As some of you know, this site is based on the Ning platform, and they've just rolled out some changes. Relevent parts for us include:
--Mass Uploader for Photos, Videos, and Music/Podcasts
You'll now be able to upload up to 100 photos, 30 videos or 100 songs/podcasts in one fell swoop. That's not to say that adding all of this stuff won't take forever, but go grab a snack or five and you'll be all set.
--Blog "Improvements" - Round 1
Frankly, this is a huge downgrade, but thankfully it's only temporary. They've replaced the fancy yet buggy rich text editor with the standard text editor, whose only benefit is that it works in Safari. They also added blog tags (so you can add keywords related to your blog post for search purposes), previous/next links (so you can quickly page between that member's blogs), and pinging of 3rd-party update services (so you can submit your blogs to all the popular blog search engines. The loss of the rich text editor really sucks, since you now have to hand-code things like bullet lists and other formatting and the page looks like crap with all the HTML showing, but I'm assured it's not for long.
-- Higher Video Quality
They've updated the video player to set on a fixed size which will result in better-looking videos, while eliminating the options to have small and medium size videos.
The good news of being based on a hosted platform: in general, things get better over time as technology improves and features are added, without much effort on my part. The bad news: I can't control the pace or quality of those.
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