myfamily.com change loghttp://help.myfamily.com/release-notes/en-US2008-05-16T06:19:38ZSquarespace Site Server v4.1.2 (http://www.squarespace.com/)Release 15 - May 2008http://help.myfamily.com/release-notes/2008/5/7/release-15-may-2008.htmlmyfamily.com2008-05-07T20:57:17ZThe following product changes were introduced in Release 15:
New Features:
Comment Permissions
  • Site administrators can now determine who can add comments to their site by using the Administrator Settings page, found under Site Settings.
  • The following options are available:
    • Administrators and members can comment.
    • Administrators, members, and guests can comment.
Search Results Page
  • You can save your search criteria and share it with others by clicking on the 'Link to this page' link. It will generate a URL that you can post anywhere on your site.
  • Search results can now be viewed in either a List or Thumbnail view. You can also select the size of the thumbnails.
Personal Info/Settings Screen
  • Prior to this release, when you joined a site, your personal preferences were automatically set to the default settings (i.e. Display personal information, Daily Site Notifications, etc.). To change the settings, you would have to go to the My Memberships page.
  • Now, when you visit a myfamily.com site for the first time, a screen will appear that allows you to set your nickname, choose your notification preferences and determine whether or not to display your email address, mailing address, phone number or birth date.
"Remove Me"
  • Before, only site administrators could remove people from sites. You can now remove yourself from a myfamily.com site by going to the My Memberships page and clicking on the "Remove me from this site" link for the site you'd like to be removed from.
  • Before, if you were the last site administrator of a free myfamily.com site, you could not remove yourself from that site. Now you can, and removing yourself from the site will also delete that site.
  • If you are the last site administrator of a paid myfamily.com site, you will need to contact Customer Support to delete your site.
Albums
  • When you view a single photo from an album of photos, you'll now get additional album details. This includes the album name and links to start the slideshow, set the photo as the album cover and remove the photo from the album.
  • You can now add a photo to an album straight from the single photo view page by clicking on the "Add to album" link under Photo Options. Before, you could only add photos to an album from the All Photos page.
  • All site administrators and members can now add photos to any album on the site. Before, the only people who could add a photo to an album were site administrators and the person who created the album.
Single Item Views
  • The options that used to appear below an item on the single item view page have been moved to the right side of the screen to increase their visibility to users.
  • When viewing a single item, the avatar of the person who added it is now also displayed. If you click on that avatar or name, you'll be taken to a search results page that shows you all the items of that type added by that person. This works for photos, videos, discussions, SnapGenies and files.
Upload Button Always Active
  • When adding photos, videos and files to your myfamily.com site, the 'Upload' button is now always active. Before, this button was disabled until the user had chosen content to upload. Periodically, the button would remain disabled even after content was selected, so we changed it to always keep it active. If you click on the active 'Upload' button without selecting anything to upload, you'll simply get a message telling you that no content has been selected.
What's New Updates
  • If you click on a comment in the What's New section, you will be taken directly to that comment's location in the comment list, rather than top. If that item has a lot of comments, it was often difficult to find the one you clicked on in the What's New section.
  • When you visit the What's New page, the 'Show All' filter is now the default, rather than 'Show New' because most users were switching to 'Show All' upon landing on the What's New page.
Previous/Next
  • Improved performance and accuracy of the previous/next links when viewing single items

