What Does Beta Mean?
"Beta" means that we can't guarantee everything will work as it should at the moment. Some things may look unfinished and some features may not exist. You may encounter "Page Not Found" and other error pages. The site will be updated daily with fixes and alterations, so some experiences may be inconsistent.
How To Help.
If you would like to help us, whenever you find some part of the site that does not work as you believe it should (or even if you would like to suggest a new feature or alteration!), drop us a line using the contact page to let us know. Please be sure you provide us with enough information to re-produce the error, i.e.:
- Your Operating System and version (ie. Windows 7, Mac OS X 10.7, Linux, iPad?).
- The internet browser name and version number you are using.
- The page or url where you discovered the error.
- A brief description of what you were doing when you encountered the error.
Beta Log - Recent Updates
- Fixed search bug when searching for strings with slashes in them.
- Fixed JSON bug when reading Microsoft Word pasted carriage returns.
- Fixed some buggy font rendering in Internet Explorer 10.
- Made SEO changes to the site so that search engines are better able to index MediaBox.
- Media titles that will not fit on one line now have an elipsis to show they have been abreviated. Hover over them to view the full title.
- Added the category to media pages.
- Added a warning when making media public.
- Tidied up the log out page.
- Fixed some security errors with the standard embed functionality.
- Added secure log-out information for iOS devices on Log Out screen.
- Fixed lots of bugs on the batch edit page related to iPhone and iPad.
- Disabled uploading audio from iOS because it is currently not possible and causes a crash.
- Added support for uploading from iOS devices.
- Fixed bug in iOS where page would jump up and down when batch tagging.
- Fixed bug where some pages would not show media marked as duplicate.
- School admin now allows you to assign inactive media.
- Fixed a bug where media counts would be reported incorrectly.
- Added functionality to the batch edit page to only show inactive media.
- Fixed bug which allowed media files to have a default description.
- Add support for secure cookies.
- Bug Fix: Fixed security error on secure pages.
- Bug Fix: Fixed bug when batch editing non video files to playlists.
- Better error reporting and more secure error page.
- Improved reliability of contact form.
- Modified auto-complete tag list so it will only appear after three characters have been entered.
- Many, many security fixes.
- Performance improvements.
- Fixed bugs on the batch edit page.
- Fixed a bug when liking photos.
- Updated to new version of jQuery.
- Fixed a bug related to playlist text length on playlist picker.
- Introduced the new School Administration system to allow designated users in each school to assign media files to members of their school.
Beta Log - Older Updates
Updates from previous uploads.
- Removed the winter theme from the footer.
- Comments are now disabled by default on new uploads. They can be enabled by ticking the box.
- Fixed bug with apostrophes in tags causing errors when uploading.
- Added a Winter theme to the footer :)
- Added the below paging and history improvements to the My Media pages too.
- Media result pages now support the back and forward browser history buttons.
- Much improved paging system for media results pages.
- Fixed a bug which allowed unsupported file types when uploading photos.
- Fixed some bugs where admin users did not have full control.
- Revised an improved the Login Centre in readiness for some upcoming features.
- Vastly improved the quality of videos produced by MediaBox - especially for 4:3 aspect videos.
- Better HTML5 support on Android.
- Improved video and audio player interface on iOS.
- Saved volume in video and audio player on HTML5 compatible devices.
- Added more options to batch edit functionality.
- New interface for batch editing files.
- Added preliminary support for the tagging of playlists. It is possible to tag your playlists but they will not yet show up in a search using tags.
- Corrected invalid playlist results on user pages.
- Fixed sort order on user pages. Newest media items are now displayed first.
- Image files no longer have the file extension in their title.
- Added ‘Quick View‘ functionality to photo files. You can now preview a photo file directly from any photo listing on the site by clicking the Quick View icon in the bottom right of the thumbnail.
- Fixed some nasty bugs with batch adding to playlists.
