Wow. It’s been a pretty exciting couple of days. After our latest release with the super easy login, traffic has grown by leaps and bounds! We’ve had thousands of users logging on each day. Naturally, as soon as blogs started writing about Picnik, all hell broke loose. First, our office dsl went down for almost 20 hours. Then our colo ISP had a router hiccup, causing us to race over to the datacenter. And on top of that, Jon came down with the flu. When it rains, it pours.

But things are great; we’re having a lot of fun and people seem to be really enjoying Picnik. We’ve had a lot of good coverage from blogs, starting with an amazing post on the Solutions Watch blog. They have a great write-up of our site, check it out.

We’ve gotten a lot of feedback from our users. The entire team reads every piece of feedback mail. I’d like to keep that practice in place for as long as we can. The feedback has been hugely positive, and there have been lots of feature requests

A lot of you have been asking about the missing resize feature. Frankly, I’m not sure why it never got done. It was just one of those things that slipped through the cracks. After the feedback started rolling in, it was pretty clear that people really wanted to see it - now! The good news is that it’s done and in testing and should be released tomorrow.

A few people have noticed that their passwords seem to expand in the edit control when they login. What is actually happening is that we’re encoding your password for privacy before sending it out and one of the side effects is that for a split-second you see the encoded password (which is larger than your password) expand into the edit control. We’re working on a better solution.

The other good news (especially for me) is that we have a new team member. Justin Huff has joined us. We’re a bunch of Windows guys and we’re still relatively new to wild and wonderful world of Linux. Now we have a great Linux resource on the team and someone who can help us design and build a server infrastructure that might have a chance of withstanding the onslaught of users and images that we’re likely to face. Welcome Justin!

Keep that feedback coming!

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