On 6/28/07, Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher(a)gmail.com> wrote:
My comment on this change is unless it was introduced
for a reason,
please change it back. Why mess with the UI unless it's an
improvement? The old behaviour was faster for uploaders and ensured
A lot about the image upload process could be improved. There's still
no warning/suggestion, even when using the wizard, to add categories
to your uploaded image. And there is still that lame warning (last I
checked) about converting spaces into underscores, with an even lamer
and misleading warning about not overwriting other people's images.
Ideally, I think the process would go something like this:
1. Specify a source file name and destination file name
2. Start uploading
3. Be taken to an intermediate screen which asks for licence,
description, author, categories etc, all as individual fields.
4. Save changes, wait for the upload.
5. When the upload finishes, be taken to its normal page, showing the
image and all the fields you filled in, for doublechecking.
Being able to edit these fields during the upload would be much more
conducive to good field descriptions (you're less impatient, because
the upload is already going), and uploading bigger files (because you
have less dead time). I have a pretty crappy upstream connection
(10kbps), and I find the whole upload process incredibly tedious. The
inability to readily delete or rename files is also, in a word, shit.
And I know that the bug report has been around a long time, and
annoying users like me complaining about its non implementation
doesn't help. Sorry.
Steve