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Yes, you can!
So, with popularity growing, and with fresh people coming onto the site (thank you, guys and ladies!), we have some questions appearing over and over again. Of course, we are always in the works to improve user interface and experience on the site, but let's run a small list of things that you can do on the site already:
Can I change my username? Yes, you can
Can I delete my account? Yes, you can (careful, there's no undo) Can I enable the store to sell prints? Yes, you can
Can I edit thumbnails? Yes, you can (on a photo page, click edit)
Have more questions about 500px? Let us know here :-)
Can I change my username? Yes, you can
Can I delete my account? Yes, you can (careful, there's no undo) Can I enable the store to sell prints? Yes, you can
Can I edit thumbnails? Yes, you can (on a photo page, click edit)
Have more questions about 500px? Let us know here :-)
The answer is Yes!
Is iPhone app coming?
Is iPad app coming?
Are you developing Lightroom plugin?
Do you have Aperture plugin in works?
Are you planning Android app?
Are you going to do Flickr importer?
Are you going to release API?
Do you have geo-location in the works?
Are you developing forums/groups?
Will you have thumbnail previews on Twitter?
The answer is Yes!
Is iPad app coming?
Are you developing Lightroom plugin?
Do you have Aperture plugin in works?
Are you planning Android app?
Are you going to do Flickr importer?
Are you going to release API?
Do you have geo-location in the works?
Are you developing forums/groups?
Will you have thumbnail previews on Twitter?
The answer is Yes!
The Last 4 Weeks
We’ve had so much on our agenda in the last few weeks that we totally abandoned our blog. No good!
So, first a run down for some cool numbers: we flew past 3,000,000 visits and 25,000,000 pageviews. That’s no small deal. However, combined with 60% month-to-month growth this is expected.
Just yesterday we had our highest traffic yet — over 144K visits and over 1 million page views. You can imagine our excitement!
Some nice touches have been made to the Uploader — now, if you try to close or click another link, you’ll have a message box warning you of unsaved content. No more accidentally lost uploads!
We had introduced an uber-cool navigation a week ago, but had to quickly pull it down, because it quickly (as in 30 minutes) became very popular, and it wasn’t tested for. The whole site almost stalled, so we removed it. It will be coming a bit later, complete with more shortcuts for previous, next and following.
Back to the shortcuts, we introduced two of them: (L)iking and (F)aving. So go ahead and press those tiny cute buttons to perform magic from your keyboard!
On the backend, we’ve optimized our CSS a lot, fixed (broken for some) Facebook connect, added more aggressive caching (so, faster load times), and rewrote literally thousands of lines of code (now, it’s down to hundreds, and still working great!).
What’s next for us? Well, taking the site from thousands of users to tens of thousands wasn’t a small feat, considering how intensive some of our calculations are for the users (scoring, voring, etc.). Now that we have crossed the 100,000 users mark, we are on to a whole new level. A lot of optimizations and improvements are going to be in the backend, invisible to users, but it will help us grow smoothly.
And once again, thanks for all the love on twitter and blogs! We are still a very small team (actually, just 4 of us), so we work extra hours and will go extra mile to make 500px a home to world's most prominent photographers.
So, first a run down for some cool numbers: we flew past 3,000,000 visits and 25,000,000 pageviews. That’s no small deal. However, combined with 60% month-to-month growth this is expected.
Just yesterday we had our highest traffic yet — over 144K visits and over 1 million page views. You can imagine our excitement!
Some nice touches have been made to the Uploader — now, if you try to close or click another link, you’ll have a message box warning you of unsaved content. No more accidentally lost uploads!
We had introduced an uber-cool navigation a week ago, but had to quickly pull it down, because it quickly (as in 30 minutes) became very popular, and it wasn’t tested for. The whole site almost stalled, so we removed it. It will be coming a bit later, complete with more shortcuts for previous, next and following.
Back to the shortcuts, we introduced two of them: (L)iking and (F)aving. So go ahead and press those tiny cute buttons to perform magic from your keyboard!
On the backend, we’ve optimized our CSS a lot, fixed (broken for some) Facebook connect, added more aggressive caching (so, faster load times), and rewrote literally thousands of lines of code (now, it’s down to hundreds, and still working great!).
What’s next for us? Well, taking the site from thousands of users to tens of thousands wasn’t a small feat, considering how intensive some of our calculations are for the users (scoring, voring, etc.). Now that we have crossed the 100,000 users mark, we are on to a whole new level. A lot of optimizations and improvements are going to be in the backend, invisible to users, but it will help us grow smoothly.
And once again, thanks for all the love on twitter and blogs! We are still a very small team (actually, just 4 of us), so we work extra hours and will go extra mile to make 500px a home to world's most prominent photographers.
The Amazing Race
Well, it's been exactly 3 months since we have reached our previous milestone of 1,000,000 visits, and yesterday we have reached and confirmed another great milestone — 2,000,000 visits, and over 15 million pageviews.
To put that into perspective, we have doubled our numbers in less than 100 days.
We have also received some great feedback California photographers, who signed up in numbers. Thank you guys (and ladies), you are amazing!
What's next? It's hard to predict, since, according to our predict-o-meter, we were supposed to hit 15 million pageviews in October 2011. So, no predictions for the nearest future, but we are looking for some great new features that we have planned to unveil over the summer.
Enjoy your day, and enjoy great photos.
To put that into perspective, we have doubled our numbers in less than 100 days.
We have also received some great feedback California photographers, who signed up in numbers. Thank you guys (and ladies), you are amazing!
What's next? It's hard to predict, since, according to our predict-o-meter, we were supposed to hit 15 million pageviews in October 2011. So, no predictions for the nearest future, but we are looking for some great new features that we have planned to unveil over the summer.
Enjoy your day, and enjoy great photos.
Recommendations
Hi all! We have 'soft launched' the photo recommendations on our photo pages. Check it out, you may discover some more great photos with these suggestions we placed under the comments.
Let us know how it works for you — comments are always welcome and valuable.
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