Blog
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2021-01-09
- ✨ New Year, New Feed!
- After months of work under the hood, the feed is now more alive than ever!
- Demo reel updates and new shorts will show up in the feed. Make sure to update your profile!
- When the user post multiple items of the same type, a "See x more posts by user" note appears.
- 🎉 We are ONE THOUSAND!
- A few days ago Animato reached 1000 users! We've never imagined reaching this milestone before Animato's first birthday. Thank you all ❤️
- 🎦 Nearly 200 Reels
- That means one every 5 users published their animation demo reel. That's a lot.
2020-09-24
- 💬 Chat
- New chat! The goal is to simply get together, so we switched from the clunky old chat to Discord!
- ⚒️ Remake
- It may not look like it, but we recently re-wrote most of the site to allow for exciting new features. What exactly? Let's say your homepage feed will get some more action.
2020-04-29
- 🎬 VideoPlayer
- We heard it was annoying to mute Every. Single. Player. Not anymore! Now the volume/mute state is saved between players!
- 💼 Jobs
- Show Job level and software skills required, when available. Thanks Chris Mayne for providing the info.
- 🐞 Animal Crossing
- Bunch of bugs were squashed thanks to your feedback!
2020-04-19
- ✉️ E-mail Notifications
- New! Tweak notifications per event type (new followers, likes, etc).
- Re-design! Well, actually design, it was pure dummy text previously. Now you'll find a big link to the content itself, author's profile and more.
2020-04-14
- 🎬 VideoPlayer
- Show volume slider.
- Shorten view count (10K, 1M, etc).
- 🐞 Random
- Show Reels count (30 so far! 😱)
- Comment replies looked a bit weird, so we fixed that and a bunch of little details here and there.
2020-04-09
- 🐞 Fixity Fixes
- The BETA program is going great! All the bugs found by betatesters were squashed! Massive thanks to everyone testing animato. The community ❤️ you!
2020-03-24
- ☁️ Upload
- Increased upload limit to 100MB (plus some retouches to make it nicer)
2020-03-19
- 🎬 VideoPlayer
- Display current frame number. Useful for giving feedback!
2020-03-18
- 📺 Stream
- Click anywhere in the post to open (and highlight it).
- Only enabled drag on touch events.
- 🎬 VideoPlayer
- Make progressbar full width.
- Don't autoplay if video was manually paused.
- Fixed scroll events.
- ❤️ Fixed Likes list not working.
- 📖 New Blog!
- 🤖 Lots of bug fixes and usability improvements.
2020-03-16
- 📺 Stream
- New toggle for grid/list views.
- 🎨 UI
- Filled icons for Like and Bookmark.
- 🎬 VideoPlayer
- Flash buttons on frame-skipping.
2020-03-15
- 🚀 BETA launch!