suggestion re: posting in the future no longer works

[adam pw smith]

Perhaps if this problem* gets reported as a bug over and over again it should be considered a design flaw.

With all due respect, I don't think anyone could be accused of mental laziness for loading their home page and thinking it's the wrong picture when they see a future photo and the current date displayed in the calendar.

May I suggest that either you default to the current photo and offer those who are logged in the chance to click on future dates on the calendar, or show the date of the displayed photo correctly in the calendar.

I love my photoblog and I am extremely appreciative of the effort put into the project, but while this may be correct behaviour programmatically, it's obviously causes more than a few people to be confused.

adam

[* if you're logged and you load the home page using just the base URL you see the most recently dated photo, but the calendar shows today's date. To actually see today's photo you need to back up a day and then go forward so that the URL points explicitly to today's date.]

[se.nsuo.us]

IMO all this needs is a visual indication on the user side that you are logged in as an Admin.

I use the admin link addon and that tells me that I am logged in as an admin. may be a small red icon somewhere would be ok

[Joe[y]]

yeah i use the admin link addon too - so i tend to also forget why this could confuse people.

[GeoS]

Same here so just like all of you (Joe and se) I know when Im in "admin mode".

[derevaun]

I agree with adam--it can be confusing. I've occasionally helped people set up a PP blog because they wanted low maintenance operation on their own domain. PP's great for that. But this issue, while it's possibly useful for us savvy operators, could alienate a lot of those users. And to be frank, it's further alienating to see them blamed, repeatedly, for not understanding what is obviously not clear.

IMHO that functionality should be a deliberate choice--turn on the feature when you want it. Or maybe "preview next" and "preview previous" links when you're in admin mode?

[Joe[y]]

IMHO that functionality should be a deliberate choice--turn on the feature when you want it.

i agree - we'll work on giving this feature on/off ability.