jfriend
May-05-2009, 08:23 AM
When in read-only mode (which has happened several times lately), the failure mode for uploaders is nto very user friendly. It appears to let you completely upload the image, then return an error at the very end of the upload. Since I use an uploader that retries the upload and then, even after a failure, proceeds to the next image (keeping track of which images didn't upload), that means my uploader spends hours and hours (2 hours in this case) uploading away, but not getting anywhere. The consequence for us in the house is that we put up with very slow internet access while uploading, even though nothing is actually succeeding.
It would be much nicer for third party uploaders (and probably Smugmug's own uploaders) if there was some way to detect read-only mode "before" the upload or very early in the upload rather than only after the entire image has been uploaded. And, it would be nice if it could return an error that indicated it was read-only mode so that the uploader knows that trying again or continuing on with the next image is futile.
Of course, half of this responsibility lies with the uploaders, but I'm unclear if the api makes a good UI possible.
It would be much nicer for third party uploaders (and probably Smugmug's own uploaders) if there was some way to detect read-only mode "before" the upload or very early in the upload rather than only after the entire image has been uploaded. And, it would be nice if it could return an error that indicated it was read-only mode so that the uploader knows that trying again or continuing on with the next image is futile.
Of course, half of this responsibility lies with the uploaders, but I'm unclear if the api makes a good UI possible.