Today I am going to move the website to a new server as well as push updated versions of several of the back-room\u00a0components\u00a0into production.<\/p>\n
Those of you already on the service (Thanks!) should notice nothing more than faster response from the website and less ‘wonkiness’ in the feeds.<\/p>\n
The biggest\u00a0visible\u00a0change is the\u00a0addition\u00a0of ‘activation keys’.<\/strong> Activation keys make it much simpler to add a frame to FrameAlbum <\/a>service. \u00a0These keys will be displayed on frames that connect to the FrameAlbum service but are not yet ‘owned’ by a registered user. \u00a0This replaces the image that included the ‘productID’ and ‘frameID’ values. \u00a0While these are very useful to me they are not so useful to the average user.<\/p>\n I’ve noticed that many folks that have registered for the service have not added any channels to their frames. \u00a0I accept that the website doesn’t exactly do a great job explaining how you go about getting pictures onto your frame. \u00a0I’m an engineer, not a user interface designer (as if that wasn’t painfully obvious to anyone who has tried to use the website \ud83d\ude09 ) – it makes perfect sense to me! \u00a0But, obviously, not to everyone.<\/p>\n Beginning today if your frame connects to the service but doesn’t have any channels programmed you will receive a message to visit the site and add channels.<\/strong> This is a very small step towards helping folks use the service. \u00a0I have a long way to go but at least you won’t have a blank frame and no idea why it is blank.<\/p>\n Shhhh. Don’t tell anyone but assuming all goes well today, I’ll be releasing the next batch of beta invites. \u00a0\ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n Thanks for your support!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today I am going to move the website to a new server as well as push updated versions of several of the back-room\u00a0components\u00a0into production. Those of you already on the service (Thanks!) should notice nothing more than faster response from the website and less ‘wonkiness’ in the feeds. The biggest\u00a0visible\u00a0change is the\u00a0addition\u00a0of ‘activation keys’. Activation … Continue reading Lots going on behind the curtain today<\/span>