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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.
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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I'm aware many people love and adore clients like Semagic that they use to write their posts and stuff, but I don't, for several reasons: for one thing, Semagic specifically is apparently written for not-my-brain because it makes approximately as much sense to me as material written in a language I don't read on a disassembled jigsaw puzzle which is missing half its pieces and has also gotten wet and warped since last assembled; for another, I don't want to have to upgrade other softwares (possibly on multiple machines) to use a website; and I don't want to have to either carry around an application on a flash drive or download the dang thing to every machine I'm likely to use.
Because of this, I've always found it annoying that the scrapbook page advises me to download a client. I want the interface itself, as maintained on the website, to work, and make sense, and not make me have to visit thirty-eleven versions of the image I just uploaded in order to get its URL (this is silly; the first part is static anyway, so there's no reason it can't show me the list of thumbnails or whatever with gallery/image1.jpg 428x214 px or something right there). It also wouldn't kill me very much if rearranging images were something I could do, like, in a ...I seem to have lost the word. In a file structure, like when you want to move things around on your hard drive and you can open a window, get a list of files on the desktop, and either copy or drag/move them to my documents or whatever.