Dashboard

• Redesigned the navigation section to leave more room for your forms and content.
• Updated the users list section of the Account view with a clearer design.
• Added the ability to reset any user's API key directly from this section.

2016 imgix Responsive Image Survey

• We've released the 2016 imgix Responsive Image Survey! If you work with responsive images on the web (which you probably do if you're reading this!), you can take it right here. Your thoughts and feedback will help us move responsive imagery forward faster.

Building Dynamic Social Images Post

• Blogged about how to programmatically generate images from data using imgix's composition engine. Check out the power of watermarks, blends, and the Typesetting Endpoint for making compelling customized experiences.

Dashboard

• Updated account and user details sections of the Account view with better layouts and more usable forms.
• Fixed permissions for read-only users, allowing them to visit the account view and edit their own user details.
• Fixed a bug in Safari where the second field in a two-part form field wasn't accessible by click.
• Fixed a bug in Safari that was preventing our handsome logo from appearing at the top of the sign-in and sign-up views. Why didn't anyone tell me about this sooner?

Kickstarter Case Study

• Find out how Kickstarter used imgix to streamline their image processing and improve the loading experience for their animated GIFs.

Motif is Now Open Source

• We open-sourced our social image creation tool, Motif. Try it out with your site or contribute to the project on Github.

Built with imgix

• All of our demonstration tools are now together on the "Built with imgix" page. In addition to serving faster images, you can also use imgix as an advanced compositing engine to build completely new experiences, of which these are fine examples.

This Week in Client Libraries

• Documented how to use imgix-rails with Carrierwave
• Added support to ember-cli-imgix for auto parameters (hat tip to Blake Gentry at OpenDoor for the PR)

New Page Weight Tool

• Released Page Weight, a tool to help measure and improve image performance. Enter the URL of your website to get a detailed custom report that shows how images are affecting your performance and ways to improve.

Dashboard

• Upgraded the /signup form to use a shiny new endpoints, resulting in a smoother account sign-up process.
• Fixed a bug with URLs that broke the back button in certain cases.
• Hid the billing form from users that don't have permission to edit billing details.
• Fixed a bug that was requesting current invoice data even for users without permission, resulting in an entirely-avoidable 401 Forbidden error every time.

imgix-go Client Library Update

• Merged a branch into master that adds Base 64 Support.

Dashboard

• Moved invoices, billing information, and plan details to the new consolidated billing view.
• Fixed a bug that prevented "billing-only" users from adding or updating credit card information.
• Renamed a bunch of routes throughout the app for better organization. No need to update your bookmarks, though: all old routes should be correctly aliased.
• Improved the general behavior of errors on many forms, and the specific behavior of displaying email "typo" suggestions in the sign-up form.

Blog Post: Optimizing Quality and Speed for High-DPR Images

• Published a quick guide on supporting high-DPR devices while maintaining low-DPR file sizes.

Documentation

• Added spiffy new "Edit in Sandbox" buttons to image examples.
• Documented the ellipsis input for the txtclip parameter, which inserts an ellipsis (…) where specified in a truncated text string.

Dashboard

• Updated news module on home view: better design, fewer API requests.
• Fixed a number of minor bugs in the Source creation form.