Someone told us there would be free beer @ this update party … They lied. =*(

Optimizations

  • Amazon’s S3 network- Images hosted on S3 now, should help alleviate server bandwith and allow for a better user experience.
  • Optimized mail parser - It should run 55.67923% faster.
  • Upload Form - We have optimized our upload form using JQuery, as some of you may have noticed our upload form can take longer than expected. As a solution we have divided the proccess of uploading a photo using our form into 3 steps:

1. Upload the Pik to our servers.

2. Enter status message.

3. Post to your micro-blogs/social networks.

So how is the upload process different now? Well, before we optmized, all of these steps were done in unison and at times the services we are integrated with took longer to respond than expected. All these factors along with slow upload speed attributed to the delay in posting and the occasional timeout.

JQuery , now allows us to post to individual services and notify you when each service has been updated.

New Features

  • Ability to re-sync your accounts - You no longer have to remove and add a particular service to update your badge icon and info.
  • Tumblr users (and any one else interested) - Your requests have been answered by the Pikchur gods. You may now send your long messages in the body of your MMS/email, to do so simply leave the “subject” blank.
  • The “Gear” that can be made out of photos, can only be generated by the owner of the Pik. If you have not heard of our “Gear” option check out the right side of one of your Pik’s landing page and click “show gear”. With this you can make your photos into a veriety of goodies.

Upcoming Features

  • Pulling Comments - We plant to pull comments from our supported services to better sync conversations. (If you don’t already know, we post comments left on Piks to any service the Pik was posted to; if you choose to leave one)
  • Comment notifications - Notifications sent via email, so that you know when your Pik is commented on.
  • new Special case for Tumblr users - If you send a subject and a body, we will use the subject for the title of the blog post and the body for the body of the blog post.
  • new Comments - When you post a comment you might notice that it takes a little bit of time, we plan to enable status update queuing on comments, to help speed things up.
  • new Updating our login/auth to support oAuth. This will enable us to integrate with services like Flickr, and more.
  • new API - Allow for the API to accept image url’s as media to be posted. Enabling the creation of widgets, bookmarklets, and FF add-ons, with the ability to send photos found online directly to Pikchur, which we then propagate to your synced services.
  • And much more to come…

If you should find any bugs please feel free to visit our getsatisfaction page and leave us a note.

Thanks and happy Piking,

The Pikchur Team