LinkBunch is Down for Maintenance

It's been a while since I've posted here and what better time could it be than to announce a big change in LinkBunch since it's inception?

LinkBunch is currently down for maintenance. The service has gotten mightly popular and, as a result, the existing, rushed-up code didn't hold up too well. The database server was getting hammered, so I had to take the site down and sit and redevelop it.

Now that I know what kind of traffic I can expect on the site, I should be able to build a better performing, more scalable LinkBunch with a few extra features that have been requested often.

And, as a bonus, I'm also going to sit and redesign it!

Hold on to those links. We've got a lot more bunching to do!

New feature: "Copy Bunch to Clipboard"

It was highly ironic that LinkBunch made it so easy to share links by just pasting them all into a box, but it wasn't as easy to get the links back out of the bunch in the same format. Not anymore!

There's a new feature in LinkBunch - Copy Bunch to Clipboard - which, when clicked, copies all the links in the bunch to the clipboard in plain text format.

Due to size and layout restrictions, long links are snipped short when they get displayed. As a result, it isn't possible to simply select the links on the page and copy them to the clipboard. The new copy bunch to clipboard feature makes it even simpler now.

Try it: http://linkbun.ch/9yt

It's tested on Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer. If you still run into any problems, do let me know.

New Terms of Service and Privacy Policy

Following changes to the Google AdSense Terms of Use, LinkBunch now has a privacy policy and terms of use page in place. Please take a moment to read through the text on the page.

Continued use of LinkBunch indicates your agreement with the terms of use and acceptance of the privacy policy.

Thank you!

LinkBunch goes blue da ba dee da ba daee...

By popular demand, LinkBunch has now gone completely blue, which is admitted a lot cooler, literally and figuratively, than the older red.

However, just being cooler and popular isn't the only reason I decided to switch. The main reason is that most links on the web are blue in color. It only makes sense for a site that deals with links to be of that color!

Yeah, okay it isn't #0000FF, but #003366 will do the job!

Previews of links in LinkBunches

Another quick update - LinkBunch will now let you see a pop-up preview of the linked pages in a bunch when you hover over the little bubble icon next to each link. The previews will help users in deciding whether to click on links or not - if they aren't sure of what the links are.

These are Snap previews that have gotten a lot of flak in the past, but I've set them to only show up when you hover over the icon - not the full link. That can be quite irritating and I personally don't like it.

Let me know what you think of the previews.

A cleaner homepage and a verbose help page!

Just updated LinkBunch to have a cleaner homepage, free of all the detail and moved the details along with other FAQs to a dedicated help page.

If you have any questions that you'd like me to add to the FAQ page, drop me a line.