Privacy Settings and the new style
MRVander
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The privacy settings worked well with the old SmugMug but not with the new styles. For instance, when I am working on the design of my site, if I have a multiple photo block of recent photos, it shows photos that are in unlisted and private galleries. Why? Because I am logged in. Of course, I am logged in, I am working on my site!
Instead I have to log out and look at my site to ensure things look the way I want them too. Or use a different browser. I don't want to use a different browser. I spent lots of time setting this one up the way I like it. I don't want to log out just to see what it looks like just to have to log back in again to continue working, rinse and repeat.
No, the privacy settings need to be just that private and not reflect in the new stylings so when we're working on the site while we're logged in on the browser of our choice, we are seeing exactly how the final product looks.
Instead I have to log out and look at my site to ensure things look the way I want them too. Or use a different browser. I don't want to use a different browser. I spent lots of time setting this one up the way I like it. I don't want to log out just to see what it looks like just to have to log back in again to continue working, rinse and repeat.
No, the privacy settings need to be just that private and not reflect in the new stylings so when we're working on the site while we're logged in on the browser of our choice, we are seeing exactly how the final product looks.
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It seems, from what everyone is saying, that they need the good ol' "Visitor View" preview button that they used to have everywhere on the site when you wanted to just pop out (way quicker than logging in or out) and back to see the Visitor's look. A few years ago, they stopped putting "Visitor View" on as many pages of the Old Site. But do they not have it at all on the new site or what?? If not, what a pain. That's really the only thing that can solve the problem you're having, I think. Even on the old site, you had to do "Visitor View" for unlisted & private photos to not show up in "Recent" for your own eyes. I'm not sure there's much they could do about that, but a Visitor View button makes it painless.
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What would be way easier is to just see the site as it's intended when designing it and logged into my account.
The whole privacy settings and visitor view solutions worked well in the old context. Now that the context has changed, not so much anymore. I don't clutter my system with multiple browsers and if I launch another instance of my chosen browser, it shares persistence so if I log out of window #2, then naviagte back in window #1, guess who's now logged out?
I'm wondering if using IE then opening another browser window/session with "In-Private" browsing might help? Not familiar with other browser but they may have such modes? Worth a try?
Alan.
Yep, any private browsing mode is a workaround for the issue as that separates the persistence among the same browser windows.
However, I still feel this is a workaround to an issue that could be rectified as its counter-intuitive when designing that I shouldn't have to work around.