The site now features advanced caching and code reuse that should enable us to be faster and lighter. There are numerous bug fixes and new features in this release. Some of the salient ones that you will come across are the following -
- Automated thumbnails and caching of posted images
We have a large number of posts with images where the original site is removed or down. This breaks all the image links that are on our site. We now plan to cache those images locally so that this does not occur.
We will only cache images that are enclosed within textile tags (i.e. you use!http://image_location!to post image). Read more on textile tags.
Copyright Concerns- We only cache a medium quality image.
- We automatically add a tag on top left corner that refers to the original site.
- A link back to the original image is also added automatically (the user can over-ride this using textile tags -
!http://image_link!:http://link). - If you don’t want your image cached and served by us then you can use the standard ‘img’ html tags.
- Site Cloud
We have another new feature called Site Cloud that aims to recognize sites that are posted here. You can slice, dice and analyze this data in multiple ways to find the leaders in every category or date range. - Expanded View
Most of our new features are based on user feedback and this one is no exception. aacool mentioned on this post that an expanded view of the site may be useful for casual readers who want more information at a glance before they vote.You now have an option on your profile page to enable or disable this feature. Please note that we reduce the stories to 15 a page when you choose the expanded view and this is useful only if you are on a fast broadband connection.
As always, with so many new features you may find some unforeseen bugs and we encourage you to contact us regarding those. We are here to make your padding experience more enjoyable…