Photo/image hosting brainstorm post

[denise]

So, now that mark is working for Dreamwidth fulltime, we're going to be working on many of the "big" projects that we want to do. One of them is a DW-native form of photo/image hosting that will let people upload images, maintain image galleries, quickly post images, etc, etc.

It'll be a while before we can have something released, but we're starting the design-and-spec process now! We have some ideas of our own about how it should work and what features it should contain, but we're turning to you guys right now at the very start, before we say anything about how we want things to work, to get your input and ideas without influencing them.

What features do you guys look for in photo/image hosting? What would you consider a "must have"? What would you consider to be nice but not necessary? What would be your "killer app" for image hosting -- the thing that would make you go "oh wow!" a lot and recommend it to all your friends?

Don't think about whether something's possible or not -- we want to hear your pie-in-the-sky ideas, your craziest thoughts, as well as your list of what features you'd absolutely require before you started to use it.

Comments

[copracat]

One enhancement I'd really like is to automatically match entry security when uploading an image for an entry.

This is a genius idea, but I'd like the option to set a default which could be overridden when posting, or to chose to match the security or not post by post. Say you had posted a pic to an unlocked post, then posted the same pic to a filtered post (filtered for other content, not the pic). The pic would disappear from the unlocked post for everyone not on the subsequent post's filter.

[afuna]

Hmmm, in my mind, the ideal goes something like this:

* when uploading the file from update.bml in the middle of making an entry, you have the option to make it match the entry security, or be an image-specific security setting. Default is to match the current entry security

** for draft posts and until such time as you post the entry, the newly uploaded image shall be private, because you haven't specified what the entry security should be. Once you have posted the entry, the image security shall match the option you chose above.

** once you've posted the entry, editing its security won't edit the image security (I suspect it would be too complicated otherwise -- but I could be wrong!)


* when adding an already uploaded image -- say you're on update.bml, and we have some kind of image browser for your gallery, the entry security doesn't affect the image security

** said image browser could, potentially, link you to a page to manage your images/an image, so you could still easily edit the security or whatnot, on the fly, before using it in your entry