just cannot imagine anyone complaining or having trouble with this... or missing that old, awful, confusing way to upload and post photos.

Like this?

You just drag the photo and an add a caption. Like this.... Hi. I'm a photo that was dragged in and I'm a caption that was written. This isn't rocket science.

Wow. Thanks. I only spent the past six months working on this with the exact attention to detail of making this update **NOT** be "change for the sake of change" and having all the changes be purposeful and useful. You mean that pointless and redundant title that kept repeating over and over again like as though to remind people what thread they clicked on because they were too stupid to remember? Honestly, if your one complaint about the new forum is "I miss the redundant repeating title that shows up over and over and over again on each post" then I guess we can pat ourselves on the back with JOB WELL DONE!

Right here...

Also, I would probably not choose "Deflection" as that is a theme I was messing around with and it will most likely go away. I want to stick to just a "light" and "dark" theme because anything change I do to one theme, I have to do to the other, and I don't want to have to keep updating multiple themes.