New video player!

Yay! I've still got a few things to sort out on it, but everyone say hello to the new mobmms video player!

Bit of an improvement on the old one I hope - you can now fast-forward/rewind, view the video normal size or standard 3gp size if it's too blocky, see the length of the video, and general improvements such as the watch again thing at the end of the vid :-)
Oh it's also about 1/4 of the filesize of the old player which means you can start watching even faster! ;-)

What'cha all think? Got any suggestions for improvement?

beta feature - selective privacy

Ok before I start this is a beta feature and may start/stop working at any point, or be removed completely! However, testing and feedback would be very useful!

We've done some closed-beta testing and it seems to be working fine, so I've decided to unleash it for wider testing.

Basically, if you send in or set an image of your own as private, you can now allow certain users you choose to be allowed access and see to this private image/video, whilst everyone else still can't see it/access it. This is set on an image-by-image basis. The option to view all private images/vids will be added at a later date.

As it's still in beta, you can only add users to the allow list by entering in their user/album id.


To find out their userid, just visit their profile. There'll be a new line under the link to their album which states their user ID.


Just copy this number into the box in the new user access panel and press "submit".


You should now see their name under the "Users allowed:" bit, and they will have access to your private image.


To remove a user from your allow list, just press the icon next to their username in the list and their access will be removed instantly!

Please let me know what you think of it, any bugs, any improvements, etc. etc. in the comments section here please :-)

Got a blog/website?

If so, fancy having your latest album pics and vids displayed on your very own site?

Well I'm currently testing it out here as you can see in the right hand column.

The top one ("My latest mobMMS pic") is the single-image version, which just displays the latest image from your album and displays it with no messing around. This is the easiest option for most people.

The one below that ("My latest mobMMS pics") is one which allows a bit more customisation, but is a bit more fiddly as you need to set a few variables - but you'll be able to do a lot more with it, such as:

• show/hide the subject title


• show/hide the date and time


• show more than 1 of your latest photos at once


• alter the size of the thumbnails displayed


• show/hide your avatar


• show/hide a link to your full album

I'll also be adding options like "random photo" and "random photos from your album".

And if that's not enough, with a bit of css magic you'll be able to customise it to ensure it fits in with your blog/website! :-D

Now, this is currently done with javascript at the moment, rss/xml versions will be on their way shortly, so we should have all bases covered for those wanting to display mobMMS content on different sites!

It doesn't even have to be your album - if you like someone else's album, it'll be simple to swap your latest pics for someone elses, allowing you never to miss one from your favourite mobMMSer by accident again!

I'll be putting up instructions and details soon once the last few tests have been done, as the url/location of the script may change during this period.

Is this something you'll use? Or got any other feedback? Let me know in the comments!

Image and video theme suggester!

Well decided it was a good idea to have a "theme of the week" type thing going on with the site, so those unsure what to post or do in their pics can just follow the suggested theme!

Should hopefully allow for some fun themes like Halloween, Christmas and so on - and if everyone gets involved with the theme then even better! :-D

Maybe the winner of the best photo sticking to the theme of the moment will get a prize (...or more likely due to lack of funds, a place in some kind of Hall Of Fame I'll set up).

It probably won't change every week, in fact I've no idea how often it'll change...so can't call it "theme of the week" really, but keep an eye on it for changes!

Post ideas for themes and stuff up here and we'll get them in the rotation :-)

New email addresses!

Ok just going to be a quick post as I'm a bit ill and busy!

New email system is live, as in the email address you need to send pics in has changed for registered users.

Why?

Well I didn't really want to, but it needed to be done.

Basically, this has been in the works for many months, but I only just got the time to do it. Software updates and a few bugs I won't go into just yet, as the old method still works for the time being until people get used to it, meant that I had to alter the way emails are sent in :-(

What I had wanted to do was to change it to your username and then your password, eg aleco+mypassword@pics.mobmms.com, but unfortunately that was impossible as several people have characters in their usernames and passwords which are illegal when it comes to sending emails...
Sorry to this user but you're the best example I've got of it:
http://www.mobmms.com/view/index.php?action=profile;u=6513 is a prime example - that username just would never work as the start of an email address!

So we were stuck with a decision - as usernames became effectively a worthless part of the address, we scrapped that part, and instead of just a completely random string of letters and numbers (eg f3kj4le2 or something), we opted for what we've got now - a sort of half-pronounceable random password followed by your album/user id.

Also people seemed to be struggling with the + part of the email address so I've tried to minimise the useage of that for just the main part of the email addy.



So...hope that clears things up for the mo, I might explain more after the full changeover!

Feedback, as always, is welcome