]]>Release 14 - April 2008http://help.myfamily.com/release-notes/2008/4/16/release-14-april-2008.htmlmyfamily.com2008-04-16T19:23:33ZThe following product changes were introduced in Release 14:
New Features:
1. Invitation Permissions
  • Site administrators can now select which user types can invite people to the site by using the Administrator Settings page, found under Site Settings.
  • The following options are available:
    • Only administrators can send invitations
    • Administrators and members can send invitations
    • Administrators, members and guests can send invitations
2. Finding Tagged Items on Your Site
  • Clicking on any tag will take you to a page that displays all content items on that site that contain the same tag.
  • Modify your search results by using the following filters:
    • Display specific item types
    • Display items added by specific members
    • Search for multiple tags
3. Help Logging In - Get a List of Your Usernames
  • If you have created more than one myfamily.com username with a single email address, you will see a message appear on the start page that contains a link to request a list of these usernames.
  • The email will contain all of the usernames associated with your email address, as well as a list of all the myfamily.com sites your usernames belong to and links to change your usernames and/or the passwords associated with them.
4. Help Logging In - Remember Me
  • By checking the 'Remember Me' box when signing in to myfamily.com, you will automatically be logged in with that username and password the next time you visit the site, so long as you do not sign out.
  • Leaving the 'Remember Me' box unchecked will require that you log into your account again the next time you visit myfamily.com.
5 Updated Text Editor
  • Upgraded text editor used in discussions and comments to resolve various bugs that had been reported.
]]>Release 13 - March 2008http://help.myfamily.com/release-notes/2008/3/25/release-13-march-2008.htmlmyfamily.com2008-03-25T20:25:52ZThe following product changes were introduced in Release 13:
New Features:
1. Keep Track of Your Upload Allowances
  • Added upload allowance status bar that shows how much you've uploaded to each of your sites.
  • Each member of a myfamily.com Free Site can upload 100 MB of photos, videos and files to each of their sites each month.
  • Each member of a myfamily.com Essentials Site can upload 1 GB of photos, videos and files to that site each month.
  • Allowances are reset on the 1st of every month.
2. Tags
  • Organize your photos, albums, videos, discussions, SnapGenies and files by adding tags.
  • Adding tags to the items on your site makes them more organized and easier to find.
  • In a future release, we will provide functionality to search for tags on your site.
3. Albums Now Easier to Find
  • If you have albums on your site, you can now access them more easily. Clicking on the Photos tab now takes you directly to the All Albums page rather than the All Photos page.
  • The All Photos album takes you to all the photos on your site.
  • If you don't have albums on your site, clicking on the Photos tab will continue taking you to the All Photos page.
4. New Start Page
  • We've redesigned our Start page to provide you with better information about your account and to serve as a portal into your multiple myfamily.com sites.
  • The new Start page also makes it very clear who you're logged in as. This will be especially helpful for those of you who share the same computer.
  • Now, when you log into myfamily.com, you'll be taken to the new Start page where you can select which of your myfamily.com sites you want to go to.
]]>Release 12 - March 2008http://help.myfamily.com/release-notes/2008/3/5/release-12-march-2008.htmlmyfamily.com2008-03-05T18:39:32ZThe following product changes were introduced in Release 12:
New Features:
1. Paid Subscriptions Now Available
  • You can now upgrade any of your Free Sites to Essentials Sites.
  • Essentials Sites feature everything found in Free Sites, plus:
    • No advertisements
    • 1 GB monthly upload allowance for each site member
    • All items on the site remain active & instantly available
    • Access to our complete library of professionally designed site themes
    • Custom Theme Builder for creating your own custom site themes
2. New Site Settings Page
  • Administrators now have one single location on their myfamily.com site to manage all site settings.
  • Settings that can be edited from this page include Site Name, Welcome Message, Site Type, Site Theme and Public Page Settings.
3. Public Pages
  • Public Pages can be used to display some information about your family and your myfamily.com site. These pages can be viewed by anyone on the Internet but your site remains private and only viewable by the people who are members of it.
  • Site administrators have complete control over whether or not they want a Public Page and what will be displayed on it.
  • If you'd like, you can also allow people to "Request Membership" to your site from your Public Page. Site administrators decide which requests to approve or deny.
4. Five New Themes Added to our Library
           




5. Page Width Selector Added to Custom Theme Builder
  • You can now determine the width of your myfamily.com site in the Custom Theme Builder, as well as set it to a fixed width or allow it to stretch with your browser window.
6. Updates to our Home Page
  • We updated some of the pages on our web site to make them a bit more attractive and provide more information on what myfamily.com is all about.
    ]]>Release 11 - December 2007http://help.myfamily.com/release-notes/2007/12/20/release-11-december-2007.htmlmyfamily.com2007-12-20T07:32:38ZThe following product changes were introduced in Release 11:
    New Features:
    1. We’ve added a new winter theme
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    2. Custom Theme Builder Supports Graphics
    • Administrators can now add a background image to the pages on your site.
    • They can also change the background image behind their site title and set its alignment.
    • Import and Export of your custom themes now include links to your graphics.
    • For you theme hunters out there, we’ve also put a few extra themes on our demo site, the McKinney Family Web Site. You can grab them for your own use in the McKinney file cabinet.
    3. What’s New Changes
    • Comments now show up as new items on the What’s New page.
    • Items in the What’s New page area on the home page don’t disappear when you’ve viewed them. We just remove the “New” tag.
    4. Paging and performance on view all photos page
    • You’ve shared your problems with performance when viewing a large collection of photos. With this release, performance on the view all photos page should be notably better.
    • We’ve added a member filter to make it easier to find photos contributed by a particular site member.
    5. New “My Memberships” Tab under My Account
    • We have spent some time cleaning up your membership area under My Account. This will make it much easier for you to add a profile pic, set your nickname, and decide what you want to display to other site members.

