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Happy Labor Day to our American friends. In my youth, this marked the end of Summer, but the kids in my neighborhood started school two weeks ago. (Saw lots of adorable "first day" photos being take...

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For the last month, some OlderGay.Men members have had trouble deleting their pictures and accounts. It started when I found a problem with how we linked photos to the people in them. While fixing that was an unqualified good, it exposed problems that needed much more digging, and which inconvenienced guys trying to "just delete the damned thing". If you're having trouble sleeping, the tedious details are here:

https://talk.oldergay.men/t/deletion-problems/275944

(If you haven't seen it, I've been cataloging my work on the site at https://talk.oldergay.men/c/site-updates/.)

I've kept at the problem while manually intervening for guys who reached out for help (including the one who found someone here (🥳) and wanted off the market). I think I've now restored everyone's autonomy to delete his own stuff, but, as ever, let us know if you run into any trouble.

Jeff

You with your face in an itty-bitty circle…If you've followed along, you saw that June saw a lot of bug fixing and optimization. There's still much to do, but what we're doing already is faster and ...

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I always plan to update all of you once a week, but then weeks and weeks go by when I don't think there's anything exciting enough to share.If you haven't dipped in, I've been chronicling the quotid...

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The number of members sharing photos of themselves outpaced our ability to keep up with it, and https://oldergay.men/images/members was timing out. I rewrote the code for it to be more efficient, and it should be working well again. Sorry for the inconvenience, hope you find someone mutually appealing there. ☺️

Jeff

One of our intermediate services became too robust with their “Are you human?” checks, and uploading images was broken. It should be fixed now. We’re sorry for the inconvenience.

I'm settled in Berlin on my first trip of the year and my first time in Germany. OlderGay-wise, I spent the first evening at Der Neue Oldtimer. It's very friendly, almost all older men, though almos...

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Short version: We're supporting an image file format we didn't support before. We have some photos people uploaded in that format. They're available to view now, but we no longer know who uploaded them.

I've put them all here:

https://oldergay.men/images/collections/orphans

Please take a look. If you see one that's yours, there are instructions there for claiming it.

Tedious details:

I got around to investigating the HEIC files members have uploaded and which have caused so many problems, including the briefly-broken galleries a week or two ago. I just added code to ignore them then, but I looked closer this weekend. HEIC/HEIF has many advantages but slow adoption. It's been the default format for images on the iPhone for seven years, but is only supported by one web browser. When members uploaded files like these (probably from their phones), they were accepted as images (since they are), but the software we...

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I was going to post another update here, but I decided to add a section to our discussion boards where I can post quick updates on what I'm doing:https://talk.oldergay.men/c/site-updates/As I say th...

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You can now upload videos to OlderGay.Men. Videos you upload will be linked from your profile page for anyone coming to visit you. They can also be private, just like photos, so you can share them with specific members when you visit their pages. We hope you'll enjoy this and add a bit more life to the OlderGay.Men community!

https://oldergay.men/videos/