I’m trying out taking a photo every day for January. So far so good, but I haven’t done anything with them. We’ll see how long this lasts. So far, most of the photos are boring.
I’m trying to decide between posting them here in my Gallery, or posting them in my Flickr account.
Do you prefer viewing photos on Flickr or on a personal website?
Do you prefer using Flickr or a personal website to post your photos?
If I use Flickr, there are many, many ways to integrate my gallery with my WP blog. Plus it’s super lazy and easy to upload and sort photos on Flickr. With groups and tagging, there’s even a chance that more than 3 people would see my photos! Not that my photography is awesome or anything, I just like comments.
If I keep my photos here, I’ll have to change to a new host. I’ve been with this host for years, and I’m ridiculously brand loyal, but there’s just not enough space to start hosting lots of photos. Upgrading to a new package here isn’t very beneficial, so it would pretty much have to involve switching to a new host. This blog is on Modhost.com. Everything else I own (except SKS) is on DreamHost because of the practically limitless space. I just don’t like the DH control panel interface. I much prefer cPanel, otherwise I’d have packed up off this server years ago.
This sort of ties in with my website amalgamation post, in that I’m still trying to determine the direction I want to go with my website(s).
What do you think? Flickr or self-hosted Gallery? I even made a poll! Come to RaspberryPaws.com to vote!
The only downside to Flickr is that you can’t access the full size without paying for it.
I use my gallery because I *have* been using my gallery. I constantly worry that it will die or fill, and I’ll get screwed.
Flickr also has great tagging and comments, like you said. And the larger audience.
If I was to do it all over again, I’d use flickr, and pay the $25/year or whatever it is.
That’s actually really helpful, thanks. ^_^
I already have a paid Flickr account since I was using it for some business connections, I may as well put that money to better use and actually use my Flickr account more often.