Hey laconica^Wstatusnet dev! Long time lurker, first time caller ;-) 2009/9/11 Evan Prodromou <[email protected]>: > So, what would it take to build a lightweight photo-sharing service like > Flickr using StatusNet? I don't think very much. Since we allow file > uploading, you could have a notice per photo (notice text provides the > description), and "comments" would just be replies.
As a long-in-the-tooth Drupal developer (who was at one time responsible for a bunch of the Drupal code that folks were using to s/Flickr/Drupal/), I would like to say: Resist the temptation to have StatusNet do it all (tm). This is currently a nice piece of software that is on the right track towards being a great micro-messaging tool. > Here's my list of things that would make a FlickrLite with StatusNet > workable: > > File upload in the API. > Privacy? Sharing only with family, friends, or a particular group? Is that > 100% necessary? > Marking each notice and file with license info? I think so. > In-line view of images. > Tagging others' notices? Could this work by just replying to a notice and > including the tag? Sure, that'll give you the basic photo sharing, photostream aspect of Flickr - and some of the per-image features. But are you going to get into: * Geotagging / mapping images? * Sets and Pools? * Offering the Flickr API for uploading images? Also, I haven't looked, but have you dealt with image manipulation (generating & managing various sizes/derivative images from the source yet?). etc. > Am I missing anything? This doesn't seem like rocket science. There may be > some things that need to be done in core; others would work fine in plugins. So, by allowing files - StatusNet offers those interested a nice / integrated alternative to using the twitpic/yfrog/etc's of the world - but I'd try to stay focused. (Also, please no FlickrLite ... bad enough Facebook released their 'Lite' today ;-) ) my $0.02 CAD -- James Walker :: http://walkah.net/ :: xmpp:[email protected] _______________________________________________ Laconica-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.laconi.ca/mailman/listinfo/laconica-dev
