I see green rubies.

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Do a hard refresh DD, that should be fixed.

Fixed.

A rather old and even more negligible issue still around: the mouseover for the mark of applauded comments still says "star point awarded", even though it was switched to power points quite a while ago.

Edit: the note when fixing a dead video still speaks of star points as well.
Note: You will not be rewarded a star for this fix because you received a star reward too recently.

* Missing Amazon items;
http://www.videosift.com/video/An-11-year-old-plays-Contra-for-the-first-time
The two games I linked here are gone. This appears to apply to all the Amazonised videos.

* Embed and email icons missing their tooltips

* Body text might be a tad faint for some.

I see dead videos...

http://www.vintage.videosift.com/ returns a 404 error.

>> ^Ornthoron:
http://www.vintage.videosift.com/ returns a 404 error.


That always did - you need to use http://vintage.videosift.com

Some videos come up in very small embeds. Not all the time though, I refresh and it's fine.

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Sorry, that's my fault. I messed up the link in my original post.

>> ^Deano:
>> ^Ornthoron:
http://www.vintage.videosift.com/ returns a 404 error.

That always did - you need to use http://vintage.videosift.com

Very good points, radx. I had no idea those were so out-of-date. They're fixed now.

Thanks, Deano. Fixed amazon items and embed/email tooltips. Also, good call about excluding the "www" from http://vintage.videosift.com.

Where do you see dead videos, Laekroth?

Many excellent changes and I particularly like the improved navigation.

Pity you can't search Playlists yet but I guess that's one for the future.

Talking about breaking out frequently used links how about having the most commonly used sorting options as links spaced horizontally above the current list of videos, be it the Sifted, Unsifted or a search result?

So you would have these links above the first video;
Sort by: Newest - Oldest - Most Votes - Least Votes


The other suggestion I would make is that a search link is included in the main navigation for each option.

So when you click "Front" you see;
Recent Sifts - Top Sifts - Random Video - Recommended - Dead Pool - Search

And for "Unsifted"
Recently Posted - Beggars Canyon - Search

and so on.
This would make finding video a bit easier especially for newer users and visitors.

Are FORA.tv embeds somewhat screwed up?

For instance: http://www.videosift.com/video/Hitch-Vs-Sharpton-God-is-NOT-Great-yesnocancel

There are 4 different elements within the frame, the video and three additional ones that are both superfluous and incomplete.

I see this as a problem;

I'm on http://viral.videosift.com/ and if I click the VS logo or Front I'm still stuck on Viral.

How does one return to www.videosift.com?

Not that I use it much, but where's the Crossword now?

>> ^Deano:
I see this as a problem;
I'm on http://viral.videosift.com/ and if I click the VS logo or Front I'm still stuck on Viral.
How does one return to www.videosift.com?

Front -> VideoSift Homepage

That said, I have trapped myself on subpages like comedy more than once, especially during late hours. Brain couldn't work out an escape route anymore.

I'm on Firefox 3.5.1, Windows 2000 with screen res of 1024*768.

I went to remove a video from the Bravo playlist and saw this;

Playlist and user dropdown box messiness

Can the playlist box appear under the thumbnail?

Also I don't know why the dropdown menu is there when I scroll down? It disappears when you scroll some more.

radx, thanks.

It's not terribly obvious though is it? I've always had this issue with navigation from the sub-domains to the top. IMO the logo should always take you to the main site entry point.


BTW I tried to Quote your comment but it didn't work and I've had that problem before.

>> ^Deano:
IMO the logo should always take you to the main site entry point.

I second that one. "Front" already takes you to the starting page of the current subdomain, the logo should take you home.

Not a bug really, but something to think about in later upgrades: It would be nice to be able to expand the video description without having to go to the video page itself, just as one can view the comments without having to load a new page.

non-members can only see a "v4.0 Beta login page" when they are sent a link, or when you visit the main www.videosift.com. Try it yourself on a computer/browser that is not set to remember your login.

The handcuffs from hobble mode don't look all that good in dark mode.

I just upvoted a video in the beggars canyon so now it has ten votes. But it still shows in the beggars canyon and as pqueued to me.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Aphex-Twin-Rhubarb-Cover-on-Acoustic-Guitar

I think the "posted by [user] ..." looks weird under the line in listings - it looks like it's attached to the video below it, instead of above it.

Also, I assume that the stumble upon link is supposed to be an icon, but in blog posts like
http://blog.videosift.com/swampgirl/Three-Years-and-one-month
it's written as such:
"comments (3)|bookmark (0)|stumbleupon Stumble This"

Is the stumbleupon ALT text and the icon missing?

