Organising photos

I do not agree here, I think we need a way to organize photos, even posts, in diaspora. And that's what tags are for. For me, what we need is a way to make queries on posts.

So an "album" could be simply all the photos with the #fosdem2013 tag, or #fosdem2013 && posted_by(fla). These kind of queries are completely needed.

Social Networks are often used for sharing photos. Diaspora is the place where I organize my relationships in aspects so it would be nice to use these aspects as acces control to certain lists of photos (e.g. albums).
So either external services can integrate into the concept of aspects or this feature has to be put directly into Diaspora*.

I use and want to use d* as my social network and I don't want my fotos being outsourced fo another hoster.
Therefore I upload fotos on diaspora and having albums would help me organizing them.
For example upload many pictures in an album and sharing this in a post. At the moment there's still a bug: You can upload as many pictures as you want - all are shown in "fotos" on the profile - but only the first eight pictures are shown in the post.

And many people ask for this feature. Especially users coming from facebook are missing it.

I think we need a photo album feature inside diaspora. Optionally it could be outsourced to other services.

Definitely some kind of photo-album viewer but tags to organise them more effectively is also important.

Diaspora is so great because it's decentralized and you own your data. It would be great to have photos managed that way. Outsourcing the albums could be a nice addition, but I think it's very important to also have it done properly in Diaspora.

I would recommend to go via facebook style albums.

Why don't take advantage of albums and tags?
I think that tag search would be done also restricted on photos and adding a photo (and video) section where to organize the content by album

Hi!

Finally time to join the discussion :)

I need to say, as a photographer, albums is a must have! And some kind of efficient tagging system would make the whole thing even better. To not only come with demands I would like to suggest a, at least temporary, solution as well.

I would suggest implementing an album into the user profile and then link to a photo, or album, in the according post. It would be cool to be able to link likes and comments to photos/albums but I don't really know how this should be done. Then I would not sync photos between pods but rather, as it is done now, hotlink them. This is both more efficient and gives the user better control over her/his data.

I would like to give some attention to the openphoto project as I see their software as a solution for our albums. They support comments, likes and do even have a tag system. I think you can also release albums to a limited group, this could be paired with Diasporas aspects. It would be cool if someone with more coding skills would look into this and check whether it's possible for us to use that software or not!

http://theopenphotoproject.org/ and of course it's open source.

Hope we can use this or similar software. That would decrease our work and speed up the process of implementing albums.

I'm glad Mediagoblin has been mentioned. I've donated part of my server to them for development. I think that GMG and Diaspora would be perfect partners. GMG has it over other systems, because it supports so many formats. I mean Youtube is great, but its not Opensource. Nor is it anything more than video. Now with Google looking to monetize even more of our personal content, I would be very wary about using something we cannot control. GMG supports Audio; Video; Images; Text; 3d Models... Could we ask for anything more?

D* really needs that API done. I know the devs struggle with it, but its the biggest thing holding back D*. Even if D* does not change for the next 2 years (apart from bug fixes), an API will push it to the next level.
I guarantee that there would be a huge outpouring of support from both sides of the fence if the API was completed. Even if it were just rudimentary.