Upgraded photo upload functionality
Friday, May 23, 2025
Posted by jaygross
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I launched the Photos and Collections in March 2008 and the community has uploaded of over 800,000 photos to the site. 17 years is a LONG time!!! Back then we all accessed the internet from our desktop computers (iPhones and Android became mainstream years later), so I optimized the photo upload functionality around of the technology of the time.
Today we rolled out a new version of the Photo Upload with better performance, compatibility with more image formats and some new features collectors have been wanting!!!
Tour of new Photo Upload
At first the photo upload page looks similar to before (description and file fields are required, with options to specify player and album):
Once you select a file, you will see a preview of the image in the size it will be saved at (resized with a maximum height and width of 600 pixels) as shown below:
I know many folks find it frustrating that photos uploaded from phone cameras are sometimes rotated. You may notice that in the preview image, there is a "Rotate" button:
If you click "Rotate" button, it will rotate the preview image 90 degrees to the right as shown below:
Where is this on the site?
The Preview and Rotate functions are available on:
We have updated all areas of the site (including the Message Board and Private Messages) to support all image formats that a web browser can recognize. If your file is not in a recognized format, you will be alerted to select an image file.
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2025 Super Bowl Prediction Contest
Friday, February 7, 2025
Posted by jaygross
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The qualifying premium member who accurately predicts the winning team, final score, and MVP of the 2025 Super Bowl will win these signed cards of pro football stars (Ted Washington, Kevin Hardy, Mervyn Fernandez, Ken Dilger, Charlie Joiner, Steve Atwater, Antowain Smith, Daryl Johnston, Russ Grimm, and Walter Jones).
Eligibility requirements:
1) You must have recorded at least 5 TTM successes over the past year in the SCN Request Tracking feature (posting date is between 1/31/2024-1/31/2025).
2) You must be a premium subscriber on 2/9/2025.
To enter, premium members can visit the contest thread on the message board and provide the following information:
Winning Team:
Score:
MVP:
Please only enter this information and nothing else, as all comments will be removed. Contest submissions will be open up until the morning of the big game.
In the event that multiple members enter the same winning information, we will only consider the first person to submit their prediction. So please check not to enter the same information as another member.
Once you make your picks, you will not be able to edit them.
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Happy New Year 2025
Wednesday, January 1, 2025
Posted by jaygross
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Wishing a happy and healthy New Year 2025 to the SCN community. You all continue to bring so much joy to my household and make collecting more fun!
SCN is turning 25!!!
I am very excited as 2025 will mark the 25th anniversary of my launching this community publicly. It's a pretty amazing accomplishment that this community has endured and continued to grow over the years. It's more amazing how many folks have been active members of our community for 20+ years.
I plan to do a post specifically celebrating the milestone with nice giveaways to lucky subscribers.
2024 had more amazing contributions from our community.
After hitting 2 million successes tracked on SCN milestone in late 2023, it has been amazing to see our members contribute so many more successes this year. Here are the end of year stats:
Some 2024 highlights for me and my collection:
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I continued to list more of my unsigned card collection on buysportscards and have been able to help collectors:
https://www.buysportscards.com/search?sellerId=354fc7bb8e&sellerName=sportscollectors
I also changed the way I store much of my collection and thought I'd share, as it has been a topic discussed on our message boards over the years:
Inventory cataloging and putaway choices for my sports card collection
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I sent out considerably less than 2021-2023 with a lower success rate, but much of that is I tried some less frequent signers:
- Some highlights of autographs I added to my collection this year:
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Completed these multisigned 1991 Kraft discs:
- My new favorite custom card based off the 1965 Topps Tallboy Football design:
- I have made some progress on some sets I more casually working on, like 1997 Goudey Football (I am very excited to get Scott Mitchell and Kevin Hardy back in the past month):
- I am still on the hunt for the following signed cards:
-- 1992 Pro Line Portraits Al Davis
-- 1977 Topps/ O-Pee-Chee Glossy Inserts (Round Corners) Ken Dryden
-- 1977 Topps/ O-Pee-Chee Glossy Inserts (Round Corners) Denis Potvin
- My all time favorite vintage set is the 1911 T201 Mecca Doublefolders. This year I picked up the big 4 I have dreamed of owning for 35+ years (Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker, Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson). I very much prefer the SGC cases for vintage cards, even in these lower grades:
- Some of the reason I haven't blogged much and sent out fewer requests this year is that I got to spend time coaching and watching my son Jack's 12U baseball season.
While his town travel team didn't make it to the Little League championship in Williamsport (we watched on TV), he had a great season and it was so much fun. He went 16 for 19 in his big tournament at Cooperstown and here is a video of one of his home runs:
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