First off, great update guys, my hat's off to all 3 of you - it's a fantastic accomplishment.

First thing I noticed though is there probably ought to be a different icon for bookmarked videos (in 3.3 you used to be able to differentiate between "bookmark" and "unbookmark" - not anymore).

I'll probably find something else to nitpick on though, so stay tuned

And thanks again for all the hard work

>> ^Stingray:
I just upvoted a video in the beggars canyon so now it has ten votes. But it still shows in the beggars canyon and as pqueued to me.
http://www.videosift.com/video/Aphex-Twin-Rhubarb-Cover-on-Acoustic-
Guitar

To quote the new FAQ:
Currently, 15 votes are required to sift up a queued video to the front page.

The bar was raised, ladies. If only it were a limbo contest ... instead, 1/5 of my limited portfolio wouldn't even qualify under the new rule.

1. The preferences page is sorted by tabs, which is nice to categorize, but isn't really needed (in my opinion), since the preferences could easily be displayed on one page without much scrolling down.
As it is now, whenever I change something on the preferences and click "save" I get an unexplained error, and have to recall from past experience, that I need to confirm my password.
So I guess my point is: Is it possible to add an option to show the preferences page in one page and not in the current category display?
Also below the avatar submission button, there's a superfluous line break, making the text broken:

"Note: Use of an image containing offensive content and/or
nudity
is strictly forbidden and may result in a permanent ban."

Though it may just be how it's displayed either in my resolution or on Chrome. Very minor, I'm just a prick about details.

2. The auto-scroll-on-video-window feature: I'm talking about the new way the windows open on the main screen, which is excellent, apart from the page automatically moving to the video. Is there a way to turn off that feature? So far it's been annoying the crap out of me, since I'm not expecting it, but I really liked the old way they opened without moving my page to the video, and if there's a way to make VS behave that way again for me, I would appreciate it.

Thanks for reading, and good job on the site upgrade in general! Feels very nice

Two problems. If you have the view set to "Gallery" the confirmation page when you are trying to submit a new video is all messed up.

See here and here.

Also, NoScript seems to have a problem with the "submit new video" page. After I verify the embed code and "click here to submit it now" I get this message and half of my embed is cut off so I have to paste it again. I have already set NoScript to "Allow all this page."

Hey, great upgrade!

I'm using Chrome, and on about every one out of three or four video pages, the video tiself will still be the size of what it would be as a thumbnail on the front page. However, doing a page reload has so far fixed the problem.

Mozilla 3.5 on Windows 7 with NoScript and Adblock Plus does something wierd; when I type www.videosift.com, it dumps me to a beta login page.

For some reason mintbbb can't log in. She's being presented with a login page that says:

VideoSift v4.0 Beta Test

login:
beta password:

Clearing her videosift.com cookies didn't help, and her usual login/password aren't working either.

>> ^lertad:
Hey, great upgrade!
I'm using Chrome, and on about every one out of three or four video pages, the video tiself will still be the size of what it would be as a thumbnail on the front page. However, doing a page reload has so far fixed the problem.

^ Was just about to post about this issue as well. Also Chrome on Windows.


>> ^Engels:
Mozilla 3.5 on Windows 7 with NoScript and Adblock Plus does something wierd; when I type www.videosift.com, it dumps me to a beta login page.

^ I linked a video to a friend today, and he got a beta login page too, and was unable to view it. Not sure what browser he was using.

Not sure if this is working as intended or not, but for the charter video avatar, the video plays fully but the avatar pic doesn't come back once the video is finished.

I used to have this star thingy by my name, and now its gone!

http://www.videosift.com/playlists/gwiz665/Music-thats-awesome/Tommy-Emmanuel-Plays-Golliwoggs-Cakewalk-on-Acoustic

The video can fold out, but the comments can't while the video is folded out.

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>> ^spawnflagger:
non-members can only see a "v4.0 Beta login page" when they are sent a link, or when you visit the main www.videosift.com. Try it yourself on a computer/browser that is not set to remember your login.


Whoops. This has been fixed. Lets just call it an "exclusivity period".

Submitting a video from my points resulted HTML tags: See http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/5426/vs4submitfrompoints.gif for a screen shot.

http://pastie.org/559551 for the copy and paste submission.

Also, I don't like this new video submission usablity. If my queue is maxxed out, I have to copy and paste my code FIRST and then find out I can't submit it yet.

amazon command doesn't seem to work like in http://www.videosift.com/video/Vitalic-Your-Disco-Song#comment-818209 ... Maybe I messed up?

