WE HEART BLOG

The wait is over...We Heart It is on ANDROID!!!

Tue, 14 May 2013 18:14:00 -0300

Good things come to those who wait…

We Heart It just launched our app for Android™, and it’s overflowing with good things and happiness!

Download it in the Google Play™ Store!

Now you can have everything you love about We Heart It, everywhere you go:

♥ Explore beautiful images and inspiration

♥ Heart and save your favorite images

♥ Switch between your hearts and hearts from people you follow

♥ Search for your favorite things

♥ Group your images into sets

…and more!

Please rate it if you like it!

We’ve received hundreds of emails, comments, and requests from you, and after weeks of long hours, sleepless nights, and bad hair…we hope you enjoy our Android app! We wanted to get the app to you as fast as possible, so ‘adding images’ is coming soon!

Happy Hearting!

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Happiness Makeover Edition!

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 17:21:19 -0300

Have you seen our latest iPhone app version 2.0?

We’ve given your heart experience a happiness makeover - get it now in the App Store! https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/we-heart-it/id539124565?mt=8

Check out our fresh new look and a whole bunch of new features!

♥ Introducing our quick-heart ‘action bar’! Check out the new bar at the bottom of the images screen. Now you can share, save, heart, AND tag, with just one tap of your finger!

♥ Add to sets, to your heart’s desire…or don’t! Now, instead of popping up the sets picker, you can peek under the ‘action bar’ and swipe up on the heart to add to or edit the set where you want to save your images. Sets are organized alphabetically too!

♥ Find the images you love more quickly! See the searches you’ve liked in the past by tapping on the search bar. We’ve also touched up the main menu so you can navigate more easily.

♥ Scrolling-happy? Now it takes only one tap on the top bar of your screen to get back to the top!

Happy Hearting!

♥ We heart emoji and you can too ♥ Woohoo!

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 19:26:00 -0300

Now you can add emoji!!! Be more expressive and decorate your next post by adding emoji to image titles and set names.

Quick Tips for Emoji Newbies
Wondering what emoji are and how you can use them? Emoji are little picture characters that you can add to text. Enable an emoji keyboard on your mobile device (cheat sheet for iOS users here), or use your favorite special characters library (eg. for Mac OS users, use Command + Option + T to access special characters on your Mac).

✳✽☆ Get your creativity on ☆✽✳

Looking for some reading inspiration?

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 20:51:00 -0300

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Check out some ‘novel’ quotes (pun!), and get a preview of the book in pictures here.

Our New ♥Explore Page: Discover More Inspirational Images!

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 19:34:54 -0300

Exciting news!! Now it’s easier to browse more beautiful and inspiring images on the explore page. We’ve been testing a new explore page with a small group of heart-izens, and today, we’re super excited to be rolling out a new version of the explore page!

What’s new on the explore page?

♥ Three columns instead of two, so you can browse more images at once.
♥ Slightly larger images, so you can see more detail when browsing.
♥ A locking navigation at the top, so you can easily jump to other sections.

We know it can take a bit of time to get used to a new layout, but we received great feedback from our test heart-izens, and we think you’ll love it too. Send us your feedback here and stay tuned for even more changes soon!

Keep hearting, and enjoy!

Hello! ¡Hola! Olá! Bonjour! Ciao!

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:23:30 -0400

A picture is worth a thousand words, and with our world wide community these words are now in many languages!

We Heart It is now available in 19 different languages! You can select the language you want, any time at the bottom of the page.

And, as always, if you like it in English, just switch back by selecting “English” at the bottom of the website.

The We Heart It app is here!

Sun, 16 Sep 2012 15:29:00 -0300

We’re really excited to launch the first version of the We Heart It app for iPhone, iPod and iPad today, free in the App Store.

For the last three months, we’ve listened to your feedback and worked really hard to build some really nice things!

With the app, you can discover amazing images of the things you love, and start your own inspiration galleries with your favorite images.

