New Features

  • Login and Join Vimeo Lightbox
    Clicking on most login and join links will now trigger a lightbox overlay where you can quickly login or join Vimeo and stay on your current page.
  • Daily Email Update
    You can now receive a daily email full of what's happening in your Vimeo world. Sign up is located in your notifications settings.
  • Converting time during transcoding
    Ted and Casey added a nifty little feature that will display the time remaining to convert your video during uploads.
  • Better referrer statistics
    Now we record every page that videos get embeded on, check it out in the stats section to the right of any video page.
  • Share on MySpace
    Everyone says they hate it, but everyone has a MySpace profile! We've added MySpace to the Sharing options.
  • Badge additions
    You can now add channels and albums to any Badge that you create. Yipeee!
  • New Hubnut Behavoir
    From now on, the Hubnut will not auto-rotate when it is loaded on a page. This will only affect all newly created Hubnuts, not those that are currently used on other sites.
  • Search Channels
    Now you can FINALLY search for Channels. Use the 'Search' magnifying glass on any page, make sure its set on 'Channels', and search away!
  • Posting to Flickr
    It's back! You can once again post your videos to Flickr. You can also post albums. Do this by clicking on Share and navigating to the "Post this..." tab.
  • Expanded Tag Browsing
    Clicking a tag from a video will bring you to an improved tag browsing experience. Now you can browse videos with that tag in your videos, all videos, your contacts' videos and more. Vimeo members who use that tag most are also noted.
  • New Avatar Feature
    Clicking any "avatar" aka user portrait will bring up a menu of actions you can take regarding that user. Use this menu to add contacts, subscribe to videos, and send messages to users you see on Vimeo
  • Sorting Channels
    Now you can sort channels in the Channels Directory. Just click on the headers like 'videos' or 'subscribers' and it will sort accordingly. We're one step closer to searching for Channels! Yay!
  • Spam Filters
    We've recently rolled out some great new spam filters that we think will help keep spammers off of Vimeo. Of course its impossible to stop ALL spammers, so if you ever see any send an email to Help@vimeo.com and we'll take care of it.
  • Add Multiple Email Addresses
    Now you can add multiple email addresses to your account and then sign in with any of them using the same password. Just set one as your main address, verify it after we send you an email, and you're all set.

  • Vimeo 4.0 launches! Finally! It launched! V4!

    by Jakob Lodwick April 18th, 2006

    We finally switched to the new version of the site. Honestly, I am so tired that I can't write anything that expresses how happy I am for everyone who made this happen, including the v4 beta testers, Zach, Kunal, Andrew, and myself! Yes, I'm happy for myself.

    Zach wrote about it extensively in his blog.

    If you have problems, please email them to us (link is at the bottom of the page). Also, we're interested in hearing your general feedback, positive or negative.

    Good night!

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  • Weekly limit increased to 30 megs.

    by Jakob Lodwick April 11th, 2006

    We decided to give everyone an extra 10 megs of weekly space; now you have 30 megs a week. Enjoy.

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  • Getting ready for new version of Vimeo...

    by Jakob Lodwick March 30th, 2006

    Zach and I have been totally focused on getting the new version of Vimeo, v4, finished soon. That's why there have been almost no changes to the current site. If you're frustrated at the lack of change, just remind yourself that we've been putting months of full-time work into this new version. If you're still frustrated, maybe you can channel your rage into a video?

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  • Server status / Welcome to Vimeo!

    by Jakob Lodwick January 23rd, 2006

    Hi friends,

    Due to the overwhelming number of new visitors from the Associated Press article, things are running a little slow and flaky here today! We're working hard to get new servers set up to handle the load -- this is one of our top priorities right now. So please bear with the slowness for now :)

    Also, to anyone who just signed up: welcome to Vimeo! We're glad you could join us. So far, we've been a small community, and we all treat each other respectfully. If you're joining us, I'd apprecaite it if you could keep with the spirit of Vimeo: friendly and open-minded.

    As usual, if you would like to contact me, send me a message from my profile page, or email us. The link is at the bottom of the page.

    Love,
    Jakob

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  • RSS feeds fixed!

    by Jakob Lodwick January 10th, 2006

    Ok, RSS feeds are working again. Please let me know if you have any trouble!

    Additionally, the date of each clip should be accurate. Previously, there had never been a date.

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  • RSS feeds temporarily disabled

    by Jakob Lodwick December 23rd, 2005

    We had to temporarily turn off RSS feeds due to excessive traffic. The site should continue to run as usual, but you won't be able to access any RSS feeds for now.

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  • Introducing special tags

    by Jakob Lodwick December 12th, 2005

    Here's something interesting: you can indicate who appears in a clip with a special tag. For example, to indicate that my brother Eric is in a clip, just add the tag user:thebrother. Then, his picture and a link to his page will appear on the sidebar:



    Additionally, a link back to that clip will appear on his home page:



    Replace thebrother with the person's username, and you can do it with anyone - not just my brother.

    Also, you can use another special tag to point to a Flickr photo. Here's how:

    1) Every photo on Flickr has a unique ID number. Find that ID by looking at the URL for that photo, and extracting the long number. For example, the URL for this photo of snow falling is http://www.flickr.com/photos/jakob/71899315. The photo's ID is 71899315.

    2) Tag your clip on Vimeo with flickr:71899315 (replacing that number with the ID of your own photo), and now it will appear on the sidebar whenever someone views that clip!

    As always, feedback is appreciated. Please use the Vimeo forums.

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  • You can flag inappropriate clips!

    by Jakob Lodwick November 16th, 2005

    We added a much-needed feature today: you can "flag" clips that you feel don't belong on Vimeo. We all need to work together to keep porn off the site, and now it'll be much easier to let us know when someone uploads some to the site.

    When you're watching an offending video, simply click the "Flag as offensive" link underneath and fill out the brief form, if you'd like. We'll remove offending clips immediately.

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