DPF Development HELP! Help us test the DPF "Public" Pin Trading Board!

Chris Nickols said:

Wow! We weren't aware this was being put together...

Exciting that the DPF community is getting a custom trade alternative experience. Happy to have the Pin & Pop IDs and data power this ( and many in the DPF community are the ones who have graciously contributed that data to P&P in the first place). I would only ask that photos for this not be used from Pin & Pop and instead be uploaded for listings and offers directly by the photo owners. If the DPF users here have originally uploaded those photos to P&P and they give permission for use in the DPF Trading Board then absolutely grab them from our site and upload them here. Photo-sharing and photo ownership is something our Mods (which include DPF members) and our users have voiced concern over and I want to make sure we're honoring that.

To be clear, we are always in favor of seeing innovation happen for the larger pin trading community... "a rising tide lifts all boats (that don't have compromised hulls)". We appreciate the DPF community and the collaboration we've had. Let us know how we can help!

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Hi Chris,

This is fair and understandable given that images are going to be the most egregious consumption of data, especially with the current implementation where metadata is cached for 30 days, but images are still being hotlinked.

I’ll look into correcting this and forcing the user upload piece. Ultimately, using real photos makes for a better/more honest experience in the end, anyway.

For clarification, regarding the P&P “pinformation” cards we just implemented (example below — when users post a P&P link here in the forum it just renders the card inline with the pin’s metadata) —


are these still okay to use the image & hotlink, or should I make a change to this to at least cache a copy locally, so your CDN isn’t getting hammered every time a card loads?

At least for this feature (which only exists here on a relatively “slow” forum) id like to find some middle ground, because the visual aspect is a core feature of the cards.

Finally I (and I’m sure others,) really appreciate the willingness and openness to collaboration and sharing that P&P has had, which is a breath of fresh air compared to being so stifled in the past in what we could/could not create.

This has been an idea that’s been swirling around for quite a while and is really meant to just be an alternative experience to Trade Arcades and other online trading events, and wasn’t meant as a competitor or to “step on anyone’s toes”, so to speak. Whether it does/doesn’t get used in the future is fine, it was/is still a fun project.

Cheers!

Ghosthostchelsea said:

I put in a tracking number for a package that should deliver tomorrow to see what tracking looked like moving through USPS, but the tracking isn’t showing up at all. I copied directly from my USPS tracking page and it’s the same numbers.

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on the backend, i can see that this listing's tracking info shows as "out for delivery" -- when it changes status, the trade should automatically mark itself as "complete" 🙂 (it's still in "pending"), after which you'll be allowed to test leaving feedback.



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