Hello one and all. Firefly here, I used to (still do?) run the Sci-Fi channel when I was a regular, Just want to pop in and say hi....man it's been a while. I see dag and lucky still have things running smoothly. Site's really looking spiffy! I see ant still posting like crazy, Any other regulars still around? eric, eklek, kronos, zifnab, arvana, dotdude...those are the few I remember off the top of my head, and I see some new faces as well.

Gonna look around a bit, see if I still remember how to post.

Lately, when I click on my link to Videosift, it comes up to a weird page. Everything is in a line from top to bottom and no color really. It stays that way unless I log in and refresh. Running win7 64bit and I use Chrome.

https://imgur.com/a/tyNEC is a screenshot.

I just noticed "[1/2] *Promoted by ...
next promoted video →" on VS' home page right now. Was this just added? It's nice.

Thank you in advance.

I can't see the channel descriptions a video is part of in the regular video listings anymore. I remember them being to the left of the video under the vote counter. Not sure if I'm the only one. Not a big deal or anything just was kind of handy.

Found some iframe and such to replace a person's dead vids. Couldn't get VS to accept them.

I'm getting a bug where the promoted video title/description don't match the video. Often it's still the last promoted video I watched, but with a newer promoted video's title and description. Am I the only one? I started noticing it a week or two ago. Refresh always fixes it.

Happy Holidays/Merry Christmas/Season's Greetings, everyone!

Oh and happy new year. See ya around in 2018!

Just wondering, @dag and @lucky760.

Thank you in advance.

Example: https://www.instagram.com/p/BXjzzNDAv49/

VS didn't like its embed code.

Thank you in advance.

Is it me or did the font and/or sizes changed today? Everything seems bigger and different?

Thank you in advance.

Is anyone else getting "Call to a member function query() on null" error on VS today? It happened twice when I was trying to view a couple of VS' web pages within the last five minutes. @dag & @lucky760, you might want to look at this issue.

Thank you in advance.

getting flagged as not safe now because it says HTTPS cert expired yesterday.

http://videosift.com/video/The-Orvilles-Intro-duction-After-Its-Pilot-Episode has:

<iframe src="https://streamable.com/s/8iun2/fgjgxx" frameborder="0" width="485%" height="485%" allowfullscreen="true" style="width: 485%; height: 485%; position: absolute;"></iframe>

485% for the video's height and width that are too big. When I change ther numbers, they keep going back to 485. VS is annoying. How can I have it not change my values?


Thank you in advance.

For an example, http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLG8pAgVTAROL4o7MScUpF_2BL7JWkMti_ ...

I had to get its embed code manually.

Thank you in advance.

Since a lot of people watch videos on their mobile via social media networks they see them without sound. So they started making "videos with big texts/captions/subtitles on the screen" (e.g. Tech Insider). How to call them: "Mobile videos"? "Social videos"? "Social media videos"? "Text videos"? Is there an agreed upon term?

Does anyone know since when exactly this trend started and which big media producers were early adopters?

There are basic rules to get the most optimal results.
But I often still find these texts blocking the visual experience, resulting in an inferior video, wishing the texts were just annotations you can remove.
What do you think?

https://videosift.com/video/Cyclist-Enacts-Swift-Justice-On-Would-Be-Bike-Thief ... http://content.jwplatform.com/players/84e5PXkR-GZZAtvYh.html doesn't show up correctly. What's up?

Thank you in advance.

Finally, a new version for VS! So, what are new and fixed in this? The only change I noticed is resizing my wider SeaMonkey v2.48's web browser window narrower messes up with video screen getting covered up by the right side.

Thank you in advance.

Obviously I have been absent long enough again that Siftbot sends me an email, saying VS misses me. Most people here don't even know who I am, but old-timers do.. I was being a pain in the butt, sorry. I get upset way too easily..

Part of me misses VS too. Sifting was fun, but turned into work.. I don't think I am gonna come back any time soon. I will, however, come and fix deaded videos of mine if I can.. Yes, obsessed still..

I lost both of my older dogs, just 3 monts apart in 2016. I don't think I have recovered from that yet... Thank goodness for my DH NetRunner. He's my rock, still sticking with me, even when I am being a basket case and then some..

We have two dogs now, again. We got one as a puppy, and the other one just fell into our laps, needing to be adopted. Both are just so precious. Yes, still German Shepherds

Link? Not sure if this will work. Nico and Tiny this spring.

http://imgur.com/a/LDMDa


Everybody who knew me, please take care. And the rest of you too

It seems fewer sifters are voting on videos these days, and it's becoming increasingly more difficult to get videos sifted for those who post them. I'm sure it's obvious to everyone that traffic is just a fraction of what it once was, but it seems to me the ratio of sifters viewing videos to voting for them has gone down quite a bit. Not sure why that might be. I was wondering if it may be that more people are on mobile devices, and that makes it more difficult to cast votes (i've never owned a smartphone so don't know if it's more difficult) or just not as inclined to vote when mobile. Anyway if you happen to have cut back on voting do tell if it's for any particular reason.

https://youtu.be/iUKi-Bn6jfE

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