Re: [OT] - Fotopic

["Wojciech Dzierzanowski" <wojciech dzierzanowski gmail com>]

On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 7:21 PM, Dougie Nisbet <dougie highmoor co uk> wrote:
> I'm following the FUD over the unavailability of fotopic.net with interest.
>   http://dih-itim.blogspot.com/2009/01/fotopic-disappears-followed-by.html
>   http://groups.google.co.uk/group/former-fotopic-users
>
> I have a fair bit invested in fotopic. Not so much financially but I used it
> to run a volunteer gallery website for the Durham Wildlife Trust. Fotopic's
> customizability makes it well suited for posting news and limited textual
> information about events.
>
> More recently I've been experimenting with flickr, partly because it has a
> flat-rate for storage and partly because of the f-spot export function that
> allows uploads, tags and all, directly to flickr. It doesn't, however, offer
> any customisation in terms of layout in the way fotopic does/did.
>
> I noticed that f-spot can export directly to Smugmug and the site itself
> looks promising. Given that f-spot is now my main app for photo handling I
> wonder if anyone is familiar with fotopic and its layout, and could suggest
> an alternative gallery hosting website that might be worth exploring should
> fotopic not reappear?
>

Hi,

As of version 0.5, F-Spot can export to tabblo.com.  The Tabblo Export
extension is disabled by default, because it is still rather
rudimentary (e.g., no tag management, photo resizing, etc.).

Not being familiar with fotopic.net, I don't know tabblo.com compares
to it.  But it does make it fairly easy to mix graphic and textual
content and layout is customizable.  The service is free and has no
storage or bandwidth limits.

-- 
Cheers,
Wojtek