    ]]>    Release 10 - November 2007http://help.myfamily.com/release-notes/2007/11/9/release-10-november-2007.htmlmyfamily.com2007-11-09T17:26:51ZThe following product changes were introduced in Release 10:
    Significant Bug fixes:
    1. Comments in What’s New is back!
    2. “NEW” is working properly now

    New Features:
    1. Message Center
    • Now we will send you a Notification letting you know when someone has sent you a Message using the Message Center feature. This is separate from the site activity Notifications you normally receive.
    2. Site activity Notifications
    • We’ve added a new option to the “Notify Me” frequency option called “as-it-happens”. If you select this option, Notifications on that site will be sent w/in the hour of the update.
    3. Upload and copy-to multiple sites
    • Getting the same video or batch of photos on two, three or more sites just got a whole lot easier. Now you can upload once and post to any number of sites of which you’re an Administrator or Member.
    4. Custom Themes (this feature is available for all sites during Beta, but will be available to paid sites only)
    • Administrators - now you can create your own theme using the shiny new Custom Theme Builder that allows you to select color, font and font size for your site
    5. Rich Text Formatting
    • We’ve added Rich Text Formatting throughout the site!
    • Use our slick new “Text View” mode to format your posts and comments. Use it to change the font, font size, alignment, indenting, add links, add smiley’s and a while lot more!
    • Switch to “HTML View” to edit the HTML by hand, then flip back to “Text View” to see your entry formatted.
    6. Pagination in What’s New and Discussion
    • Rather than showing a single page with every single item displayed on that page, now you can page through your What’s New and Discussions items. We don’t refresh the entire page, so this should result in a much faster and smoother experience overall.
    • Coming soon - photos, videos, SnapGenies

    ]]>    Release 9.1 - October 2007http://help.myfamily.com/release-notes/2007/10/12/release-91-october-2007.htmlmyfamily.com2007-10-12T16:46:06ZThe following product changes were introduced in Release 9.1:
    1. Video Rendering
    • Video files now render twice as fast after upload
    2. HTML Support
    • Greatly enhanced the level of HTML support in posts, the welcome message and other places (more to come on this too) - go ahead and experiment
    3. Member Information
    • Show member information (birth month/day, email, phone, etc.) on the member profile by default, rather than making each member set it to ’show info’. Note: users who are members of more than one site will have to explicitly set the ’show info’ setting on in the ‘my site settings’ page him/herself because we didn’t want to arbitrarily decide what should be shown to which site.
    4. Bug Fixes
    • Fixed the bug where notification emails were not being sent to the site creator
    • Fixed the bug that prevented users from making the ‘notification frequency’ setting save
    • Fixed the bug that prevented more than 3 email addresses from showing up in a member profile (if the member had saved more than 3)
    • Fixed the bug that means you can now invite contacts from the contact list to become a member

    ]]>    Release 9 - September 2007http://help.myfamily.com/release-notes/2007/9/18/release-9-september-2007.htmlmyfamily.com2007-09-26T22:26:05ZThe following product changes were introduced in Release 9:

     

    1. Themes!

    • Change the design and theme of your myfamily.com site.

    • 3 new themes to choose from: Mosaic, Charcoal and Butterfly.

    • More themes and customization tools are planned for the future.

    2. Account and Profile Updates

    • Nickname: If you’ve added a nickname to your profile, we now display it across most of the site and for shared content.

    • Centralized profile management: If you have more than one site, your address, email address, phone and other profile information are now available in one central spot under My Account.

    • My Site Settings Page: Under My Account, you now have a My Site Settings page where you can control what and how other members of your sites see your personal information, including if and how your birthday is displayed and if your email, address or phone are displayed. Here you can also add or change your nickname, update your Notification settings and access your Voice News PIN information.

    • Avatars: You can now add an avatar to your profile from your profile page, not just from the single photo page.