Also, using FlashBlock v1.3.14 extension in SeaMonkey v1.1.17 (Windows and Debian/Linux) blocks embedded videos completely! That only happens IN web pages and not on front page. Examples: http://www.videosift.com/video/Total-solar-eclipse-in-Iwo-Jima-Japan-22-July-2009 and http://www.videosift.com/video/subprime ...

Most of the above problems have been corrected.

Ant, submitting that embed code you linked works now. If you're unsure about how many queued videos you have, you can pop open that "unsifted videos" tab under your username to see all your queued vids. See the starpower page to see how to use the *amazon invocation; you can't just invoke it by itself because you have to specify an amazon.com url. I'm not familiar with FlashBlock, but I guess you should try disabling it for videosift.

>> ^lucky760:
Most of the above problems have been corrected.
Ant, submitting that embed code you linked works now. If you're unsure about how many queued videos you have, you can pop open that "unsifted videos" tab under your username to see all your queued vids. See the starpower page to see how to use the amazon invocation; you can't just invoke it by itself because you have to specify an amazon.com url. I'm not familiar with FlashBlock, but I guess you should try disabling it for videosift.


Ah interesting. But will it tell me if I can submit another video with available points?

As for the embedded video code, it did work earlier but it just showed the funky HTML tag which was weird. Minor bug.

Thanks for the Amazon link, but it didn't work I put (asterisk symbol)amazon=http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=vitalic+your+disco+song&x=0&y=0 for http://www.videosift.com/video/Vitalic-Your-Disco-Song ... I saw "Please wait..." and then nothing. I reloaded/refreshed the Web page and still nothing.

As for FlashBlock, it is a popular extension for Mozilla's web browsers. Basically, it shows a "F" icon in Flash areas and requires user to click on it to play the Flash area. Very handy! On VS, when I click on "F" icon, embedded videos do not show up at all. I did whitelist for VS, but then all videos are loaded and sometimes I wait too long and YouTube says video doesn't exist. I load all new unwatched VS videos in tabs to watch later.

>> Ah interesting. But will it tell me if I can submit another video with available points?

For that you have to go to the full submit page, but knowing that it requires 2 points, you can just look at the points next to your username to determine if you will be able to add that extra queue slot. See, if there is a minimum of 2 points there you can, but with fewer than 2 points you cannot.

>> ^lucky760:
>> Ah interesting. But will it tell me if I can submit another video with available points?
For that you have to go to the full submit page, but knowing that it requires 2 points, you can just look at the points next to your username to determine if you will be able to add that extra queue slot. See, if there is a minimum of 2 points there you can, but with fewer than 2 points you cannot.


OK, thanks.

Weird I got an e-mail notification about your Flashblock comment, but I didn't see it in here. To answer your question, I e-mailed FlashBlock developers to see why Flash videos don't show up after clicking on "F" icon to show them. http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ is the home page to get it if you want to get the extension.

I recalled VS v4 would have RSS feeds to user's voted videos. I do not see it for mine in http://www.videosift.com/member/ant/votedup ...

>> ^Laekroth:
I see dead videos...


They're everywhere...
They don't know that they're dead...

>> ^lucky760:
I'm not familiar with FlashBlock, but I guess you should try disabling it for videosift.

>> ^ant:
As for FlashBlock, it is a popular extension for Mozilla's web browsers. Basically, it shows a "F" icon in Flash areas and requires user to click on it to play the Flash area. Very handy! On VS, when I click on "F" icon, embedded videos do not show up at all. I did whitelist for VS, but then all videos are loaded and sometimes I wait too long and YouTube says video doesn't exist. I load all new unwatched VS videos in tabs to watch later.


The FlashBlock problem started after the 4.0 release. I mean that after 4.0 was released, Flashbock was working fine on video pages, then sometime in the last few hours it stopped working. Maybe it was something you changed while fixing other stuff.

Also, layout of this page is all screwy now. The main column is extra wide, and the right column is squished into about one inch. Actually, it's not really squished so much as truncated.

One easy change that I think would be helpful.
Under the dropdown list for your username, the first one listed should be My Profile.
Yes, you can just click on your name, but some people might not figure that out, especially new users.

Also, with FF, the main page is fine, but when I click to post a comment, I have to have 1280 wide browser because the comments part is static width and huge. The comments don't even wrap and get smaller when you resize the window width. Seems crazy to have to scroll over if you use 1024 wide.

