A couple of quality-of-life improvements are live on the site today.

Improved gallery results in search:

Photo and video sets that appear in search results now show a preview of the first image, along with a count of how many photos and videos are in the set. The link button on gallery results also now reads “View Set” instead of “Read More.”

Recent Updates sidebar widget:

There’s a new “Recent Updates” widget at the top of the sidebar showing the five most recent additions to the site (both blog posts and new photo/video sets) sorted by date in a single feed. Each entry is labeled as either a new post or a new gallery, and galleries include a photo and video count.

As always, feel free to reach out if you have any problems.

A few of the photoshoots that Rin has self-shot have been done while livestreaming the shoot on MyFreeCams, typically as part of an Artsy Fartsy Club show. I’ve added a new tag for these sets, Livestream Recording. The description at the bottom of these sets will also have a direct link to the corresponding recording on MFC Share.

I highly recommend checking these out if you have not already; not all of the images captured during the shoots make it into the final edited set, and I for one find the BTS aspect of the shoots to be a fascinating experience watching the whole process. It’s a peek behind the curtains to see a portion of the tremendous effort that she puts into each and every set (obviously not including the whole editing process involved after the shoots themselves).

You can now save your favorite galleries and revisit them quickly anytime from your account page.

On any gallery page, use the Favorite this gallery button in the sidebar (optionally with a personal note). Your saved galleries are collected on the new My Favorite Galleries page, where you can:

• Browse your favorites with cover thumbnails and publication dates
• Filter by title, note, or category
• Add a personal note to any gallery (notes are not displayed to anyone except you, they are personal only)
• See which categories a gallery belongs to, with links to browse more like it
• Remove galleries you no longer want to track

As always, let me know if you see any problems.

I just improved the search functionality on the site after some thought during tonight’s livestream. Now if you search for something that matches the name of a gallery tag, it will return results for all galleries with that tag applied, not just the ones that have something matching in the gallery title. For example, “anime” used to have no search results, but searching like so https://rin-city.com/?s=anime will now bring up the (currently) 7 sets that have the “Cosplay: Anime” tag set. Hope that makes things easier for folks, and as always, feel free to reach out here or on Discord with any feedback about the site.