It’s been a busy two weeks here at Tabblo. This post is going to cover some of the improvements that we have made to the service, but first I should say that it is easily ten times more rewarding, fun, and exciting to be making all of these changes with all of you alongside us. Your feedback thus far has been almost as rewarding and thoughtful as the tabblos you have made on the system, and we are all extremely proud of the emerging Tabblo community.

Now on to the improvements which fall loosely into three areas: 1. navigation/organization, 2. scalability and grace under load and 3. control.

Navigation

People like to look at tabblos, people like to click on links, and most of all people like people- go figure! We have made many improvements to all of the basic viewing pages including My Circle, My Page, the upload pages, and the account/profile pages. Basically everywhere where you told us what to do next wasn’t clear, or commented about not being able to reach something, we tweaked or redid. Stay tuned though for more inter-tabblo navigation coming soon.

Grace under Fire

We’ve had quite some interest in Tabblo. From the early Flickr folks who brought over thousands of photos each to the demanding graphics pros who made the template engine do things we didn’t know could be done, you have been a dedicated bunch. As such, we found ourselves dealing with load during the first few days, and have taken a few steps to make all this AJAX goodness work better under pressure. Most obvious to you is a new message dialog system which will tell you clearly when your browser is blocked waiting for the server to update something. Hopefully you won’t be seeing too much of it, but when you do, at least you will know what is happening. Also, behind the scenes we are now much more aggressive about logging everything that could possibly go wrong so that we can be on top of any hiccups on the site.

Control

Tabblo is meant to be your own personal art director, but more control is something that you’ve asked for in spades, and we’re gearing up to give it to you. As a first step, we’ve introduced all sorts of text sizing in your tabblos so that you can blow up your words as large as you want them. Additionally, you can now change colors on most elements in your tabblos, and pick just about any color your heart desires. Our new color picker is the first step in making sure your tabblos look just like you want them.

Stay tuned, as we’ve got some interesting things coming out over the next couple of weeks (more feedback-related features). And, as always, thank you for tabbloing.

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