^ and yes I found the [page width: fixed - loose] but it doesn't seem to work in SiftTalk (inside a post)

Searching is screwed up. I wanted to find all the videos sifted with 10-14 votes and sort them by age, but the search not only messes up the sort order, there's lots of videos with more than 14 votes listed. It also seems unlikely that there are exactly 1000 of them, or is that a limitation of the search?

Looking awesome! I'm digging it. I did come across a weird bug. Here's how you reproduce it. Go here and upvote all the videos starting with the top video and moving down sequentially to the very last video. Once you are finished, a naked picture of Jessica Alba appears. Weird, right? Go give it a try and let me know if you experience the same bug.

I have no recommended sifts to view.

Siftie gives wrong acknowledgment for quality invocations in videos.

Seen here:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Giant-Mousetrap-Board-Game#comment-818542

>> ^fford:
Searching is screwed up. I wanted to find all the videos sifted with 10-14 votes and sort them by age, but the search not only messes up the sort order, there's lots of videos with more than 14 votes listed. It also seems unlikely that there are exactly 1000 of them, or is that a limitation of the search?

It's not a bug per se. The reason is that our search engine is updated for archived posts only once a day and it just so happens that the few odd posts you saw got more votes since the last time the search index was updated.


>> ^Stingray:
I have no recommended sifts to view.

Neither do I at the moment, but you probably will tomorrow. The listing is updated once a day based on your voting history, so the more voting you do and the more voting everyone else does, the more recommendations you'll have.


>> ^blankfist:
Siftie gives wrong acknowledgment for quality invocations in videos.
Seen here:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Giant-Mousetrap-Board-Game#comment-8185
42

Oops. Fixed.

I don't have anything under the recommended tab. I'm not sure if I need to vote on more videos or if there's something wrong.

Two things, well, 3 actually.

1. Great job guys. 'nuff said.

2. The line contain the info about who submitted what and when that appears under every video falls below the dotted line. Though everything matches up, when you see all the videos in a list, it almost looks like that information should belong to the video under it, because that line seems to separate the videos. Consider moving the line below the text which it appears above.

3. Something to think about for 4.1 -
When viewing a thread either on a video or a sift talk, if you try to add a comment, you are redirected to another page. Perhaps build-in the functionality to add a comment and stay on the same page.


Once again, do as you see fit, its your site, and we are merely Siftbot's pawns. Oh and great job, once again.

[Edit] 1 more thing. where it says "possible invocations, blah blah blah, grayed out, blah blah" you have front page listed twice.

Not too sure where this bug comes from, but I had two tabs open, both of videosift, one day mode, one night mode.


On the night mode one, I went to click a video, and then it switched over to day, and sent me to my recent comments page.

[Edit] Tried this a couple more times now and it appears to be working fine now, must've just been a browser issue.

>> ^blankfist:
Looking awesome! I'm digging it. I did come across a weird bug. Here's how you reproduce it. Go here and upvote all the videos starting with the top video and moving down sequentially to the very last video. Once you are finished, a naked picture of Jessica Alba appears. Weird, right? Go give it a try and let me know if you experience the same bug.


CNR for me. [grin]

I found a minor weird and annoying bug in my SeaMonkey v1.1.17. After posting a comment, I can click in my added post area with a mouse text cursor blinking. Here is a screen shot: http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/4787/cursord.gif ...

If I were to type in it, then it would move focus and type in the form instead below where it should had been originally.

I was voting in http://www.videosift.com/poll/Should-Video-Recommendations-Expire and watched the horizontal poll bar grow to 100% and added a horizontal scrollbar! Here's a screen shot: http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/3638/pollscrollbar.gif ...

No nevermind.. I definately have that happening now, I'm getting day colours in the night scheme. Which for the colour of my comment box means I can't read the night text in it.

OK, I really don't like the redesigned submission feature as it is not its own web page. When it wants me to paste a code, I sometimes hover another area (a link like "Sift Talk" -- don't need to click) in the web page, and the submission window vanishes and I redo the submission process from the beginning!

Also, it doesn't seem to carry over my pasted embed code correctly. Example: http://pastie.org/559990 (my pasted HTML embedded code) and results: http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/5580/screenshots.gif ... Same for http://pastie.org/560007 code with similiar results.

The new embed window doesn't accept the full code from Vimeo videos for some reason. It's not a big deal in that you can just repost the full imbed later on. but anyway. I'm being nitpicky. I'm just happy that I can submit vimeo. cheers.

>> ^Stingray:
I have no recommended sifts to view.


