New Album URLs?

Jason Dunn

Unless I'm mistaken, Smugmug has altered the way they generate URLs for public albums. I'm not seeing this for instance:

http://photos.jasondunn.com/gallery/3208040_HaFpX

When before I'd see this:

http://photos.jasondunn.com/gallery/3208040

It seem to work fine without the _HaFpX, so I'm curious, what's the reason for this change? Sharing album URLs via email is much easier when the URLs are shorter - in fact, I've always wished that the root level of the album, before someone clicks on the picture, would be just the gallery/album# - I don't know how many people realize they can delete everything up to the album number...

DrDavid

You might want to read this:
http://dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=83916

Jason Dunn

DrDavid wrote:

You might want to read this:
http://dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=83916

Aha - cool, thanks for the explanation. I wish there was a mailing list or something pushed down to me that would keep me abreast of the changes that Smugmug makes. I prefer email to RSS in a huge way.

Anyway, the gallery in question is public and has never been private/hidden/unlisted. So why would it have the five-character addition?

jfriend

Jason Dunn wrote:

Aha - cool, thanks for the explanation. I wish there was a mailing list or something pushed down to me that would keep me abreast of the changes that Smugmug makes. I prefer email to RSS in a huge way.

Anyway, the gallery in question is public and has never been private/hidden/unlisted. So why would it have the five-character addition?

All galleries have the extra key characters available. That way you can have a link that stays the same no matter whether the gallery is public or unlisted. The same is true for links to individual images.

Andy

Jason Dunn wrote:

Unless I'm mistaken, Smugmug has altered the way they generate URLs for public albums. I'm not seeing this for instance:

http://photos.jasondunn.com/gallery/3208040_HaFpX

When before I'd see this:

http://photos.jasondunn.com/gallery/3208040

It seem to work fine without the _HaFpX, so I'm curious, what's the reason for this change? Sharing album URLs via email is much easier when the URLs are shorter - in fact, I've always wished that the root level of the album, before someone clicks on the picture, would be just the gallery/album# - I don't know how many people realize they can delete everything up to the album number...

Hi, please read the release notes:
http://blogs.smugmug.com/release-notes/2008/02/08/smugkeys-unlisted-and-lock-it-down/

and the linked entry to Don's blog.

Release notes are easy to subscribe to, and are also conveniently linked in your control panel, news tab

Holler with questions.

Jason Dunn

Andy wrote:

Release notes are easy to subscribe to, and are also conveniently linked in your control panel, news tab

Ah yes, the link is there - what would be really cool though would be if the release notes items were published inside my control panel as SmugNews items. Or, if that's too complex, it would be great to have the release notes blog use Feedburner and the RSS to email function...then I could subscribe to the feed via email and get an email when there's a new entry. It's free and totally rocks.

Andy

Jason Dunn wrote:

Ah yes, the link is there - what would be really cool though would be if the release notes items were published inside my control panel as SmugNews items. Or, if that's too complex, it would be great to have the release notes blog use Feedburner and the RSS to email function...then I could subscribe to the feed via email and get an email when there's a new entry. It's free and totally rocks.

You can pop the feed url right into your feed reader, google reader, feedburner, no?

http://blogs.smugmug.com/release-notes/feed/

Jason Dunn

Andy wrote:

You can pop the feed url right into your feed reader, google reader, feedburner, no?

Yes, I can, but I'm suggesting that Feedburner's RSS to Email service is a free, and very useful, alternative. RSS is great, until you have 2000+ unread items in your RSS reader...I find email much easier to manage and process.

Take a look at my blog, right column:
http://www.jasondunn.com/

That form? You enter your email address, and Feedburner handles the delivery of a once-daily (at the most) email that contains the items published in the RSS feed. Feedburner also handles the subscribe/unsubscribe elements - it's very slick, very useful, and completely free.