@greghiggins me too, but after writing that, now I am really thinking about the Blot approach… My only concern is storage…. whereas with Glass, I dont have to worry about that, i think.
@Gaby That’s the thing with Blot. It uses Dropbox. When I used Blot I had a hard time getting my pictures to show up too. It was frustrating. Blot is cheaper but I don’t know if it would be by the time you factor in extra money for Dropbox storage (unless you’re already paying for that).
@Gaby Similar thoughts here (including why I am still on Instagram). Currently, I do use a second MB account as my “photo blog.” Here I’m defining “photo blog” as where I share only photos. Not a portfolio per se since I’m no professional like @maique. But I’m looking for a dedicated photo blogging service that offers me more options in displaying my photos as well as is as convenient as MB. Also, I want to keep my photo blog separate from my micro blog for privacy reasons.
@spratte Not going to lie here. I have never used Git and I don’t even know the first thing about trying to use it.
@greghiggins I have a rudimentary understanding—enough to work with other people who know more. Between that and blot’s documentation, it looks reasonably approachable. And removes Dropbox from the equation completely.
@maique Wait, which is your photo blog? This one? Says, it’s powered by Adobe Portfolio. Which is your Blot one and what’s your workflow? I usually post from my iPhone Camera Roll which also has photos that I process in Lightroom and export to Flickr. I wish Flickr could let you create a portfolio page on a custom domain.
@maique Ah! Thanks for that detailed response. I have been considering paying for Dropbox, but it would be yet another cloud storage that stops me from using Blot for the photoblog. I have only 5.6GB on Dropbox and only 2.5GB free right now. Wish iCloud opened up its API. I have 2TB there.
@greghiggins @maique @pratik I just created a page, in blot, took me like 10 mins. So, I have uploaded about 50 images and I’m close to 50% of my storage 😅
@pcora why not Pixelfed ? Here’s my profile.
I’ve created a profile few weeks ago - after seeing it at @mdrockwell (thanks btw :p). I liked the idea of having a free, open source alternative to Instagram.
Only regret is that there’s no iPhone app for the moment (I don’t know about Android).
- cc @Gaby @maique @pratik @greghiggins and @spratte
@podiboq In that case, why not use Glass’s profile page as our photo blog? I wish Glass let me customize or offer themes for such profile pages (at an additional cost) with a custom domain. After Instagram, now I want to control my platform at least with a domain name @gaby @maique @greghiggins @spratte
@pratik I’m in no way saying Pixelfed is better than Glass. I think they’re two different products, each targeting different persons (photographers vs “casual photo takers”). In my case, I chose Pixelfed because I am not a photographer and it’s free. In my case, the 30€/year for Glass wasn’t justified 😁. But I hope for you guys that in the future Glass will add themes or something :)
@maique I just realized you can use their website as an app (it’s a pretty nicely done PWA). I’ve just added a photo from the iPhone and it worked just fine ✌(-‿-)✌
@Gaby Definitely! You influenced me on this one! And also, you and @maique showing off these nice Ghost blogs almost made me get an additional blog too! 😂
@podiboq I explored this option, even created an account there.. but I was missing many features and the fact that there’s no iPhone app is kinda of a bloker to me.
@podiboq I get it. By my comment, I meant that such photo-sharing sites can offer a customized profile page that doubles up as your photoblog. But yes, that will involve paying them. Perhaps Pixelfed can include that in a paid option ($5-10 per year)?
@podiboq BTW Pixelfed looks interesting. It’s an Instagram clone right down to the Stories. They mention being ethical but I’m always more wary of free services.
Also, I don’t consider myself a photographer 😊 I’m just a casual photo-maker.
@pratik Pixelfed is a federated clone of instagram and in ways much better. So you don’t quite need to rely on one server being afloat. So you could technically have an account on say pixelfed.social, follow folks on other instances say pixelfed.de or just selfhost one for yourself. They’re implementing something called groups which I really look forward to!
@pratik totally! The main developer is doing some real cool things. I they are mainly funded by nlnet.nl
@pratik I do not know if some kind of customized profiles will arrive one day on Pixelfed, but who knows. For now, I think they’re trying to get ex-Instagram users and build a platform starting from Instagram’s “behaviour”.
@sp but if the instance you’re on closes, your account and your photos are lost, right? That’s one of the reasons I stayed on pixelfed.social.
@Gaby Nice dicussion. I guess for me as a casual phototaker, I like the M.b and suits me pretty well.
@spratte that works to a point but if you have many photos, especially many large photos, then git (at least not the hosted version that blot use) isn’t a good choice. Here Dropbox, or Google Drive, is a better option.
@spratte git was created to handle text files which are fairly small, support for large binary files, like photos, were added later. But git isn’t really aimed for storing large binary files. But in this case I think the main reason is how blot git server is configured, there is a limit of how much can be uploaded in one commit etc. In my case he just said that I should switch to Dropbox since my site was so big, a lot of photos, that the git server as configured couldn’t really handle it. I have same site stored at GitHub (slightly larger resources 😜) without any issues.
@podiboq Which is why I selfhost PF and auto backup those photos (since it is a question of when and not if 😃) I run into those noobie selfhoster snafus.
