Monday, September 10, 2007

Upload Recovery, and more private sharing

About 10 days ago, we quietly released an enhancement to our uploading system that I thought is worth mentioning. We have a great uploading mechanism that we are really proud of (most of the time). We've heard many people complain about uploads going all the way to 100% and "getting stuck" there. If this happens again, or your browser crashes in the middle of an upload for any reason, just restart your browser, go the upload page again, and you'll see a link to recover the photos that were successfully uploaded.

We've been listening to our users asking to have more control over their sharing experience, and the result of it is two new sharing modes. Go to "Album Properties" in edit mode and you'll see two new options: "Shared Only" and "Friends Only". There is also a little help text to familiarize you with these features.

When sharing with these new modes, the person receiving the album must have (or create) a BubbleShare account. If you make an album "Friends Only" it will show up in your profile page when your friends are logged in.