A few new Pet Talk features - updates added

**Cinder & Smoke** · 12-01-2008, 04:55 PM

Originally Posted by Paul

This new software also adds a few new features
like user created photo albums,
message tagging and
social bookmarking.

I will turn on the social bookmarking feature so that we may try it out.
Paul

< deep sigh >

I dunno, but maybe a paragraph or two - or a least a couple of
complete sentences
about WHAT a feature is supposed to do or accomplish,
and a brief TUTORIAL on just How to DO it / USE it -
would sure be nice!!

Referencing a "similar feature" on some other web site doesn't help much if
you don't frequent the referenced web site.

"My Group" already smacks of cliques starting ... NOT a good thing!

**Karen** · 12-01-2008, 05:16 PM

We are still figuring out much of this as we go along. We hope others will also post as they find new things. This thread, for example, has a teeny blue "tag" icon to the far right of the box the thread title is in when you see the thread listed in the forum. That means someone has entered "tags" for this thread.

**Karen** · 12-01-2008, 07:33 PM

Another difference is the way attachments are displayed. Now, instead of taking you to a new window with just the full-size image, the software opens the picture in a new box, but keeps the thread open behind it, just greyed out darker. I like this, and think it is easier to understand, as I know sometimes people got confused with the old method. What do people think?

See the We caught a Moose thread for reference - she has four attachments in the first post.

**Karen** · 12-01-2008, 08:33 PM

Another new feature is that users can create albums of pictures, right here on Pet Talk! I created one - you can see it if you view my profile page, as I made it public. There are some limitations - it asks that you keep images to 600 pixels square, but this is a new way for people who don't have a photobucket account, for example to post images. When you view the album, it shows you the code you can use to post the image.

For example, this one:

is an image from my album. It's a lovely blue heron we spotted one day just hanging out - and fishing - at a little cache pond in a shopping center.

It says that it will automatically resize images that are too big "but you may have better results if you do it yourself."

**Hellow** · 12-01-2008, 08:42 PM

Thank God, Pet Talk is finally equivalent to the Ubuntu Forums...
Did you guys implement the ability to change picture dimensions with the [img][/img] tag like I demonstrated in a thread in this same forum?

**Killearn Kitties** · 12-02-2008, 04:46 AM

Is this a good place to apologise for all the "friendship requests" I think I may have just sent out?

I was poking around the new "Incoming friend requests" page which seemed to be all the people that were on some list before - you know the one that made people appear with a cross after their name? I remember adding the people I first met here to that list, and the people who posted a message when my Mum's Cat became Cat of the Day. I was trying to see what it did, but forgot all about it after I realised it didn't do very much.

So now I seem to have sent friendship requests to heaps of people, and loads of them don't even come to PT any more. That is going to cause them a bit of confusion if they get a notification through their email.

**lizbud** · 12-02-2008, 09:08 AM

Originally Posted by Killearn Kitties

Is this a good place to apologise for all the "friendship requests" I think I may have just sent out?

I was poking around the new "Incoming friend requests" page which seemed to be all the people that were on some list before - you know the one that made people appear with a cross after their name? I remember adding the people I first met here to that list, and the people who posted a message when my Mum's Cat became Cat of the Day. I was trying to see what it did, but forgot all about it after I realised it didn't do very much.

So now I seem to have sent friendship requests to heaps of people, and loads of them don't even come to PT any more. That is going to cause them a bit of confusion if they get a notification through their email.

So that's what that is.

I received a notification but don't have a clue
on what to do with it.

**Barbara** · 12-02-2008, 11:39 AM

Originally Posted by Killearn Kitties

Is this a good place to apologise for all the "friendship requests" I think I may have just sent out?

I was poking around the new "Incoming friend requests" page which seemed to be all the people that were on some list before - you know the one that made people appear with a cross after their name? I remember adding the people I first met here to that list, and the people who posted a message when my Mum's Cat became Cat of the Day. I was trying to see what it did, but forgot all about it after I realised it didn't do very much.

So now I seem to have sent friendship requests to heaps of people, and loads of them don't even come to PT any more. That is going to cause them a bit of confusion if they get a notification through their email.

Did the same- and now you are my friend officially (you have been before as well

)