Hello. Welcome back! I am sure that you are as excited to find out about the new features that we have added to our website this week as we are to tell you about it. As mentioned here previously, we will try our best to continuously add small and big (both user-facing and not) features to our Golbin! website. So let's review what's new:

RSS: We have added a RSS stream for all our index pages; that is for the home page, and also for all category/sub-category (click here and here for example) and author pages (like this for example). So now viewers can access Golbin! stories from your favorite feed reader. To use this functionality, simple search for and click the "RSS" link present at the bottom of any of our index pages.

lazyload Google ads: If you have noticed earlier, google-ads on Golbin! pages have always been loading in a lazy fashion (that is, after the whole page has been loaded). But earlier, we were using the awesome jQuery lazyload Ad plugin. While, it was doing an excellent job, it was adding about 8.5K of javascript (and 1 extra http get request) to the website. But, after google introduced the async form of rendering ads, we implemented the same. This gives us lighter and faster loading web-pages. We believe that this will improve viewer experience on Golbin!

story page backgrounds: In our last post, we mentioned that story-tellers now have the ability to provide a custom image as background to all their pages. However, the functionality was limited; because they could only upload 1 image which would apply to all of their pages (story-teller index, and story pages). But now story tellers can have a different background image for each individual stories. If they do not provide an image for a new story but have defined a default image, then the new story will pick up the default image.

As always, we would be delighted to hear from you about what features you would like to be added to our site! Also, don't feel shy to go ahead, register, and share your stories with the world! Click here to see the benefits of writing on Golbin!