2Jul 2011

v2.05: Invite, Karma points and 100 files per gallery

Happy (early) 4th of July! Just in time for the long weekend, we’ve added: the ability for you to invite your friends to Minus; upped the limit from 50 files to 100 files for every gallery; and added a new grid view for viewing your Timeline so that you can browse almost 10 times more galleries on every screen.

We hope you enjoy the new features we’re experimenting with – share your thoughts with us and we’ll be sure to respond to each and every one of them.

New Features

  • Gallery upload limit increased to 100 files per gallery
    • Optimized frontend and backend to make this possible
    • Each gallery can now contain up to 100 items max
  • Invite your friends ( link )
    • Earn Karma points through your own URL
    • Invite your friends via email, twitter and facebook
  • Profile now displays Karma, Shared and Visits ( demo )
    • Karma – displays the number of visitors you sent via your Invite URL
      • Soon other components will earn you Karma as well
      • Soon Karma points will earn you rewards, upgrades and more
    • Shared – displays the number of your Public Galleries
    • Visits – displays the total number of visitors to your profile and galleries combined
  • Grid view for Timeline & Profiles
    • Click on the Grid view icon  in bottom right corner of your timeline to enable Grid view
    • Grid view is now enabled for both Timeline and Profiles for easier browsing
    • Three modes: Grid View, Thumbnail View (default) and Compact View
  • Added social share buttons: Facebook Like, Twitter Tweet and Google Plus to gallery ( demo )

Changelog

  • Added Embed link under images for easier embedding of galleries
  • Gallery embed option updated with numerous fixes and optimizations
  • Long filenames now display correctly in galleries
  • Added karma points, shared counts and view counts to profiles
  • Removed follow box for secondary pages and updated secondary pages
  • Updated numerous icons
  • Optimized notification bar
  • Optimized search bar
  • Optimized share box under images
  • Improved gallery loading performance
  • Fixed Safari browser upload bugs
  • Fixed general bugs

Work in progress

  • Improved mobile applications for Minus on iOS and Android devices
  • Ability to comment and vote on galleries
  • Ability to preview Office documents, power points and more inside galleries
  • Browse galleries, and tagging
  • Password protection for galleries
  • Possible login and integration with OpenID, Twitter and Facebook connect

Posted on Saturday July 2 2011 in Updates by Carl Hu No Comments

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