The "Speed" Update

Since pushing the premium update a few months ago, I've been focused on a single goal:

Make mood fast.

With the update that went live today, I think I've come a long way and can safely say that it is indeed now pretty fast.

This breaks down into a couple of things, some technical and some not:

Image Optimization Optimizations

As some people have noticed, mood does compress your images when rendering them for you on your board. These compressions though do not affect the originals, and are just done to make loading faster.

These optimizations were always done with the source image size, so would still push large images to clients with smaller sizes, but that could still be large (like if you uploaded a 5000x6000 image, etc.).

Now however, mood generates different optimized sizes for images you upload, and will serve you the best option for the device you're on. You should generally see speed ups across all devices, but should especially see it on mobile!

As a reminder: When you click download on an image, you will download the source image! Additionally, don't forget you can press "L" to view "List Mode" and quickly see all your images, download individuals, or download all of them as a zip:

Large Boards Are Faster (and fixed)

If you had a board with a lot of images and checked it out after the premium update, you may have seen some strange behavior with images collapsing onto each other on loading. This has been fixed! Additionally, I got smarter about pagnination of images in general so your board should load much much faster.

UI/UX Enhancements

I also cleaned up a few things around the site!

• New animated star icon on settings button to highlight new features (goes away after you click it!)
• Legal pages added - Terms of Service and Privacy Policy accessible from settings or an empty board
• Empty gallery message provides better feedback
• Fixed shadow rendering on mobile settings button
• Fixed mobile lightbox navigation (no more double taps!)
  

What's Next?

I'm thinking about tackling image rearranging as the big task, as well as some other smaller features:

• Different default sorting methods (reverse chronological, random)
• Link previews (for sharing boards)
• Use images as board backgrounds

Got other ideas? Feel free to reach out to me through the contact form on mood! Always happy to hear ideas and suggestions!

Until next time,

Kyle