- The help section is now live.
- Added warnings on upload page when using an iPad or when a user has no flash plugin.
- Added information when trying to upload from an iPad.
- Fixed login problems for Netloan and Comm-ed users.
- Added ‘Select All‘ functionality to batch edit.
- Fixed a bug when displaying photos with non-text characters in the title or description.
- Fixed a bug which caused the select all functionality in batch edit to throw errors.
- When pasting tags, words are now split into separate tags. This makes searching more accurate.
- Fixed a bug when batch adding media to playlist. Progress counter is now accurate.
- Fixes to batch adding to playlists.
- Fixes to paging when lots of media is being displayed.
- Fixed bug where sometimes the description height would be incorrect while viewing a photo
- We have implemented batch editing for your media. To use batch editing, go to your media page and push the new batch edit button.
- Lots of bug fixes.
- Fixed a bug on the edit media page where creating playlists would not work.
- Fixed a bug on the edit media page where adding to playlist would not work.
- Fixed a bug on the view playlist page where the edit button would always point to video files.
- Created new banner for app download on front page.
- Completed app download page.
- Fixed some rare login bugs with certain users.
- Fixed some internet explorer bugs on the front page.
- Preliminary work on batch editing media.
- Fixed a bug on the user listings page related to comment display.
- Fixed a bug on the school media listings page.
- Upload button is now more visible.
- Fix for graphic display problems on iOS.
- Fixed bug with setting playlist permissions correctly when adding a file.
- Fixed audio poster not displaying on audio items.
- Fixed error when playlist was empty.
- Added thumbnails to playlist search results.
- Added the user‘s school to the user page.
- Fixed listing of comments on user page.
- Added playlist support to user page.
- Added playlist support to the search listings.
- Updated to a new version of JW Player which should fix many HTML5 and Android bugs.
- Added touch support for photo playlists. Swipe to change images and double tap to make full screen.
- Added photo playlist support.
- Added thumbnails to edit playlist page for easier re-ordering.
- Added a view button to the playlist management page.
- Support for audio playlists added.
- Video playlist playing support has been added.
- Media playlists will now jump to the next item when a file has finished.
- Fixed a bug where certain users were able to edit other users' playlists.
- Added support for longer titles on the edit playlist page.
- Added notification to users if they add a non public media file to a playlist or if the permissions of a playlist change when a file is added.
- Added a notification to the edit playlist page reminding users to save.
- Added a fix for media counts in playlists not being updated correctly.
- Added a fix for the media viewing pages for extremely long display names.
- Added an icon next to the date uploaded text on the view media page to reflect any permission the media file has.
- Added a full category list page.
- Added full category support to the front page.
- Added playlist management to the MyMediaBox section. Playlist can now be edited and deleted. Media can now be re-ordered and removed from a playlist.
- Added a fix for media counts in the login centre not being correct.
- Added functionality for creating playlists.
- Added functionality for adding media to playlists.
- Fixed the mousewheel scrolling for scroll panes in Firefox.
- Added an option to changed the logged in user in the login centre.
- Linked schools page to an individual page for each school.
- Added a schools page listing all schools with a media count for each school.
- Added a test to see if the user can access the remote jQuery library.
- Fixed some login errors related to certain users‘ memberships.
- Dramatically improved the login speed - logins should now be much faster.
- Added the welcome pack to the about page.
- Added content to the about page.
- Fixed a bug where unticking the public box on the edit page would not enable to permissions select box.
- Fixed a security issue where users were able to view inactive content under certain circumstances.
- Fixed a security issue where users could still view and edit reported and removed items in certain circumstances.
- Added category browsing support.
- Fixed a security bug where non-public media would appear while browsing tags.
- Switched our jQuery library hosting to Google rather than in-house to fix 3G proxy errors.
- Added checks for Internet Explorer Compatibility Mode.
- Fixed contact page images.
- Added an 'easing' animation to the login centre slide-down.
