HAMBURGER EYES

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Forum Login = Flogin. Get it? We have been having spammy problems so I had to disable the register and login links on the front page of the forums until I fixed it. It is relatively easy for the page to break but it is all fixed now.

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Not sure if any of you noticed, but I always noticed that on mobile screens our site looked “fuzzy”. Images weren’t as sharp as they should be. I knew it was because this site, which runs on WordPress, was trying to optimize images for all screens and just pure failing and that there was nothing I could do about it. But upon further research I found out that this theme we are using is also optimizing images AND the uploader we are using is optimizing images. Everybody trying to optimize images when they don’t even need optimizing since I do that when prepping in Photoshop. Anyways, I unplugged a bunch of plugins and it seems like everything is as sharp as it is supposed to be on all screens starting today. Don’t look at the old stuff. Just look at today and going forward and we should all be super sharp. Ok thanks.

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I just read that 80% of your website traffic is brand new, like they never seen your site before. Maybe that is referring to websites with no new regular content and no audience because 80% seems very high? But I do agree that a good chunk of you who are reading this have never heard of us before. I know because questions show up in my emails. So today, I’ll answer the main question right now. All the photos on this blog and on our Instagram feed are photos from past issues of Hamburger Eyes, so if you would like to submit then you should submit to our magazine. It is very easy. Just email us a link.

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I was thinking of possible Youtube series’s for the Hamburger Eyes channel and came across all the new Nikon and Canon mirrorless videos while researching camera and photography channels. Ok no one even owns these cameras yet because they just announced them and they aren’t shipping these cameras for months. But, all these people are making videos of their reactions to this particular news. Basically they are reviewing cameras that aren’t even out yet. I guess it is not that crazy but wow you can do anything on Youtube.

Seems like the big photo channels are camera reviews and how-to’s, or at least that’s what the algorithm is feeding me in my research. I think we could make something different and cool. What do you think?

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Ok, we are starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Do you see it? Soon we will be caught up. Soon we will be up and over the hump. More news soon.

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So I kinda feel extra chit chatty this week. I hope it’s not annoying. A. I think updating the site feels like I’m “working on my business” and B. I came up with a cool plan to pick 20 photos once a week from the archives, post them here first, and IG second. But since IG is hungry every day, then I got to be posting here every day too. And like I said before posting here feels like it requires text. Ok, going into the forums now.

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I mentioned it already in the forums, we are deleting all the photos there. LOL. The truth is sooner or later people are going to start dumping all their photos in there and we are just not technically equipped for all that. I thought I could hire some one or study up or maybe even take some programming classes but why try to re-invent flickr or any other social media site.

The forums will still exist but as a low key discussion board situation. Links will still work and I think it will still be awesome. See you on the other side.

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In that last post I mentioned that right now is Chapter 3 of the Hamburger Eyes story but upon deeper analysis this is actually the beginning of Chapter 4. Not sure what this means for you just thinking out loud over here. These chapters mostly represent time and location for headquarters.

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