A couple of new features have gone up, quietly, in the last couple weeks that I wanted to point out to everybody:
- All images on the site are now served up from Amazon's S3 Service. This means that everything from stock site images, to user avatars, to skin screenshots, to cached skin images should be served up faster and more reliably. Some of this has been in place for more than a month, but I finally finished up everything last week.
- Speaking of images, you'll now see user avatars in more places, like the comments lists on the skin info pages.
- Speaking of images again, BlogSkins will now cache your images for you for skins that support previews. That means you don't have to worry about going over your bandwidth allowance at Photobucket or where ever. Also, BlogSkins lists the images it knows about underneath the skin download link, so users can download your images from here instead of somewhere else.
- By popular request, I now allow the
strikethroughtag in the forums, and support [url][/url] tags for making links. - I'm finally doing something with user ratings. Users with ratings less than or equal to -3 (there's currently 13 of them) may not post comments until their ratings rise above this level. I'm flexible on the rating limit, and may adjust it up or down as I see fit.
As always, there's more to come!