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Michael, I’m glad that you are finding it easier.
I don’t find there is any need to include text before adding an image. As you can see in the last reply, I can upload an image with no text at all.
You are right, the image Album is no longer around. All images uploaded in the old way still appear in the posts, and you can see the ones from any user by clicking on their name in the Forum and selecting the ‘Replies Created’ and ‘Topics Started’ tabs.
Dear Corinne, we have now added a sidebar to the Cloud Forum. Once you have logged in to the site, you should see link in the sidebar to your Forum Profile. Hopefully, this will be an easier way to get to the page.
Once there, can you clarify where exactly this problem arises with uploading your image? Are you saying that you hit the ‘Album’ link and then ‘Upload Picture’ and you are forced to use the phone camera, rather than be able to select a file? Do you have any problems when you try this on a non-mobile device? Many thanks.I hope you have a great picnic! Do let us know here how you get on. If you all think it works well to meet up, I might try to set up a system to facilitate other members to arrange gatherings. Any suggestions based you your gathering would be really helpful.
I wish I could be there!Dear Graham,
I forgot to reply about this. The issue with the Edit Forum Profile link should be fixed.
Do let us know if you are now able to edit the profile from the My Account page button.
Thanks.Tania, It is a great idea that you are organising a get-together in New South Wales. I am going to mention this in the Society newsletter that we’ll be sending out next week so that members in your area get to know about it. I hope that people are able to attend, and I wish I could be there to meet you all!
Hi, James. I think this is simply down to a combination of broken thick cloud in front of the sun (Stratocumulus cloud) and the scattering effect that the thinner parts of cloud and the haze in the low atmosphere have on the sunlight shining towards you. This scattering has the effect of bending the light and so blurring the distinctions between bright and dark regions. I supposed it is rather like observing a broken beam of light through ground glass. Others members might have a better way of explaining it, but that’s how I’d describe it!
George, Thanks for posting the image. Sorry it has taken a while to respond. I think that you could say that is an example of asperitas (as it is know being officially called – the World Meteorological Organisations are proposing this rather than the original asperatus as the official name). It is not a classic example – for that, you’d want the undulations to be a bit more turbulent – but it can pass as an asperitas. Well spotted.
James and Kirsty, I will pass on your comments to the moderator team, who I know will be very pleased to read them. They do such a great job – all voluntary. So far, well over 222,000 images have been verified by the team since we’ve been doing the app – each photograph looked at and verified by a real, human person. I am pleased that you have been finding useful the functionality that we recently introduced to let moderators send emails to CloudSpotter users when a verification needs some explanation. Distinguishing one classification from another can be more subjective and less clear-cut than in many other fields. As the American 19th Century essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson put it, “Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.”
That’s a great example of cloud streets, Paul. Thanks so much for sharing it.
Here is what cloud streets look like closer by.
And here is how they appear from below.Graham, Is this still the case? We haven’t intentionally changed anything about the Profile or Album pages of the forum accounts. I wonder if this was a temporary issue? I have just looked for my profile, and found that it all seems as normal. Do let us know if you still find that it is not working.
Hygge, I have edited your last post to make the link work. We’ll have to look into why the embed functionality of the forum is having problems with links to the gallery images. In the meantime, the solution is to add the link by using the ‘Link’ button and pasting the image description and the gallery link so that it works as above.
Thanks for letting us know about this.Hygge, there is no link in your post. There was a great display of asperitas over Dorset last Saturday. A few images are shown here:
I see that the Andy Lyons picture you seem to be referring to can be seen on his twitter feed here:
https://twitter.com/lyonsphotos_uk
I hope that helps.
