Hello 365ers,
Over the last few weeks we have been making some changes behind the scenes and have some new changes incoming real soon.
Tweaks to Ace Member privacy settings
Members have mentioned they would like simpler privacy controls for their project, and most importantly to be able to have these options apply to their whole account.
Today we're pleased to announce that Ace Members can now change their Privacy options in your account settings and these changes are applied retroactively across all your historical photos (with a few nuances).
For more information on how the privacy options work, visit the Privacy Feature FAQ.
Download Archive feature
Ace Members have a useful new feature to download monthly archives of your albums.
These archives contain...
- The full resolution original photos you uploaded
- The dates, titles and descriptions you wrote with your photos
- An HTML document where you can view your photos and titles/descriptions presented nicely.
This feature has been available for a few months during it's testing phase, if you haven't tried it and backed-up your photos yet, we suggest you give it a go.
You can access this new feature on the "month" view of your project..
Ace membership price increase
We have some important news to share with you about Ace membership. Starting June 1st, the annual price of Ace membership and renewals will increase to $29.99. This is a necessary step to ensure the sustainability and quality of our site. We appreciate your loyalty and support over the years, and we want to continue providing you with a valuable service that meets your needs and expectations.
This price increase will allow us to invest in upgrading our infrastructure, which will improve the performance and security of the site. It will also enable us to develop new features that will enhance your experience
For those whose renewal is due before the end of May, you will have the opportunity to renew at the current price. Additionally, non-Ace members can still purchase an Ace Membership at the current price until June 1st.
We appreciate your understanding and continued support as we strive to provide you with an exceptional user experience and secure the future of our platform.
Restrictions for free accounts
We have always strived to provide a comprehensive free version of the site for people just starting out - however the burden of hosting large quantities of photos for free accounts is impacting the long-term sustainability of our platform.
While there have always been gentle restrictions in place for free accounts, we will now be implementing them more rigorously. Effective June 1st, members who possess a substantial number of photos but do not support the site through Ace membership will experience restrictions on their accounts.
The restrictions will include...
- A maximum of 365 historical photos will be accessible. (newest photos visible, older photos will be hidden)
- For members with a very high numbers of photos, new uploads will no longer be accepted.
We appreciate your understanding as we implement these measures to ensure the continued availability of our services and maintain a sustainable environment for all users.
Tweaks to photo view counts
We have been making some changes to how we count the number of views your photo receives. Since the dawn of time we've only been counting views when they occur on the individual photos page. As of May 22 we have now additionally started counting views from the home page feed as well - hopefully this gives a more complete picture of how many eyeballs are seeing your photos.
Search updated - Discussions and Blogs
The old search for discussion threads and blog posts was becoming out-of-date. This has been revamped and hopefully improved. Feedback welcome!
Thank you from Ross!
365 is a wonderful community I love being a part of and hope I can continue for a long time! Running this site is a privilege and I'm amazed every day by the quality of the photos and discourse between members on the site.
I hope that members who enjoy 365 for the community and the service we offer will choose to continue supporting the site.
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I don't mind the price rise, in fact I would pay more per year if we could have some decent search functions in here both for photos, but also for finding topics that have been posted.
(I know we have search but it is terribly limited and clunky)
I've been an ACE member here for quite a lot of years and have never seen the price go up, so it's definitely worth it for you to improve the structure behind it all.
thank you Ross!
I've only been here 8 years, and in that time you've tweaked, improved and enhanced the site regularly. And that's what we pay for. 😊
eg I know there is was a post in the last couple of weeks about six word story but I can't search posts on sixws - I have to know the exact name of the post. same if I wonder what is the latest sixws number, I have to already know
the other really helpful thing would be to be able to specify how many posts I want to see in each of the categories. there are only 10 per page and we are prolific here so sometimes I have to go back 5 or 6 pages to find something recent. if I could choose to see the last 50 posts ...
and if we could see the date a post was created in the list of posts that would really help a lot too
thanks for responding so positively!
Let me know what you think! https://365project.org/search/discussions?q=six+word+story
I've also updated the Discussions list to show 20 results instead of 10.
I've added the date the discussion threads were started.