28Feb 2012
Minus Mobile
The long awaited mobile site for Minus is live! You can now upload, browse and share on Minus with mobile browsers. Just visit Minus on your mobile browser to give it a try!
Overview of the mobile site:
- New mobile homepage
- Upload and create new folders from Dashboard (Android only)
- Access your Dashboard, Following and My Folders
- Explore and see what’s new
- Browse folders and galleries
- View user profiles on Minus
Be sure to download the Minus app for your Android, iPhone and iPad!
Posted on Tuesday February 28 2012 in General, Updates by John Xie 40 Comments
It does not work properly on old phones…
John Xie
March 4th, 2012 at 2:39 pm
Which phones in particular?
I don’t know exactly what model it was (phone wasn’t mine) but it was nokia running symbian (i might be wrong but i think it was nokia n95). It’s mostly unusable
John Xie
March 4th, 2012 at 4:15 pm
Ok, will look into it, thanks!
Correct the bugs of the site first.
http://feedback.minus.com/topic/100699-attention-over-registrations/
John Xie
March 9th, 2012 at 5:49 pm
Thanks. Will look into this.
What about Open ID sign in?
Moreover, could you make the video player HTML5 based?
Thanks.
John Xie
March 19th, 2012 at 4:22 pm
Hi Royi
1) Open ID is something low priority, you can already use with Facebook/Twitter connect.
2) Video player HTML5 based is something we’ll look into for sure
Cheers
Gr8 !
That’s cool
John Xie
March 23rd, 2012 at 11:24 am
Is it possible to have some control over the thumbnails for a specific album? Sometimes the thumbnail crops the image awkwardly and it looks pretty bad
John Xie
March 28th, 2012 at 3:27 pm
We are fixing the cropping soon, so no worries. I assume you are talking about the “Grid Mode” or your “Profile” right?
Nuuby
March 29th, 2012 at 11:34 am
Yep, I do. Thanks for the info
John Xie
March 29th, 2012 at 12:37 pm
Pleasure!
Hey Guys!
Still waiting for the dark mode of the website!
So many times when I show of darker photos they’re just over-blinded by the bright look.
Give us 3 options nearly white(as now)/ grey /darkgrey and you’ll open whole new dimensions for viewing media. If you then make those options linkable, so we decide how others see our galleries, then your website becomes a really alternative many of those web portfolios!
Don’t miss out on that chance, for there are so many great features about your service!
John Xie
May 6th, 2012 at 11:23 pm
Thanks for the suggestion and we will definitely look into it. Stay tuned on the blog !
Are you aware that Minus.com has bad Unicode implementation?
If I upload a file from my Mac to Minus, and its filename contains Bulgarian letters, the uploaded file displays properly in Minus.com, but when it is downloaded (on different OS) its name is broken (replaced by unreadable entities).
We’re in 21! century. Fix this ASAP, please.
E.g.
It is not polite to guess wnat may be: %D0%94%D1%8A%D0%B3%D0%B0-%D0%9C%D0%B5%D1%87%D1%82%D0%B0_210%D1%85148%2B3_%D0%9A%D0%9E%D0%A0%D0%98%D0%A6%D0%98_%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%82.pdf
It is good to know Minus.com devs do implement more mobile features, but I guess it would be better if those are built on a stable Unicode ground. Which is not the case of the current Minus.com state. Minus.com re-encode all filenames of non-Roman resources.
It is not very polite to send DL links to other users, and ask them to rename the files that have Bulgarian names. All the time.
Please, implement better language support for non-Roman, and non-Latin alphabets when files are downloaded.
John Xie
May 6th, 2012 at 11:35 pm
Thanks for the detailed comment!
This will be addressed and fixed asap
Hope you otherwise like the recent new features on http://minus.com/explore !
The pages on the notification page *minus.com/notifications* are bugged for me on Chrome and FF. They currently look like this http://i.minus.com/jbxjJeXo4JfqfP.png
Noticed the thumbs up/down feature. Thumbs up is nice but I’m one of those that feel that a thumbs down is redundant. The new previews on the feed and explore are nice btw.
John Xie
May 18th, 2012 at 4:01 pm
Thanks!
1) Will investigate the notifications bug
2) Will definitely look into Thumbs down and possibly removing that
Cheers
A few other bugs.
- When clicking on a thumbnail in grid mode the expanded image pops up, the date displays incorrectly. It always shows 7 days for me.
- Sort by created and modified in grid mode doesn’t seem to be working properly
- The first image is always highlighted when viewing in grid mode unless linked to some other image, not sure if bug.
John Xie
May 21st, 2012 at 1:59 pm
Hi Nuuby
Thanks for the awesome feedback as usual.
1) The date is fixed now
2) We will work on this asap
3) It is to highlight the image you came from, we’ll fix that soon!
If you have any other suggestions please let us know and feel free to email info@minus.com directly as well!
I am still thinking that old gray-red colors were far better than current ubiquitous awful, treacle orange. See your old video with old logo and typography here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=trc0wIzMXSI
And “toggle view” icons should be in the right down corner, text to current “back to top”.
John Xie
June 4th, 2012 at 2:24 pm
Thanks. We made some changes recently and it is darker now. Hope you like it.
Im Sure That i had already written that but i can’t see my comment.
Pls support the Nokia n9 (os is Meego Harmatan) with an app (qt?) or redirecting the n9 browser to the mobile site (i Couldn’t find a link so i think it’s managed by cookie or user agent only)
Sry for my broken English
John Xie
July 3rd, 2012 at 2:06 pm
Unfortunately we don’t have the resources to support more browsers at the moment but we will soon. Stay tuned!
Please redesign your Android app, as it looks awful on the newer Android versions – ICS and Jelly Bean. Please follow the User Interface Guidelines: http://developer.android.com/design/index.html
Daniel Leong
July 17th, 2012 at 3:42 pm
We’ve got a brand new interface for the Android app in the final testing phases. Look out for the update soon!
wmq
July 20th, 2012 at 5:06 am
I own a Samsung G S3. Problem. I save the images to my external SD. It is not possible to upload them automatic
.
Also there should be an option to only upload on wifi.
Daniel Leong
July 17th, 2012 at 3:45 pm
Hello,
The Android app does not currently support any form of automatic upload, but it’s definitely something we’re considering for the future. The option for “camera” in the Settings refers to the Aviary image editing software included with Minus, and is unrelated to uploads.
We have plans to improve the upload experience for version 3.1.1 of the Android app– this will may automatic retries, delaying until Wifi is available, etc. Please look out for it!
Cheers,
Daniel
iphone app, any way to get hi res images on a double tap or something? i cant figure it out! saving the image only saves this bad lo res version.
Aaron
July 17th, 2012 at 2:40 pm
Hi Jason,
There is currently no way to retrieve the high resolution version of an image in the iOS app. Look out for that feature in the updated version, though!
Thanks,
Aaron
aaron, i can’t wait! thanks!!
Just wondering, but how is an image deemed mature. From users reporting the file?
John Xie
July 31st, 2012 at 4:15 pm
Yes. We may add NSFW options in the future as well for users to tag their own uploads. Hope you like the recent changes though
Tried tapping the “sign in” link on your site via my iPad and it wouldn’t work. Found this blog post amd was annoyed there was no specific URL for a mobile browser version of Minus since simply pulling up the site in Safari on my iPad isn’t showing me a site that works. :/
John Xie
August 6th, 2012 at 12:00 pm
Thanks, we will investigate this soon. Sorry for the trouble!
thepete
August 6th, 2012 at 2:01 pm
OK, cool. Thanks!
and windows phone?