The new We Heart It app lets you search and collect beautiful images of your favorite things. Explore what people are sharing and get inspired every day.

Post images on your Tumblr, Facebook or Twitter directly from the app, or even save it on your device / to your camera roll.

Be the first to share new images with your friends and get more Hearts from them!

We’re always working hard on the ideas you submit. Keep an eye for new updates soon with more cool stuff for you.

So, stay tuned! and keep hearting! ♥

Image details change

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 23:01:00 -0300

Hello everyone, how are you all doing?

We have just released a small change on how you see image details on the site. We are very excited by this small change, this is something we really wanted to do.

Now, we’re showing more information, such as who hearted, the tags of the image, and you can also share to Tumblr, Facebook or Twitter without having to open a new page!

When you move your mouse over an image, you will now see the heart button on the center. As usual, clicking on the heart will save the image on your profile.

At the top, you can see who posted, the set of the image, or when it was posted.

At the bottom, you have three tabs. Click any of these tabs to see more information. The first tab shows the people who hearted the image. The second tab shows the tags added to the image. And the third tab lets you share the image to other sites.

After you heart an image, you can save it in a set. Click on -Choose a set- and select one your sets to save the image in, or choose the last option -New set- to create a new set on the fly! After clicking -New set-, just type the name of the set and press enter on your keyboard to create it.

And as always, you can still click on the image to open it in a new page to see it in full screen, add tags, discover similar images…

That’s it, drop us a comment to tell us if you like it. Stay tuned for more updates!

Keep Hearting!

Follow as many people as you want!

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 15:54:30 -0300

I know a lot of people will love this update! Up until now the maximum number of people you could follow was 500 people. But many of you have so much love in their hearts that wanted to follow more!

We got many emails asking that we increase this number, and you know we can’t resist when you’re so passionate. So I’m really happy to say we did it! We changed the limit, it’s now so high that I doubt you’ll be able to reach it now.

Now you can find your friends, follow them and see what they’ve been hearting. Without having to worry about how many people you’re already following.

New layout, new features

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 14:18:00 -0400

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.

Animated Gifs

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:14:40 -0400

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.

Badges! Promote your heart

Sat, 03 Dec 2011 09:27:00 -0400

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!

Halloween costume ideas

Sat, 29 Oct 2011 17:53:53 -0300

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 :)

Log in with Facebook or Twitter

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:43:41 -0300

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.

Post new images to your heart

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:17:00 -0300

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.

We’ve created browser extensions for the most used browsers among our visitors: Safari, Chrome and Firefox. If you use one of these you can download the extension for it on http://weheartit.com/heart-button.

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.

Search! Search! Search!

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 18:31:49 -0300

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.

And now there are two new options: Most popular and Best match.

Most Popular

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!

Auto-Tweet your hearts

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 19:25:00 -0300

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.

Find your Gmail friends

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:37:00 -0300

Now you have another way to find your friends: Searching your Gmail address book!

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.

Sets! Organize your hearts

Fri, 02 Sep 2011 14:29:00 -0300

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.

Your progress

Wed, 18 May 2011 15:27:27 -0300

When you log in you’ll notice something new. We found out that there are five things you can do to make your heart page more awesome. How many have you done already? I wonder if you can get to 100%… Let us know in the comments!

Complete your registration

When you create an account we only ask for four things: name, username, email and password. But you can complete your heart page with your country, your blog or website, a few words about yourself and your profile picture.

Heart an image on WHI

That’s what We Heart It all about, hearting images and sharing them with your friends. Whether you’re on the home page or on a tag page you can move your mouse over the images you like and click the “heart” icon to save it to your heart page.

Follow your friends

You can find your friends from Facebook and Twitter that are already on We Heart It and follow them to see their latest hearts on the Friends page.

Post a new image

If you found an image that inspires you and you want to save it on your heart, you can! You just need to download our special tool to do that and post the image.

Link up your Facebook account

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.