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NEW! Blog Thumbshot Management

Posted by thegoodknife • 5/09/07 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: announcement, blogcatalog, Feature, feedback, thumbshot, update

Because we here at BlogCatalog know how important it is to have an recent and accurate thumbshot of your site on file, We have added the ability for approved blogs to update their thumbshot.

You may request a thumbshot once every two weeks. In most cases it should take less than 10 minutes for your new shot to show up, and at most 72 hours.

You can get the the new thumbshot management section by clicking the manage tab on top and clicking edit on the blog you wish to update. If your blog is approved you should see a new section for thumbshots.

As always feedback is greatly appreciated.

User Comments

5/09/07

NINE

Ooooh fancy, I bet this one kept you up a few nights.

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5/09/07

AngieA

Thats awesome goodknife

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5/10/07

BimmytheBookish

i am an old dog and this blogging malarky is a new trick.
i dont even know what a thumbshot is, let alone know that its important for me to have one!
is it like a thumbnail?
or a potshot??
will i ever be able to keep up with you the trendy things? (sigh)

PS: Nine, are you related to Seven at all?

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5/10/07

ThriftShopRomantic

Very cool feature. Excellent! It won't be perpetual February on my blog anymore. :-)

-Jenn

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5/10/07

ChurchOfIntegrity

Excellent feature. Thank you BC-team for your hard work.

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5/10/07

Enlight

I was just wondering how that could be done. Thanks so very much

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5/10/07

WonderWoman

You are my hero. (have I told you that?) Well, that's a pretty big deal coming from a super hero herself! Thanks for all of the cooool stuffs you help implement here at BC.

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5/10/07

AndyBeard

I might have to have mine changed...

It says some biased things about Blogcatalog

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5/10/07

AuthorsCoach

Wow! The new updates are great. Thanks for making it so easy!

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5/10/07

cymrusteve

Excellent news - thanks!

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5/10/07

kucau

thank you for a nice new feature

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5/11/07

jungl

Awesome! Thank you

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5/11/07

corinnamakris

This is great thanks!

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10/09/07

Jacksbox4you

I have tried to do this several times, but for some reason I can't get it to work properly. Any ideas on what I am doing wrong?

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10/09/07

clioandme

Hmm, did you implement this a couple days ago? I remember updating one yesterday or the day before and being pleasantly surprised that I could.

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11/12/07

MrPuffy

Hi. I requested an update to my thumbshot, I believe, last Thursday. Ever Since then I don't have any picture at all. How do I fix this?

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11/12/07

gmoney

nice, I love it

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11/12/07

lordlikely

This is excellent work. Hoorah! Huzzah! And hooray.

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11/12/07

BlogBadly

Thank you! My thumbshot looked pretty boring, what with none of my oh-so professionally made graphics on it.

Awesome job, goodknife and company. You really make BlogCatalog a better place. You're some of the best admins I've ever seen in one of the best communities I've ever participated in (probably because of your excellent efforts )

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11/12/07

butterflymedia

Thanks, I really needed that as I've changed my blog theme in the meantime.

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11/12/07

tenshi319

That's why you guys won best social site.

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11/12/07

RichardNG

Hi, I've noticed that sometimes here on Blog-Catalog, the thumb-shot automatic update doesn't always produce the output image exactly as expected, and sometimes seems to either have a shot of the page well before the page is fully loaded, or there is no image at all ! I think maybe in future there could be an addtional option for approved members to submit thier own thumbshot image by email or via a browse and upload button on the thumbshot management module, and then having the Blog-Catalog admin update the image thumbshot by hand. At least then, we might get a thumbshot image that looks the way we expect.

Regards,

. . . . Richard.

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11/12/07

MrPuffy

How about working with Flickr and just have a drop and click option to update our thumbshots? On the "Ravelry" website that's what they do - it's super easy and instantaneous.

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5/25/08

krazykraftlady

I've been manually updating my thumbshot but it continually shows my blog as a blank page.

?????????

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1. 5/25/08
  
  thegoodknife
  
  unfortunately, we can only spend so much time trying to take thumbshots of each blog. it seems that the problem in the case may be that your blog takes quite a while to fully load.
5/26/08

DrowseyMonkey

Wow ... I had no idea they got updated, lol. I don't think I've ever looked at mine. But it is a cool feature.

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5/26/08

acousticguitarist

That was great Daniel, I know nothing changed because it was prety well up to date. But it was a nice experience :-)

Can we change the order of our blogs?

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1. 5/26/08
  
  thegoodknife
  
  this thread was posted over a year ago.
  
  the blog re-ordering should be coming eventually. it's on a to-do list somewhere i swear it.
2. 5/26/08
  
  DrowseyMonkey
  
  HA! Now that's funny.
3. 5/26/08
  
  acousticguitarist
  
  Thanks Daniel, Remember I'm in Australia, we're a bit behind.
  
  They have just introduced the motorised bycicle here, I think it's called a motorbike.
4. 5/26/08
  
  thegoodknife
  
  just wait until you see the 'automobile', it's going to blow your mind!
5. 5/26/08
  
  acousticguitarist
  
  :-)
11/05/08

butterflymedia

I like this new feature. I like that BlogCatalog is growing up.

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