On 11-06-27 3:26 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
On Jun 27, 2011, at 11:12 AM, Rick Womer wrote:
Well, compared to the Flickr interface, or the tectonic launch time of the
Pentax Gallery, or the merely glacial launch time of Smugmug... it's an
annoyance, but not a disabling one.
Every time the photo.net ad pops up, I grumble to myself, never again, but
forget before clicking on one of the links the next time.
How much would people be willing to pay for a photo hosting site that didn't
suck?
I expect the answer to that is, "not much; zero preferred", at least for
us amateurs. Professionals are much more willing to pay for a site, but
are also much more likely to create or commission a custom one,
especially since the portfolio capabilities and design of all the photo
service sites I've seen are, in a word, crap.
One solution employed by a few PDMLers that looks pretty good is to
publish a gallery directly from Lightroom to Dropbox. That gives you
full control over the look'n'feel with no annoying ads or any intrusive
server-owner stuff at all. You don't get comments ability or any
statistics though. I've done that with a number of galleries that I
just wanted to share with family, friends and/or PDMLers alone.
I actually like the stats and some of the social features of Flickr so I
paid the $25 "Pro" tax and am in general happy with it. I don't like
that they foist ads on innocent casual viewers of my photo-stream
though. It seems the only way to avoid seeing ads is for the viewer to
buy a Pro account.
-bmw
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