Yeah, me neither. I saw somewhere else that it was supposed to work if you had voted at least 5 times since the upgrade, but I have, and it still isn't working.

^ me too. no recommended sifts despite upvoting stuff.

@ant: That submission bug has been fixed. Even still, to make it easier for you to submit, we've also added a "Submit Video" link under the "Unsifted" tab.

@Crake/deputydog: Sorry you're not getting any recommendations yet. It has only to do with a lack of the required type of voting activity either on your part or on everyone else's part. In other words, you have to do a certain amount of voting (at least 10 votes) and there has to be other common voters who have voted on most of those in the past day or so. If either of those requirements aren't met, the system has insufficient data with which to generate useful recommendations.

>> ^lucky760:
@ant: That submission bug has been fixed. Even still, to make it easier for you to submit, we've also added a "Submit Video" link under the "Unsifted" tab.Thanks.

One small thing; in the drop-down menu on the username in the top-right corner, under "Recent Sifts", vids that enter the PQ are listed as well.

Went to watch this:
http://www.videosift.com/video/F1-Massa-knocked-out-by-spring-darts-into-wall-at-200-km-h

Tried to view it; it is blocked. Went to tag it as such, and saw another user had done it. Don't see a 'blocked' tag on the vid, however.

edit: don't seem to be able to link to images; view screencap here:
http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r181/slipperypete_02/vs_noblocked.jpg

*unblocked does not show up in the list of possible *invocations above the submit comment box
Also, not seeing the blocked tag on blocked videos. Example.

@rasch: It's been more aptly renamed "Recent Videos" as it's intent is to show you videos you've submitted recently.

@SlipperyPete: Good call. "Blocked" is now displayed on the full video detail page.

@burdturgler: *unblocked has been added to the invocation list.

Should "Start a Poll" be listed as an option in the "Sift Talk Tools" section of talk posts and the drop down menu from the upper banner when a poll is currently active? Clicking either just returns an error.

That's a good point. It won't show up any more if you can't start a new poll.

Whats up with not being to see comments on videos with opening them in their own separate page?

>> ^Arsenault185:
Whats up with not being to see comments on videos with opening them in their own separate page?


Click on the little comment balloon under the video. It will AJAXify up some comments for you without loading the individual page.

I am using the dark version. When I go to a users page to comment it stays in day. I tried refreshing.. going to different ones... I don't see what I am doing wrong? Anyone else having this problem?

Thanks for pointing that out, IV. It's all fixed up now (though it might take a hard reload before you see it functioning properly).

So... many... comments...

Not sure if this has been mentioned or not, the "blocked" flag sometimes hangs out far to the right of the actual video, as if "blocked" is too GOOD to sit next to the blocked video, or maybe the video is mad about being blocked and told "blocked" to go away, and "blocked" tried, but then decided to stick around, just not close. Like a stalker or something. Clearly they have issues in their relationship.

Either way, blocked videos suck. Here's a picture of what I'm talking about: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v605/srichey/Picture2.png


.

.

ps: you guys are doing a fantastic job!
(safari 3.1.2 mac os x.5.5)

>> ^RedSky:
Some videos come up in very small embeds. Not all the time though, I refresh and it's fine.


I'm still getting this issue a lot, odd that nobody else seems to have brought it up. I use Iron, which is a no spyware version of Google Chrome if that helps.

>> ^lucky760:
@Crake/deputydog: Sorry you're not getting any recommendations yet. It has only to do with a lack of the required type of voting activity either on your part or on everyone else's part. In other words, you have to do a certain amount of voting (at least 10 votes) and there has to be other common voters who have voted on most of those in the past day or so. If either of those requirements aren't met, the system has insufficient data with which to generate useful recommendations.


I generally upvote videos that have been on VideoSift for a long time already. So chances are recommendations will never work for me.

Why can't the recommendations work without the time limit of having other common voters with the past day? I know it may show a lot of recommendations, but can't you just cap the limit? It's like Facebook. It doesn't show me all these hundreds of friend recommendations... just 27 of them at a time, and then I choose whether I add them or not.

Then it fills in the gap with another recommendation.

Just thinking out loud (and by out loud, I mean silently typing).

Unfortunately we don't have the limitless resources available like facebook does. As you might expect, votes are the most plentiful bit of data we manage. With so much data, it becomes a gargantuan task to do large scale processing. Even the day worth of votes we're limiting ourselves to now for recommendations is a weighty task. We would really like it if we could compile recommendations based on all votes ever cast, but it would take hours to calculate that just one time. In short, we're only processing a day worth of votes at a time because we need to insure there's as small an impact on our resources as possible.

