I can't believe it's 2016 and this is still an issue, but here we are.
Google Photos, Flickr, and Dropbox all sort of sync photos off your phone.
Google Photos can't easily embed individual photos. Meaning that the use case of putting it on a blog post means downloading the original, then uploading it somewhere else where it can be displayed on a blog. Never mind resizing and thumbnails.
Flickr still does a great job of this, with a sync engine that is a bit clunkier than Google. Everything is uploaded as private-by-default, then you can curate and organize. Embedding on a blog post assumes that Flickr sticks around, and you can't map a domain name.
Dropbox doesn't really do photo hosting directly from it (you can kind of do it via the Public folder, but not ideal). It also doesn't do thumbnails.
My question: is mediachain / IPFS appropriate to have end users upload / sync their photos directly? Are there any issues -- other than the usual of discovery! -- with having permanent copies of original end user photos in the index?
Has anyone involved with mediachain worked on this?
I can't believe it's 2016 and this is still an issue, but here we are.
Google Photos, Flickr, and Dropbox all sort of sync photos off your phone.
Google Photos can't easily embed individual photos. Meaning that the use case of putting it on a blog post means downloading the original, then uploading it somewhere else where it can be displayed on a blog. Never mind resizing and thumbnails.
Flickr still does a great job of this, with a sync engine that is a bit clunkier than Google. Everything is uploaded as private-by-default, then you can curate and organize. Embedding on a blog post assumes that Flickr sticks around, and you can't map a domain name.
Dropbox doesn't really do photo hosting directly from it (you can kind of do it via the Public folder, but not ideal). It also doesn't do thumbnails.
My question: is mediachain / IPFS appropriate to have end users upload / sync their photos directly? Are there any issues -- other than the usual of discovery! -- with having permanent copies of original end user photos in the index?
Has anyone involved with mediachain worked on this?