Well, March is all but over and it certainly has been a hectic month for us. Last night we released the new functionality that we’ve been working on for the past four weeks, and we hope you’ll log in and check it out when you get a moment. We’re still cleaning up a [...]
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Before I start filling you in on the migration story, let me say hello to all of the MyFamily.com v1.0 customers out there that are reading this. I’m Dave Quick, a member of the MyFamily.com team hard at work on the MyFamily.com v2.0 Beta site.
A significant amount of my time has recently been dedicated to [...]
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It has been quite a week, but we’re back and better than ever. Here’s a quick, non-technical synopsis of what happened:
Sunday: We invited a bunch of Ancestry.com members to try out 2.0. A lot of those members came to sign up and check it out. Our servers took a beating, and the site began to [...]
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Small UPDATE to the “Sloooow site.” post.
We’ve figured out some of the causes of and fixes to the slow, sluggish or simply unresponsive site we’ve had since Sunday. It is partly due to the dramatic increase in users, and also due to the way we’ve coded certain parts of the site.
Today we made numerous changes, [...]
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Ok, votes are in and “Album” it is. I’ll leave the survey form open since we’re always interested in hearing what suggestions you have, but we’ve made the decision. Thank you for your input, as always.
Here are three days worth of votes on the name of a thing that represents an explicit group of photos [...]
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As many of you have noted, the site is running very slowly. We are working to resolve the issues as quickly as we can. I’ll post an update with more details as soon as I have more information.
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We’d love your help naming a feature. The feature is an organizational structure for photos. Gather a group of photos in your site, give it a title and/or description. It can be shared, blogged, purchased as prints, photo books, etc., and you can arrange your photos inside it. You get the idea. The feature is [...]
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Quick note tonight to let everyone know we released new stuff on Monday evening. This post won’t be as detailed as previous release notes posts, but here goes:
Bug fixes, Usability enhancements
You should notice the site feeling more intuitive, easier to navigate and overall more enjoyable to use. We fixed many many bugs and improved the [...]
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