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By: Doug Yates

Doug Yates — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:26:41 +0000

First of all, these improvements are fantastic and I am very impressed by the changes I have seen since I signed up in March.

However, one suggestion…Could you please allow “Power Users” to use a custom domain. I paid for my own domain and have yet to use it. Since I am not a Pro Photographer, it is hard to justify the upgrade to Pro just for this feature.

Thanks for listening!

By: Bobe

Bobe — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 14:39:44 +0000

@Wolfgang: Yes, you may expect SmugMug Large and SmugMug XLarge layouts coming soon.

You make an excellent point about a “Smugmungify me” button, and we’re currently chewing on possibilities.

@slink: There’s a great discussion going on here:
http://dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=73761 .

In particular, you may be interested in this post from SmugMug’s CEO:
http://dgrin.com/showpost.php?p=658254&postcount=45 .

And this post, where SmugMug’s President announces an upcoming change based on our customers’ feedback:
http://dgrin.com/showpost.php?p=659689&postcount=95 .

By: slinkdraconian

slinkdraconian — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 07:50:49 +0000

Why did you make the other size limits more open to Pro and not Standard? I happen to be a budding photographer, and I can’t very well call my picture mine if someone takes the original or 3xLarge, edits the watermark out, and posts it on their website.

SmugMug was the one site I called a safe home, but now, I don’t know.

Excellent edition in the aspect where you honestly didn’t give a rat’s a** on whether or not someone claimed your art.

By: Wolfgang

Wolfgang — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:53:15 +0000

I really love the XL, XL2 (a good match for one of my computers), XL3 (a good match for another of my computers)!
May we expect a SmugMug Large and SmugMug XLarge layout in the near future?

But is there not *any* way to trigger the calculation of these new sizes which is not wasteful and annoying?

Re-Upload causes lots of unnecessary network traffic, destroys comments and thumbs-ups.

Rotate/rotate back and watermark/unwatermark forces you to re-generate all sizes twice. And what of the customers viewing them while being done halfway?

Crop is destructive. So are Colour effects.

On top of that, you get to deal with all the pictures treated that way _right_now_.

I’d _really_ love a button, switch, etc. to say “Please, could you re-calculate the smaller sizes as an idle task (and maybe give me a feedback when it’s done)? I agree it may take days or even weeks to finish it all, as you run the conversions as an idle task, when your computers have nothing more important or time critical to do.” (Creating them on the fly, as they are asked for, would be a very interesting alternative, but is likely not be viable due to limited computing power.)

That would be a) less wasteful (only one re-calculation instead of two), b) less intrusive for customers viewing the photos, c) needing much less care than doing it manually. I understand there probably has to be some limit per day/week.