Thursday, May 12th 2011
Now you can link your We Heart It and Facebook accounts for extra awesomeness! We’ll auto-post your latest hearts once a day to your Facebook wall, making it super easy to share your hearts with your friends.
Ready to start? Click the button bellow:
Want to know more about it? Check you our help page
Comments (View)Tuesday, Apr 19th 2011
Looking for people to follow? What about your friends? It’s really easy to find your friends on WHI now.
You can connect your heart to your Facebook and Twitter accounts. We’ll try to find your friends and show you the ones that already have a WHI account.
When you follow your friends you can see their latests hearts on the Friends tab on the Explore page.
Comments (View)Tuesday, Apr 12th 2011
Do you know you can follow your friends on We Heart It? It’s the best way to keep track of what people you like are hearting, and discover new things to add to your own heart.
Ask your friends if they have We Heart it, tell them about it if they don’t. Get the whole gang there and follow everyone.
Saturday, Apr 2nd 2011
When you add tag to images, they become part of a family of photos. Images of animals, coffee, dresses, sunsets… And in order to help you better navigate these groups we created what we call similar entries.
When you click an image you can see different information on the sidebar. Right on the top you can see other images that share tags in common with the one you’re looking at.
It’s a quick and fun way to spend time on WHI, going from image to image and finding more images similar to what you like.
Comments (View)Tuesday, Mar 29th 2011
Tags are awesome. You can search for anything, from “fashion” to “food”, and find amazing images tagged with that word. They describe the image, and translate pixels into information.
Images may have more than one tag, in fact, the more tags the better since you’ll be able to find it more easily. That creates connections between different tags and they start to group with each other.
So now when you’re on a tag page, you’ll see on the sidebar “related tags”. Those are tags that are often used together with the tag you’re looking at right now. It’s a nice way to help you navigate and find more images that may interest you.
Comments (View)Sunday, Mar 27th 2011
I’ve never considered myself the blogging type. I’m always doing too many things at the same time and it’s hard to take a break to write a post. I’m not that good with words.
That’s why I never had a personal blog, or kept the WHI blog updated. In fact that’s one of the reasons WHI was created, I didn’t want to use a blog to share and organize my favorite images. It just didn’t (still doesn’t) make sense, blogs are for words, and I needed a tool to help me get inspired and find images.
So I’ve used Twitter and Facebook to let you know about what’s new on the site, it’s faster, simpler, and I could go back to work on the site in a few minutes.
But now I feel like I should write a few more lines, explain a little more the new features and what’s going on… I feel the need to re-open this channel so we can communicate better and you have a place to catch up with what we’ve been doing.
So I’m giving the blog another try. I’ll be here more often writing about things related to we heart it.
PS: If you take a look at the older posts you’ll see the last time I posted here was in 2009 (except for the last post in 2010 about one day we had a really ugly outage and I had to explain myself).
Comments (View)Thursday, Dec 2nd 2010
We’ve been growing really fast, thanks to our amazing users that come to the site everyday to get their daily dose of inspiration, and share their favorite images from the web using the site.
For that reason we need to constantly upgrade our servers. Having better servers and more servers means that the site can run better and faster for everyone. Just so you get the idea: we have 8 million page views every day, that’s 93 access every second. Can you imagine 93 people passing through the same door at the same time?
So, yesterday (December 1st) we moved our main server to a new hosting company, one of the biggest in the world, in order to have a high level service. To move the data we had to freeze and backup everything, then copy it to the new server, that’s why we were out of service yesterday morning. Which is a great reason to be 2 hours offline. And that’s how long it took, we came back and everything was really fast, many people were happy.
But this morning (December 2nd), something happened. Something really bad. Some crazy inexplicable error affected the main server hard drives, both of them (we have two in case one stops working) and everything was lost.
It took some time to figure out the extent of the problem, we were talking to the hosting company all day trying to fix it. The solution was to reset the server, make it work, and then copy the backup again.
So we lost some data. Basically everything from yesterday. We’re really sorry about that. I mean really sorry. In theory this should never happen, we have backups, and mirror hard drives, and a few other things to prevent that. But it all failed at the same time, that was definitely a lesson for us, we’re never 100% secure.
These things happen, it’s awful. Just like having to print your homework and the printer doesn’t want to work even though everything is fine. We’re still trying to understand what exactly happened, so we can make sure it doesn’t happen again, ever.
Thank you for your patience.
Fabio Giolito & We Heart It Team
Comments (View)Tuesday, Jan 13th 2009
http://digg.com/design/We_Heart_It_Visual_bookmark_for_everyone
Comments (View)Friday, Nov 28th 2008
Hey, Jenna Wortham wrote about us on New York Times!!
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/28/tag-that-image-visual-bookmarking-sites-worth-browsing/
This is really nice. We’re only there because of the amazing images and videos that YOU add!! So thanks a lot!
Comments (View)Hey everyone.
Just to let you know we’ve added support to PNG and GIF.
If you can’t heart PNG and GIF yet you can clean your browser cache to renew the bookmarklet.
We were holding it to release together with the new version of weheartit that is almost finished, but since many people were asking for it we decided to implement right away.
Have fun!
obs: PNG and GIF images will be converted do JPGs
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