IF I interpret your experience with the PPG correctly, I feel it's safe to say that I don't have the same experience. From the time I click on PPG, select an "artist" (myself..of course), choose a photo and have it come up is something like 4-6 secs. Comcast cable connection.
Jack --- On Mon, 8/31/09, Bob Sullivan <rf.sulli...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: Bob Sullivan <rf.sulli...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: PPG quota > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> > Date: Monday, August 31, 2009, 6:37 AM > Jostein, > On occasion, somebody here will link to the gallery for a > photo. > I watch it post a gallery header page then spin up more > internally. > Finally, it will look like it is going to open something, > but no, > wait, just kidding, not yet! > When a picture opens it is nice. > I went thru all 100 of yours and they are beautiful (and a > major > accomplishment). > But I'm on a high speed line in the USA suburbs and the > gallery is too slow. > It's in the design on the Pentax side, not in the internet > distribution side. > Regards, Bob S. > > On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 1:25 AM, AlunFoto<alunf...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Rick, > > > > You're not connecting via dialup or mobile 3G by any > chance? I really > > don't recognise your description... > > > > I didn't join the foray until half a year after the > first invitations > > went out. I had read a lot of bitching from many on > this list over the > > interface, and was very skeptical to begin with. In > fact, I wrote to > > Pentax and suggested some improvements, both on the > gallery display > > and the voting page. A few were incorporated too, > along with other > > changes to improve the interface speed over time. I > joined in June, > > btw, and the beta stage ended in September 2007. > Further improvements > > were made later that autumn, and I don't think it's > that bad anymore. > > I may have grown used to it too, of course. > > > > Last Thursday, btw, a colleague at work praised the > site's convenient > > interface for browsing images. Without any > encouragement from me > > except providing the link. > > > > Jostein > > > > 2009/8/30 Rick Womer <rwomer1...@yahoo.com>: > >> <rant on> > >> > >> I filled in the data form for a PPG account > shortly after it opened a few years ago. > >> > >> Then, I read here and elsewhere about the > ridiculous review system, which has only gotten more > ridiculous. > >> > >> I tried to look at people's photos, and found the > interface to be slower than an Apple II in Job's garage. > >> > >> "Screw this", I said, and have never uploaded > anything. When the very few PDMLers who post things to the > PPG post PESOs there, I usually run out of patience wth the > incredibly slow interface long before I've seen the photos. > >> > >> <rant off> > >> > >> Rick > >> > >> http://photo.net/photos/RickW > >> > >> > >> --- On Wed, 8/26/09, Bong Manayon <bongmana...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >>> From: Bong Manayon <bongmana...@gmail.com> > >>> Subject: PPG quota > >>> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> > >>> Date: Wednesday, August 26, 2009, 7:44 PM > >>> After a long spell, I uploaded > >>> something in PPG and discovered that we > >>> now have a quota of 1 upload a week. Should > make > >>> voting easier... > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Bong Manayon > >>> http://www.bong.uni.cc > >>> > >>> -- > >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > >>> PDML@pdml.net > >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the > link > >>> directly above and follow the directions. > >>> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > >> PDML@pdml.net > >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the > link directly above and follow the directions. > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ > > http://alunfoto.blogspot.com > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > PDML@pdml.net > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
