Comments on: Big release – September 4th, 2007

By: Luke

Luke — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 19:06:41 +0000

I see YUI 2.2.2 being used instead of 2.3. Are there differing version on different parts of the site?

By: Anne

Anne — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:43:35 +0000

@renstar: Thanks for your feedback. The main differentiator (as I see it) between the power account and the standard account is the power to control more of the look and feel of your SmugMug site. Total customization for $20 more a year. There’s also the perk of video clip support, but currently our video support isn’t strong enough for that to be a draw for most people.

@Bill: Thanks!

@roberto: With the changes we made to support UTF-8, words with accents shouldn’t be a problem. We don’t support them in keywords, but everywhere else on the site should work. Give them a try!

@Mike: Good question. No bump on the megapixel limit, yet. It’s still 48 MP. That means a 12,000×4,0000 image is ok, as is a 24,000×2,000 image, etc. Stitching together images can definitely put you over that limit and we appreciate your feedback.

By: Mike Lougee

Mike Lougee — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 02:25:49 +0000

Along w/ the increases in filesize, are there any similar increases in the image dimensions (WxH)? I glanced at the Help page for filesizes, but didn’t see a mention there re dimensions. (The reason for asking about dimensions is mostly for stitched-together panoramas, which can be pretty darn wide.)

Thanks for any thoughts (and for the great improvements!).

By: roberto denis

roberto denis — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:25:24 +0000

We are not all from an english speaking country; It means we would like to write words with accents (in my case in french). When are you going to fix the problem?
Thanks

By: Bill Curnow

Bill Curnow — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:41:57 +0000

I love the new control panel. Major improvement. Keep up the good work.

By: renstar

renstar — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 02:54:16 +0000

First, thanks to all the smugmug people that got all this stuff out. Good work!

Why not give power users an 18 mb limit for uploads? It feels like we havn’t gotten a significant upgrade in a long time. By that I mean, either everyone got the same upgrade, or only the pro users did. Since I signed up as a power user, the only thing I can do differently is change my site. I can’t use the back printing (thats something a power user might find useful).

This may be an issue of perception, but maybe my definition of a power user is different than yours. What exactly is yours? In my mind, a power user is either an advanced amateur with enough computer know-how to be dangerous, or an advanced computer user with enough photo know-how to be dangerous on occasion. Personally, I fall in to the latter category. I like to muck about with panoramic and other high pixel count techniques, hence the potential for large images (though, FWIW, I don’t think I’ve ever gotten that a compressed file that big).

I guess this sounds a little ranty. The reality is, I’m a very happy smugmug user, I’m glad to see the interfaces get the update as I have found them very cumbersome in the past. I’m just curious what SmugMugs definition of a power user is.

Thanks again for the good work!