The global WikiPic network will be down today (anytime through the day) for up to 30 minutes, as we're attaching on a petabyte attachment to our network. This is a system that gives WikiPic the ability to invest time into working on new technology, and let us build the largest image network on the internet, and we'll be able to make publishing images online even safer and securer than ever.

Other than the maintenance, we've got a few good things to say:

Firstly, something we are REALLY happy to talk about, is our hard development to work on a TEN layer image reading technology. It might sound boring and lame, but by working on such developments, we will be able to read over images swiftly and always end up reading them as accurate as possible when we do, as our system automatically reads images and grabs the most powerful area of the image so we can uniquely identify it. This gives us two advantages: even faster reading, and even more accurate uploading matches. There's no loss, except we might consume a little more server resources, however it's possible we can sort this out in the future.

Secondly, When our image platform is completely stable (at the moment, it isnt), we will create our developer platform to help other players make a Wikified application. Wikified is an registered subsidary of WikiPic Limited, specifically designed for applications that wish to develop WikiPic in their application, and become Wikified (as an expression). Any business or application can become Wikified. Wikified applications will have the ability to do so much in their applications effortlessly: check if images are valid, decode images to get unique hashcodes, read images, check current images, and progress image popularity. As the development course goes further into action, we'll be working on more and more features for our developers to use in their own apps, but by interlinking your app into our huge network you are helping us and your app get some extreme Wikifiedness. We'll love to talk about this as it goes, but this is a big priority and will be worked on as soon as we believe it's ready to go live.

Thirdly, it's pure awesomeness. WikiPic is foreseeing some pretty bad concepts to our system, and while we have some awesome technology, we don't currently have a useful concept, as some people have told us. Right now we are strongly revising our concept and so we'll be throwing HUGE changes in WikiPic and our popularity system will be taking off very soon. We're really liking the features that are being thrown out into the WikiPic atmosphere! :)

That's all the news we've got, but there's some other considerations we need to discuss:

As we're slowly growing, many of you need to acknowledge that our application needs a lot of tweaking and we understand that some general uploads don't work. We're working really hard on doing that, as our general technology has been under works for a long time, but since it is a very intense server provider it may not be able to handle it live for some situations. We'd expect it sometimes to go a bit tad boring on us, but within a short amount of time (hopefully before we're popular) it will be good.

For now, we're checking that these files don't work (which obviously weren't tested during our experimentation period, apologies):

• Renaming a file, and then uploading it on "Windows"-based OS computers. It's based within their technology, we'll fix it soon.
• Images which have a higher bit rate than 364-bits won't upload as our server cannot decode them into a 8-bit format (it gets confused).
• Manually programmed images, such as "robots" or applications using a really outdated version of "GD" encoding library.
• Images made using non-guideline following programs, and do not render in a understandable format. Our technologies follow over 300,000 type of potential software matches however the market grows and we can't compete to work with all that decide to use their own technique (only the popular ones will be determined).

Other than that, Happy Wiki-ing!