Tim Wilson
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Hi John,
We’re currently tweaking the system. For our first 18 years or so, the edit functions were extremely limited — originally zero, in fact, eventually evolving into a brief window that closed when somebody replied to that post.
We recently experimented with an unlimited timeframe for editing posts, which led to considerable abuse. When we started getting complaints that threads were becoming difficult to follow because of the number of edits — such as when posts quoted other posts that no longer contained those posts — we realized that we’d gone too far.
Typical forum practice across the web is closer to our modified original policy: a brief window, 10-15 minutes, that closes when a post has been replied to. This is consistent behavior in forums in many areas of interest, some of which also don’t allow editing at all, some of which require a user to publicly post the reason for editing their post, and some of which include a link to the original, unedited version of the post.
The ultimate goal is to find the balance between flexibility and stability. We’ll keep working on it!
Regards,
Tim Wilson
Editor-in-Chief
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You’re free to add the links. 🙂 The one in your previous post is active now, so you’re good to go….
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[Val Mac] “I dont know what happened I think I’m not allowed to put Videohive links in here”
You are. Videohive isn’t. 🙂
We’ve had enormous trouble with them over the years, as well as a number of their contributors (for whom we of course don’t blame Videohive themselves), as among the most prolific forum spammers we’ve ever encountered. As a result, we hold all Videohive posts for review by our moderation team to make sure that they are posted by real people with questions, rather than an ad in masquerade.
Apologies for the delay approving your post, but I assure you, our long, long history with Videohive makes this an absolute necessity in order to preserve the high signal, low noise character of the Creative COW forums.
Regards,
Tim Wilson
Editor-in-Chief
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[James Ewart] ”
Time to hit the imaginary “ignore” button?”Yup”
There is in fact an ACTUAL ignore button.
Click on the link for a member’s name, which takes you to their profile page.
Below their picture on that page, you will see links offering you the option to Friend/Subscribe to their posts, or Ignore them.
Note that the members you “Friend” will appear on your profile page. If you would prefer to be notified of their new posts without publicly friending, you can do that too, in a tab along the top of their profile page.
Note too that you can subscribe to somebody’s posts without being logged in, but to ignore somebody, you DO need to be logged in. That’s because a subscription notification is email-based of course, and stored on our server, whereas the “ignore” request is specific to your own private forum settings and preferences.
I confess that I’ve not exactly finished building out the member profile feature set, and will be happy to take suggestions. Drop me a note offline if you have any ideas.
….but the Ignore button works quite well, I assure you. 🙂
Regards,
Tim Wilson
Editor-in-Chief
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It’s not that we have any objection to Tapatalk. It’s simply not technologically feasible.
Tapatalk works more or less like a server-side plug-in on a small handful of specific third-party templatized platforms, such as vBulletin, phpBB, WordPress, ProBoards, etc.
The problem for us is that we predate all of those! Those 4 specific examples were started between 2000-2003, whereas Creative COW’s roots go back to 1995.
To put that in context, we not only predate all of the platforms that Tapatalk supports — we predate Google. We appeared before mySQL, and were well underway for years before PHP stabilized as a forums platform. We went online about the same time that Yahoo first appeared, just months after the first widely available web browsers. Yep, we even went live before Microsoft launched Internet Explorer. Steve Jobs was years away from returning to Apple.
Updating underlying tech is easy, of course. We do it every day. But pouring existing content into an incompatible template? We would have to rewrite millions of posts, and reinsert any rich content or formatting, one post at a time. We’d have to create an overlay of redirects from those millions of original locations to the new ones in order to maintain the integrity of existing links, too.
Most important, we would also have to rebuild our advertising framework, since few of those templatized platforms support ANY direct advertising. Unlike virtually all of the forums on Tapatalk, forums are our only business. We simply don’t have the luxury of walking away from all of our advertising.
So, even if it was technologically feasible for us to undertake such a massive effort, it wouldn’t be financially feasible — but let me underscore again. It’s not even close to technologically feasible.
And that’s just to take the first step of getting onto one of the few platforms that Tapatalk supports. After THAT would we be able to actually install Tapatalk.
Believe it or not, this is the short version. I just went back and cut a lot of what I first wrote. The obstacles really are many, and large.
We certainly understand the appeal of Tapatalk on the user side, though, and don’t intend any disrespect to its fans, or to Tapatalk itself. We’re not saying we’re better. Just that we’re incompatible with any of the small handful of platforms that Tapatalk supports, at pretty much an atomic level.
Regards,
Tim Wilson
Editor-in-Chief
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[Craig Alan] ” Who’s serving who?”
We’re here to serve Apple. I thought that we’d settled at least THAT much. LOL
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Just noting for the record – this isn’t actually a Star Wars rant, but an IMAX rant, right? 🙂
[Rich Rubasch] “47% of all tickets were sold for the 3D version. Not sure about iMax. For me the best part about an iMax theater is the audio NOT the picture. “
Record-breaking IMAX numbers, to say the least: $48 million on 677 screens, beating Jurassic World’s $41m. I think the reason that the gap isn’t wider is that there’s still a finite amount of screens to scale up to, whereas you can show Star Wars on every single digital screen in the world with the flick of a switch.
But to Todd’s opening point, yeah, for the classic Science Museum dome model, this is not a good fit at all. Those really DEMAND native IMAX footage.
For more typically standalone IMAX theaters, though, non-IMAX footage works quite well. Big is big, and I couldn’t agree more Rick, the audio is the thing.
I have found the letterbox effect in these with non-IMAX footage to sometimes still be kind of annoying for live action though, no doubt about it, though.
The place I’ve found the sweet spot is in the multiplex version of IMAX, the IMAX DMR (Digital ReMastering) screens. When those were first introduced, people howled in outrage because they weren’t “true” IMAX in the sense of the 60-foot high screen or what have you…but when taken in its specific context as a branding exercise, it works for what it is: much bigger, brighter screens, and massively improved sound.
I think one reason that the howling about this has died down over the years is that big screen experiences have been getting bigger, and these (let’s call them more accurately) IMAX-flavored DMR screens are by and large doing it right.
btw, I highly recommend the 3D version. VERY much in keeping with the flavor of the thing, and exceptionally organic. As subtle yet distinctive as a soft-edged wipe.
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As a reminder about what does and does not constitute a simple cuts-only movie, take a look again at the breakdown for Wolf of Wall Street. Virtually every shot in the movie is a VFX shot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP2sJqoZD7g
And since I’ve been hyping my own interview with Glenn Fiacarra talking about his team’s use of FCPX for onset previz, it’s also worth remembering that Rob Legato used After Effects + mocha pro for the same thing.
Which underscores the point that pretty much any combination of tools can accomplish pretty much anything. These stories are much more about the artists than their tools — which are not by any means irrelevant, mind you, but they really are USER stories.
And they really aren’t cuts-only movies. 🙂
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[Bret Williams] “Spoiler alert, I’m not sure I saw a single soft edge wipe in Star Wars today.”
Dude, watch again! They were there!
Almost the only good part of the movie. LOL
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[Bret Williams] “Spoiler alert, I’m not sure I saw a single soft edge wipe in Star Wars today.”
Dude, watch again! They were there!
Almost the only good part of the movie. LOL