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[quote="Jeff Gilder"]

[quote="Dennis Garrett"]

Jeff,

Have you noticed on the Activity or Home page (middle section) that are member/members repeating themselves liking the same photo gallery two or three times, creating a new gallery, or listing about (20) YouTube videos of non-racing videos?  Is this an accident or what is going on? 

Dennis Garrett

Richmond,VA.

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Dennis,

I see how the YouTube videos are appearing. This system allows members to "sync" their YouTube account with their profile page.  In this particular situation this member has a lot of racing content on his YouTube channel....but it also has a lot of non-racing content. There are 432 videos on his YouTube account. So, when it is synced they all appear. 

Needless to say, when I added this feature I didn't anticipate this. The only way I can approach this is to ask that members not sync YouTube accounts that include non-racing content....or just delete the YouTube sync feature, which will penalize those that have legit content. For us as admins to delete the "non-racing" videos that appear in the sync could turn into a full-time job for someone. I don't see that happening since we don't have any full-time employees. 

I don't like the result...and these videos do not need to be displayed on this site, so the only thing that will work...all the way around....is to remove the youtube sync feature. 

As for the multiple likes...I don't really see that as anything that needs to be fixed right now, but I will continue to watch it. The activity feed will display ALL activity including someone who updates a post 2 and 3 times.

Hope this helps!

Jeff

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Dennis, I manually deleted all the non-racing stuff and posted a notice in a new topic that we were deactivating this feature. Thanks for the heads-up

Jeff

YouTube Channel Sync

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When we set up the new site we included a YouTube Channel Sync feature that allows members to sync their YouTube channels to their profile. What we didn't anticipate with this feature is that members would sync accounts that included both racing and non-racing content. A channel with hundreds of non racing videos will clog up our activity fed and YouTube gallery with non racing content....even though the channel may have racing videos we'd all like to see, no one wants to wade through dozens (or more) non racing videos to find them. 

For this reason we have deactivated the Channel Sync Feature. Sorry for the inconvenience this has caused.

Note to Admins: We've also added an approval quota for YouTube video adds. 

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[quote="Dennis Garrett"]

Jeff,

Have you noticed on the Activity or Home page (middle section) that are member/members repeating themselves liking the same photo gallery two or three times, creating a new gallery, or listing about (20) YouTube videos of non-racing videos?  Is this an accident or what is going on? 

Dennis Garrett

Richmond,VA.

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Dennis,

I see how the YouTube videos are appearing. This system allows members to "sync" their YouTube account with their profile page.  In this particular situation this member has a lot of racing content on his YouTube channel....but it also has a lot of non-racing content. There are 432 videos on his YouTube account. So, when it is synced they all appear. 

Needless to say, when I added this feature I didn't anticipate this. The only way I can approach this is to ask that members not sync YouTube accounts that include non-racing content....or just delete the YouTube sync feature, which will penalize those that have legit content. For us as admins to delete the "non-racing" videos that appear in the sync could turn into a full-time job for someone. I don't see that happening since we don't have any full-time employees. 

I don't like the result...and these videos do not need to be displayed on this site, so the only thing that will work...all the way around....is to remove the youtube sync feature. 

As for the multiple likes...I don't really see that as anything that needs to be fixed right now, but I will continue to watch it. The activity feed will display ALL activity including someone who updates a post 2 and 3 times.

Hope this helps!

Jeff

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Dennis,

Been out of touch for a few days. I'll take a look. Thank, dude.

Who should be the next short track racer to be inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame?

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[quote="Dave Fulton"]

Just a FYI - I clicked on Patrick's original link 2 days ago using my Android based tablet and the link took me straight to he Speedway Report column without a problem.

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Thanks Dave. It worked for me as well. 

Who should be the next short track racer to be inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame?

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[quote="Billy Biscoe"]

When  I wanted to try to read P/R post on this worthwhile subject I clicked on the (highlighted) blue lines to be able to respond with my own thoughts. Then a orange stripe appears at the top of the page with of all things ( Invaild topic ID) ? ? ? ? what am I doing wrong ? ? ? ?

Dear J/G: I know this was a MUST CHANGE for you but ! ! ! ! !

