8May 2011
v2.01: Instant Search, Timeline and New Profiles
John and I are super psyched to announce the release of Minus v2.01. This is a major release. We’ve added features like search, made tremendous improvements in sharing workflow, made gallery viewing more elegant than ever, and tripled our server capacity.
We went through many iterations in getting to this release. Taking your feedback to heart, we’ve made great strides in improving the sharing workflow many of you have been telling us about. With v2.01, it’s simpler than ever to share; find users; search through your own galleries; and discover what your friends are sharing.
Be sure to send us your ideas, suggestions and bug reports at our forum, we are listening.
New Features
- File upload limit has now been increased to 50MB per file for registered users
- You can now drag and drop into the top header or select to create a new gallery
- Instant Search is now available in header of all pages on Minus
- Search for friends and others to follow
- Search through your own galleries and uploads
- Search for public galleries from who you follow (does not search all public galleries yet)
- Navigation update.
- Footer links of Home, Profile, Tools and Settings now in top right
- Bottom right corner now displays Toggles for View Mode and Background Mode
- Bottom left links are now in blue to be more visible
- Compact View and Thumbnail View are now available for homepage and profile Timeline
- Galleries are now Public or Private, by default will remain private
- Public – Select public to publish to your profile, and your followers can search for it
- Private – Anyone with the link can view gallery, but not visible in public search or profile
- New User Profiles ( my profile )
- Publishing of galleries is now a dropdown select box
- You can now see the followers and following inside profiles
- You can now search for public galleries from those you follow
- Profiles have Compact and Thumbnail view as options
- Home (Timeline) is now updated with multiple tabs for signed in users
- All tab will include Feed, Mine and History
- Feed tab includes published galleries from everyone you follow
- Mine tab includes your own uploads and galleries
- History tab includes your visited galleries
- Gallery updates
- Mouse scroll enabled for browsing galleries in addition to keyboard arrows
- Copy to clipboard icon added next to Edit and Share links for convenience
Changelog
- Optimized upload behavior
- Drag files on any page into the header to create a new gallery
- Drag files into existing gallery edit url to add more items into gallery
- The “Select” uploader now opens up browse window with single click and improved UI without flash
- When uploading multiple files, we now prioritize one upload at a time
- Moved “Mine” page to homepage as a tab
- Removed Social Icons from gallery menu such as Reddit, Digg, Facebook, Twitter icons. Working on better implementation.
- When loading a specific item in gallery, that item will load and focus first
- Registration no longer requires entering recaptcha verification but added anti-flood protocols
- Sign up form added to homepage for guest users
- Optimized performance for Internet Explorer 6,7,8 and 9 – Drag and drop coming soon for IE
- Optimized gallery loading speed and various performance increases
- Optimized infinite scroll for homepage timeline and profile, added more link
- Optimized centering algorithm for galleries
- Optimized Meta tags keywords and descriptions
- Updated and added new ajax loading icons for gallery and timeline
- Updated Timeline auto-load to have waypoint
- Added additional data for views, items to gallery and profiles
- Added navigation and search to header
- Added thumbnail link under “Share” for images
- Added Compact versus Thumbnail View mode for home and profile
- Added helpful tips for new users once registering for first time
- Clicking on an image will now open the image link in same window instead of new
- Many interface changes and improvements such as re-alignment of icons and text
- Updated forum and html code to use image link instead of gallery link
- Fixed gallery view image resizing algorithm and optimized it for better viewing
- Fixed numerous bug for browsing galleries
- Fixed edit caption bugs
- Fixed additional reported bugs
Work in progress
- Minus for iPhone, iPad and improved mobile browser experience
- Ability to preview Office documents, power points and more inside galleries
- New gallery modes including compact thumbnails, grid view, full screen and more
- Allow users to embed galleries with full functionalities
- Password protection for galleries
- Add URL redirection/shortener feature on homepage as secondary service
Posted on Sunday May 8 2011 in Updates by Carl Hu 19 Comments
thanks you
No problem. Be sure to send us your feedback and suggestions !
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Great! Thank you for the updates. One thing I am still waiting on, however, is the removal of the limit on gallery size or at least heightening it a little bit… as 50 is way too small in my opinion. Thank you for the great service!
Hi Gray,
Anytime. What do you think is a good number? We can increase it more but we feel it is right when we allow users to enable “GRID VIEW” as right now it is not good for browsing too many items
Cheers
Did you add a pixel size restriction or something? I can’t upload my 1920×1080 jpg screenshots from Vindictus anymore (~500kb). It just says “The image you have uploaded is not in the correct format and cannot be properly rendered. Please try another image.”
Actually… every jpg I try to upload gets that message. I’ve determined it’s not the file names or pixel size. Something must be broken.
Hi Tiffany,
We had an upload bug earlier today with uploads. This has been fixed now, it was not restrictions. Please try again now. Very sorry for the inconvenience caused.
Cheers
Good job guy.
Thanks for increasing the upload size limit hope you guy will increase it further soon. 50MB is just not enough just maybe enough for music mp3 upload.
Hi,
Thanks! The 50MB is per file limit, and there is no limit on amount of files you can upload
Hope that explains it, i think is more than enough for MP3s.
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Can the desktop apps be updated to support the 50MB limit? Thanks.
In reply to the ‘what is a good number’ that is a tough question as i know you guys are trying to gauge performance in the equation as well. My one thought in regards to that is that pagination isn’t a bad thing
… i know you guys like using the autopaging, ajax based loading but that definitely can be taxing on a browser. Currently on my site i have pretty simplistic approach http://love9.us nothing fancy but it definitely allows for more images per page. But obviously you guys have the JS skills to make it fancier which is why I’m using your service 
. But back to the question of the numbers… i guess my answer would be the higher the better… maybe 100? if possible. Thanks for the quick responses!
Hi Imac,
We will update the desktop apps to support 50MB soon, sorry about that
Cheers!
Hi Gray,
Thanks for the suggestions, will definitely try that and explore possibly pagination for larger galleries! 100 sounds like a good number, we will explore
Cheers
John
No scrollbar on http://feedback.min.us/ with Opera
The minus Tool needs more TLC:
-Ability to delete files in the history view instead of going to the site
-Remembering the history after exit
-the ability to control the account more from the tool
Thanks Ben!
1) We will fix feedback in opera
2) Minus desktop is very beta and we don’t have resources to work on it right now. If you know anyone that can help please do send them our way
If you have suggestions as well do add it, we’ll get to it soon once we setup a team!
Cheers
-Remembering the history after exit
-the ability to control the account more from the tool
Hi,
We will look into this, thanks.