new smugmug features - Feb 12, 2005

onethumb · February 12, 2005

It's that time again.

New stuff:

- photo communities has received a huge overhaul. Anyone can now create and manage photo communities, and they're quite powerful. More info: communities help

And of course, dgrin has one , as does dpreview . I think I'll turn both over to Andy's capable hands as soon as he's ready for them.

- slideshow was completely re-written by the magnificent JT. We now have something much more elegant, with fading and whatnot, and also a fullscreen mode!

- image protection now goes way beyond "right-click protection" (which is lame anyway), and now prevents you from Saving or dragging and dropping the image, if you have it enabled. Paranoid Pros, you should love this.

- photo sharing page ("share with friends, forums") has received an overhaul to try to make it easier. It now includes a handy email composition wizard that'll launch your mail client for you with the URL embedded in the email to share.

- lots of new and updated help pages, it turns out quite a few people don't know how to copy & paste, so we're trying to help them along.

- the breadcrumbs has changed slightly, to include the word "home". People were getting a little confused about what that first link was for, so now it's a little more clear.

- Our Maximum PC "Kick Ass" award is loud and proud on our homepage.

- "batch add to cart" has been updated so it adds the photos in the same sort order as you have your galleries in.

- The XML-RPC API received some bug fixes.

And I'm sure there are more that I'm missing.

Enjoy!

Don

onethumb · February 12, 2005

onethumb wrote:

It's that time again.

Ack! My cute text smiley got replaced with one of the ugly graphic ones. I do apologize.

Don

Andy · February 12, 2005

onethumb wrote:

Ack! My cute text smiley got replaced with one of the ugly graphic ones. I do apologize.

Don

i think fish snuck into baldy's wallet and stole the password to the smiley vault

onethumb · February 12, 2005

One more:

- You can customize the # of keywords shown on your homepage.

Don

gus · February 12, 2005

wxwax · February 12, 2005

Thanks for the info, thumbalina, I thought I noticed something different this evening. I added my name to the dgrin commnity... not sure what that means, but go team!

savannahga · February 12, 2005

Cool beans!

fish · February 13, 2005

onethumb wrote:

Ack! My cute text smiley got replaced with one of the ugly graphic ones. I do apologize.

Don

:uhoh

It's actually being held hostage until you release the new smilies.

marlinspike · February 13, 2005

How would you save or drag and drop an image that was right click protected?
Richard

fish · February 13, 2005

marlinspike wrote:

How would you save or drag and drop an image that was right click protected?
Richard

Left mouse button on a mac.

Don, does that feature protect against Grab (mac)?

Nikolai · February 13, 2005

Thanks, Don!
Standing ovation!

I wish I was able to keep up with you guys!
At least managed to get my taxes done this weekned (and they are already approved!!!)

Cheers!

rainforest1155 · February 13, 2005

Thanks for the awesome features!

onethumb wrote:

It's that time again.
- slideshow was completely re-written by the magnificent JT. We now have something much more elegant, with fading and whatnot, and also a fullscreen mode!

Neat GUI and fading! I discovered that at least in my browser (Maxthon IE clone) the images in the fullscreen mode are stretched to the whole width of the window.
Therefore 800px pictures are shown at 1020 or something like that and that does not look very good. Maybe you can have a look at it.

Thanks,
Sebastian

{JT} · February 13, 2005

Some browsers do a great job with scaling an image up (Safari, IE), while others just do a mediocre job (Firefox). My suggestion is if you don't want the scaling is to use the normal slideshow and choose Large as your photosize. They use almost identical code and fading will behave much nicer.

rainforest1155 wrote:

Thanks for the awesome features!
Neat GUI and fading! I discovered that at least in my browser (Maxthon IE clone) the images in the fullscreen mode are stretched to the whole width of the window.
Therefore 800px pictures are shown at 1020 or something like that and that does not look very good. Maybe you can have a look at it.

Thanks,
Sebastian

Andy · February 13, 2005

fish wrote:

Left mouse button on a mac.

Don, does that feature protect against Grab (mac)?

no, it doesn't - but i don't think you can ever stop a screengrab...

i just grabbed this on my mac, cmd-shift-4.

oh btw - you see that file on my desktop called "spacer.gif?" that's what you get if you try to left-click drag the image to your desktop on a mac -- the file is *empty*

Baldy · February 13, 2005

andy wrote:

oh btw - you see that file on my desktop called "spacer.gif?" that's what you get if you try to left-click drag the image to your desktop on a mac -- the file is *empty*

I never thought an empty image could be such a beautiful thing.

fish · February 13, 2005

fish wrote:

It's actually being held hostage until you release the new smilies.

okay OT,

has been released. thanks boss. oh, and congrats on your recent promo to CEO.

onethumb · February 14, 2005

fish wrote:

okay OT, has been released. thanks boss. oh, and congrats on your recent promo to CEO.

I'm not really much for titles, and if there's one I prefer, it's probably "co-founder". Something grand like CEO makes it sound like the company's success is entirely my doing, when in reality it's due to the entire team of talented people I have working alongside me.

