esnippers' den

Snippy Bon-Bon

We love Snippy – our friendly orange bird logo creature.

He goes skating, dancing, turns psychedelic and changes color, and he's got great taste in music and art! Have a look here.

We've thought for a while about creating a line of Snippy "objets-de-art" and memorabilia and other things that will allow Snippy to show off more of his cute and cuddly personality.

The first piece to be created is the "Snippy Bon-Bon" a hand made soft sculpture of Snippy.

Most of them will be given away to lucky eSnippers for fun and random things, but they will eventually be available to buy through the site, too.

Like – the eSnipper with the most commented file.

Or, the eSnipper who has made the most comments.

And anything we – or you  – can come up with!

Let us know what your ideas are –

Comment here or send an email to lonnie@esnips.com

-Lonnie

Updating you

The community pages should be working better this coming week: there is a new trial in place and it will be watched to see how it goes.

The download button will stay as is for now – we really hear your requests, and it still might be made the default option.

It's just not happening yet.

or - What in the World is Going on with the Community Pages...?

Hi to all

To all those who have wondered what is going on with the community pages.

Well, i'll tell ya.

(I did write about it before, but that was in another place...)

What's going on is a rebuilding of them.

Outwardly, they seemed fine - but they were outdated and demanded an overhaul. So we decided to put them together again, so they would be absolutely fabulous.

Now, we have done it, but there have been some surprises while we were working on it.

And there have been other things that happened at the same time, which caused other things.

In short - things have gone slower than planned.

I can guess this is frustrating to some of you.

It will be over soon.

Take care, and stay warm.

Lonnie

Site Downtime for Upgrading

Hi!

There will be a short downtime on the site at 2 am EST on the 23rd of December - between Saturday night and Sunday morning - in order to upgrade the site. It shouldn’t last more than 2 hours – and it will probably be less than that.

See you on the other side!

Update on the download buton:

Some of you might have seen this post in the forums, as well:

"Hi Everyone –

Let me say a few words that I hope will help straighten things out...

While we know many of you use the site to distribute and promote your own work, we have to make sure the site isn't being used for unauthorized sharing of copyrighted materials. That means that we have to keep a fine ba

lance

between serving eSnippers with good intentions and making it difficult for others to use eSnips for inappropriate purposes. That's not always easy. 

We also receive frequent requests from users and artists who want to encourage the distribution of their work by enabling download by default. 

Taking all this into consideration we decided to remove the default availability of the download button. But we do hear what you are saying, and are giving it serious thought.

We are considering reversing the default so that it will first enable download and will provide an option to disable it. Let us do some more checking and see if and how it can be done. 

You might've also noticed that over the past months we've become very proactive in introducing tools that identify and prevent the uploading of infringing content to the site. In the process it sometimes happens that content is wrongly disabled. We hope you understand we make every effort to avoid that.  If anything happens to your content, please let us know and work with us. On our end, we will make every effort to fix things asap."

- Lonnie 

More Upgrading

Continuing our upgrade of eSnips - we will be doing a some more today, and it will probably affect things for a bit.

See you later!

-Lonnie

Site Upgrade - Maintenance

Hi!

We are just about to begin an upgrade, and that will probably

affect the community homepages.It shouldnt last too long, and navigating around

the site through search will work as usual.

See you on the other side!

Lonnie

Birdwatching and Snippy – a match made in heaven?

We recently opened a new community on eSnips: bird watching. We want it to become a place where you can share pictures that you’ve captured of birds in your part of the world, even the common ones. After all, a bird common in Canada can be pretty rare in Australia!

The community page is already live, and has some great photos, but I need your help in defining this community – what birds would you like to see included? Right now we have the terms hummingbird, raven and parakeet, aside from the generic “bird” but I think we need to go into greater detail.  Let me know!

Also, strangely enough, to coincide with the launch of the site, a very rare bird (rare, that is, in our part of the world) made a surprise appearance here in Israel. Lonnie talked about it in the forum, and even posted a great shot. 

So, birdwatchers of the world, amateurs and pros alike, start sharing your snaps!

-          Hagit

PS Here’s the cutest group of goslings ever to grace our humble website.

Another Long Holiday Weekend

Like I said - they come in clusters! Take care until Sunday

the eSnips team

PS  and this was sent in by Smiles

Snippy is smiling, too!

Site Maintenance

Hello Everyone -

We are on a long holiday weekend ( they come in clusters!)

We'd like to let you know that there will probably be some maintenance done on

Saturday night, around Midnight,  Eastern Standard Time...it shouldnt last

longer than two hours, and we hope it wont even last one!

Have a great weekend, wherever you are!   

the eSnips team