Hello!
The interface of Montage has changed this year, and many of these
changes are mediocre, as our jurors report:
1. 'Skip' button does not put the photo in the end of the line. Instead,
the same photo is displayed again after 2-3 other photos. Effectively,
there is no way to leave a photo for later consideration, so the 'Skip'
button is not useful any more.
2. 'Edit previous photos' can not be opened in a separate tab in the
browser. One has to open it in the same tab, then return to the voting,
and wait until it loads. That's very annoying. Moreover, a misleading
message 'All done! You voted on all photos...' appears during the loading.
3. The 'Edit votes' window no longer contains links to the images. Once
you vote on an image, you can't open it in full size any more.
4. 'Edit previous photos' window loads very slowly, sometimes it loads
the last 15 photos only. That was not the case in the past.
5. The threshold value for the image resolution can not be set during
the import. The default value of 2 MP is used implicitly.
6. Importing images produces an optimistic message 'Round successfully
created', along with an empty round that returns an error upon pressing
the 'Activate' button. Only after a delay of 2-3 min do the photos
appear, but during this period it's impossible to see if they are being
imported, or an error occurred during the import.
What is the best way to reach the current developer of Montage and get
these things fixed on a short notice? Ideally, I would ask to bring back
the old interface, because it worked much better than the current one.
In fact, I did not notice any improvements in the new interface. All the
old bugs (incomprehensible errors during import, error messages on
deleting the round, etc.) are still there, so the benefits of the new
interface are not entirely clear to me at this point.
Thank you in advance!
best,
Alexander
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