Welcome to Freestampmagazine
Freestampmagazine is the continuation of our English-language blog and the Dutch-language Postzegelblog. The platform is now available in six languages, with plans to expand this number further. Our goal is to make Freestampmagazine an international platform for philatelists from all over the world. You can publish blogs in your own language; these are then automatically translated so that they reach a global audience.
Freestampagazine was founded and is sponsored by PostBeeld in Haarlem. As a stamp dealer, we want to do more than just buy and sell stamps. We are actively committed to promoting philately worldwide. We do this through Freestampagazine and Freestampcatalogue, our international stamp catalogue, among other channels.
The new Freestampagazine already includes thousands of previously published articles, including the complete collection of Postzegelblog.nl. This provides you with immediate access to an extensive source of knowledge and information.
But at least as important is what *you* have to say. We invite philatelists from all over the world to share their knowledge, experiences, and stories. Simply create your own blog via the button on the right and contribute to a worldwide network of stamp enthusiasts.
Rob Smit, owner of PostBeeld.com
Wow!
Congratulations on the launch of Freestampagazine, which I saw for the first time yesterday.
Today's blog post about stamping is fine and useful. What I miss in the list are the printed 'stamps'.
It has turned out to be a nice, well-organized website/magazine. There is still one point of attention: the resolution of the images. That very often leaves something to be desired. Surely something can be done about that, I hope?
Dear Hans
The new articles are generally published with higher resolution images. In the old stamp blog, images were often saved and displayed in lower resolution. Therefore, we were only able to import them this way. So, it will naturally improve over time.
The comments are not working completely perfectly yet. On the homepage, I see a new comment, but when I click on it, that comment does not appear below the article. A few hours later, it does.
PS: I'm only just reading below that it might take a while. To be honest, I find that to be a major downside of this otherwise beautiful new website.
Dear Lars,
We consider this a disadvantage ourselves as well. It has to do with caching of the translation system in order to keep the site fast. It has our attention, but a good solution, without placing an extreme load on the server, has not yet been found.