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[afuna]

Flickr made a couple of changes, most notably removing any kind of integration with custom services, which has made it pretty useless to, so now I'm looking for another photo host.

Any ideas?

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[thorfinn]

Dropbox.com has public picture gallery stuff, but it has no privacy controls or tagging etc. It's just a directory you put directories of photos into, and it makes public galleries for you.

Alternately, buy a basic dreamhost.com account and domain and easy install an open source photo gallery package?

Those seem to be the best options, IMO...

[afuna]

OOOH dropbox that would be pretty cool; I just need something so I can put up stuff on my camera phone quickly onto the web.

I have webspace so that's another option, but I'm too lazy to manage my own when my needs are honestly just:

* upload from phone
* easy way to get URL
* linkable


(Any private photos I'll handle manually and stuff)

Thank you!

[thorfinn]

I just uploaded this into my photos directory from the iOS Dropbox app, and asked it for a link:

http://db.tt/GHiQjvu

Same photo, outside of the photos directory:

http://db.tt/yWDJEk9

Yeah, as I thought, giving out the direct URL bypasses any security check.


I'm fairly sure there's an Android Dropbox app too with the same functionality.

https://www.dropbox.com/anywhere

[afuna]

Oh hmmmm. How do you get it to give you the URL?

I see it now! From the app -- I was trying to get the link from the web interface where I just couldn't find it! Thanks.

[thorfinn]

Tap the uploaded photo, tap the chain links icon bit the lower left...

Oh, yeah, from the desktop app you rightclick or ctrlclick I think.

Not sure about from the website.

[helens78]

What kind of phone? I switched to Picasa because of the Android integration. It's not as nice as Flickr, but it's hard to beat a three-click interface. :)

[afuna]

I'm using an iPhone *g*

(Flickr didn't work out very well on my phone :( It was slow and crashed it one out of three times, until I learned to upload pictures one at a time -- which kinda defeated the point of mass uploading unfortunately!)

[afuna]

Oh yeah, not sure if I can link to the files *ponders* May have to do without posting any images at all </lazy way out>

[pauamma]

Custom services like uploading? (Guessing from the theme of the comments above)

[afuna]

Nah, posting to custom services, I mean.

I got a Flickr account because it seemed an easy way to do phone -> internet -> Dreamwidth, but phone -> internet was annoying because it was way too slow, and internet -> Dreamwidth is no longer easy, either.

So now nothing is keeping me on Flickr, and I'm looking for a faster way to do phone -> internet. If new service has internet -> custom (like DW) then that would be fantastic :D If not, then at least I have something better than I did before.