UPDATED: We're now on to RC2! Check it out!

Ok, we have a new release up, and I think this one is nearly good to go. There's only one major thing I know of holding it up, so we're going to send a message to all SmugMug customers and really digest everyone's feedback.

The big new thing in this release is that our hit tracking has vastly improved. You'll now see *every* hit on *every* photo, even repeated views, so you can truly see which photos are being visited more often.

There are lots of other fixes too, all the details are over on the Beta page at the Wiki.

The great thing is that once this huge change is out the door, we can rapidly innovate on top of it once again and bring out lots of great features we have in the works. So please help us work the last of the bugs out so we can get on with making SmugMug even better. :)

Thanks!

Oh, and here are the previous threads on the Beta project for any historians in the crowd: first and second.

sweet...great work guys

Originally Posted by onethumb ... The big new thing in this release is that our hit tracking has vastly improved. You'll now see *every* hit on *every* photo, even repeated views, so you can truly see which photos are being visited more often. ...

Great new! This part especially.
Going in to try it now.
Al

Looks like there's a keyword generating monster out there. I hope they're not
being generated from the caption, could be quite a mess. It even included
part of the html code.
http://atsmithbeta.beta.smugmug.net/gallery/76#2896

Al

There are some color fixes we are in the process of making, to some themes, with respect to the pagepicker numbers and titles. These are in the works, and will soon be applied to the http://beta.smugmug.net

Sorry for the small delay on these

Do we have to create a new beta account and upload new photos or do the photos from our previous beta account now work with the latest beta code?

Originally Posted by jfriend Do we have to create a new beta account and upload new photos or do the photos from our previous beta account now work with the latest beta code?

your previous beta account will work fine.

Will Statcounter hit counting statistics work with the new design?

Did I notice that the thumbs of my snappy shots which aren't particularly well exposed loaded normal and then got a brightness/color fix added to them?

Maybe I'm just going mad.


I've got to say that I really like this release. Release Candidates are sooooo Web 2.5. Web 2.0 is the forever-in-beta release, you guys are really pushing the edge. Just think when you actually release it, you'll probably be web 3.0!

More praise for the team: Thanks for working so hard on something that actually makes a noticeable difference for smugmuggers. Thanks for taking feedback and turning it into gold.

I'm still testing but so far it's like butter. Not margerine. Butter. The kind that's white that your mom cooked with but tasted really good on french toast and english muffins. The kind of butter that made you look forward to having breakfast in the morning even more than your lucky charms. All I'm saying is that it's sweet, sweet deliciousness.

Overall it feels faster, but the current location of the flyout thing just doesn't do it for me and I hope there is a way to permanently dock it where the old stuff used to be or revert back to the old way. When viewing standard 3:2 images in landscape with the smugmug style, there is now a huge area of wasted space below the picture, where the camera info, size picker, save photo link used to be. According to my measurements, it's about 600px x 175 px.

Would it be possible to have the flyout extend beyond the picture into this wasted area rather than over the image? Perhaps add a push-pin control that would make it sticky...even between sessions? For portrait pictures, perhaps extend it to the right or left of the picture?

-Scott

Originally Posted by Allen Looks like there's a keyword generating monster out there. I hope they're not being generated from the caption, could be quite a mess. It even included part of the html code. http://atsmithbeta.beta.smugmug.net/gallery/76#2896 Al

Keywords aren't generated from the caption, no. So either you've uncovered a bug or you're mistaking correct functionality for broken. :)

We generate keywords from 3 sources: manually added, filename extraction, and metadata (IPTC/EXIF/etc).

If that's not what you're seeing, please post more info about what you did and what happened so we can track it down.

Don

Originally Posted by jfriend Will Statcounter hit counting statistics work with the new design?

Hi John, I'm on a short vacation with the family - but could you possible set up a new statcounter account and give it a try? That'd be the way to do it

wow looks great I love the hoover over the picture feature where a window pops up and you can select to see the photos info or select what size you want. Also I like being able to use the arrow keys to go through the pictures.


edited for something I noticed.....

Just noticed that where you change the style I changed it to smugmug small and now that cool hoover feature does not work... looks like it only works with the smugmug style for now..

Originally Posted by digitalpins wow looks great I love the hoover over the picture feature where a window pops up and you can select to see the photos info or select what size you want. Also I like being able to use the arrow keys to go through the pictures. edited for something I noticed..... Just noticed that where you change the style I changed it to smugmug small and now that cool hoover feature does not work... looks like it only works with the smugmug style for now..

we are implementing the new features in smugmug style only at this time.

Originally Posted by scwalter Overall it feels faster, but the current location of the flyout thing just doesn't do it for me and I hope there is a way to permanently dock it where the old stuff used to be or revert back to the old way. When viewing standard 3:2 images in landscape with the smugmug style, there is now a huge area of wasted space below the picture, where the camera info, size picker, save photo link used to be. According to my measurements, it's about 600px x 175 px. Would it be possible to have the flyout extend beyond the picture into this wasted area rather than over the image? Perhaps add a push-pin control that would make it sticky...even between sessions? For portrait pictures, perhaps extend it to the right or left of the picture? -Scott

Scott, the info flyout is draggable and remembers its position between sessions. Drag it where you want and it'll stay there.

Originally Posted by bigwebguy Scott, the info flyout is draggable and remembers its position between sessions. Drag it where you want and it'll stay there.

thats cool but I am in safari right now and I can drag that cool info flyout

How do I get a beta account?



NEVERMIND.... I found it ;)

Originally Posted by digitalpins thats cool but I am in safari right now and I can drag that cool info flyout

You should be able to drag it. I'm misunderstanding you I think.

nope I can not drag it all..... I also tried draging it in Firefox as well on my mac

I also played around with customizing the site and that works out just fine with a quick cut and paste from my main site only thing is my header is not centering but that could be me maybe I missed something....

as of right now I cant get the bulk zoom to work in the customizing but everything else in the customizing is great... really like the updates

Very impressed.... I hope the new stuff gets to custom styles soon :)