Development Updates
2nd February 2009
Moving servers
Imgbin is moving to a new host that, with a bit of luck, will be even faster than the old one. During the cross-over period, some people will be able to upload images and other people won't. This is while we wait for our DNS records to propagate all around the world.
All images that were uploaded before the 2nd of Feb will continue to work for everyone even during the switch over period, but images uploaded on or after the 2nd of Feb will only be visible to people who are also capable of uploading images here. Again, this will fix itself once the world's DNS servers know where our site is.
Other changes
There are some other changes on the horizon too. Tagging images was more of a personal exercise and an experimental feature of the website. I wasn't expecting it to be overly popular as this site is for people who just want to upload their development pictures for a few days, not for people to store pictures for the long term and needing to search them.
For this reason, the tagging feature will soon be removed from the website and a new design is also in the works. The current design was designed to be functional, but not aesthetically pleasing, so stay tuned for a face lift.
30th June 2008
Addition tagging features
People can now add new tags for images that are already uploaded. The ability to disapprove of tags that you think are inaccurate has also been added, in a future update disapproving of tags will be more useful than it is at the moment.
29th June 2008
Massive update
Most of the site's code has been rewritten to make it more efficient, reliable and hopefully quicker. Due to bugs with the photoshop PSD file uploading, that feature has been removed and won't be added again until all the bugs have been fixed.
The main feature that has been added that will immediately be noticable to end users is the ability for users to 'tag' their uploaded images. Just enter a few keywords that describe the image or the contents of the image when you upload them. You can even search for images that use the same tags to see similar images.
15th Feb 2008
Numerous Bug Fixes and Features
· Incorrect 'Unsanatised image ID' error fixed
· The form is replaced by a loading gif once it has been submitted
14th Feb 2008
PSD Support
Photoshop PSD files can now be uploaded and thumbnails can be created from them. A memory error may occur on larger files though.
404 Images
Hotlinked images that have been deleted or expired will now display a placeholder image rather than returning a 404 error.
4th Feb 2008
Terms Of Service and About Pages
Creation of the terms of service page and the about page. Contact and FAQs still need to be added.
3rd Feb 2008
xHTML Validation
1st Feb 2008
Initial Upload
The website initially uploaded, search engine bots are blocked whilst development continues
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