Welcome Michelle. It works from all the usual Browsers, Nice photo. Are you going to make an Observation?
Best done here https://www.ispotnature.org/add/observation
I am one of the iSpot developers - just testing a report that you could not upload images on the iSpot forum. I could not upload from Firefox - but Chrome/Edge are fine I think.
So Firefox currently throws a Security Error. But Chrome, Edge and Opera work fine.
Firefox works on the main site. THIS is the Site Forum
Everything is running slow at the moment, there is extensive testing going on.
PLEASE don’t be put off by anything
Yes - it is the Site Forum I am testing the upload on. Mike reported that someone had an issue here uploading an image. Firefox currently seems to be the browser that is not uploading images to this forum, but Crhome/Edge and Opera are fine. I will work on this issue further tomorrow.
Nethus - (Ken,) nice. It says so on the tin.
True though, Firefox worked for me a while ago and still does on my Tab. I’m with Chrome, for me, it’s the best.
To be honest (Michelle) I don’t think iSpot Admin should make provision (if it’s difficult) for every browser type. There will a new version of the old versions enough to cause you difficulties.
I see some serious difficulties to come with mapping and possible over-reliance on Google - which browser will handle those best?
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(I think) we really want site-developers fixing the issues that we face daily; not just the Dictionary and Browser (which are failing) but smooth running, response times to filtering and research, better layouts, internal hyper-linking, flexibility with illustrations (MUCH better display facilities) and possibly a new structure or two, say allowing users to cross-refer ‘privately’ or to have private space for our own associated internal research and development. I miss true privacy in iSpot.
Some aspects, such as the award of the Likely Banner, the speed, or ease, at which we gain reputations, need an overhaul. Ha! just me thinking LOUDLY and (I suspect) probably not speaking for many! Mike will put you right!
Just to say that I appreciate all your efforts, Michelle.
I realize the main website has a lot of major issues. Speed being the worst one. The code is old and the database is big and heavy and not being used efficiently. The speed of the site at the moment is directly related to the number of users on it at any given moment. We are investigating which changes might make the biggest improvements, but in reality, it needs a bunch of time and money throwing at it.
When Chris retired, iSpot came to my team. Samantha and I have been tasked with just keeping iSpot running and the underlying servers up to date. We were also paid to develop a new little feature, which is being tested at the moment on our staging site. The researchers are trying to find funding to do a larger overhaul of the system, but it is not easy at the moment. Samantha and I look after, and work on, many other systems at the OU, not just iSpot. So, we are not a dedicated iSpot resource. But we will do our best to make sure it doesn’t die, while funding is found to do some more major changes. If we can see any quick wins to improve things we will sneak them in if we can. But at the moment, we are more likely to make things worse, than better, because the code is old and convoluted and we are still getting to grips with it’s many layers. So bear with us.
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Thanks :-), nice to hear.
Oh yes, I REALLY understand. Thanks for everything you (two) do to keep us online!
I demand quite a lot each day and it never fails me - honest. I will always ask for improvements, it’s in m’ nature.
Have a flower 
Thanks for the flower :-).
Note: if anyone is having issues uploading from Firefox, you need to hard refresh your browser, so it picks up the code changes, then it should work fine.
Windows/Linux:
- Hold down Ctrl and click the Reload button.
- Or, Hold down Ctrl and press F5.
Mac OS:
- Hold down ⌘ Cmd and ⇧ Shift key and then press R.
- Or, hold ⇧ Shift and click the Reload button.
This should force your browser to pickup the new code and replace what it has cached locally.
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Thanks. Useful.
Chrome clears Browsing similarly with F5
Is there are simple (similar) way on a Windows PC to clear RAM. I often grind to a halt opening photo after photo. I suspect my Display Ram fills up.
derek
I thought that switching the machine off would clear RAM?
I am not sure about clearing the RAM of your actual laptop or pc.
Those instructions were just for doing a hard refresh of the browser, which should cause it to reload any code or style files etc.
If you want to clear the whole cache for your browser, that is different again. Each browser has options for that somewhere in the settings. But that often clears cookies as well. Each browser may have options to just clear certain parts of the cache. A quick google for your browser would tell you where to go and what options there are.