Not really a bug, but how much does the * quality invocation actually boost the hotness of a video. Seems to be a bit underpowered to me. If you can't reach the first page of the hotness-listing it isn't necessarily worth the effort...

According to http://www.videosift.com/starpower I (bronze) shouldn't have the * notlong and * notbrief commands available, but in the 'Possible Invocations' bow, they are not grayed out. Haven't tested yet, whether or not they work for me.

Known bug?

^Now it's known, but now it's fixed. Not a bug, but a typo.

Yepp, fixed. thanks

I'm getting 404 on all blog entries at the moment.

Also, arvana's profile seems to be using Comic Sans. I refuse to believe that's intentional.

I'm not sure if this is more of a user error than an actual issue with the site. Probably a PEBCAK error, but I wanted to do my due diligence. I cleared my cache/cookies. Upon returning to the site I didn't see a login link, but instead saw New User where my name should go. I rolled over it and there wasn't a dropdown, so I clicked it. It redirected me to the member login.

If it says New Users, should that redirect them to the member login? I also didn't see any place where new users could actually create a profile. Just FYI.

Videos on post pages do not appear if Flashblock is on. I know this was mentioned earlier, but I don't know if this is being worked on, and I wanted to give an update. It's only with videos from some hosts that this happens. I haven't checked all of the allowed hosts yet, but so far YouTube, CollegeHumor, MySpace, Hulu, TheOnion, and Vimeo don't work, but Google and ComedyCentral embeds work just fine. Also, the hover text for the embed says "about:blank" when it doesn't work.

WTF is up with http://blog.videosift.com/ ? It just leads to the front page.

in night view, there's some colour conflicts.

for example, in the Top 15 all time listing, I can't read the black text of #2 (DFT's) name.

>> ^fford:
Videos on post pages do not appear if Flashblock is on. I know this was mentioned earlier, but I don't know if this is being worked on, and I wanted to give an update. It's only with videos from some hosts that this happens. I haven't checked all of the allowed hosts yet, but so far YouTube, CollegeHumor, MySpace, Hulu, TheOnion, and Vimeo don't work, but Google and ComedyCentral embeds work just fine. Also, the hover text for the embed says "about:blank" when it doesn't work.


I've tried recreating this issue and it would only happen with an old version of FlashBlock. Tried it using the newest version (1.5.11.2) and embeds show up fine after clicking the FlashBlock icon.

What broser(version) and version of FlashBlock are you using?

@overcast/Ornthoron: The blog has been fixed. There was a small hiccup.

@blankfist: It's working fine for me. When you hover on "New User" a drop-down appears with 3 options. Was this the first time you tried it? Try again, maybe that hiccup caused it to break momentarily.

@fford: The problem seems to be in Flashblock, so there's nothing we can do to fix it. I don't know why it's happening, but it's like when you go to the doctor and say, "Every time I do this it hurts," with him replying, "Then don't do that." If things break when you use Flashblock, don't use Flashblock. Sorry, but I'm not sure there's any way to make things work.

[edit]
Just saw CDM's post. So maybe simply upgrading Flashblock is the answer?

@SlipperyPete: That's not a bug. Charter members can choose any color they want for their username. Sometimes they even intentionally choose colors that make their name invisible.

@overcast: I forgot to mention, I don't see any Comic Sans on arvana's profile. Are you still seeing it?

I was being a smart-ass anyway, but your comment made me curious. I dug up his stylesheet and see he's specified {Edwardian Script ITC, Vivaldi, Colonna MT, cursive} for his first letter in titles. I don't have any of those fonts and it seems Comic Sans is the first choice for the cursive family.

Maybe I should tell him this is happening. He's probably unaware he's part of the problem.

^ Wow, that is really scary — I'll definitely have to add a much longer font list before it defaults to the lowest common denominator.  Thanks for saving me from ultimate embarrassment. 

Thanks for the info campioni. Unfortunately, my browser integrates Flashblock (currently verions 1.5.8), so it's not something I can update. I'll just have to wait until they release the next version of the browser.

>> ^campionidelmondo:
>> ^fford:
Videos on post pages do not appear if Flashblock is on. I know this was mentioned earlier, but I don't know if this is being worked on, and I wanted to give an update. It's only with videos from some hosts that this happens. I haven't checked all of the allowed hosts yet, but so far YouTube, CollegeHumor, MySpace, Hulu, TheOnion, and Vimeo don't work, but Google and ComedyCentral embeds work just fine. Also, the hover text for the embed says "about:blank" when it doesn't work.

