Wednesday, October 10, 2012

New Interface Disaster Update #2

Jesus Christ what GARBAGE this new Blogger interface is! I've just spent 15 minutes trying to OPEN A WINDOW to write a post!

Anyway, Here's a new update: I have made my first tentative steps into the 21st century-- I got the house wired for cable/wi-fi Internet last weekend. Now I've got Internet on the TV-- and I am starting to see what I've been missing-- been watching all kinds of stuff on Youtube and other sites, including Pink-related things like Koji Wakamatsu clips, the JAMS streaming video samples, etc. On the other hand, I now have absolutely no Internet connection on the old computer.

For now, I have been doing a lot of offline work: Cleaning old Pink film poster images I've had for years but haven't got around to fixing up and posting, scanning some Pink film poster images from books and magazines in my collection, doing work on the Pink film studio filmographies, etc.

Once I get a new computer system, and get all my research transfered over, I'll be able to get back into the swing of things, posting here and submitting to IMDb. Of course, if this Blogger interface works as badly on the new system as it does on this computer, I am still going to move sites. Because of the difficulty in getting window to open, and in typing in it, it has now taken me 25 minutes to type a simple text post. GARBAGE!

Monday, October 1, 2012

New Interface Disaster Update

I've been keeping this blog up-to-date offline, and continuing my Pink Film Archive work on the other two blogs. Using the new interface just on these two image-archive blogs to copy information and identify images has convinced me though: The new Interface is an utter, unmitigated disaster, and I don't want to use it if/when I am able to at home. It is slow and clumsy, and not just because I am unfamiliar with it. With the old interface, I could identify and label 30-40 poster images in half an hour. After familiarizing myself with it, using it for a week, I am able to go through about 5 images in a half hour. Most of that time is spent waiting for pages to load. Typing or clicking anything is SLOOOWWW. The "Preview" feature now, completely unnecessarily, opens in a new page, which takes about a quarter minute to load on a new, state-of-the-art computer. (In the old interface I could see a preview instantaneously even on my 15-year-old clunker at home.) Also, unbelievably, the interface is not even ready for public presentation. I see obvious bugs which are worked out a few days later, presumably after enough of us guinea pigs squawk. The incompetents who foisted this on the public did not do even basic testing first... It is absolutely reprehensible that this garbage should be forced on us when a workable-- if clunky-- interface was already in place, and is still perfectly usable, but is refused as an option. The blog still LOOKS the same, so there was absolutely no reason not to allow use of the old interface. Anyway, I am looking for a new Blog host site.

Per Boobpedian Honorable's suggestion, I am looking into Tumbler at the moment. If anyone else has any recommendations-- a free blog host with minimal java/razzle-dazzle garbage, and which allows adult content-- I will appreciate a recommendation. For now, expect to see this blog continued elsewhere eventually. I'll be sure to drop a note here, of course...