Easter Eggs...

[waloszek]

Hi all,

This is my second post because this xyxyxyxy software discarded my first try...

Today, I found small mushrooms in my garden, which look like small Easter egg nests. Will they grow until they will have to correct size next year at Easter? More probably, they are samples of Cyathis striatus (Striegeliger Teuerling in German), which is more abundant as one might assume (it likes wood like the shreddered wood that we distributed all over our garden).

I used both the P10 and the A12 for the shots and write below the photos, which module I used. Without intent, some of those versions are very similar.

Best regards, Gerd

PS: This post might have posted in the "What is this?" category as well...


P10


P10


P10


P10


A12


A12


P10 (after some cleaning up)

 

[odklizec]

Interesting mushrooms Gerd! I believe I never saw them before. And as I see, they are inedible, which fact does not surprise me at all

BTW, I'm sorry to hear about your lost post! Do you remember the error message you got? Do you use Safari or Firefox or something else? I'm not sure about Safari, but in Firefox, if there happens something wrong during the posting phase, I can go back in the history and all post text is still there. So I can try to post it again or save it for later.

 

[waloszek]

Hi Pavel,

You would have to collect hundreds of those mushrooms for a meal if they were edible - they are just too small for being eaten.

With respect to the issue I had, it's a complex matter, or better, a mixture of user error and misleading user interface design -- as I would say as a usability engineer. Probably, I had written my post in the "Post a quick reply" box and was not logged on. Thus, when I pressed the "Submit" button, I was transferred to the log on screen. When I returned from it, my posting was gone, and I found an empty field without my posting.

Thus, my error was (as far as I remember) that I posted something in the "Quick reply" box without being logged on (I am not quite sure, whether I had been logged on, though...). But as a usability person, I would say, the UI design should prevent users from making errors or, at least, allow them to recover from them.

So, one critique that I have to state is that the POSTREPLY button always leads me to post in the "Quick replay" field -- it looks like a heading to the "quick reply" field -- even though I may not be logged on (it's an "affordance" as UI profs call it...). Thus, ideally the "quick reply" box should not be available if users are not logged on.

Moreover, a post should not get lost, when one has to log on before submitting the posting. But that is probably harder to implement... Maybe, there is some workaround now (or the text stored somewhere) -- but I did not find it.

There is also one more thing that I would like to mention. Usually, I remain in the "logged on" state when I leave the site so that I will be automatically logged on on my next visit. However, this state gets very often lost on my Mac/Safari. On my company Windows computer, it gets lost, too, but much less often. At dpreview, my log on state seems to get never lost -- so it's not so much my system, but the BB software in combination with my system...

This time, I will save everything in the clipboard before I submit my post!

Best regards, Gerd

 

[odklizec]

Hi Gerd,

I too noticed, that Safari often does not remember the logged on state of this forum! But I also noticed it's not just this forum but also some other forums I often visit. So I guess this must be something incorrect in Safari in respect of phpbb forum cache/cookies? I'm personally using Firefox, because I found it a little bit less memory hungry than Safari, which often eats hundreds of MB of memory, while FF keeps the memory usage at acceptable level. And I definitely don't experience the problems with login state with FF

As for the Quick Reply problem, I fully agree with you! Current "Quick Reply" is often misleading and can cause some problems. It's not a part of standard feature set! It's just a mod hardwired to the forum code. More recent versions of PHPBB forum already have Quick Reply in the standard feature set. But I did not find a time yet to update the forum with most recent version. The problem is, that this forum already uses many mods to make it better for users. But it also means nightmare when it comes to updates. It's the same reason, why there is still no the long time ago promised gallery mod, which will be probably the most extensive mod implemented in this forum. It's just too risky and too time consuming to implement and I don't want to make it without updating the board first. This is why it takes so long. I see my hope in this Christmas time

However, I think your problem with jump from the Quick Reply page to login page is caused by something in Safari rather than in Quick Reply alone. But I don't have any clue how to force Safari to stay logged in?

 

[waloszek]

I don't have any clue either -- the only thing that I observe is that I do not have the log on problem with dpreview. Of course, there is a different technology in the background...

 

[33dollars]

These a crazy mushies. I've never seen a mushroom in this shape before. I've heard that there are 40,000+ types of mushroom to be documented in Australia alone.

 

[waloszek]

@33dollars: I do not know how many mushroom types we have in central Europe, but probably a couple of Thousands as well... The interesting thing is that this mushroom is said to be fairly abundant -- but nobody knows it...

@pavel: It might also be a cookie issue. Just deleted all my cookies in Safari and logged on again to ricohforum -- which brought four new cookies. Then two dpreview cookies appeared, because I had still a tab with it open. And then, all of a sudden, all old cookies appeared as well, although I had commanded Safari to delete them. Strange, and not what I had expected...

Gerd

 

[Orol]

A sudden unwanted logout also is a problem when using Firefox. I experience it quite frequently. After a longer time period of inactivity in the browser (over an hour?) the login gets lost.

Peter

 

[waloszek]

Currently, I have no log out issues -- computers seem to have a soul (rubbish!)...
Gerd