new backend now live!

Over the last few weeks I've been hard at work cleaning up the zinepal.com code and making it more robust. This work was completed last week and the site is now running on the new backend. The transition went pretty smooth with only a small hiccup affecting the delivery of recurring zines. This has now been fixed and everything should be back to normal.

The cleanup work took longer than expected, but now that it is done I can add new features much more easily. I'm planning on rolling out some often requested features over the next few weeks. The zinepal.com API is also still on the roadmap. Stay tuned.

The only user visible change with this transition is better support for eBook readers. When editing your user profile you can now see a new "eBook Reader" tab. On this tab you can specify your eBook reader e-mail address, the file format you would like to receive for your eBook reader (ePub, Kindle/Mobipocket or PDF) and whether you would like to only receive zines at your eBook reader e-mail address. This should help all the people that previously received zines on both their user account e-mail address and their eBook reader e-mail address.