It's getting close to the time when even those of us here at Snooth headquarters are going to turn off the lights and go stuff ourselv... err... go see our families. I've got a lot to give thanks for this year -- and I'll toast it all with a glass or three of delicious wine. (Look for my ratings on the site come tomorrow.)

Before we take off I wanted to give a quick report of what we've been up to. Recently there was an upgrade to Flash (version 10) that unfortunately broke our image/feed uploader. We've gotten many reports from users to this effect, and even more unfortunately the fix for this required a major retooling of the Javascript across the site. Well, not to be daunted by such a daunting task, we set to it. I understand we might not all grok completely what this Javascript nonsense means... To put it somewhat in perspective, let's take the oft-used house building/software development analogy.

Let's say you've got a house, and you've decorated it to your tastes, everything looks exactly the way you want it, and you're living happily. Suddenly you realize that the contractors walled up the door to your wine cellar (horrors!). And it gets worse -- if you take down the wall, your second floor office is going to fall through the ceiling, and all of the trim in the house is going to fall down, and the carpets will catch fire. Admittedly, this is a weak analogy at best, but the point is you really need to get into that cellar (upload your profile image), and it's going to take a while to tear down that wall without breaking all of the Javascript.

Point is -- uploading should be fixed now. Thanks for your patience!

We've also put in place a few other upgrades. On the account page, our international users can now type their zip code in directly to set their location. We've gotten some confused questions as to why this was for US only, and to be honest we were a little ashamed of ourselves. This should be better for everyone, and I bet we'll have a ton more exciting location based features soon enough.

Finally, we're not much on turning away good data, so it seemed wrong to only allow one person to write a description for a Snooth group page. So now, we accept multiple descriptions, all credited to the original author. We hope you'll all flex your editorial muscles and write some great content for your friends and fellow users. I have to say -- I've read a bit of what you've already uploaded and it's great, so keep it coming!

Happy Thanksgiving from all of us here at Snooth! Come back and let us know what you tasted over the holiday.