I've tried recreating this issue and it would only happen with an old version of FlashBlock. Tried it using the newest version (1.5.11.2) and embeds show up fine after clicking the FlashBlock icon.
What broser(version) and version of FlashBlock are you using?


>> ^fford:
Thanks for the info campioni. Unfortunately, my browser integrates Flashblock (currently verions 1.5.8), so it's not something I can update. I'll just have to wait until they release the next version of the browser.



Same here for FlashBlock extension version for SeaMonkey v1.1.17. v2 beta 1 and the newer FlashBlock version had no problems though, but I refuse to use prereleases.

When I upvote a video or comment the whole page reloads... so if I vote while watching a video I have to reload the video and find my place again. That never used to happen, is it working as intended?

Also, all of the video pages load with a tiny video embed and I have to reload the page to get a watchable video.

>> ^Stingray:
>> ^Arsenault185:
Whats up with not being to see comments on videos with opening them in their own separate page?

Click on the little comment balloon under the video. It will AJAXify up some comments for you without loading the individual page.


^Ahhhhhh ok thank you. Either I'm stupid, or the new interface isn't that intuitive. (Though its probably the former.) Thanks.

Ok, I tried to upvote a video but instead got this. I tried to upvote again and it worked. Just wanted to let you know.

I use Firefox, and I'm having trouble playing Comedy Central videos. They never seem to get past 'initializing'. I'm not sure what the problem is, or whether it started before the upgrade or not.

>> ^lucky760:
@overcast/Ornthoron: The blog has been fixed. There was a small hiccup.

Please double check...

When I click on the Blog link at the top of the page, it just redirects me to the main VideoSift page. I think VS sees it as a channel or something (keeps calling things "blogs latest videos").

Also when I directly click on someone's new blog entry (on the rotating panel), I just get a 404 not found.

Aw, crap. Sorry folks. Voting should be working again.

Also blogs are working. Try doing a hard reload (hold ctrl+shift while reloading). Could be a caching issue.

First: I went to blog.videosift.com and when I clicked to go to the second page, I got a gallery of videos. I changed it to "list" and I got a list of videos.
Edit: I managed to duplicate this one. I did a search (for "stop motion pig" if you're wondering) and then clicked "Blogs". This time, the FIRST page was sifted videos.

Second: I'm using the "light" scheme and when I mouseover links the page content gets shifted slightly as the linked text turns bold and white.
On second glance, this isn't happening on this page. I'll have to go track down where that was happening, or if it was a transient event.

Doggone it- the problem was only one on of our servers which is why it sometimes was working and sometimes wasn't. The blog is really fixed now.

Another problem with bookmarks that I noticed -

when I open a page for a video that I bookmarked before the update, the bookmark link text under the video says "Bookmark" - even though it's already bookmarked. I click on it once and it updates - to the same "Bookmark" (because now it's not bm'ed) and then again, so that it's bookmarked for reals.

And I can't believe this hasn't been brought up before or that I'm the only one with this problem, but what in the world is up with the Submit form??? Every embed code I submit at first gets verified in the drop-down menu, but when I open the full submission page, it's been cut to some 2 lines of code (and doesn't work). This happens even to YT videos.

Even though my queue is totally full it is still letting me submit the embed. Without kicking me to a page that says my queue is already full.

Lots of buffer space, and no sign of the * blocked notice on this comedy central vid

http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r181/slipperypete_02/vs_issue2.jpg

Fixed the "unbookmark" problem.

EDD, can you provide some embed code that's faulty? Everything should be working fine with video submission. Also try doing a hard reload before trying it again. Perhaps your browser's scripts are old, cached ones.

Farhad, you mean you click on the "submit now" link and it takes you to the full vid post form? That shouldn't be happening. If you can, please PM me the URL of the full video post page you're getting when you should be getting the "full queue" page.

SlipperyPete: Are you sure that video was blocked at the time?

Formatting is completely screwed using Firefox 3.5.

Formatting is completely screwed using Firefox 3.5.

Got an error message trying to submit above comment- posted twice (obviously).

Can you provide a screenshot of how it's completed screwed? I'm using FF3.5 and everything looks like sunshine and rainbows to me. And commenting works.

You should probably try doing a hard reload as maybe your browser is using old javascript and css files, which could explain the two things you reported.

I can no longer hover my mouse cursor over my "ant" name to submit videos. Mozilla's SeaMonkey v1.1.17's console showed:

Error: $("#gallery_popup").mouseleave is not a function

Source File: http://static1.videosift.com/js/script.js
Line: 168


Someone broke it!

