Better thumbs
When we started, we were using thumbshots.org, which seemed to be the best solution for our thumbs (and not to mention it was free). After a few months we realized that this has some limitations:
- fixed size of the thumbs,
- the thumb was taken a long time ago (maybe even years ago, depending on the age of the domain) and no longer accurately represents the image of the site.
We wanted to have something that shows users a recent quick look of how the blogs look rather than an archaic one. Also we wanted to make it easy for our members to easily refresh their own thumbs at anytime.
We found the perfect solution for our needs in Bluga.net WebThumb, a service that had all the requirements we needed and much more. This is not a free service, but we believe it is worth the money. As of today we have launched all the thumbs with the new format. Each blog has saved several sizes of its thumb and they can be seen on different parts of our site already (medium – blog rankings, large – sitedetails, etc.). We will add shortly the ability for members to refresh their own thumbs.
I hope you like this new feature as much as we do. We are looking forward to additional features very soon.
