My experience using the website is so much worse now not having this feature. Are they coming back or not?
Missing thumbnail contact sheets
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Hairsational My experience using the website is so much worse now not having this feature
I completely agree. I hate the site without them. It was such a dumb fucking decision to remove them in the first place.
https://www.sexlikereal.com/scenes/taking-you-to-the-edge-edging-delux-black-angel-56811?tab=photos
This is a perfect example of why promo pics are absolutely useless.
doublevr The feature barely gets 150 visits a day.
Funny that a VR contact sheet gets five times as many daily views as your average flat porn video. That says a lot.
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doublevr The feature barely gets 150 visits a day.
@doublevr That's probably because you display it as a button below the four preview pics. Try this... display it as a thumbnail (like the four preview pics) for a month or two and see if the number of visits increases. I'll bet it does. I remember it took me a while before initially noticing that button. Now I use it all the time. I really miss the thumbnails contact sheet now.
This is an invaluable feature and while the majority of people don't give a fuck about simple things like contact sheets, direct downloads, or a functioning democracy, some folks really do care. Glad to know I'm in the 150 club.
doublevr I think that's great! Still, I think it would be a good design change to switch it from a button to a thumbnail. I think it would improve the UX and increase the clickthrough on that element. Clearly, there are a lot of folks who love this particular feature, and it's a somewhat easily missed one. So, you might end up providing a "new" feature for those that have been overlooking it, and just one more reason for them to love SLR!
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"Put the full preview image back into the Photo section of videos.
I just noticed you removed the full mosaic images or whatever they're called from the Photos section of videos. Why? This was useful to verify download are complete and not corrupting, by comparing file size of what was downloaded compared to the file size that was shown in this mosaic image.
It's also useful to check if uploads themselves are incorrect or corrupted. This situation has happened plenty of times, where we've had an issue and then can see right in the mosaic image that it shows a completely different video (I found and reported some that were supposedly to be YanksVR or something that were actually YouTube videos).. or we can see that the screenshots from every few minute turn black at some point.
Put these full mosaic images back in the Photo section. They served plenty of useful purposes."
I made a new thread, but was directed here, so here's my copy/paste ^
I think doublevr just makes up BS numbers all the time to make nonsensical reasons in attempt to justify reducing downloads or features. I doubt 'barely 150 visits a day' is accurate. I checked the mosaic images with every download to verify it downloaded fully (they have the original file size on top), because sometimes the download could be completely corrupted and missing a lot, fail halfway through, etc. But other times a download can also seem ok, but can be slightly off, meaning somewhere in the video is a minor corruption.. a freeze, a glitch, etc and comparing file size with the mosaic image helps verify the download is fully correct.
So even if the mosaic images don't come back (they're still useful in spotting and verifying corrupt uploads). Post the original file sizes somewhere so we can verify downloads aren't corrupt somewhere. And instead of creating a new place to show download size, which only covers part of purpose the mosaic images served.. how about just put the mosaic images back up?
*And as others likely pointed out. If you're trying to save a tiny bit of time of bandwidth.. now we have to stream and watch the videos, skip around through them to see if it's worth downloading, instead of looking at the mosaic image. You're not solving any problems by removing them, but you're removing useful information that they provide.
doublevr Give it some time
How much time? Do you have an estimated time frame when it will be back?
doublevr Going on 6 weeks now, can you provide an update? Are the contact sheets coming back or no?
erniescar69 it's in active development. The team decided to come up with the brand new ai setup instead of investing any into legacy
R.I.P. contact sheets
phyuggene Yep, I figured as much. And I have my doubts that the "ai setup" will be a comparable replacement.