Ditto for Ant's problem above... and no amount of shift refresh or forcing reloading is fixing it.

This is in firefox 3.5.1

It also affects all the menu items along the top, nothing triggers on mouseover

>> ^spoco2:
It also affects all the menu items along the top, nothing triggers on mouseover


Wow. VS seriously need a test server to ensure things work before deploying to production.

Mouseover not working for me either. FF 3.0.12 and Safari 4.0.2.

^ What they all said.

^ What they all said

Ok... I can submit now, and mouseover is working... BUT You can't actually select anything from within the mouseover submenu because as soon as you mouseout of the main heading item it goes back to the last selected tab, does not stay on the tab you just moused over.

ie. I am now on the 'Sift Talk' tab. I can mouse over all the other tabs and their sub menus replace the talk one, but if I mouse off the tab to select one of them the sub menu reverts immediately back to the Sift Talk tab.

Which makes it pretty unusable.

having the mousover problem too (3.012 firfox, vista), not before today or yesterday i think

also, when i view vids the second line now says "posted by thegrimsleeper 9 hours 41 minutes 34 seconds ago • 285 views • invo icon Use Invocation"

i don't think the text 'invo icon Use Invocation' belongs there and i don't think it was on the site before today? (on http://www.videosift.com/video/How-to-mount-a-penny-farthing-old-bike, on other vids too)

edit: 49 minutes later. mouseover seems to be working again.
edit: 51 later. and the invo invocation text has dissapeared! hooray for the wonderful webmasters

Ditto the mouseover problem. Today is the first time I've experienced that.

All those problems should be fixed now. Please do a hard reload (ctrl+shift+R).

Sorry for the temporary inconvenience. Damned gremlins got fed after midnight!

All seems to work for me Mr Lucky.

I'll go round the perimeter with chemicals... should keep those gremlins out for a good six months or so. Make sure you get me back before then to redose the area though, don't want them getting back in when the residual poison gets too weak.

Little bugger get in any opportunity they can.

>> ^spoco2:
All seems to work for me Mr Lucky.
I'll go round the perimeter with chemicals... should keep those gremlins out for a good six months or so. Make sure you get me back before then to redose the area though, don't want them getting back in when the residual poison gets too weak.
Little bugger get in any opportunity they can.
Don't spray on me though!!

I acquired my 25th star point last night. The notification that I received seems like its out-dated:

"Congratulations on reaching new heights on VideoSift. You have earned yourself 25 stars, earning you status of Silver Star member. You have been awarded 1 Power Point for achieving this level. Thanks for all your contributions."

Oops!
All fixed.

someone's probably mentioned it already, but I'm not looking to read through 127 comments. besides, the issue I'm addressing would probably occur during the reading and only further agitate me.

there's nothing like watching a 10+ minute video and having the page refresh on you. and of course by then the video has moved somewhere else on the page...

this was an issue before when reading comments, but you could 'hold' a video open to avoid it until you were done reading. not anymore.

It must have just been a fluke thing. Before and since the upgrade I routinely keep videos expanded on the front page for sometimes hours without a reload. Has it happened repeatedly for you or just the once?
Anyone else experience pho3n1x's problem?

[edit]
It seems it was a bug that only existed in gallery mode. It's fixed now. Sorry for the annoyance.

Is one of you using gallery view (pho3n1x) and the other listing view (lucky)?

ahh word. damn you work quick.

fine job sir, i don't envy you.

Some small issues:
-make channel order alphabetical, per letter, from left to right.
-the small inverted v that is used to indicate that "recently posted" is selected when selecting sift talk in the menu is rather small..
-URLs with _ and other special characters (often the case with wikipedia links) are not properly displayed in comments/video descriptions.

Would make videosift grAter 4sho!:)

I did a hard reload, and I'm still getting "invo icon Use Invocation" beside "views".

Thanks for reporting, reverend. Momentary burp. All fixed.

When I stylise my profile it won't save, even when I press save and it says it has

<edit> scrap that, it's fine

Thanks for reporting, AC. All fixed, and boy your profile is blue!

Also, one small thing to keep in mind about profile styling is that after you've saved it, it will take about 1-2 minutes before it's updated on "our server." Once our server has been updated with your newly saved styles, you may have to do a hard reload (ctrl+shift+R) to make your browser refresh it and use it immediately. (Without doing a hard reload, your browser will use its old, cached one until enough time has passed that it decides on its own to try to refresh it with a newer version.)