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Celebrating Mario’s one-year milestone with a gift
Mario joined our Img.vision a year ago as a senior software developer. Recently, Mario was able to completely overhaul our watermarking component improving its reliability and fix its bugs. What is the watermarking component? Free accounts get 100 online images for free, but in return they advertise for us by having their images watermarked with…
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Marketing site rebuilt from scratch
The Img.vision marketing site has been rebuilt from scratch to make it future proof, eaiser to navigate and faster to load. We run the marketing site on WordPress. For those who know WordPress, I can tell you that we switched from a classic theme to the new block theme technology. This means we have access…
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Status page now shows status of email sending service
Yesterday April 14th our email service provider had 8 hours service interruption.This meant that Img was not able to send out any emails eg. new registrations or password resets. This type of disruption is quite rare. Regardless, I’ve put of a monitor on our status page that will show if there’s an issue with email…
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Bugfix for free user accounts re-uploading images
We recently discovered a bug that affected free account holders and fixed it. The bug was that when reuploading an image with the same filename as an existing image, the original image (with watermark) would remain online. The image was actually uploaded to our file servers, but was not activated as the most current version,…
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Upgraded the infrastructure and security of the marketing site
We’ve recently installed two upgrades to our marketing site: The caching layer we added is Redis object caching. This caches frequently requested data by visitors from the database in RAM memory where it’s much faster to access. Results of monitoring before and after implementing the additional caching layer showed that Total Transaction Load went from…
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Rollback of latest changes of free accounts
We’ve rolled back changes we recently implemented because our servers got overwhelmed. It’s related to these changes for free user accounts: The features have been reopened and put back in “in progress”. My apologies for the technical difficulties with the dashboard and the hosted galleries.We will take care to not end up in this situation…
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