Unfortunately Asia Observer has experienced periods of down-time during the last few days.

The site has been down approximately at the same time every day - in the morning in Europe, late afternoon in Asia and in the middle of the night in the USA.

We are working hard to find out what causes the site to be down. Hopefully we will have it all sorted out within a day or two.

My apologies for any inconvenience caused for our visitors.

John

Hi Linsi,

You should still be able to edit your own shared articles. But the form for doing so is all down the bottom of the page after you click the edit icon, so it is easy to miss.

Whether the video will work, I am not sure. You just have to try, I think.

I am not sure what you mean by the moderator's tool bar ... Can you explain?

John

Hi Linsi and John

Linsi, I checked after your message to John. For me, I can modify my shared article clicking on the pensil. You have to go down of the page and what you have written will be appear and can be modify

For you video on Tibet. No problem I saw it

Sandvand wrote:

QUOTE:
Hi Linsi,

You should still be able to edit your own shared articles. But the form for doing so is all down the bottom of the page after you click the edit icon, so it is easy to miss.

Whether the video will work, I am not sure. You just have to try, I think.

I am not sure what you mean by the moderator's tool bar ... Can you explain?

John

hi john
i tried editing my own shared artcle one time when it did not work
i stopped trying, maybe i have to try again-



every moderator has tool bars,ex/ the reply, edit etc...
but the nonsense room has two more bars lacking
pls check at the bottom- ok i'll
try to send you a personal message about that-

Jacques wrote:

QUOTE:
Hi Linsi and John

Linsi, I checked after your message to John. For me, I can modify my shared article clicking on the pensil. You have to go down of the page and what you have written will be appear and can be modify

For you video on Tibet. No problem I saw it

hi jacques,

its good to know that you saw the video clip,
that is my main concern- i thought the film
would play directly in the front page but
it was redirected through an mpg-
dates are shown on the upper part of the film
so that fresh videos can be seen. As i
earlier mentioned to john, i got it outside
the net-which is more difficult-

Around one month ago, almost all my the pictures and cartoons disappeared on A.O. In fact, the then webmaster had reduce the size of pictures, so mine became too large. He told me that we have to reduce the size of the A.O. website or to pay much more.

So, I suggest to suppress the videos on front page, which are very very much heavy than pictures, and that videos could be seen by a a link in the forums.

By the way, I remind the A.O. members to chose small size picture when using Flickr to insert pictures in shared articles

Jacques wrote:

QUOTE:
Around one month ago, almost all my the pictures and cartoons disappeared on A.O. In fact, the then webmaster had reduce the size of pictures, so mine became too large. He told me that we have to reduce the size of the A.O. website or to pay much more.

So, I suggest to suppress the videos on front page, which are very very much heavy than pictures, and that videos could be seen by a a link in the forums.

By the way, I remind the A.O. members to chose small size picture when using Flickr to insert pictures in shared articles

I don't think that the memory bytes of AO is affected

firstly- it is just a link which one domain gives it back
in the form of codes. If we make flickr as an example-
flickr gets the memory load because they make the codes
so the images are stored in flickr memory not AO-

when the images from flickr are posted to another domain like
AO- the codes generate the image which the mmemory bytes of flickr gives
not AO, AO, is only a recipient-

the same holds true with video clips
and slides- the same principles operate
when we make you tube as an example for video clips
you tube generates the code not AO-
we donot use up AO memory when posting such
we just give codes.



When the webmaster suggested small pictures are preferable
that only means, AO wanted to maximize the space for more
pictures.The smaller the photos the more it can accomodate
in the page- excluding the database-


There is no problem for videos or images-
one proof is when we try to post them
they appear in the front page-