Here are some of the S8DB happenings for the second month of operation:
- Over 1,000 more films have been added…we are now up to over 3,500.
- Many hundreds of cover images have been submitted by film collectors including (in alphabetical order): Mats Abelli, Robert Crewdson, Martin Dew, Lennart Leverström, Tony Lewis, Bill Phelps, Tom Photiou, Graham Ritchie, Joe Taffis…..and several others! We also have got permission from several people on Facebook to use their posted scans. If we have missed anyone, we will be sure to add you here as well — many thanks!
- We are performing minor image enhancements to some of these covers to clean them up a bit, so we do have a backlog of images that have yet to be posted to the site. But rest assured we are working through these as we are able. Please keep those cover images coming our way, they are great to see!
- Visitors from a total of 43 different countries have used the site in the first two months.
- Front page enhancements have been made which include a new listing of films by year of release. This will update each day and is set to showcase all of the years from 1929 to 1980 — another year each day will be shown on the front page.
- Lots of helpful feedback on errors, clarifications and additional details on distributors and films have been provided by many other collectors.
- A new enhancement includes: Updates to the front page every day: We now have automatic changing (from a defined set of rules) of which categories/tags are displayed on the front page to provide a fresh look each and every day.
- Search capability has been expanded to allow you to enter a specific year or year range to further refine the results you see. For example, if you want to see Drama titles, but only those from 1940 to 1953, you can do so! Or if you want to see all of 1950’s Sci-Fi, you can do this too! Watch the video below for a demonstration
- There have been a lot of great ideas shared our way, and these suggestions will be looked at and prioritized to work on. Some of these are more complicated to implement than others, which just means they are added to the ‘To Do’ list and will hopefully be done a bit down the road. Any and all ideas are welcome…
- To access the site, you can also just type in ‘s8db.com‘…..a little shorter and quicker!
- Lastly, while we won’t always provide an S8DB update each month, we sure will whenever there is something new to share.
It is great to see so many film enthusiasts helping to make this community project better each day. Many thanks for the support you have provided so far. Feedback and suggestions can be provided via:
feedback@super8database.com.
Eivind & Greg