http://www.f-swap.com/blog New features, bug fixes, promotions and publicity Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:47:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We've upgraded the upload tool so it is compatible with the latest flash plug-in (version 10) so users whose browser has this plug-in can continue to upload multiple files with ease. The upgrade involved installing an alternative approach to launching the photo selection dialog.  A "security fix" in the latest version ... http://www.f-swap.com/blog/2008/11/18/uploader-compatible-with-flash-10/ Events can now be renewed annually.  Wait, your thinking, this didn't exist before?  Well, the site hasn't been around that long.  Our first paid accounts are just coming up for annual renewal in the next couple of weeks, so we didn't need to finalize the event renewing functionality until now, ... http://www.f-swap.com/blog/2008/11/13/renew-your-events/ For users who have both created many events and participated in many events other people have created, the events page could be a little confusing.   What events are mine?  Whose events are all these other ones?  What happens when I click on the red X?  We've hopefully cleared up ... http://www.f-swap.com/blog/2008/09/22/events-page-separation/ We've made a slight improvement to the quality of the photos as displayed on the website for all new photos added from this post forward.   As always, when downloading the full-sized photos, you'll still get the exact same quality as the original photo that was uploaded, but now the smaller ... http://www.f-swap.com/blog/2008/08/24/better-photo-quality/ We've completely re-written the download script to improve its performance.  You should no longer have the timeout issues posted about previously, so you can go ahead and download up to 50 photos at a time.  The download should start quicker than previously. Interestingly, your download will start sooner when downloading the ... http://www.f-swap.com/blog/2008/08/24/improved-download-performance/ This issue should now be resolved.  See  the Improved Download Performance post for details. Lately there has been some issues with zip downloads of large numbers of files.  We are working on the issue.  For now, if a zip download of multiple files doesn't work, try selecting a smaller number of ... http://www.f-swap.com/blog/2008/08/08/zip-download-timeouts/ You can now export your photos from an event directly to your Flickr account, in addition to being able to export photos to Facebook. You don’t have to download them from Full Photo Swap then upload them back to Flickr, you can send them there directly. Further, you ... http://www.f-swap.com/blog/2007/11/13/send-photos-to-flickr/ This is probably the coolest feature we've added yet.  You can now export the photos you like from an event directly to your Facebook account.  You don't have to download them from Full Photo Swap then upload them back to Facebook, you can send them there directly.  Further, we automatically ... http://www.f-swap.com/blog/2007/11/12/send-photos-to-facebook/ You can now download sets of images from events at the dimensions of your choice.  So if you don't need the full-sized files you can specify the size you want for a smaller, faster download. To take advantage of this feature, check off the images you want from a given event ... http://www.f-swap.com/blog/2007/11/11/download-resized-images/ We've recently finished moving Full Photo Swap to a new web server environment.  This new setup should provide increased upload and download speed, as well as faster processing of image resizing and faster zipping of multiple images together for download.  It also has the storage space we need to continue ... http://www.f-swap.com/blog/2007/11/02/new-server-setup/