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foo-twos and calm-ments and noows, oh my

From Thursday, February 2nd, 2006, so about 1034 days ago, [Popularity: 3%]

There has been a wee bit of confusion.

I’ve been resistant — for the not-quite-obvious-reason that I’m already paying for a lot of hosted webspace, so why would I — to switch to a more familiar service like Flickr for my photo galleries. Recently, I updated my gallery software to Gallery2, a relatively major update to the software I was using before (and I suppose I still am, in some quiet corner of the web.) That said, you may notice that most of my links still lead to the original gallery.8r4d.com site, green-devil, photoland. This is because there are still some issues that (given the appropriate amount of free time) will soon be remedied:

  • Optimized database, yet to be done, to speed things up a little — COMPLETE? so if it’s slow, get a better ISP!
  • Complete transfer of ALL old data, like captions and titles that got cut off or ignored when I did the inital run.
  • Functioning comments SHOULD now be working!
  • Better template and blog integration, so it’s all pur-dee-like.

You’ll know when I get these working. But like I said: check it out and leave me a note or a comment if there is something else that is bugging you. I want to get this thing in full swing soon.

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One Response to “foo-twos and calm-ments and noows, oh my”

  1. Stephen Says:
    February 2nd, 2006 at 4:29 pm

    I keep wondering the same thing - upgrade to gallery2 or Flickr. Flickr is nice for the community aspect of it, but gallery2 grants me more control and felxibility.

    And when I wonder what would I do if Flickr changed their terms or something and I lost access to my gallery (or a portion of the several thousnd photos) - I would be quite…disquieted. IF I run it myself on a site like this, then I can be responsible for parts of it, and at least run a nightly cronjob consisting of mysqldump and rsync commands, and keep a local copy on my personal computer.

    That’s the plan. I still have several thousand photos to upgrade to gallery2

    And if I go with Flickr, I still have to somehow get the photos onto their site (and with captions too). That may be a bigger challenge than upgrading to Gallery2 (which so far has been straightforward - just a few titles to clean up)

    My Flickr account will remain for snippets from the gallery, but the main gallery will be on my turf.

    Maybe someday, someone will write a plugin for gallery2 that integrates the two more closely (i.e., then I can take advantage of load-sharing between the two services. The load-balancing part is already in gallery, someone just needs to figure out a way to sync photos and links)

    So, I follow you Brad. I am just a bit behind in getting it done. (Well, actually, a lot is done. You just can’t see it yet).

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