March 2022 update
💫 Performance improvements
⏩ Shareable slideshow views
⬆ Sortable table view for user galleries
📷 New field for deep-sky acquisition: “f-number”
📩 Improvements to the private messages
🇺🇦 AstroBin stands with Ukraine
I hope you find this interesting!
February 2022 update
Dear AstroBin user!
Every month I'm sending out updates on what's new on AstroBin. I hope you find this interesting!
Read on to learn more about what's new on AstroBin and what's coming up next.
January 2022 update
January was a slow month for AstroBin: my family and I moved house and it was a much bigger time sink than I anticipated. This impacted the new equipment database work, which is critical in terms of complexity, risk, and mental drainage, so I worked on easier and more minor features and bug fixes instead.
Read on to learn more about what's new on AstroBin and what's coming up next.
Since we're on the last day of the year, I wish each and everyone of you a year full of health, prosperity, and love. Happy New Year! ❤️
December 2021 update
December was a busy month once again: I focused on the new and upcoming equipment database, on improvements to the IOTD/TP process, and performance.
Read on to learn more about what's new on AstroBin and what's coming up next (and remember: the list doesn't include bug fixes, most infrastructure work, and smaller features 😛).
Since we're on the last day of the year, I wish each and everyone of you a year full of health, prosperity, and love. Happy New Year! ❤️
November 2021 update
November was a again mostly dedicated to the new upcoming equipment database.
Huge progress has been made and we are on schedule for roll-out some time during January.
Read on to learn more about what's new on AstroBin and what's coming up next (and remember: the list doesn't include bug fixes, most infrastructure work, and smaller features 😛).
The great equipment database migration of 2021/22
AstroBin is used by tens of thousands of people, collectively owning hundreds of thousands of equipment items, ranging from cameras, to telescopes, to mounts, to filters, to accessories, to software.
Most of AstroBin visitors use the site to search for equipment items. You are interested in finding images acquired with a certain telescope or a certain camera that you own or are evaluating for purchasing.
During the past 10 years, AstroBin has allowed a great degree of freedom in the way you add items to your profile and images, which has resulted in a lot of duplicates under slightly different names, and a lot of equipment items that are impossible to identify as a specific products.
October 2021 update
October was a month of intense work, mostly spanning two areas: the new upcoming equipment database, and the preparations for the 2022 IOTD/TP team.
Read on to learn more about what's new on AstroBin and what's coming up next (and remember: the list doesn't include bug fixes, infrastructure work, and smaller features 😛).
September 2021 update
After recharging the batteries in August with some summer vacation, I feel like September was literally the month in which I wrote the most code in a month in my entire 20-year career in software development!
I'm super hyped about what's going to be released on AstroBin over the next few months, and you should be too!
Read on to learn more about what's new on AstroBin and what's coming up next (and remember: the list doesn't include bug fixes and smaller features 😛).
August 2021 update
Dear AstroBin user,
Every month I'm sending out updates on what's new on AstroBin. I hope you find this interesting!
👨⚖ Comment moderation and abuse reporting
🔭 Work in progress on the new equipment database
🛒 NFTs of the Messier catalog (sold out!)
July 2021 update
📝 Image description field ported to Rich Content Editor
⚫⚪ High contrast theme for visually impaired viewers
💻 Python 3 / Django 2.2 / Ubuntu 20.04
👷♂ Work in progress on the new equipment database
🛒 NFTs of the Messier catalog
📺 I presented at TAIC (The Astro Imaging Channel) on YouTube!
I hope you find this interesting!