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Network Component Outages
Due to numerous outages of central network components in our shared server network, we’ve had some outages this evening.
We are working as fast as we can to solve this problem and ask for your understanding and patience in the meantime.
Update: Our service provider has found the problem and fixed it, sevenload is back online at 100%.
Changes to the URL Structure
In addition to our usual bug fixing we’ve just decided to launch a new URL structure for sevenload. Starting today we will be using a country ID as the sub domain in order to correctly display the user’s chosen language. The user interface’s English version can be reached at http://en.sevenload.com and the German version is available at http://de.sevenload.com.
As soon as the external application wants to access sevenload’s URL structure, these changes will be relevant with regard to the development of external Plug-ins. Likewise, in addition to the country ID, Permalinks which are shown directly on individual photos and videos will also be expanded. This Blog is the of course terribly important for all of those who might be able to help with potential enhancements for sevenload. There are two formats which are as follows:
Version A
http://{{COUNTRYID}}.sevenload.com/{{TYP}}/{{ITEMID}}/{{TITLE}}
Version B
http://{{COUNTRYID}}.sevenload.com/{{TYP}}/{{ITEMID}}-
{{LISTENID|FOLDERID}}/{{TITLE}}
Version A should be used for the development of external applications. Version B is simply an enhanced version which can produce additional details for display on the sevenload website. The new URLs have the following variables:
- {{COUNTRYID}} = The specific country ID for the according language which can be selected. The current possible values are “de” and “en”.
- {{TYP}} = this value will tell you whether a photo or video can be found under the particular link. The possible values are “images” and “videos” in English whereas they are “bilder” and “videos” in German.
- {{ITEMID}} = This 7 character code is the only reference given in order to select the photo or video.
- {{LISTENID|FOLDERID}} = In addition to that, under Version B’s URL you will find a description or listing ID for links from searches or usual lists such as the „most viewed videos“. Alternatively, you can also enter an album name via the folder ID. The values which are separated from the item ID via a minus symbol will affect the version of sevenload in that the preceding and subsequent search results or album contents will be displayed as an optional navigation aid.
- {{TITLE}} = In order to be able to read the URL more easily, the item’s title will also be displayed at the end. *We had mentioned this previously in our Blog about a sevenload re-launch.
What’s important to remember when using these new URLs is that the item’s old URL will also still exist to support downward compatibility. In addition, we want to point out that some Plugins needed for integration on sevenload (ex. in known Blog software and Blog systems) might need to be patched again.
Brief Maintenance
On this lazy Sunday afternoon, we are working furiously on some short term maintenance for the site. Please excuse any brief interruptions that this may cause and will be back online in just a couple of minutes with some new functions.
Maintenance: Will be Briefly Offline
We are expecting to have a couple of miniscule problems pop up as soon as the new system has been started and made accessible, and this will take just a few minutes to get sorted. In addition, we anticipate that externally embedded photos and the flash-player itself will also be down for a couple of seconds.
There’s a really simple explanation for the delay: our new application software has to generate an according preview photo and thumbnails in various sizes for all available photo contents. Likewise, there will be approximately 380,000 different external players affected by uploads for videos alone. No worries, we’ll have things back up and running smoothly ASAP.
Maintenance & New Features
It’s going to be another long night here at sevenload: We are going to perform maintenance tonight from 10 pm until 6 am tomorrow, in order to incorporate some new features and work out a couple of details. During this time, sevenload is going to be down (either partially or fully) but any externally embedded contents will still be fully functional.
Tomorrow morning we will add the new features in a Blog, one by one.
Update: The following features are already ready to go! Please feel free to comment on any of them in our Blog!
- Feature: New Point System on sevenload
- Feature: Altered Profile Status
- Feature: Edit Photos
- Announcement: Upload Time Extended Briefly
- Feature: Re-launch of the Video Start Page
Some brief Maintenance
Over the last couple of weeks our user numbers have skyrocketed. Because of this we have decided to do a little updating and will be performing maintenance on our server overnight on Friday (from midnight to 8 am). During this time it will not be possible to login to your user account or register for a new account. In addition, you will not be able to rate other peoples’ photos/videos, write comments or guestbook entries and the internal message system will also be down. We are using this time to make it possible for us to make sevenload faster and more stable (for the future too). Thanks for your understanding in this matter.
