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When you go to a video chat room now, you'll find a form that lets you say when you'll be visiting the room. You can see the list of all the chats guys have scheduled, and can add yourself to the list if the time is convenient and you'd like to join in. Hope this helps with guys passing each other in the night.

When you look at someone's profile now, you should see a "Video Chat" button that takes you to a room only the two of you can access. The other person can click "Video Chat" on your profile to reach the room, and there's also a form there you can use to send him a message giving the link and asking for a time to meet there. Please give it a try, and let me know how it goes. (And, of course, please be courteous with anyone who doesn't want to chat.)

Jeff

We've added a group video chat room to the site:

https://oldergay.men/chat

Please come give it a try, and let us know if you run into any problems with it. If no one else is there when you arrive, feel free to keep the chat open in a side window until someone comes along. I'll continue working on setting up individual, private chats between members.

Jeff

For the last month, some OlderGay.Men members have had trouble deleting their pictures and accounts. It started when I found a problem with how we linked photos to the people in them. While fixing that was an unqualified good, it exposed problems that needed much more digging, and which inconvenienced guys trying to "just delete the damned thing". If you're having trouble sleeping, the tedious details are here:

https://talk.oldergay.men/t/deletion-problems/275944

(If you haven't seen it, I've been cataloging my work on the site at https://talk.oldergay.men/c/site-updates/.)

I've kept at the problem while manually intervening for guys who reached out for help (including the one who found someone here (🥳) and wanted off the market). I think I've now restored everyone's autonomy to delete his own stuff, but, as ever, let us know if you run into any trouble.

Jeff

The number of members sharing photos of themselves outpaced our ability to keep up with it, and https://oldergay.men/images/members was timing out. I rewrote the code for it to be more efficient, and it should be working well again. Sorry for the inconvenience, hope you find someone mutually appealing there. ☺️

Jeff

One of our intermediate services became too robust with their “Are you human?” checks, and uploading images was broken. It should be fixed now. We’re sorry for the inconvenience.

Short version: We're supporting an image file format we didn't support before. We have some photos people uploaded in that format. They're available to view now, but we no longer know who uploaded them.

I've put them all here:

https://oldergay.men/images/collections/orphans

Please take a look. If you see one that's yours, there are instructions there for claiming it.

Tedious details:

I got around to investigating the HEIC files members have uploaded and which have caused so many problems, including the briefly-broken galleries a week or two ago. I just added code to ignore them then, but I looked closer this weekend. HEIC/HEIF has many advantages but slow adoption. It's been the default format for images on the iPhone for seven years, but is only supported by one web browser. When members uploaded files like these (probably from their phones), they were accepted as images (since they are), but the software we...

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You can now upload videos to OlderGay.Men. Videos you upload will be linked from your profile page for anyone coming to visit you. They can also be private, just like photos, so you can share them with specific members when you visit their pages. We hope you'll enjoy this and add a bit more life to the OlderGay.Men community!

https://oldergay.men/videos/

Here are the results of our recent Patreon poll of what to do next on the site:

• 13 votes: Add video chatting to the chat room
• 12 votes: Let members upload videos to their profiles
• 11 votes: Let members share their current locations with the site (GPS) to see what's nearby
• 10 votes: Synchronize profiles on OlderGay.Men and talk.oldergay.men — photos, locations, bios, etc.
• 7 votes: Let Groups share local events with members in their area (weekly lunches, etc.)
• 7 votes: Add a Cities section with information about what to expect there, places to go, etc.
• 6 votes: Let members post personal updates, notifying members who follow them
• 6 votes: Add Add to my calendar links to Events, Meetups, etc.
• 6 votes: Make maps with dots for nearby Groups, Places, etc.
• 5 votes: Group geo-located items by country and province (list everything in New York, etc.)
• 4 votes: Add ratings for stories (with favorites linked from profile pages)
• 3 votes: Let members submit Groups, Places,...

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I made of list of 17 ideas of what to do next on OlderGay.Men. Supporting members can vote on what they most want to see; come and let us know where we should start:

Patreon Poll

Jeff