Tue, 10 Mar 2009
Photo galleries
I prefer to host my own Internet services. Here is a quick summary of what I have found in the past two hours of my life:
- The (in)famous Gallery is working on a version 3 which looks quite nice. The only way to add photos is through a Flash tool that segfaults Firefox and Epiphany here.
- Coppermine Gallery looks like it's still stuck in 2001.
- phpWebGallery renamed itself to Piwigo, which looks nice. However, it does not automatically rotate photos when generating thumbnails.
It's 2009. Am I just going to use Flickr and call it a day?
I selected these by looking through web photo gallery programs on freshmeat.net. I'd like a dynamic one so I can accept comments.
It does seem there are some decent galleries for WordPress, in particular NextGEN Gallery.
What do others in the autonomous world do? Am I supposed to write my own?
(Waiting for Gallery3 is probably a good path forward, failing that.)
