Ever wondered which of the postcards you sent are the most favourited? Or which type of postcards are the most loved? Now you can!
In your Postcard wall there is now a new Popular section with the postcards that you sent that were most favourited. The list is ordered from the most popular to the one that received less favourites.
We know this was on the wish-list of many Postcrossers so we are very happy to release this new feature. As always, your feedback is welcome!
Do you display your postcards in your wall? I mean, on your REAL wall?
We know some of you do. But Andy in the U.K. decided to go extra an mile with the wall concept and created the 'My REAL wall' project. Here’s what he has to say about it:
I am a teacher based in London, uk and love photography, travelling and writing.
A few months ago I closed my facebook account and since then I have decided only to receive REAL post, instead of letting people post on a virtual wall.
Whenever I receive REAL post I stick it up on my REAL wall and take a photograph of it, which I then upload to my website, www.myrealwall.com.
And he has photos of many different walls too! So go check it out!
Because it’s fun to check what others have sent and received, we have created the Postcrossing gallery! It’s a section where you can shuffle through all the postcards uploaded to Postcrossing. Or, if you’re curious to discover what a certain country looks like, you can choose to browse only the postcards from that country: just select it from the list!
But, that’s not all! We have received many requests to be able to leave comments on the postcards so we’ve just finished adding that. Head over to the page of a postcard and you now have a place to leave your feedback there.
We have other things on the oven getting ready so keep coming back! And as always, we appreciate your feedback to improve the project.
So far, to see the final result of the postcards exchanges, you had to go to our Postcrossing Flickr group. Flickr is great, but wouldn’t it be awesome to match the images with the postcards and their senders and receivers?
After several weeks of work, we are proud to announce Postcrossing postcard walls! Now everybody can upload their received postcards to their respective profile! All your postcards will be displayed in your profile as well as a gallery of images that we like to call postcard walls. And we have even added a slideshow to go with it!
Simple. Grab your scanner or camera, get an image of the front part of the postcards you received, go to your 'Received postcards’ section and click the little icon on the right end of the row. Follow the upload instructions and voilá!
And there’s more: we have managed to copy a good amount of the postcards directly from the Flickr group to their respective profile owners so that you don’t have to do it again. Have a look at your profile – you might find out that someone has uploaded a postcard you’ve sent! If you find something that doesn’t match what you received, then simply delete it.
We will keep the Flickr group as it is for the moment but with postcards uploads closed. In the future, we plan to use it to host photos of the Postcrossing meetups and other media related to the Postcrossing project.
We hope you all enjoy this new functionality as much as we do. Oh, and if you have comments or ideas of how to improve it, we would love to hear from you!
Last, but not least, we have a request too. This new feature will represent an increase in costs for Postcrossing (like storage and bandwidth) and is only possible to sustain if postcrossers continue to support the project by donating to it. If you enjoy this new feature, and would like to help keeping the project running, please consider visiting our support page – it’s really simple and quick. Thank you in advance! ☺
