You might be thinking, “Didn’t MailChimp already do a release this month, and wasn’t the new File Manager one of the big changes?” Well, yes. But we decided to do another release to make some small-but-important enhancements to that new File Manager—and we threw in some also small-but-important bonus features while we were at it.
File Manager: now with fewer clicks!
Whenever we overhaul an existing part of MailChimp, we do our best to make sure all of the functionality remains intact. Sometimes, though, our improvements inadvertently make workflows more difficult. While most of you were as excited as we were about the new File Manager, we quickly heard that it took more clicks to get some things done. Most notably, replacing an existing image in a campaign via Import from URL went from 3 clicks to a whopping 6.
Wait, what?
Sigh, it’s true. Witness the pain: First you had to click Edit on the image you wanted to change, then Replace in the slide-out panel, then click the arrow on the Upload combo button (which many people didn’t notice) for other upload/import methods. Next you’d click Import from URL in that submenu, paste in your image URL and click Import, and then you still had to select the image once the import finished. I got exhausted just typing all that.
Realizing the needless complexity we’d accidentally introduced wasn’t our proudest moment. We don’t usually make changes between version releases, but within a day of v9.2, we pushed a tiny fix to separate the import functions from the upload button in the File Manager.
That eliminated step 3 above, but meant replacing an image by importing from a URL still took 5 clicks. In v9.3, we’ve eliminated another step by automatically selecting the image that you’ve uploaded or imported. You can also hit …read more
Source: Mail Chimp