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Denise ([staff profile] denise) wrote in [site community profile] dw_biz2009-10-06 02:28 am
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Photo/image hosting brainstorm post

So, now that [staff profile] 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.
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[personal profile] niqaeli 2009-10-06 09:57 am (UTC)(link)
Things I require:

* a gallery system that can be navigated by people who are neither rabid, deranged weasels nor BradFitz.

* an upload interface that doesn't suck.

Past that I am easy and don't really care. Until it's easier for me to upload photos to Dreamwidth, I'll keep uploading them to my domain.

I would actually really like to have an ftp interface as someone above mentioned. I like ftp. It's easy to work with. Failing that, a usable graphical interface.
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[personal profile] katieintheworld 2009-10-06 11:59 am (UTC)(link)
*seconds the request for a sane gallery system*

[personal profile] hendrikboom 2009-10-06 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
The Linux pornview program is a moderately usable gallery interface. And despite its name, it works even for pictures that aren't porn.