The new website's code portion is now complete. Now, all that's holding us back from releasing the new site is the design, and the deployment. If things go as planned, it will be up in a week or two.
As I have said before, the new site is a dramatic improvement compared to the current site. Here's some things in the site:
I feel the website was one of our biggest weak points, and I'm excited to see that they will finally be fixed.
As for the desktop itself, there have been various things put into it this week. The biggest change is the new flash uploader, which addresses the usability problems of the old uploader. The old uploader took three clicks in order to upload a file, and this one only takes two. It will auto-select between flash and the traditional method, based on if flash is available. This way, the user doesn't need to make an unnecessary choice between the two. Upload progress is shown in a statusbar widget, so there aren't any extra windows being shown.
Lastly, we're now in a feature freeze for the 1.0 release. No additional features may be put in, and the only thing we will accept is bug reports.
We're coming very close to getting a release candidate out, and we're looking forward to finally releasing a stable version after two years of work.
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