    • By popular request: Administrators now have the ability to change another site member’s nickname and avatar. This will help Admins help their less tech savvy members.

    3. Contacts

    • Serves as your site address book.

    • Stores personal information such phone number, address, email address, birthday for people who may or may not be a member of your site.

    • Easily invite anyone in your contact list to your myfamily.com site.

    4. Messages

    • Send personal messages one or more members of your site.

    • Reply to messages sent by other site members.

    • Include attachments with your message.

    • Easy to use formatting and HTML styles (bold, italics, fonts).

    • Easily embed images into your message using image links from the web link to other sites with.

    5. Start Page

    • Available by clicking on our logo once you've signed in.

    • Informs you of all the lastest news and updates to the service.

    • Lists all of your 1.0 and 2.0 myfamily.com sites.

    • An easy place to start a new site.

    6. What's New, Simplified

    • Eliminated the dual-pane interface, thereby reducing the number of clicks it takes to see everything in What’s New.

    • It is now a single scrolling 'feed' of new and recent activity on your site.

    • Single click brings you right to your content.

    7. Discussions

    • The News section has been moved into the Discussions section

    • There are five categories of content in the new Discussions section: News, Family History, Recipes, Reviews and Other.

    • This change allows us to support content from migrated myfamily.com 1.0 sites.

    8. Migration Update

    • Migration Center has been created, a great resource for Migration FAQs, news and information.

    • Provided an early signup form for Admins who want to be in the first wave of migration notices.

    9. New Help Center

    • All-new Help Center created at http://hellp.myfamily.com.

    • Contains a very handy search feature to help answer questions and resolve problems you’re experiencing with the service.

    10. Demo Site

    • New Demo Site is filled with photos, videos, SnapGenie stories, News and other content to help people who are new to myfamily.com see what a working site looks.

    11. Video Uploads

    • The file size limit for a video file has been increased from 25MB to 100MB.

    12. Additional HTML Support

    • We expanded our list of HTML markup that you can use in posts and comments, which now includes: img, a, br, li, ul, strong, em, b, i, u, p, table, tr, th, td, tbody, span, blockquote, hr among others!


    ]]>    Release 8 - July 2007http://help.myfamily.com/release-notes/2007/9/16/release-8-july-2007.htmlmyfamily.com2007-07-11T20:58:08ZThe following product changes were introduced in Release 8:

     

    1. Video

    • Videos can now be uploaded and shared.

    • Supported file types: .wmv, .mov, .mpg, and .avi.

    • Videos can be titled, given descriptions and commented on.

    2. File Cabinet

    • You can now upload and share your computer files.

    • Any type of file can be uploaded.

    • Files can be titled, given descriptions and commented on.

    • Other site members will be able to download files from the File Cabinet.

    3. All New News

    • By popular request, the News section has been redesigned.

    • You can now view one single news post at a time.

    • News section is much easier to read, with larger headlines and a better overall layout.

    • Improved Comment control, with action links clustered to the right.

    • Better instructions for leaving Voice News and Voice Comments.

    4. Editing Titles & Descriptions

    • You can now batch edit titles and descriptions on photos, videos, albums and stories simply by clicking the "titles & descriptions" link in the toolbar.

    5. Universal Invite

    • A Universal Invite is an invitation email that members can simply forward on to other people using their own email application, rather than always sending invitiations directly from myfamily.com.

    6. Who's Signed In?

    • Now when you're signed in, we show your name at the top of the page. This is especially helpful if you share a computer with another myfamily.com member.


    ]]>    Release 7 - June 2007http://help.myfamily.com/release-notes/2007/6/12/release-7-june-2007.htmlmyfamily.com2007-06-12T20:57:01ZThe following product changes were introduced in Release 7:

     

    1. What's New Page

    • A very cool What's New page gives you one place to see everything that's been happening on your site.

    • All content that you haven't viewed is labeled as NEW.

    • Can be sorted by date added or member added.

    • Can switch between 'show all' and 'only new' views.

    • Preview pane allows you to view content without leaving the What's New page.

    2. New Photo Album Features

    • Now you can create a photo album when you upload or add newly uploaded photos to an album you already have.

    • You can create a Story from a photo album.

    3. Easier Site Creation

    • Now you don’t have to register in order to start creating a site (not too exciting for us existing 2.0 members, but makes life easier for people new to 2.0).

    Plus lots of little improvements to make the site faster and easier to use


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