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

[dragonwolf]

Of course, one doesn't want to accidentally overwrite an image because one has forgotten that one already has an image of that name uploaded. Maybe that could be resolved by giving duplicates numbers, like "myimagename2.jpg" or whatever.

One person mentioned a few comments up about the behavior I think Flickr uses, where if you upload an image that already exists, it would take you to that image, instead of creating a copy.

Of course, one thing that could work would be to have the ability to choose which behavior you want to use. Maybe it defaults to making a copy, but you could set it to not make a copy and go to the existing image, or perhaps add an "ask me every time" option for those who might want to do a little of both?