- Rewritten the login script to reflect cascaded active directory group changes.
- Updated MediaBox to use the jQuery 1.7 library. This should improve performance.
- Applied our own custom MediaBox skin to the media player to improve functionality.
- Added location detection so that local media cache servers can be used.
- Corrected grammatical bugs on media view pages.
- Fixed a bug where inactive items were appearing in favourites.
- Fixed bug where login redirect did not work for external users.
- Added an animation while removing favourites to show progress.
- Added link to video page from featured video on front page.
- Front page now returns the correct category list.
- Added support for viewing and managing your favourites.
- Adding to favourites now sends an email to the author.
- Fixed a bug that broke the user search.
- Fixed error on edit page where if a user is not logged in, they do not get redirect to the correct page after logging in.
- Added support for adding media to favourites (it's not yet possible to view your favourites).
- Implemented rating system for media files.
- Fixed a footer positioning bug in older versions of Internet Explorer.
- Fixed a search bug involving ignored words.
- Further Safari fixes.
- Further fixes for media counts.
- Fixes for Safari compatibility.
- Fix for media counts.
- Important bugfix for active and inactive media counts in the login centre.
- Added a fix for portrait images being uploaded incorrectly.
- Added latest photos to the front page.
- Added photo files to search, tag, category, user and school pages.
- Added functionality to view and comment on photo files.
- Added edit functionality for photo files.
- It is now possible to upload photos.
- the media player watermark has been removed.
- It is now possible to embed any type of media. Not just video.
- Embedding from MediaBox is only possible for public media.
- The Login Centre now shows counts for any inactive files.
- Made media thumbnails smaller to fit more title and description text.
- Related media is now shown on the media view page. This works based on the number of matching meta tags.
- Added an edit button to the media view page allowing you to edit your media directly from the page if you are the owner.
- Fixed bug where user name was incorrect.
- Increased the number of media items visible on the ‘My Media‘ pages to 15.
- Fixed all media item previews which were using the details tag incorrectly. This broke Google Chrome.
- MediaBox administrators can now reinstate media that has been marked as inappropriate.
- MediaBox administrators can now reinstate comments that have been reported.
- Logged in users can now mark media as inappropriate.
- Logged in users can now report comments.
- Report comment only appears when a user is logged in.
- Added privacy and cookies page.
- Added preliminary support for reporting comments.
- Any text that resembles a link left in a comment is now converted into a proper hyperlink.
- Media authors get an email when somebody leaves a comment on one of their files.
- Login script rewritten to reflect name or email changes in AD.
- Login script now gets user email.
- Fixed the footer on this page.
- Users can now remove media files (edit file and click the remove button).
- Added support for upload limits per user. Note that larger files will take longer to initialise and will affect the performance of your computer.
- Fixed the search when user searches non alphabetical characters.
- Added a message to the queue page to tell users its ok to leave.
- It is now possible to view all of a user‘s comments.
- Added a browser warning for unsupported browsers.
- Fix for full screen functionality in HTML5 players.
- Admin users can now view and search for all media on the site.
- You are now able to view comments left by users (on the user page).
- Some small Internet Explorer fixes (still lots more to do).
- Extra handling for session timeouts.
- A contact form is now available.
- Added functionality for Liking media files.
- Fixed padding on tag cloud and category lists.
- Fixed ‘Like‘ and ‘Mark as inappropriate‘ buttons so they only show up when logged in.
- Site host is now flexible. Redirects should be more reliable.
- Avatars are now visible on the user media page.
- Users are now able to download their own media.
- The 'Play' page now behaves better if a user has a long name.
- Media files posted by ICT or ELRS users now have a sticker which links to a page containing all the media from that group.
- Users can now see any media they have permission over on the front page and the latest media page.
- Added dummy function for console.log entries to prevent IE errors.
- Added ‘Staff Only‘ permissions level throughout the site.