Sadly, its name was not "Babe"
Apr. 20th, 2014 07:19 pm
In other news, what are people using for image sharing these days? The plusterfuck has invaded Picasa and rendered it nearly unusable (I can't just share a photo, I have to "post" and manage sharing on my posts and blah blah whocares and make sure you remember to turn off whatever Google thinks is its clever photo-processing hoo-hah). Imageshack wants paid signs-ups, pfui. Flickr? Pinterest? What's the most usable for quick photo shares?
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Date: 2014-04-21 03:01 pm (UTC)The features I want (image resizing, slideshow capability, the ability to permission and link individual items as well as collections) are things I could do but don't want to be bothered with. I'm pretty sure I could script P'shop to do the sizing and the rest would be a reasonably easy set of PHP coding. Scripting the upload might be a little more annoying, but that could be a manual process.
I make less than you do, but let's ballpark that at $500 of my time to do this work. If I say it's taken me $100 of my time to select a vendor (so far it's been less but eventually) then over some number of years I'd pay out that $400 worth to have someone else provide the code and services I want. I then estimate the probability of the vendor failing or changing its features versus the probability that I'd have to go in and tweak or maintain/expand my own code.
So at some point in the future, it's likely that the "buy" decision turns out to be more expensive, assuming an otherwise-static world. I think I expect things to be more problematic and less static than you find them to be, but I understand your reasoning better now.