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Upload images and media files directly through forms, making it easier to manage visual content across your directory.
Managing media files is now easier and more intuitive with our revamped upload experience. You can now upload images and other media directly through forms. Just drag and drop files, see instant previews, and enjoy seamless integration with S3-compatible storage.
At the core of these improvements is the new FormMedia component, which ensures a consistent and reliable upload experience across all forms, from tool submissions to user profile updates and admin listings. It handles image optimization, preview generation, and robust error handling.
We've also prioritized performance with strict file validation, secure presigned URLs, and optimized upload flows. Direct-to-S3 uploads reduce server load, and lazy-loaded previews help pages load faster, ensuring a smooth experience on any device.
Introducing smarter, faster, and more user-friendly AI content generation.
AI-powered content generation is one of Dirstarter's most valuable features for quickly populating your directory. We've made significant improvements to how AI generation works, making it smarter, faster, and more user-friendly.
This feature was already available in Dirstarter, but we've made significant improvements to how it works.
Smarter, more reliable AI: The AI now processes your requests with greater accuracy and provides clearer feedback. If something goes wrong, it recovers more gracefully—automatically retrying when possible and showing better error messages.
Real-time, relevant suggestions: As you fill out forms, the AI instantly suggests related tags and categories. With debounced suggestions, you get fast, relevant results and a smoother experience, even with large amounts of data.
Higher quality content: Description generation now matches the quality of main content generation. Results are more consistent, and the AI uses more of your input for context, giving you more relevant and helpful suggestions. Prompt building has also been improved for even better results.
To get the most out of AI-powered content generation:
The improved AI generation system is designed to help you build your directory faster while maintaining high content quality. It handles the heavy lifting so you can focus on growing your business.
A new feedback widget allows visitors to quickly share their thoughts and suggestions about your directory
A new feedback widget allows visitors to quickly share their thoughts and suggestions about your directory.
Users can now report issues with listings, request new features, and provide general feedback - all through a simple interface that makes communication effortless.
The widget is automatically displayed when the user has taken a certain amount of time and acted on the directory. This is to prevent the widget from being displayed too often when the user may not have any feedback to giv yete.
The exact thresholds are:
You can configure those thresholds in the configuration of your directory.
We've launched embeddable badges that make it easy to showcase tool's presence on your directory directly on your users' website.
This new feature makes it easier than ever to let visitors know that their tool is featured on your directory, helping to build trust and credibility with your audience.
Dirstarter now offers full control over your viewing experience. While dark mode has been available since launch, you can now manually toggle between light and dark themes whenever you want.
There are now three ways to switch themes:
Cmd/Ctrl + K)Shift + Cmd/Ctrl + LUser can now customize their visual experience to match their preference, regardless of system settings.
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