Old TIMES

Changelog

What’s new in the studio

Old TIMES is built in the open, a little at a time. Everything below is already live — one line per day, newest first, with the deployment it finished on. Nothing here is a promise; it is simply what has shipped.

14 Oct 2026 Deployment #61

The page motion is back

  • Tapping a link lays the next page down over this one like a card on a stack; going back slides the previous page in from the left.
  • The motion is wrapped so a browser that refuses to animate — a page turned hidden mid-jump — simply lands the next page instead of failing the navigation.
  • It plays when you move between pages. Stepping through the booth keeps you where you are instead of replaying the slide on every step.

The studio mark, out of the way

  • The on-screen Old TIMES mark moved to the top corner of the preview, where it no longer lies across the footer line you print.
  • It stays screen-only: the file you download still carries no mark.

The name, in a cursive hand

  • OLD TIMES is written in a cursive script wherever the studio signs itself — the header and footer wordmark, the strip's printed name, the printed portrait's header and the mark on screen.
  • The ink-and-paper dress stays exactly as it is; only the studio's own name is back in a hand.

Visit counting, quietly

  • The visit counter loads on the client, so visits are counted again without the hydration stutter that came with loading it in the page itself.

Highlighted words, in the same hand

  • The phrases the studio sets apart in colour — the accented line in the headline, tips and asides in the guides, the signature on a letter — are now written in the cursive hand too, so the studio speaks in one voice wherever it raises it.
  • Fine print stays as it was: the preview mark's small note and the size chips are still set in their small type.

Every headline, in two voices

  • A headline now reads the way the hero always has: the opening words in the newspaper setting and the closing words in the cursive hand.
  • The hero line keeps exactly the setting it had — “Your own little” in print, “vintage photo booth.” in the hand.
  • The small caps column labels in the footer stay labels: a script face set in capitals is hard to read.

Letters, in the hand

  • A letter on the wall is a note somebody left, so the note and the signature under it now read in the cursive hand.
  • The maker's note in the footer closes in the hand as well, under its printed opening.

The booth speaks the same way

  • Inside the booth, every step heading is two-tone now: the ask in print and the tail in the hand — “What would you like to make?”, “How many photos?”, “Save your story.”
  • The editor's panels follow it (a finish, the feeling, the footer), along with the tour card and the letter card, so the studio sounds like one person all the way through.

A signature you can read

  • On the letter form, the name the letter is signed with is set large enough to read at a glance, instead of sitting at the size of the caption around it.

The note about the maker

  • The sign-off reads a little plainer, and the maker's card sits a little lower in the footer.

13 Oct 2026 Deployment #57

A newsprint dress

  • The studio took on the look of an old newspaper: ink and paper, serif rules, no colour.

The printed name and footer, on every paper card

  • The six designed paper cards now print the OLD TIMES name across the top and your footer line under the last photo, exactly like the plain papers already did.
  • Each card's lines were set against its own artwork — navy paper takes the light ink, cream and linen take the dark — so the printed line stays readable.

A livelier letters wall

  • Each letter now swells as it rises and settles back as it leaves, so the wall drifts instead of marching.
  • The roll moves noticeably faster, and the grid stays perfectly in step.

Calmer wording

  • Softened the shop-style phrasing across the booth and the guides.
  • Dropped the price from the homepage listing so the studio reads as an indie project, not a storefront.

The whole composition in view

  • The editor scales your strip to fit the window, so there is no inner scrolling while you work.
  • Thumbnails wrap onto a second row instead of hiding.

Paper Film strips, finished

  • Paper Film strips now come for 2, 4, 5, 6 and 8 photos, with sides that match the single frame exactly.
  • The OLD TIMES name and your footer line now print on the strip — in the editor, in the print preview and in the file you download.

Lighter to load

  • Removed a batch of unused artwork and duplicate files — the pages load faster for it.

12 Oct 2026 Deployment #42

The mark stays out of your file

  • Old TIMES appears on the preview only. Your downloaded and emailed file never carries it.
  • Replaced the on-screen watermark with a quiet blackout on print-screen.

The letters wall

  • A rolling wall of the little notes people leave behind, and a copy pass that frames the whole site as an indie studio.

₹4.99 in India, instant checkout

  • Razorpay checkout opens the moment you ask for the full-size file.
  • Fixed the preview fit and framing; the nightly note to the owner always sends.

Firm footing on phones

  • The page no longer slides around behind the booth on iOS.

One payment route, plus a 404

  • Razorpay only, an in-app way to leave a tip, a friendlier not-found page, and quicker flow changes.
  • Locked the digest endpoint, kept the personal address out of the page, and added light rate limits.

The nightly note, at 22:00 IST

  • Counts the journey from arrival to download, and emails a daily digest so the studio can be watched honestly.

11 Oct 2026 Deployment #29

Real checkout, fresh payment

  • The real Razorpay checkout runs in the preview, and editing your strip asks for a fresh payment before download.

Strips that unfurl true-to-photo

  • Six- and eight-photo strips now appear at their true proportions in the print preview.

10 Oct 2026 Deployment #27

Editor manners

  • Dragging reframes only the photo you selected, and the strip scrolls to follow your choice.

Steady on small screens

  • The guided tour points at the right thing on a phone, strip counts stay even, and the footer line clears the last photo.

Better moving about

  • Step back through the booth with the browser's Back button, and every page starts at the top.

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