This new site has me tech challenges that I have never been exposed to before. I don't do Facebook I have a very old cell Flip-phone, It's all I can do at home to set the digital clock on our micro-wave. I'm lost on any CONFUSER but right at home on my work bench in my shop ! I really TRY every day to navigate this site but either I'm STUPID or D/A ? (insert your comments here)! Just judging from the topics that used to be posted on the older web-site it seems everyone is stumbling on the new pages, not just lil ol' me .I relate this new R/R site to when CoCa-Cola came out with their New and Improved Coke flavors. It didn't take them long to figure out that was a BIG mistake . I would be willing to become a web-site member and pay a subscribers fee to be able to navigate a more familiar E-Z pages.

Regards from Arustyracer.

[/quote] Billy, I sure how hope the site becomes more familiar to you the more you use it. We love seeing your comments. But, just as you did in this post, you're able to post on the forum very well. That's 90% of the battle. The link to Patrick's article has nothing to do with this site. The traffic on the site is actually up from the old site since making the change. I think you'll get used to it if you give it some time. As I remember, it took a while for folks to learn to navigate the old site, too....me included. Unlike Coke, we're not going back. It's here to stay...this was not a mistake. It was necessary. If we had not made this change, we would have been without a site. In my opinion losing the site and 9 years of work would have been the mistake. I thought it was worth preserving, so I chose to make the investment in this platform.

As for subscription models. I realize there are some new sites  and old sites out there that require them .But most folks will not...long term keep up with website subscriptions. Those models, historically have yielded far less traffic than free models. Back in the beginning of RR, we attempted to make membership a requirement to view our content, and it killed the site's traffic. That was a FREE membership. There's far too much content out there on the web for a subscription model to ever work in today's world in my opinion. Our content is free and always will be. 

updated by @jeff-gilder: 02/09/17 09:50:49AM

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[quote="TMC Chase"]

Better on links Jeff. Thumbs up.

On to next formatting issue. I can bullet items like this:

• Petty
• Pearson
• Foyt

The bullets show up on my screen and preview. But when I post, they aren't there.

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Chase,

I'll take a look into it.

Thanks,

Jeff

Question for listerners to the Tuesday Night "Racing Through History"

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Tim,

I think those stories would be awesome to hear and read. I wish more folks would also do that, because we would be documenting historical things in the process of being entertained. I know your stories are entertaining....I've spent hours riding "in the Ford" with you and have heard several of them. So far I'm sticking with my promise of "What's heard in the Ford, stays in the Ford".   I'd like to add one thing....I still want to hear you get cranked up about something that irritates you every now and again. If not...I may start telling (and embellishing) the stories from the Ford.

updated by @jeff-gilder: 02/08/17 05:50:31PM

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[quote="Jeff Gilder"]

[quote="TMC Chase"]

Curious if there is reason links in forum posts and elsewhere aren't distinguishable from other text. Unless someone deliberately hovers over a link, you might not know it's there. Yes, if a URL is posted - e.g. http://www.whatever.com - it's somewhat more noticeable. However, the link isn't a different color, underlined, etc. I'm sure I can CHOOSE a different color or add bold, underlining, etc. But I'd rather not for all the historical posts.

Where the links really get buried is when the page URL is "behind" a string of text. I often do this. In many posts, I've referred to a Tim Leeming Racing History Minute or one of Dave Fulton's posts. But I attach to link to the text label vs. including the actual www link.

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HI Chase,

I'll take a look and see if I can make them more visible with the controls I have available to me.

Thanks, for your input!

Jeff

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Chase,

I was able to enlist the help of one of the JamRomm support guys (Michael) and got this fixed. 

Hope this helps!

Jeff

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[quote="TMC Chase"]

Curious if there is reason links in forum posts and elsewhere aren't distinguishable from other text. Unless someone deliberately hovers over a link, you might not know it's there. Yes, if a URL is posted - e.g. http://www.whatever.com - it's somewhat more noticeable. However, the link isn't a different color, underlined, etc. I'm sure I can CHOOSE a different color or add bold, underlining, etc. But I'd rather not for all the historical posts.

Where the links really get buried is when the page URL is "behind" a string of text. I often do this. In many posts, I've referred to a Tim Leeming Racing History Minute or one of Dave Fulton's posts. But I attach to link to the text label vs. including the actual www link.

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HI Chase,

I'll take a look and see if I can make them more visible with the controls I have available to me.

Thanks, for your input!

Jeff