Unbelievable but true: The user panel is ready!

There are three months over again after the announcement but we finished all tests last week and we officially put online the long desired user area. There has also happened a lot around the statistical datas, of course everything in a positive way- as we like it.

But back to the user area. As you all know: We don’t do things by halves. That’s why it took so much time until you have caught sight of it. The big advantage of a user account lies in the folder functions in which you have the opportunity to organize your images. Of course, you can create as many subdir as you want.

In addition to that you have the opportunity to officially show the content of your folders as galery aspect. You only have to change the folder function “official” into “yes” and to send the link to the folder to your friends and relatives. If you are afraid that the images are not for unauthorized views you will be able to give your folder a password. Of course, you have to whisper your password to those people who should be able to look at your images.

Barrier freedom is no unknown word for us. It’s really difficult to implement it in an image hoster. Unfortunately, we haven’t had an idea yet to approximate the content of the images to blind visitors, appart from an audio comment directly during the upload. We don’t want to enjoin on our users which browser functions and plugins they have to have activated to be able to unlimitedly use picload.org. You can even use our homepage with lynx, a purely text browser. If JavaScript is off or not available there will be an alternative for all AJAX or JaveScript functions which are required for the use of our homepage. Even the images can be watched as ASCII image.

Moreover, all the records of the beginning of February are already lapsed. Our servers have distributed fabulous 11,860,778 images on 9 May. The average in May lies in about 11 million distributions- these are 8 million more distributions than in February per day. The old record has proverbially been powdered in three months and 10 days. If I think about all these figures, my blood runs cold.

Our servers dispatch about 300 GB traffic to you every day. It takes, of course, a big cable which we pay well every month. There are still endless ressources and if it run short, we will fastly supply new fat servers. The software beautiful cooperates, too. There has been made some improvements here and there to disburden the data base cluster. I will spare you the details.

Our advertising means have been showed at unfamiliar pages about 10 million times since the beginning of February. Thank you very much indeed for your loyality which you show us with every new image that you upload at our servers. There were new increments of the homepage on our screen long ago. If you want to get rid of improvement proposals, criticism or only praise we will be glad if you send us a message through our contact blank.

Best regards,
Tim and Markus

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