SmugKeys, Unlisted and ‘Lock it Down’
We’ve implemented some important changes to the site to make our privacy options more powerful and easier to understand.
SmugMug gallery, image and video URLs are now appended with keys: an underscore and five alpha-numeric characters. So URLs now look like this: http://cmac.smugmug.com/gallery/2504559_f3ta9 (gallery url) and this http://cmac.smugmug.com/photos/131481399_ZnZmK-L.jpg (image url).
Where we used to call galleries ‘private,’ we now call them ‘unlisted’ to make this feature more clear.
When you create a gallery, we now offer a checkbox called ‘Lock it Down.’ This option automatically makes the gallery unlisted, turns off SmugIslands and external linking, turns on right-click protection (for pros), and protects the gallery with a password of your choosing. All of these settings can be fine-tuned later on the gallery customization page, but this checkbox gives you a quick way to make brand-new galleries private and secure.
For more details about the ‘whats, ‘hows’ and ‘whys’, check out Don’s Blog, Baldy’s post and this discussion on DGrin. We’ve also updated all relevant help pages with the new terminology. Good examples are creating galleries and sharing photos pages.
This was a big release, and while we tested hard, there might be bugs - if you find any we’ll squash ‘em. Please forward any problems to our Support Heroes , thanks!
