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Thursday, February 28, 2008

Custom CSS

New features
  • Added custom CSS;
  • Added possibility to hide from robots (search engines) with robots.txt.

Now you can customize the CSS for your site to customize it completely.
If you don't want your site searchable you can edit the preferences to hide your site from robots. This means that your site will be ignored by search engines such as Google.

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Fixed bug in FlickrJ

Bug Fix in library
There is a known bug in FlickrJ, which is a library that MyFlickr uses to communicate with Flickr. Basically, the bug appears when two threads tries to parse a Flickr XML response at the same time.
This happened quite often for MyFlickr, probably more than other users since MyFlickr is hosted on a quad-cpu server with slow cpu:s.

The bug has been fixed for myflickr and a patch has been submitted to the flickrj group at sourceforge.


Feature improvement
  • Improved traceability for Google Analytics, by adding user segments and virtual page names for redirected pages. This means that the statistics will make sense even for interactive pages.
  • Removed known exceptions from application log.
  • Minor improvements to download page.

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Added Google Analytics setting per site

Feature improvements
  • Added Google Analytics per site.
  • Added option to hide photo titles.
  • Minor enhancement to photo set navigation.

Now each user may add a Google Analytics tracker id to their myflickr site. Site usage statistics will be collected by google for each site owner with a google account. This means that the site owners will get at least as much (or more) statistics for their sites as the hosters!