Thanks to everyone who has submitted vids to vvc so far, it's great to see so much cool stuff being submitted.

I wanted to take a moment to ask folks how they were finding the web-based uploader. I know about a couple of problems that people have mentioned

- One vidder didn't get the upload complete until they changed browsers (perhaps coincidence)
- Another said uploading multiples was buggy but one at a time was fine
- A vidder had major speed issues (like seriously slow) that were solved with a VPN (so either isp throttling or maybe something funny going on with our web host?)

How has your experience been? This year, we removed the old ftp facility because in previous years it would result in a lot of incomplete uploads where a vidder didn't know that their vid was only uploaded partially because of the black-box nature of the ftp and, sometimes, where *we* didn't notice until very late in the process causing a last-minute panic.

The idea behind going web-only was so that people would see a confirmation screen at the end of their upload which would tell them everything was received ok and that we (the vvc tech admins) would get an email when uploads were complete. The only uploads we end up seeing are ones that complete, which allows us to better diagnose any problems with the files as we know that truncation isn't an issue.

However, if a lot of folks are having trouble we may need to consider bringing back ftp or some other solution so that everyone can submit their vids. We don't want every vidder using their own file sharing methods (dropbox, mediafire, personal sites, etc) as that adds a lot of extra work for the techs who have to download then re-upload to the vvc server... but we can support it for folks without other means on a case by case.

So yeah - what I would like to know is:

1) Has the web-based uploader worked ok for you?

1a) If it has what were your experiences an are there any things about it you would like improved?
1b) If it hasn't, what went wrong and what could be changed?

2) Would you like an alternative method for uploading?

2a) If so, what would you prefer?
2b) Would you like this in addition to or instead of the web uploader?

Obviously there is only so much we can do with our current infrastructure and we'll have to take our own procedure for processing the vids into consideration but I felt it important to get feedback now that people have used the web uploader to see if we need to make any improvements or changes ready for the big surge come the premieres deadline.