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From: Jaime Vives Piqueres
Subject: Submission doubts
Date: 30 Aug 2009 16:54:15
Message: <4a9ae6f7$1@news.povray.org>
Hi:

   I've uploaded an image for the current round, but I don't know if it was
correctly accepted.

   The process went fine, I pushed the submit button and the image seemed to
be uploading. But when it finished, I was logged out automatically and sent
to the home page... Now, under "My account", I don't see it along my prior
submission, so I would think it didn't get accepted, but I didn't see any
error message...

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Jaime


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From: Warp
Subject: Re: Submission doubts
Date: 30 Aug 2009 17:12:48
Message: <4a9aeb50@news.povray.org>
Jaime Vives Piqueres <jai### [at] ignoranciaorg> wrote:
> Hi:

>    I've uploaded an image for the current round, but I don't know if it was
> correctly accepted.

>    The process went fine, I pushed the submit button and the image seemed to
> be uploading. But when it finished, I was logged out automatically and sent
> to the home page... Now, under "My account", I don't see it along my prior
> submission, so I would think it didn't get accepted, but I didn't see any
> error message...

  I got the same phenomenon. I assume that if you take too long to write
your submission data, the system times out and you are automatically logged
out, after which it just ignores your submission. Or that's the impression
I got. (It would still be a lot nicer if it *told* you that.)

  I resubmitted faster, after which my submission became visible.

  I strongly suggest two improvements to the website:

1) Make the timeout significantly longer. There's no possible harm in this.

2) If someone makes a submission after the timeout, give a clear error page
stating so, and telling him to log-in and resubmit.

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                                                          - Warp


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From: Jaime Vives Piqueres
Subject: Re: Submission doubts
Date: 30 Aug 2009 18:05:03
Message: <4a9af78f$1@news.povray.org>

> I got the same phenomenon. I assume that if you take too long to write 
> your submission data, the system times out and you are automatically
> logged out, after which it just ignores your submission. Or that's the
> impression I got. (It would still be a lot nicer if it *told* you that.)
> 
> I resubmitted faster, after which my submission became visible.

   Yes, that must be it: also my second faster attempt also got accepted.

   Indeed, to do so I omitted the fields "IMAGE DESCRIPTION" and "HOW THIS
IMAGE WAS MADE", and now it would be nice to be able to fill them...


> I strongly suggest two improvements to the website:
> 
> 1) Make the timeout significantly longer. There's no possible harm in
> this.

   Yes, it seems to be a bit short.

> 2) If someone makes a submission after the timeout, give a clear error
> page stating so, and telling him to log-in and resubmit.

   Of course...

   BTW, I noticed you can still see other submissions before the deadline,
using the next/previous links, and this way I found we have already two
non-rendered entries... :(

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Jaime


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From: David Buck
Subject: Re: Submission doubts
Date: 31 Aug 2009 07:23:53
Message: <4a9bb2c9$1@news.povray.org>
Jaime Vives Piqueres wrote:
> Hi:
> 
>   I've uploaded an image for the current round, but I don't know if it was
> correctly accepted.
> 
>   The process went fine, I pushed the submit button and the image seemed to
> be uploading. But when it finished, I was logged out automatically and sent
> to the home page... Now, under "My account", I don't see it along my prior
> submission, so I would think it didn't get accepted, but I didn't see any
> error message...
> 
> -- 
> Jaime

Your image was submitted correctly

David Buck


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