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Hi CyberSimian

It completely passed me by that the last message was from you. Good to hear from you and I value you user experience.

I remember you saying there was a shortage of developers and, in the end, I decided to deal with the issues I had reported, myself - one of which was to make the database processing truly multi-user. Of course, I'm sort of doing this blind because I can't talk directly to the original developers. I've had to work out how the system works and guess at why it does what it does, by going through the code step by step. It's taken me about six months to arrive at a working solution.

At the same time, I've changed some of the existing behavior to match what I had expected to see. For example, now, when I've started to watch a video, I have the color of the video in the list changing to white (which it didn't do before). Now I understand about the threshold I can change the code back and set the threshold to very low value. Honestly, I cannot see the point of a threshold (why wouldn't you want to know when you are half-way through a video?). But I'll stick with it.

Like you, I tend to record, watch and delete. So, I've tightened up the back-end to get rid of any database records for videos that no longer exist as well as deleting records when you delete a video. This is all done in the background so you, as a user, don't notice it's happening.

Would it be okay to ask you questions from time to time so I get this right?

Tony

<blockquote data-quote="Anthony Vaughan" data-source="post: 1286615" data-attributes="member: 153283">Hi CyberSimianIt completely passed me by that the last message was from you. Good to hear from you and I value you user experience.I remember you saying there was a shortage of developers and, in the end, I decided to deal with the issues I had reported, myself - one of which was to make the database processing truly multi-user. Of course, I'm sort of doing this blind because I can't talk directly to the original developers. I've had to work out how the system works and guess at why it does what it does, by going through the code step by step. It's taken me about six months to arrive at a working solution.At the same time, I've changed some of the existing behavior to match what I had expected to see. For example, now, when I've started to watch a video, I have the color of the video in the list changing to white (which it didn't do before). Now I understand about the threshold I can change the code back and set the threshold to very low value. Honestly, I cannot see the point of a threshold (why wouldn't you want to know when you are half-way through a video?). But I'll stick with it.Like you, I tend to record, watch and delete. So, I've tightened up the back-end to get rid of any database records for videos that no longer exist as well as deleting records when you delete a video. This is all done in the background so you, as a user, don't notice it's happening.Would it be okay to ask you questions from time to time so I get this right?Tony</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Anthony Vaughan, post: 1286615, member: 153283"] Hi CyberSimian It completely passed me by that the last message was from you. Good to hear from you and I value you user experience. I remember you saying there was a shortage of developers and, in the end, I decided to deal with the issues I had reported, myself - one of which was to make the database processing truly multi-user. Of course, I'm sort of doing this blind because I can't talk directly to the original developers. I've had to work out how the system works and guess at why it does what it does, by going through the code step by step. It's taken me about six months to arrive at a working solution. At the same time, I've changed some of the existing behavior to match what I had expected to see. For example, now, when I've started to watch a video, I have the color of the video in the list changing to white (which it didn't do before). Now I understand about the threshold I can change the code back and set the threshold to very low value. Honestly, I cannot see the point of a threshold (why wouldn't you want to know when you are half-way through a video?). But I'll stick with it. Like you, I tend to record, watch and delete. So, I've tightened up the back-end to get rid of any database records for videos that no longer exist as well as deleting records when you delete a video. This is all done in the background so you, as a user, don't notice it's happening. Would it be okay to ask you questions from time to time so I get this right? Tony [/QUOTE]