A new upload credit system and major performance upgrade.

For the past few weeks, we've been experiencing performance issues with Simplebucket and that is causing slow loading pages especially when browsing through the photos on our explore page.

Well, we've got good news! After a few nights of work, the performance of Simplebucket is finally getting to a state that I feel is acceptable. This performance boost will help a lot when photos get Digg'd or got on the front page of any of the popular social media sharing sites.

In other news, we've also rolled out software updates to Simplebucket last weekend. Here's the major changes if you haven't noticed:

1) If you are using the secret url to admin your photos, please go to the login page and request for your new url. Enter your email address and we'll send you the secret url. Why has my admin url changed, you might ask? Well, we have been having issues with the previous url format which contains the account's email address and after much debate, we felt that it is somewhat violating your privacy, especially if you are using someone else's computer to access your account. So to protect your privacy, we've made the url totally anonymous.



2) Every upload is now counted against your account's upload credits. ALL active account will get 5 upload credits per day. The other good news is, Simplebucket now allows unlimited storage for your account as long as you got enough credits to upload your photos. We previously have a 500 photo limit per account. So without doing anything, you will get 5x30 = 150 uploads/month. 5x365=1825 uploads/year. If that is not enough, we also offer upload credits for a very, very reasonable price of $0.02/upload credit. To buy more credits, go to your account options page once you have login or through your secret url page.

I think that's basically the 2 major changes in the current software release. Other minor changes includes bug fixes, performance upgrades and optimizing the code base so that things are flying faster. I hope to hear your comments on the new upload credit systems.

Thank you
Khang