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When a video from snowjapan.tv is now embedded on these forums, the first frame of the video now appears on the initial paused screen (rather than the black screen that appeared previously). As well as looking better, this will give you an idea of what the video is about before clicking on Play. Example:

Just had a bit of a drive around the area today as the weather was so good and we also thought it would be good to have some photos to post on here and share with everyone.

The first lift queue of the season Anyway, more here if you are interested: http://www.snowjapan.com/e/insider/photo_section.php?userid=YuzawaNow&userGallery=157

Snow in Japan seems appropriate. This snow spotted at Kagura this morning. More photos: http://www.snowjapan.com/e/insider/photo_section.php?userGallery=157&userid=YuzawaNow

Over 20 more photos from Kagura and the area on these 2 new galleries: Kagura & Naeba: http://www.snowjapan.com/e/insider/photo_section.php?userid=YuzawaNow&userGallery=157 Minamiuonuma: http://www.snowjapan.com/e/insider/photo_section.php?userid=YuzawaNow&userGallery=156

More pics, this time REAL snow up at Kagura: This one shows the new pair lift. They were actually giving it a test run today up there. The new lift is in a different position to the previous two single lifts.... ....making room for a "new course" as the guy told us. Apparently they are not going to groom this and not be strict about stopping people checking it out:

Hi SirJib, good to hear from you. Hope you are well. I walked on some snow at Kagura today - some pics coming later. They hope to be open this coming Friday.

We've got some more pics coming soon, give me a few hours...

Kagura main gelende has had a bit of snow today. Photos thanks to Kagura ski-jo http://www.snowjapan.com/e/resorts/resortdetail.php?resid=3

Quote: but got accused of pumping our bar up too much in a journal or two, when we weren't Actually, you were. I have the records in front of me here. That, plus the over the top bad language = one or two journals did not get posted. Please - do not continue this line, Blade. We are not going to be accused and/or discuss this here. Thank you.

I am simply responding to your "new format... censorship of journals... don't get me started" comment. Many people read these posts and we do not wish for them to get the wrong impression about this site and the way it is run. I do not know who your friends are and the specific instances you refer to, but if anyone decides to not post on SnowJapan because some of their journals were not approved for the reasons I mentioned in the above post (#243320), then that is just fine with us. Thanks.

Do you ever look at the detailed Whos Online page, ie: http://www.snowjapanforums.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=online the link that says "Click here for details" on the right hand side column of the forums.

OK I have looked over our records. Here's what we changed: 1 Previously journals were posted instantly when people submitted them. But we were suddenly seeing a fair amount of spam (viagra, pharmacuticals, etc) being posted up there. Obviously that is not good and so the only way to prevent that was to make it so that we had to "approve" journals before they appeared online - just like we have to approve new members on these Forums before they can post. So we implemented that system. 2 There was a (small) number of people posting excessive swearing and bad language and

Quote: Then the new format came in, censorship of journals, don't get me started.... Don't get you started? What exactly are you accusing us of 'changing' - apart from perhaps starting a system where we had to approve journals before they went online (mostly in order to stop the increase of spam that we were experiencing) and also not allowing journals that were full of swearing and bad language?

Thanks. The snowjapan.tv site is only a few weeks old but we have had a fair few behind-the-scenes issues to deal with since it first went online! But the good news is that - fingers crossed - the site is now perched on a brand new, nice server with a good connection to the intertubes and should hopefully now be settled and ready for the season. We are hoping that things from now on will go smoothly, but if you do find any issues with the site please do let us know at editor@snowjapan.com and we will look into them. If you are not logged in, you can view videos for a short time ea

The snowjapan.tv site is only a few weeks old but we have had a fair few behind-the-scenes issues to deal with since it first went online! But the good news is that - fingers crossed - the site is now perched on a brand new, nice server with a good connection to the intertubes and should hopefully now be settled and ready for the season. We are hoping that things from now on will go smoothly, but if you do find any issues with the site please do let us know at editor@snowjapan.com and we will look into them. If you are not logged in, you can view videos for a short time each day. If y

Yes of course. Just like before. As said at the top, really nothing has changed. We're just laying out the guidelines and get the message out of our wish the Forums not be thought of simply as some sort of link directory. You have a cake I see - happy birthday!

Before reading this please note: This thread does not constitute a big shift in our policy. The people this will affect by far the most is the people who want to gain by having links on here! Thanks for using the Forums. The snow season is nearly with us. Ace. In the run up to this new season, we want to make our policy concerning links on the Froums a little clearer so as to avoid any misunderstandings. Due to the increasingly large amount of traffic on SnowJapan and these Forums, a link placed here to an outside website can be a very valuable thing for the website

I have just deleted a few posts on this thread. This is not a place to simply gather links for businesses as was becoming the case here. Thanks.

Fattwins, if you are referring to showing photos on here: Only 1 thing has changed. That one thing is how to get the URL of a photo. Before: Right click on a photo to see the full URL of a photo. Now: Click the "View URL" text link that is shown below a photo. The URL will be shown which you can copy. The actual URL of all the photos on here have not changed. If you want to put a photo on the forums, you do it in exactly the same way as before: ie. Thanks

Please don't just automatic expect a re-run - there was a really large effort involved in getting such prizes for this contest! We're currrently putting together all our Giveaways and contests, so please wait a bit longer for news on that kind of thing. Thanks.

So you accept then? Glad to hear your comments. We're looking forward to hopefully seeing many more this coming season. Cheers

SnowJapan Hakuba Photo Contest 06/07 - The Results Here are the winners* of the SJ Hakuba Photo Contest 06/07. All valid photos uploaded to SJ last season were given to those friendly people at the Tourism Association in Hakuba to choose the winners. Just to be clear, the names of the photo files and SJ members were coded on the photos submitted to Hakuba - making them totally anonymous. There was no favouritism and no bias - just the photos to choose the winners. 1st Prize - 07/08 Hakuba Village Season Pass Winner: Kumapix http://www.snowjapan.com/e/insider/

The vid is working again now. Thanks tsondaboy, sorry for the hassle.

Well we're quite used to that, so not much change there Seriously....... we did not choose the winners and if people want to moan about things then they can just jolly well bugger off (and maybe get themselves put on a blacklist for anything we offer this season). That's what I think.