Bigger, better slideshows
One of our big priorities over the next month is developing cool new ways to present your photos, documents and videos using Flash — and we’ve taken another big step in that direction with today’s new slideshow format. On the download pages, your slideshows will now appear in a larger, sexier format — complete with a lot of the features you’ve requested, like bigger thumbnail previews and a “play” button. Check it out in the screen below, and on this example slideshow.
For now, the embeds will still be in the regular format, and we’ll be introducing a lot of cool new gallery features and formats in coming weeks. Enjoy!
May 18th, 2007 at 5:47 pm
Wow, slideshow is so big, and live preview is so cool, like on Windows Vista
Great work!
May 19th, 2007 at 12:34 am
Today DivShare is slow again…
May 19th, 2007 at 3:51 am
Maybe the quality of resampling could be improved..
May 19th, 2007 at 4:34 am
Everything looks really great but the downloads are soooo slow. Why can’t we use download managers? IMHO the improvement of download speed should be the No. 1 priority?
May 19th, 2007 at 5:31 am
Please move the blue progress meter from the centre of the photos!! Put it somewhere outside - perhaps at the left hand end of the grey bar below the photo. Each photo is taking so long to load (up to two minutes!) that one is almost constantly viewing a photo with blue segment in the middle.
Why is everything so painfully slow?
May 19th, 2007 at 1:39 pm
Hey guys,
Glad to hear you’re diggin’ the new look. In response to WPF and DJDB on slowness, all our server work from last week is done, and download speed should be back to full speed now. If you’re having problems with direct downloads, please drop us an e-mail and we’ll help you figure it out.
The other issue that Jeremy brought up in an e-mail to us was about the load time on the slideshow player, and this is actually just an issue with the size of the images in the gallery. For example, if you upload a bunch of 1-meg files, it’s gonna take some time for the Flash slideshow to process them and load. We are going to make a few tweaks, however, that should use smaller versions of your images and dramatically speed things up today. Rock on,
Rob
May 20th, 2007 at 2:45 am
I’m impressed if you can make changes to speed up the serving of slideshows and put them into effect today - pretty good development speed!!
Any news on being able to view Raw image files? Go on - find a way - so far as I know it would be a “first” online. Must be do-able though as many desktop applications enable the viewing of Raw files, forming jpg previews either for storage or “on the fly”. (Please include Adobe .dng files!!)
I’ve previously mentioned “Thumbs-plus” by Cerious as one application which does this - another which is totally free - is “Irfan View” (when the free plug-in is installed). Surely one of the authors could help on this to enable it to happen with files stored at divShare.
If you are going along the route of having intermediate sized image files (stored alongside originals) to speed everything up - this would mean that the conversion from Raw files to intermediate sized jpg’s could be done gradually whenever processing power/time were available - less problem then with conversion time from Raw to jpg, as could be the case if being done “on the fly”. Mind-you “Irfan View” does produce jpg thumbnails (from Raw and other formats) quite remarkably fast even on-the-fly.
May 20th, 2007 at 8:52 am
Nice new slideshows.
Also, from my side, i havent any problems, any more, with dl speed.
I download 65KBps and me speed is 75-80 KBpsMAX.
May 20th, 2007 at 11:56 am
The Athena server is super slow @ loading images. Whats the problem with that? I tried looking @ several images on several different computers on different internet networks, and all slow. And its just Athena. So could you fix that?
May 20th, 2007 at 12:53 pm
Presumably the fact that the slideshows have shrunk again is only temporary!? They are quicker though.
If you do store intermediate size images of around 800 pixels for large images to speed things up, it would also be nice to use them for an additional view (and download option?) on the normal view page - so one could view normal, intermediate (800 pixel long side), and full size images.
May 21st, 2007 at 1:20 am
A “P.S.” on Raw files - I’ve just noticed that the Power Uploader already displays thumbnails for both Canon raw image files (.crw) and Nikon raw image files (.nef)!
So presumably you already have the technology.
So currently there is the rather odd situation that whilst Power Uploader is treating these files as displayable image files, the rest of the site is not. Solvable?
If you need any “test” images in these Raw formats I can upload some (and Adobe .dng if you like). However I do not have files of other manufacturers raw formats, so I cannot supply those. Neither can I check whether Power Uploader works with all Raw formats.
May 21st, 2007 at 2:57 pm
HOW ‘BOUT AN API? COME ON. API. API. API.
Thanks.
May 27th, 2007 at 11:37 pm
great!
May 29th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
Just to say that I have now established that Power Uploader also displays thumbnails of Adobe dng image files - just a shame that (as with Raw files) the main part of divShare does not display these as image files.
Really hope that you are working on this and that it will be resolved.
I did make a mistake before though when I said that Power Uploader displays thumbnails of Canon Raw crw files - it is actually the small “thm” files which accompany the Raw files which do display as thumbnails. I think I read somewhere that these “thm” files are actually jpg’s just with a different extension.
The Power Uploader DOES display thumbnails of actual Raw image files in the case of Nikon (ie “nef” files).
June 11th, 2007 at 9:40 am
Hi, how can start creating slideshows?