You may have noticed that a few days ago we’ve changed the layout a little bit, but that wasn’t all we’ve done. We’ve been working on many different things and I’d like to let you know about what’s already available.
New Layout
Let’s start with the most obvious one. We’ve improved the overall look and feel of the site, added more space between the images and the different elements are more consistent between pages.
What are my Friends hearting?
The Friends link used to be hidden inside Explore, so to see your friends updates you have to first click Explore and then Friends. Well, not anymore, it’s now right there on the main menu bar, and you can even see how many unseen images are there while on another page.
The menu bar has another new link, it’s called “More”. There you can see our about page, download the Heart Button for your browser, get some goodies for your site, go to our help pages, and view our blog.
More from the same source
On the image page you can see not only the page where the image was originaly found, but you can see more images hearted from that same site. So if you like an image and want to more from that same artist, brand or blog, you do that easily by clicking the source link.
Privacy
There’s a new option on your Account Settings, it’s called Privacy. There you can choose to hide your account from friends search. That means when people try to find their friends by email, Twitter or Facebook, your account won’t appear to them.
And you can also protect your profile. That way people will only be able to follow you and see your hearts if you allow them to.
Block user
If for some reason you don’t like a user, or don’t want them to be following you, you can block them. This will make the user unfollow you and won’t allow them to follow you again.
Before this week, when you hearted an animated gif from another site we converted it to a static image. Many of you wrote us asking that gifs remained animated, and we couldn’t agree more.
I’m happy to say that now We Heart It is a gif-friendly site! When you heart an animated gif it will now keep it’s animation.
We’ll display a play button over the image thumbnail, so you know that is not a simple static image. When you click the thumbnail and open the image page, you’ll the full size animated version of the gif.
Why display a play button on thumbnails?
Having animated thumbnails can be really distracting. Sure it’s ok when there’s one or two, but the whole page jumping up and down can get annoying after a while.
Why some gifs have animated thumnails then?
This was a small glitch we had for a while, and gifs hearted during that time remained animated. This is now fixed.
We see many posts on Facebook and Twitter of people sharing the link to their We Heart It page, so their friends can see the latest images they’ve hearted, and follow them.
Thinking of that we came up with image badges. We’ll generate for you an image with your latest hearts or any set you have, and you can post it to Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter, or any other site you can post an image.
Promote your heart page, show your friends what you’ve been hearting, and get more followers!
I am really excited for Halloween, I’ve been searching for Halloween costume ideas on We Heart It like crazy and hearting my favorites.
So I created a set just for them, that way I can keep hearting everything I like and easily get back to my costume ideas set later as the day approaches.
Other users have done the same thing, and here are some of the best halloween and costumes sets for you to enjoy:
What is going to be your halloween costume? Leave a comment below :)
The internet today is social, and We Heart It is no different. It’s always better to share your new findings and inspiration with your friends, and see what they are up to.
If you are a We Heart It user already, you can easily find your friends from Facebook, Twitter and Gmail that are also on We Heart It and follow them.
Now we have something new. If your account is linked with Facebook or Twitter and you’re not logged in on We Heart It, you don’t have to type your username and password to login anymore, you can just click the “log in with…” button and we will log you in, like magic!
And if you love We Heart It but didn’t create your own account yet, what are you waiting for? Join with Facebook or Twitter with a single click, no need to create password and all that trouble. You can follow all your friends automatically and start with a more complete account.
Every image on We Heart It has a little heart button over it that you can click to save the image to your heart. Now you can also add this special Heart Button to your browser and use it to heart images from any other website.
When you install it, you’ll see our heart shaped button on your browser bar, it will be there for every site you visit. So when you’re on a site and see a beautiful image you want to add to your heart, just click this button.
The button will scan the current page for images and add a pink border around them. Move your mouse over the image, add some tags to describe it, and save it on your heart.
Do you like spending time on We Heart It, searching for things you like, finding amazing images to heart and share with your friends?
We do too and we have some great news for you! We’ve just improved our search and it’s amazing, you have to test it.
Improved search results
Let’s play a game, look to your right, then search for the first thing that you see. I hope it’s something interesting! Let’s say for example it’s a Magazine.
Our new search results page will show you the most recent images tagged with Magazine (in our example), just like the search used to be before. So you can search everyday for the things you like and always see new images.
The most hearted images tagged with what you’re searching for. This is great if you’re curious about what other users think is the best image of something.
Best match
See the results we think you’ll like more. Our own mix of the most recent and most popular images, it will give you what we think are the most interesting results for what you’re looking for.
So go crazy searching for everything.
Search multiple tags
Now you can also search for multiple words and tags, for example, if you search for glasses harry potter you’ll get plenty results of images tagged with harry potter and glasses, instead of only getting results for the exact tag “glasses Harry Potter” (that wouldn’t have any result).
This has been one of the top requests from users and we hope you enjoy it :)
Search images within a user’s profile
You’ve hearted an image some time ago, and since then you’ve hearted a lof of things so you have to go back page by page on your profile to find it…
Well, no more! On any user profile there’s a search field that says “search this heart”, type a few words about the image and hit enter. We’ll filter your hearts and show you only the images tagged with those words.
So what do you think? Let us know in the comments below!
You probably have already linked your Facebook account so when you heart something it appears on your Wall. Now you can do the same thing with Twitter!
Go to your settings page and on the right side you’ll see an option to link your Twitter account. After you do that you can choose to auto-post your hearts to Twitter.
How does it work? When you heart an image on the site it will post a tweet for you with a short link to the image page.
It’s pretty simple, we’ll compare your address book with the users on We Heart It and try to find which of your friends already have an account on WHI. Then you can choose who you want to follow.
And we do this in a neat way, where we don’t store any of your friends’ email addresses, and we don’t email them, so don’t worry about that.
Oh, long time since our last update. We’ve been working on quite a few big things lately, and today we’re launching the first of them: Sets.
Sets are groups of images you’ve hearted, organized by a theme. It’s almost like having different profiles for different things you love, but on the same place.
You can have sets for about anything: That new haircut you want to get, your fashion style, decoration ideas for your home, your favorite celebrity photos…
Be creative when you name your sets and invent new ways to organize your hearts. You can also visit your friends’ sets for inspiration.
You can find your sets listed on your Heart page, and you can also create new sets from there. To add images to a set just go to the image page and select the set you’d like to save it in. Also, on every new heart you’ll be asked to choose a set where to heart that image.
