@greghiggins me too, but after writing that, now I am really thinking about the Blot approachā¦ My only concern is storageā¦. whereas with Glass, I dont have to worry about that, i think.
@Gaby Thatās 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 donāt know if it would be by the time you factor in extra money for Dropbox storage (unless youāre 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 āphoto blog.ā Here Iām defining āphoto blogā as where I share only photos. Not a portfolio per se since Iām no professional like @maique. But Iām 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 donāt even know the first thing about trying to use it.
@greghiggins I have a rudimentary understandingāenough to work with other people who know more. Between that and blotās documentation, it looks reasonably approachable. And removes Dropbox from the equation completely.
@maique Wait, which is your photo blog? This one? Says, itās powered by Adobe Portfolio. Which is your Blot one and whatās 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 Iām close to 50% of my storage š
@pcora why not Pixelfed ? Hereās my profile.
Iāve 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 thereās no iPhone app for the moment (I donāt know about Android).
- cc @Gaby @maique @pratik @greghiggins and @spratte
@podiboq In that case, why not use Glassās 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 Iām in no way saying Pixelfed is better than Glass. I think theyāre two different products, each targeting different persons (photographers vs ācasual photo takersā). In my case, I chose Pixelfed because I am not a photographer and itās free. In my case, the 30ā¬/year for Glass wasnāt justified š. 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 (itās a pretty nicely done PWA). Iāve just added a photo from the iPhone and it worked just fine ā(-āæ-)ā
@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! š
@podiboq I explored this option, even created an account there.. but I was missing many features and the fact that thereās 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. Itās an Instagram clone right down to the Stories. They mention being ethical but Iām always more wary of free services.
Also, I donāt consider myself a photographer š Iām just a casual photo-maker.
@pratik Pixelfed is a federated clone of instagram and in ways much better. So you donāt 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. Theyāre 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 theyāre trying to get ex-Instagram users and build a platform starting from Instagramās ābehaviourā.
@sp but if the instance youāre on closes, your account and your photos are lost, right? Thatās 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) isnāt 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 isnāt 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 couldnāt really handle it. I have same site stored at GitHub (slightly larger resources š) 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 š) I run into those noobie selfhoster snafus.
