out of stealth mode

It looks like zinepal.com is finally completely out of stealth mode. There's been a lot of blogging and twittering about the site in the last few weeks and traffic has gone up significantly. It all started with a blog post by Warren Ellis about zinepal.com and then it took off from there. A lot of the traffic also came from European and South American blogs and Twitter users. It's interesting to see a lot of zines being created in Spanish, Italian and French.

I'm pretty excited about all this traffic and the many zines that are being created. It's nice to see a lot of users returning a few days later to create more zines. That is the really important thing, that zinepal.com provides a real benefit so that people will continue to use it in future. Between responding to e-mails and fixing a few bugs I've recently also added the ability to edit the content of individual stories and apply story formatting. Now you can finally insert page and column breaks! You can also change the fonts and colors of each individual story.

Since it's summer I've been pretty busy with other activities, but the last few weeks have really motivated me to keep working on zinepal. I think the most important thing at the moment is to further polish the site and work out the remaining kinks. That is my plan right now and I've collected a good number of issues and suggestions that I want to address over the next few weeks. Adding support for images in eBooks is also on the list.

If you have other suggestions for what I should focus on please let me know!