Today we’re rolling out updates for the Flash video and slideshow players to fix a few problems with video length and slideshow navigation. You won’t need to make any changes to your embed code for these to take effect, but if you’ve been noticing any problems with short videos or long slideshows, this should take care of them.

We’re also adding new application servers to the network this weekend to improve page load times, which have been slow or unreliable for the past couple days. We’ll be rolling out that upgrade tomorrow (Saturday), so you should see a huge improvement over the weekend. Our download servers, which we upgraded last week, are all running at top speed now. Thanks for being a part of DivShare’s rapid growth, and stay tuned for lots more updates and new features on the way. Have a great weekend, and enjoy the faster site!

You’ve probably noticed that DivShare is growing fast, and we’re hard at work expanding our server farm to handle all the new traffic and keep your uploads and downloads humming along. Over the last few days, two of our servers have been under a lot of stress, which has caused speed problems for the files hosted there — we are currently migrating a number of files away from those machines and adding several more storage arrays to our network, which should bring any affected files back to normal shortly.

As we work on that, there’s a ton of other cool stuff on the horizon for DivShare. We’re close to launching a Flash uploader that you can embed on your own pages, allowing your users to post files to DivShare without ever leaving your site. And we’re upgrading the audio player to support playlists, just like how the slideshow player works for galleries of images. We’ll also be moving our headquarters to Silicon Valley at the beginning of September, which means new offices, more employees and even more new features.

Thanks to everyone for being a part of the site, and keep on uploading. Stay tuned for more updates on our new hardware, new features, and everything DivShare.