Hey Shade Users - our team has been hard at work in improving the app experience around our app. Here are some of the items that we’ve worked on that enhance everything from sharing, to uploading, and more.

Announcements

Shade in Under 2 Minutes

We just launched our Shade in <2 Minutes video - check that out here. This highlights how to use Shade’s AI feature for search, along with ShadeFS for editing and more.

Big Features

We just introduced public folders → this enables you to quickly share folders with view-only access via a link, speeding up sharing workflows and more.

Stability

Major Features

- Windows (beta) desktop release can be found here

- Created & added everyone to a demo workspace! Try visiting https://demo.shade.inc

- Improve preview support for hvec

- Now onboard for personal workspaces

- Huge improvement to facial recognition, you should see

- Improve AI search when given a bad query

- Add more workspace roles

- Separated AI tags from user tags

- AI tags are now addable under the tag menu

UI Features

- Added native drag drop for mounted drives to the desktop app

- Added feature to modify ShadeFS cache size

- Added feature to publish folders so users can read-only view folders and files

- Upgraded the sharing dropdown to show all users that have access to the current folder/file

- Ability to move up and down the preview list using keyboard arrows

- Use description from EXIF data

UI Fixes

- Fixed checkout bug for monthly billed seats

- More robust retrying/error handling for uploads

- Fix 3d asset viewer

- Fix error where RAW images wouldn’t generate previews

- Support TONS more RAW image formats/extensions

- Support TONS more video formats/extensions

- Fix safari video player

- Exclude trash from search and facial recognition

AI & Metadata Fixes

- Use Description from EXIF Data

Auth Fixes

- Fixed a bug where permissions were shown with a lower-than-expected value

Infrastructure Upgrades

- We’ve increased stability and made huge upgrades to offer better performance when more users are uploading files at peak times. This avoids downtime across our entire stack.

Chat with us!

We’re also starting product review calls if you want to hop on a call to go over how you’ve been using the app, what features you think are missing or really good, and how we can improve it for the next set of users that start using Shade.