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Re: [OM] photo hosting

Subject: Re: [OM] photo hosting
From: Wayne Shumaker <om3ti@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 16:33:33 -0700
At 11/27/2020 01:31 PM, Jan wrote:

>> From: Wayne Shumaker <om3ti@xxxxxxxx <mailto:om3ti@xxxxxxxx>>
>> 
>> I was wondering if anyone has any experience with any of the following 
>> mentioned here.
>> https://www.linuxlinks.com/photogallery/ 
>> <https://www.linuxlinks.com/photogallery/> 
>
>Iâ??ve played with the Piwigo, Coppermine, and Zenphoto, and found all three 
>lacking somewhat.
>
>One thing I really want is the ability to use an existing photo file 
>structure. I believe all three of these (and, I suspect, most of the others) 
>require your photos to be imported into a separate library that they maintain. 
>But what I REALLY want is something like a web-accessible DAM, where I could 
>see ALL my work in private and then select ones for public access.
>
>Is this ONLY for photos? Iâ??ve been considering ResourceSpace for its ability 
>to deal with more kinds of media, notably PDFs and various video formats.
>
>> Wordpress plugins?
>
>Can of worms! You can doo it, but mastering the Wordpress plugin world is a 
>career unto its own.
>
>(On the flip side of that, if you manage to master the WP plugin world, I know 
>people who are pulling down $80/hr doing such things.)
>
>> Drupal:
>
>Ugh. Iâ??ve found Drupal to be a pig. I want something that will work 
>reasonably well on a ten-year-old machine.
>
>> Any advice would be much appreciated.
>
>As someone whoâ??s been poking at self-hosting for a long time, Iâ??m 
>interested in what you discover. Iâ??m currently so desperate for something 
>that does what I WANT IT TO DO that Iâ??m considering rolling my own, using 
>Rails.
>
>Jan

Thanks Jan. I looked at the demos of the three you mentioned and was not 
inspired. And you confirmed a fear in the back of my mind. I once looked into 
Drupal and Wordpress and seemed like too much work, as you say.

For now I'm photo oriented but videos may be in the future.

WayneS
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