Ron Lindeboom
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Hi David,
This only worked automatically in and with each of the single posts. It has never worked automatically with the view entire thread at once mechanism.
When we added the ability to view the entire thread at once, we had to add a link — Curtis wrote the functionality first, and Eric later rewrote it when he changed the mechanism to a new system == that allowed users to “mark as read” the threads.
This happened as there is simply no easy way to mark a thread as read and also allow for new posts to occur within a thread and have those posts remain marked unread, and therefore apparent to a reader that new posts have been added to a thread.
Therefore, the mechanism can’t just mark a thread — if it does so, then new posts added to the thread will also show as having been read.
You can only mark a “state” of a thread at a given time and — within our system as it has been up to now — that requires the user to mark the thread as read (which then marks the state of the thread at that given time, allowing new posts to occur and have them showing as freshly added to a user).
Abraham has been exploring new ideas and methods as to how to accomplish things in the COW, and perhaps he will find a new way of doing it that works. But please keep in mind that neither Curtis nor Eric could find a way of doing it that didn’t require tracking each and every thing that a user does and maintaining that information in a database — which we don’t want to do.
But who knows, the future is not written in stone, is it?
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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Again, I think that it really needs to come down to about ONE MINUTE long, max.
It became even longer and even less interesting in the second iteration.
If you only had one minute (as a hard fixed maximum limit) to prove all you could do, you would tighten it up, grab quick clips, edit sound that slammed, jabbed and stabbed at all the right moments. As it is, it just sits there giving so much information that by the time it ends, I know more than I want to.
The goal is to get them to want to talk to you and this simply works quite counter to that goal. In fact, not to be cruel, but this accomplishes the opposite.
Sorry to be so blunt but I really do want the best for you, Todd, and you really must think of this as a ONE MINUTE chance to wow someone.
My apologies if this seems like a put-down, it isn’t.
Best always,
Ron Lindeboom
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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Hey Todd,
Right off the bat — and I apologize if this seems too direct but I hope you can receive it in the spirit in which it is offered — the demo reel is just too long for what’s there. Tighten it up, a lot. Cut it down to no more than a minute, at most.
Get rid of the orange/yellow overlay that is there with your “Edited with Final Cut Pro” sequence. It is confusing and both Kathlyn and I watched it and were asking: “What is that and why is it there?”
Also, get rid of the names of the tools you use in each sequence. If you really want it there, drop it down to a much smaller size with the type over towards the lower righthand corner. As it is, it is just too distracting.
Pick your four or five best moments and open with those. Lay your name and phone number over those. Seeing your best, someone is more likely to want to call. Seeing your name over a basic animated texture in the background — especially when it is up there for so long — I am less likely to want to call.
Please forgive me if this seems too direct but these are my honest reactions to the reel, along with my suggestions for ways to make it far stronger.
Best,
Ron Lindeboom
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This question has been asked and answered a lot. It is likely why no one’s biting up to now. You can use the search engine to look for comments about Maya, Cinema 4D (which is the overwhelming favorite of the preponderance of AE users), etc.
Best,
Ron Lindeboom
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Why I said “again” is because I have said it a number of times that of course it doesn’t happen when you go to Apple, Amazon, YouTube and other sites you have mentioned. They have the political and web muscle to put pressure on companies — even international powerhouses like phone companies, ISPs, etc. — and we don’t. We have written some of these companies till we are blue in the face. They don’t care.
There is simply nothing we can do about it, Mark.
There’s nothing we can fix except to make a site that includes no javascript at all and that isn’t going to happen, as we use it for some of what makes this site happen.
I did not mean it as an offense, Mark. Merely as a comment that I guess that I am not making myself clear enough.
Best,
Ron Lindeboom
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You are again misunderstanding what I am trying to communicate, Mark.
It is not filtering of a malicious kind or intended to harm anyone.
It is done to protect BT customers from the kinds of tricks that phishers, etc., use to gain your information and do you harm. I guess that because of our newsletters, banner ads, magazine sign-ups, etc., etc., we meet enough of the parameters that their security team has set to red flag a site.
As you know, we have been at this for over 12 years now and we do not sell our list or do anything clandestine or malicious with any of our user info. But we cannot control how anyone looks at us or how they may perceive us. That is out of our control and there is little we can do about it.
And again, it has absolutely nothing to do with our new interface as we have been getting these kinds of emails and posts for a year now — and the new interface is only a couple of months old.
We wish we had the answers but we don’t and so all we can tell the minority that have these issues, is turn off your javascript.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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Kim,
This has been happening L-O-N-G before the interface change. It started about a year ago and affects a small percentage of users.
The issue, as Mark Palmos points out (which we’ve tried to explain to him), is Javascript. Turn it off when you visit the COW.
Why?
Because some service providers will take no issue from bigger sites like an Amazon, a Google, an Apple or a YouTube — but they take issue and throw security filtering when it’s used by smaller sites like the COW.
Are we doing anything sinister? Nope. We do not collect nor track our user data and we do not sell our member database, which amounts to your username and address — as I said, we do not track our users and we are not compiling data like Google, etc.
So, if you want the COW to speed up again, turn off Javascript.
Best,
Ron Lindeboom
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Hi Mark,
As I said, it depends on WHO is using the javascript as to whether or not British Telecom does the filtering.
They KNOW Google, they DON’T know CreativeCOW.
You won’t find this going to the Apple site, Adobe, Google or Amazon. It’s the smaller sites that pay for BT’s foray into enhanced security. ;o)
We can’t do anything about it here. We’ve tried.
Ron