However, if we want to get specific, I've been CEO since Day One, when smugmug wasn't even smugmug - I was building an online video game service with JT that happened to have some photo sharing. Baldy was my first full-time hire, and a few months later smugmug became a glimmer in both our eyes.

For those that might not have heard the story, a handful of powerful forces came to bear on modgods (smugmug's name before we changed it) within one month of each other. The biggest were:

- When demoing modgods' product, everyone got really excited about it. But the part they got the most excited about was the tiny photo sharing piece. We started doing demos with that as the final, crowning piece of the puzzle. I think Baldy caught onto everyone's fascination with it first, and I fell in line after he got passionate about it.

- ADVrider was desperate for something better than pbase for hosting their ride reports, and boy, were they into their ride reports.

- My wife launched her professional photography business and JT and I built the first 'Elegant' style homepage (just HTML, at the time) around this same time for her.

- Our technology partner for modgods was busy with another, more lucrative project, so we weren't sure they'd be reliable enough to base our business on.

Baldy and I both got fired up about the idea and smugmug was born as a sub-project at modgods, inc. We soon fell so in love with it, all work on modgods ceased and we eventually changed the company name.

For the record, I'm gradually getting used to the CEO title (it's only taken me 3+ years). Turns out that even though I feel mildly uncomfortable with it, it softens obstinate customer hearts, opens doors to partner companies, and recently forced one of our banking relationships to sit up and take notice of a problem. So I dust it off from time to time. "Chief Geek" or "co-founder" are titles I personally enjoy more.

Don

yvonne · February 14, 2005

onethumb wrote:

It's that time again.

New stuff:

- photo communities has received a huge overhaul. Anyone can now create and manage photo communities, and they're quite powerful. More info: communities help

And of course, dgrin has one , as does dpreview . I think I'll turn both over to Andy's capable hands as soon as he's ready for them.

- slideshow was completely re-written by the magnificent JT. We now have something much more elegant, with fading and whatnot, and also a fullscreen mode!

- image protection now goes way beyond "right-click protection" (which is lame anyway), and now prevents you from Saving or dragging and dropping the image, if you have it enabled. Paranoid Pros, you should love this.

- photo sharing page ("share with friends, forums") has received an overhaul to try to make it easier. It now includes a handy email composition wizard that'll launch your mail client for you with the URL embedded in the email to share.

- lots of new and updated help pages, it turns out quite a few people don't know how to copy & paste, so we're trying to help them along.

- the breadcrumbs has changed slightly, to include the word "home". People were getting a little confused about what that first link was for, so now it's a little more clear.

- Our Maximum PC "Kick Ass" award is loud and proud on our homepage.

- "batch add to cart" has been updated so it adds the photos in the same sort order as you have your galleries in.

- The XML-RPC API received some bug fixes.

And I'm sure there are more that I'm missing.

Enjoy!

Don

Loving you more all the time... and it's Valentine's too...

Yours, paranoid pro.

Ann McRae · February 14, 2005

onethumb wrote:

It's that time again.

And of course, dgrin has one , as does dpreview . I think I'll turn both over to Andy's capable hands as soon as he's ready for them.

- slideshow was completely re-written by the magnificent JT. We now have something much more elegant, with fading and whatnot, and also a fullscreen mode!

- image protection now goes way beyond "right-click protection" (which is lame anyway), and now prevents you from Saving or dragging and dropping the image, if you have it enabled. Paranoid Pros, you should love this.

Enjoy!

Don

Thank you!
I'll be checking the communities!
I love

the fade feature, but not the full screen feature (using IE, and my images really look stretched).

And the beefing up of the protection feature pleases me as well. Won't have folks making dvds with my images and giving them to me! Well, maybe they still will - I'm not as literate as some. In any case, the more that you can do for this the better IMO.

Thanks!

ann

ginger_55 · February 14, 2005

Uh, I should sign this "idiot" and "genius" rarely.

The one thing I would like to know, and I know the rest of you know it, is how to link my smugmug galleries, the whole place, to dgrin. That is for me, so I can go back and forth. As it is, I go to each individually, minimize and so forth.

I know everyone else, or the old timers, have a different way, you all must!

thanks,

ginger

idiot savant

Erik Olsen · February 14, 2005

photo communities

onethumb wrote:

It's that time again.

New stuff:

- photo communities has received a huge overhaul. Anyone can now create and manage photo communities, and they're quite powerful. More info: communities help

And of course, dgrin has one , as does dpreview . I think I'll turn both over to Andy's capable hands as soon as he's ready for them.

Don

I created a photo community, and now I changed my mind. Is there a way to delete it, or have it not show when loged out?

Barb · June 1, 2005

Erik Olsen wrote:

I created a photo community, and now I changed my mind. Is there a way to delete it, or have it not show when loged out?

I was wondering the same thing. Is this answer somewhere else and I just can't find it? Entirely possible, although I have searched

Thx!

Barb
digitaldaze.smugmug.com

Baldy · June 1, 2005

Funny you should mention that. We're testing some new community features and one is deleting...

Barb · June 1, 2005

Baldy wrote:

Funny you should mention that. We're testing some new community features and one is deleting...

Ahhh, well I'll be patient and see how that goes

Thx!

Barb
digitaldaze.smugmug.com

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