The dashboard has a refreshed look. You’ll notice the new visual style right away, and scrolling through your images should feel smoother too.
Alongside the redesign there’s a long list of improvements and bug fixes across search, billing, the image editor, and more.
Here’s everything that changed:
Refreshed dashboard look
I did a major redesign of the visual style of the dashboard. We had been using the old visual style for a couple of years, the new style is lighter and less cluttered. I tried to stay true to the previous layout as much as possible so you don’t need to relearn how to use the dashboard.
The redesign includes these four improvements for desktop users:
- You can now also choose to permanently hide the right side info panel, so on smaller screens you have more space.
- Hovering above a grid layout thumbnail allows you to copy the URL in 1 click, previously requiring 2 clicks.
- Changing layout style (grid to rows, or other way around) will keep your scroll position, no longer dropping you back at the top if you’ve scrolled a long way down already.
- The image editor left menu button now allows you to browse to and select an image to edit, it now acts as a shortcut you can use, instead of linking to the billing info.
Smoother thumbnail experience in the dashboard
This one has been live roughly a month now, but still needs to be announced: The dashboard now helps your browser cache the thumbnails in an intelligent way, making scrolling through images more smooth:
You may have noticed that in the past scrolling through many images caused lots of flickering thumbnails: they were constantly being reloaded from our image servers, each time causing a brief moment where a white space was shown instead of the thumbnail, even if you just viewed them a few seconds ago.
Now when you scroll through images you’ve already seen, thumbnails will appear instantly from your browser cache.
Search fixes & improvements
You can now search the entire drive without needing to select a folder, and searching for filenames with parentheses now also works.
Customers with image libraries over half a million images will now see the search bar behave better and much faster.
Localized pricing on the billing page
The billing page will automatically detect your location and show prices in your local currency (if we support it). We currently support 33 currencies.
Also, the billing page subscription status area visual style has been improved to make it less confusing.
Server background job optimizations
The job that watermarks free user images has been optimized to reduce server load.
I fixed multiple edge cases that could cause the removal of the image watermarks to fail when subscribing. And if a temporary failure occurs, it will now also automatically self-heal.
The purging of our image delivery CDN cache has been expanded to also take into account image links embedded on a site, where the site has added additional query parameters to the link. Usually these parameters are not added on purpose, they also do not change the image, but they are sometimes added automatically by the site editor used to embed the image on the site.
Img.vision dashboard updates are handled better
This one has been live roughly a month too: If you have multiple tabs open, you are properly informed to refresh each tab before continuing in that tab.
You could get stuck on a white page with a loading spinner due to the dashboard not correctly updating itself. That is fixed.
Bugfixes
The rename popup doesn’t open with the previously renamed image filename anymore.
The link from the payment past due email now properly opens the update payment info popup again.
Sorting now finally works for manager accounts, that part had never been implemented yet and gave an error if you tried it.
Really large images didn’t have a thumbnail, that’s fixed. (The image filetype still needs to be one of the supported ones)
The mobile version of the billing page now properly shows the image pricing table.
The image editor now supports editing additional image formats: SVG, AVIF, BMP, APNG, ICO. Note: Only PNG and JPG are saved in the same format, other formats are saved as PNG.
If you have an idea for what to build next, add it to the Img.vision public roadmap. I read every suggestion that comes in.
