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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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*uploader
*slideshows - omg!yes
*Quick posting options
When you click on a pick, I'd like to see a couple code options off to the side, that lets you:
-specify the size of image, alt text,
-link back to gallery yes/no
-anonymize url so it doesn't trace back to the journal yes/no
I'm not upon all the embedding options that are current, but it would be nice to see the various code that can be cut and pasted into an entry.
*A gallery system - personally I've never had a problem navigating LJ's system, but I know other's complain about it constantly. Actually it would be nice to see some actual critique beyond "it sucks" to help everyone understand what doesn't work. I'd like to see a more multilayer gallery system
-Vacation pics
--2009
---Yellowstone
----day1
--2008
etc...
*Security - natch. Ability to lock photgalleries and individual pics
I've been using Picassa lately. While I wasn't a fan of downloading a client, I've come to like it because it brings added value. Things I like:
-Basic photo editing tools - crop, contrast, touch-up, add text,etc
-Ability to see thumbnails of multiple folders/albums at once
-Create an album and upload the album
-Store the same photo in multiple albums
-tracking of what has been uploaded and not uploaded
-photo sorting using drag and drop
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