Hey SharedReviewers!
Video Uploads now working!
After a very long hiatus, we have re-enabled the ability to upload your own previously recorded videos for your reviews. This includes both new reviews, and uploading as part of an update on old reviews. Although we have always supported capturing video directly through your webcam, this has been a sorely missed feature and we look forward to all of the great videos everyone creates and uploads.
With this announcement, there will be a special contest for the first member who uploads 5 valid videos on 5 new reviews published starting right now! ( The video must be original and created by the author, and must display or highlight the use of the product/service being reviewed). The winner will be awarded a prize of $50! I’m starting this thread in the Community Chit Chat forum for those who complete the task so you can post links to the 5 reviews for consideration. For those who had videos waiting to be uploaded on old reviews, sorry they won’t count for this contest, but make sure you do upload them since they will count for future contests starting in December!
When on the Create Review Page, ensure you use the BROWSE bar directly under the Video Box on the right, versus the one in the image section on the left.It may take some time to upload, then encode the file so please be patient. I have tested files up to 5 megabytes in size and imagine it can handle files even larger before your browser times out (dependent on your internet connection upload speed).
Forum now playing nice with FireFox 3.5+
All members with FF 3.5 will now be happy to know they can reply to any post in the forum. Also, the loss of carriage returns has been fixed for all new posts going forward. If there were any old posts that absolutely bother you without carriage returns, you can go back and click EDIT then SAVE and carriage returns will be added to them.
Please reply to this message, post in the forum: bugs and errors section, or email support@sharedreviews.com if you experience anything strange with these fixes.
As always, thank you for your support and patience!