Unable to upload screenshots to Gallery

No doubt some of us have been having problems with up-loading screenshots to the Forum since before Xmas 2024.
Now having tried various means (it's probably me) can any kind person suggest and indeed recommend an alternative to the up-loading of screenies to "Trainz Portal" (for which for me, no longer works).

Many thanks in advance.

Cheers, evilcrow
 
Let me see if I can.

Looks like they have disabled the display of new images since 4/20/24
 
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The image in the previous post was uploaded:
Posted by: edh6 | Posted:2024-04-20 14:22:53, last Saturday.
I tried to upload an image on Sunday through the web page, it was accepted but it never appeared and seeing that the same image is still there as recent activity, it seems that the image upload is not working.
 
Frank_Dean said:
The image in the previous post was uploaded:
Posted by: edh6 | Posted:2024-04-20 14:22:53, last Saturday.
I tried to upload an image on Sunday through the web page, it was accepted but it never appeared and seeing that the same image is still there as recent activity, it seems that the image upload is not working.
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The same Problem by me too, and in the Moment i have no good Alternative to upload my Screenshots.

Greetings
Epo
 
evilcrow said:
No doubt some of us have been having problems with up-loading screenshots to the Forum since before Xmas 2024.
Now having tried various means (it's probably me) can any kind person suggest and indeed recommend an alternative to the up-loading of screenies to "Trainz Portal" (for which for me, no longer works).

Many thanks in advance.

Cheers, evilcrow
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Hi Ken - imgur.com - free account and an interface not unlike the MyTrainz gallery....

and fwiw the gallery has been working fine for me until the last few days where images appear to upload normally, but never appear.....
 
Frank_Dean said:
The image in the previous post was uploaded:
Posted by: edh6 | Posted:2024-04-20 14:22:53, last Saturday.
I tried to upload an image on Sunday through the web page, it was accepted but it never appeared and seeing that the same image is still there as recent activity, it seems that the image upload is not working.
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I agree, @Frank_Dean. I tried a few days ago and it said “Image uploaded successfully. Please wait 10 minutes for it to appear.” No sign after 20. I guess the Gallery is completely down now? That would make sense if no shots have uploaded since 4/20.
Cheers
 
evilcrow said:
No doubt some of us have been having problems with up-loading screenshots to the Forum since before Xmas 2024.
Now having tried various means (it's probably me) can any kind person suggest and indeed recommend an alternative to the up-loading of screenies to "Trainz Portal" (for which for me, no longer works).

Many thanks in advance.

Cheers, evilcrow
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I wish it would work again…
 
An additional clue: I happen to have chosen some Trainzers to "follow" before the Gallery deterioration began (the "follow" button no longer works). When I click the "Following" button I see entries (not necessarily images) of his last 10 posted items - including three after 4/20, when he was apparently trying to figure out what the dickens was going on. Those show an empty frame, but other information is as per normal. (I have also posted "successfully" since 4/20 but since I had not felt it necessary to "follow" myself, I can't see if those also come up as empty frames. I imagine they would).

My tentative conclusion is that when an image is uploaded since 4/20, the Gallery software creates a record for it, but fails to either index or store the image itself. The "Following" query still works (after a fashion) because it's a direct thread into the database without touching any of the broken indexes. Interestingly, the "by date" query still works normally, but will not display anything uploaded since 4/20. FWIW, the image store appears to contain approximately 419,226 displayable images (20962 pages@20 per page) but the highest record number is approximately 456,433 so there are quite a few broken/non-displayable records.

I'm hoping the apparent deterioration is a symptom of someone trying to untangle the Gallery software (a "repairs in progress" banner would be appreciated in that case). In the meantime, Imgur works:

VTQoj1L.jpg
 
Since NV3 continues to keep us in the dark regarding the broken Trainz Gallery, dogs within a 1/4 mile of my residence continue to bark due to my uncontrollable rage.
 
Last I saw was that you could upload again but I think that is just manually with the drag and drop interface.

UP-GP35.jpg


Yep, it works using drag and drop to the Add Media tab but the in game uploading still failed for me.
 
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RobertoE99 said:
I still wish that the Trainz Gallery was not broken.
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As do many Trainzers. I have difficulty understanding how this has such a non-existent priority: can it be that the developer who created it has somehow encrypted or copyrighted the source code so nothing can be done with it? I've seen that happen in, of all things, hospital software. But the idea in that case was job security - any way we can buy him or her off?
 
PWeiser said:
As do many Trainzers. I have difficulty understanding how this has such a non-existent priority: can it be that the developer who created it has somehow encrypted or copyrighted the source code so nothing can be done with it? I've seen that happen in, of all things, hospital software. But the idea in that case was job security - any way we can buy him or her off?
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This issue occurred after an attempted maintenance of the servers failed. May be this caused the failure or made matters worse. I don't upload much anyway but still it would be nice if the issue can be resolved at some point or at least give us an update as to what's going on. A simple "Hey it's broken and we're working on it would be nice, or we've been working on it silently and it'll be fixed soon(tm), but instead we get crickets.
 
I just got a screenshot to load from the TANE Surveyor into the Gallery. It's been a few months that this function has worked. Still can't get page one to transfer to page 2 in the Gallery, but at least this is progress.
 
JimDep said:
I just got a screenshot to load from the TANE Surveyor into the Gallery. It's been a few months that this function has worked. Still can't get page one to transfer to page 2 in the Gallery, but at least this is progress.
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That's good news. If they keep working at it, the search functions may be restored, too! (Can page through by date from search -> select page or next, but other page displays won't advance, Javascript is broken/not found.)
 
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