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From: Jez Cunningham <jez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2017 12:27:00 +0000
Chris - Taking an RSS feed from your current blog is a pleasant browsing
experience.  I use the Feedly reader app...
Jez

On 3 March 2017 at 10:35, ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Thanks for that summary, Moose.
>
> I might switch to SmugMug, if it has a blog format.  I could then use my
> domain cbimages.uk <http://cbimages.uk/> on that system.  I’ll have a
> look.
>
> Chris
> > On 3 Mar 2017, at 06:33, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On 3/1/2017 4:07 AM, ChrisB wrote:
> >> That looks good, Moose.  Do you now use Google Photos?
> >
> > Chris, I not yet entirely sure know what I'm 'using':
> >
> > I've been looking at alternatives to the conventional ways of display
> used by Zone-10, Singapore, SmugMug, and so on. Although I personally am
> often happy to wander through posted galleries, I get the distinct
> impression that many folks browse the small thumbnails and look at a few
> images. Well, OK, I've done that myself. :-)  To my mind, that means great
> images passed over, as thumb doesn't often do justice to image.
> >
> > The use of screen space is really poor, small sample images, surrounded
> by lots of dead space and unnecessary stuff. Get on phone or tablet, and
> it's even worse. The browser uses up a lot of screen space and presentation
> and navigation are awkward, slightly to a lot. Viewing any individual image
> requires moving it on the screen - for each image.
> >
> > My biggest fan, Carol, doesn't see even all the images I post here. She
> is almost never on a 'real' computer, and they are a pain to view on a
> browser. With Google Photos, specifically shared with her, she gets
> notified whenever I have added images - and I get a notice when she's
> looked at them. A far, far superior model for family and friends who live
> on their mobile devices.
> >
> > Some time ago, I did what you are doing, tried to work using WordPress.
> I was able to force the 'Modularity Lite' theme into showing large, in-line
> images, with all the stuff about other posts, etc. down at the bottom. <
> http://www.moosemystic.net/WP_Gallery/ <http://www.moosemystic.net/
> WP_Gallery/>>
> >
> > I found the process of adding images and text between then really
> tedious, and abandoned the effort after six posts. Putting full size images
> in-line gets away from your display size/navigation problem. But moving the
> stuff from side to bottom wouldn't be very useful for your continuous
> model. In any case, its not all that good on mobile devices.
> >
> > Google and Flickr both have mobile apps that eliminate the browser space
> overhead and implement sizing to screen, pinch resizing and the familiar
> swipe to the next image model that all mobile users are used to. Google's
> implementations, both computer and mobile, are slightly better, to my mind.
> (SmugMug says it allows one to create custom mobile apps for controllable
> content. That's awkward for something like this list, and I have no idea
> how well it may work.)
> >
> > In browsers, both do a nice job of using most of the screen real estate
> efficiently and providing much larger sample images by creating collages.
> They are quite similar at first glance. Flickr is slightly dumber. In the
> above example, on my 24" screen, Flickr actually enlarges, poorly, 'Piscine
> Orbits' and 'Springing Forth' above their original size in the collage,
> resulting in bad looking images. Click on one, and it's fine. On iOS,
> Google also does the collage thing, rather well. Flickr gives that up, and
> just shows thumbnails, at least all close to each other, to optimize space
> use.
> >
> > Flickr has better EXIF summary data and a way to see it all (or at least
> most), while Google is very bare bones. On iOS, both apps show the lens
> used, which is nowhere to be found in their browser versions, or in any
> regular galleries I know. (Yes, it's a pain to get, as it is in different
> places, under different tags, for different makers, but certainly doable.)
> >
> > The maps in Flickr are useless, as they don't differentiate between the
> image at hand and those made by others in the same area. As expected, the
> maps in Google Photos are excellent.
> >
> > Taking into account all the above, and whatever factors I've missed, I
> thought google Photos did the best overall job for both browsers and mobile
> app (at least for iOS. I took the early death of an Android tablet as an
> omen, and have stayed away.)
>
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