Paintings at head of forum main page.

tassieguy

Is it just my computer or does anyone else notice that those great paintings by members are no longer at the head of the main forum page? Should we mention this to someone? Does it matter? I guess I just got used to seeing them there. And they looked great. 

Maybe someone's in the process of putting newer ones up. 

KingstonFineArt

Huh? Do my eyes deceive me?

tassieguy

So, you're still seeing the paintings, @KingstonFineArt? 

tassieguy

Must be my computer because I checked my tablet and phone and I'm still seeing the pictures there. Don't know how to fix this. Doesn't really matter. 

Dustin_Cropsboy

They don't appear on my phone.  I guess certain browsers have trouble with them?

Julianna

I'm on a laptop and don't see them either.  Just square boxes where they used to be.  Maybe this means they are finally changing things around?  SO many artists here have been doing magnificent work, it would be nice to see some active members of this forum featured for once.  (and you, Mr. Tassieguy are one of the ones at the top of my list :-) )

tassieguy

Yes, that's what I see, @Julianna, just square boxes where they used to be. Not sure what's going. 

dencal

Folks

Showing ok on iPad equipment. Check date.

tassieguy

Well, it's a mystery.  Some see them, some don't. Maybe some IT types here can help us figure it out. 

Forgiveness

I don't see those paintings on the banner at the top, both on my phone and on my pc, and it has been some time now for me. Not only that but, when I come here via my phone, my keyboard doesn't show up for me to type a message, although I can use the emoji anytime, and I can post my photos of paintings from my phone but can't type anything related to it.
 No problems in this area on my pc. I don't see a fix for this, except to continue with my pc.

tassieguy

Does the site need some maintenance? Things can get clunky over time. 

Forgiveness

I don't know much about these things, however I do wonder if it maybe because of system overload, given the life situation that we are in everywhere. Just a guess.

tassieguy

This is how it looks for me on my PC.

tassieguy

I've gone into  'settings' to see if there is anything I need to adjust but can't find anything wrong there. 

KingstonFineArt

This looks like a caching issue on your equipment. Maybe something to do with where you are in the world. 
Vanilla Software may be to blame. They are in France and may be having issues. I would imagine only the sysop can track it down.

tassieguy

That may be so, @KingstonFineArt, but it's odd that many of us are noticing this same problem at the same time. How likely is it that we could all have a caching issue on our equipment at the same time in various parts of the world? Very strange. 

Let's hope there's a sysop on board.  

KingstonFineArt

@tassieguy
It could be a maintenance issue on the DMP side of things. I'm a little familiar with Vanilla. I don't know if this is running on the commercial software or the 'community' software. I do know either require maintenance, have limits and is ever evolving.

In the past year the cost of forum software has exploded. My forum was costing $19 a month for the. foundation product with add ons more than $50 a month. It is now $79 for base and $170 a month for the package I had.

Insane.

tassieguy

Yeah, I suspect it's a maintenance issue. Hope the whole site doesn't crash. 

KingstonFineArt

I clicked on one of the pictures to have a look. Half of the images weren't showing. But you can still get to the image by clicking on the blank box. Very sticky.

Dustin_Cropsboy

When I click on any empty box, it takes me to the http://www.drawmixpaint.com/gallery/ page.  Almost like the coding is parsed correctly by some browsers while others are unable to find and display the exact image specified in the code.  

I am in the United States of America, and when using the Chrome browser of a Verizon Samsung Galaxy phone, and I get empty boxes.

I also get the empty boxes using 64bit Chrome 87.0.4280.141 on my windows PC laptop.

I also get empty boxes on the same laptop when viewing the forum via the MS Edge browser 88.705.56 (which, I think, is built on the open source Chromium, right?).

I am able to see the appropriate square thumbnails of the paintings PERFECTLY when I switch to DuckDuckGo as a browser on the exact same windows PC laptop.

I am ALSO able to see the appropriate square thumbnails of the paintings PERFECTLY when I switch to FireFox as a browser.

(I haven't seen any images at the top of the forum using a Chrome browser since I have been visiting the forum.)

KingstonFineArt

Seems like Vanilla has messed with something. Browser specific things like this are very odd.

I just tried Chrome and same thing. I use Safari on a Mac.