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There's a disturbance in the force! Here's a few captures of what we're working on, codenamed "Hindsight". Because it's 2020, and hindsight is always clearer when you're looking back.The responses so far from our user survey have helped a lot of our design considerations and we're very grateful for all the feedback.Here's one more for now...Watch this space - we will be posting more previews only Patreon for now, as a thank-you for everyone who has supported u...
Back in the saddle!
Hi everyone!First off, we really must apologise for being so quiet on Patreon. As you can image, this year has been quite challenging for everyone, and unfortunately we have needed to focus on our jobs and personal lives during this time.Now, on with the news!New Server PlatformWe have successfully migrated our service to a new cloud platform this month. Our old webserver had the website and all images on it. Not great if something very bad happened...The new platform is running on the Hetzner C...
New server deployments
We've been hard at work re-designing the platform that runs the site. For years we've run on one huge high spec server which has fortunately been very reliable, but it's always been a single point of failure.Enter: The Cloud Platform!Using the wonderful magic that is cloud hosting, we are designing a new platform which will help us make the site ready for the next several years.Redundant serversInstead of using the one large server, we are splitting the site components into a few ser...
New features
It's been a little while since our last post so I thought I'd take some time to explain two of the big features we are working on!Albums!The ability to organise images has been requested time and time again, and we've listened. The alpha version we have in development lets you create albums and add your images into these albums. Images can belong to more than one album if you wish.Public profiles!Your profile is where you can curate a public-facing page on cubeupload. You'll be a...
New site
Hi all!We've been working on a new site in the background for a number of years. What happens is this: We get started and implement a bunch of features, but then lose steam and don't see it through. A year or so goes by and someone gets interested again, goes through the same process and then everything tails off. Wash, rinse, repeat.Not this time.We are using Patreon partly as a development blog and partly as a way for us to publicly promise our loyal users - the new site will be coming...
