New Facebook Features: Multiple users uploading photos to the same album

Sina Science and technology news Beijing time August 27 morning, Facebook announced the launch of the Monday share album features. This feature allows multiple users to upload photos to the same album. With this feature, album creators will be able to have up to 50 "contributors" to manipulate albums, while each contributor can upload up to 200 photos. In addition, album creators can also use album settings to allow contributors to invite others to manipulate albums, or to control such invitations autonomously. Previously, Facebook users had only uploaded photos to albums they had created, with a maximum of 1000 photos per album. Bob Baldwin, the Facebook software engineer who led the project, said there are 3 privacy settings for the new shared albums: Bob Valdevin, contributors, and contributors. This will allow album creators to better control which users can access photos in albums. "Currently, if a user participates in a party, then you may find 3 related albums," Valdevin said. However, due to the privacy settings of the album, users may not be able to access all the photos, which is disappointing. A Facebook spokeswoman said that the creator of the shared album would be able to delete or edit the photos in the album, while contributors could edit their own uploaded photos. However, this feature is not available on Facebook's album. This feature was born of a "hacker marathon" within Facebook. In such activities, Facebook employees put aside their routine work and envision new features in the platform. Fred Zhao, another developer who shares the album feature, says that at Facebook, the hacking marathon is an exciting activity, and many employees spend the whole week Frede Zhao brainstorming and envisioning prototypes. Valdevin said that the development of shared photo albums was based on user feedback, and that the functionality was discussed within Facebook. After deciding to engage in the project, Valdevin and Frede Zhao in the company before the hacking marathon of this January. They recruited more than 10 engineers within the company. In order to develop this function, many engineers work overtime all night. Sharing albums is clearly a useful tool for group trips, weddings, gatherings and family reunions. "The most interesting thing about developing products on Facebook is that you never know how people will end up using the product," says Valdevin. We are delighted to see the launch of this feature because we think people will use shared albums in ways that are unexpected. Frede Zhao and Valdevin said they planned to further develop this function. First, the upper limit for uploading 200 photos per contributor will be upgraded, and they will also enhance the mobile version of this feature. Valdevin said Facebook posted this feature to a small group of users of the English-language site this week. The next step will be the full launch of the English version of the website, which will eventually be extended to FaceboOK all stations. (Chu Yue)