Dear “Gallery”:http://gallery.sf.net/ –
I’ve given you a lot of chances. I’ve put up with your silly behavior. I’ve even ignored some of your more irritating flaws. But, I cannot — *CANNOT* — tolerate you changing the URLs to my images making all images I’ve ever linked to before now become broken. The first and second time this happened, I thought it might be my fault. But now I know it’s you and I can’t tolerate it.
So I’m looking for a replacement for you.
Love,
Jim
Some people have suggested “Flickr”:http://flickr.com/.
Dear Flickr –
I’d like to use you as my image gallery but, unfortunately, your Terms of Use and Community Guidelines makes this a bad choice. The Yahoo — and therefore your — “Terms of Use”:http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ state that, despite the fact that I give you $24.99 per year for a “Pro” account, I must agree “to not use the Service to [...] upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any Content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortuous, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another’s privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable”. Unfortunately, I cannot ensure that the material I post will not be “obscene” or “otherwise objectionable”. Some people just don’t like flowers and sunsets.
Furthermore, your “Community Guidelines”:http://flickr.com/guidelines.gne state that my account could be blocked or terminated unless I “Link back to Flickr when [I] post [my] photos elsewhere”, that I not “Upload photos that include frontal nudity, genitalia and/or intimate moments between consenting partners in public areas of Flickr” , and that I not “Use Flickr for Commercial Purposes”. These terms are unacceptable.
Even if these things weren’t an issue, you don’t enable me to create private galleries nor does it allow me customization of look and feel. You also has a tendency to stop working. Doing so means my images stop working and I can’t afford to have that happen.
Sorry.
Love,
Jim
So, Flickr’s out of the question and there are few remaining options. I’m open to suggestions. I’d prefer a personally hosted solution so I can be responsible for its upkeep and longevity.
Any suggestions?
Fotobilder, which powers LJ’s Scrapbook service, is one possibility. I’m not entirely convinced that I can recommend it for your purposes, but you may wish to have a look. The main issue with it is that it uses mod_perl, which I’d guess you probably don’t already have set up and I certainly wouldn’t want to install it just to run an image gallery.