Love the new updates!!! Especially the 'People you may know..." feature. Great work. It just keeps getting better and better :-)
Seema
· 1 year ago
I still miss all the Phanfare 1.0 features that were taken away.
-I (and my friends) want RSS feeds back so they don't have to get email every time I add new albums. If this isn't happening soon then I suggest changing the title on the email that gets sent out because the title makes it seem like spam. -I also want the other album layout back with all thumbnails in a grid. I don't like how the current layout crops my images in the thumbnails.
Andrew Erlichson
· 1 year ago
we are planning on adding back RSS feeds. it will be an RSS feed of all the albums created by family and friends with whom you are connected.
Will
· 1 year ago
I really want to see the Family/Friends sharing model to be flattened to a generic "connection" model with fine-grain unilateral hidden access control lists to easily share with all "College friends", "Immediate Family", "Extended Family" or whatever other arbitrary categories the user wishes to use. The user would also be able to give or prevent access to an album on a per-viewer basis. The categories would just be a way of streamlining the process of choosing who may view an album.
I just got updated to 2.0 and am immediately frustrated by the constraint of only two pre-defined categories without any fine-grain control on a per-album basis.
Additionally, in order to mesh with the Phanfare Facebook app, one should be able to choose on a per-album basis which albums to share with Facebook. Facebook could be its own "connection" which would stand as a placeholder for all of one's Facebook friends. Obviously you wouldn't be able to choose through the Phanfare app which Facebook friends can see one's content, but this way it would be easy to decide which albums would show up on Facebook and which wouldn't.
Andrew Erlichson
· 1 year ago
if you want to show certain albums to your facebook friends, create a phanfare group, let's say called facebook, and then tag those albums into the facebook group. only publish facebook group albums on your facebook profile. this gives you per-album control.
Will
· 1 year ago
Regarding Facebook: Ah very clever, Andrew. Ok. That sounds good.
How about the flattening of the connections? A while back you asked for feedback offering two different options and the one I described above (which is a restatement of one of option #1) was overwhelmingly popular. (See this thread: http://forum.phanfare.com/showthread.php?t=1708 ) At the time I had the impression that it was just a matter of time before Phanfare would do that (but that it would take some time and we might lose the pretty TOC).
Is that still the case, or is that up in the air now? Is that something you'll be asking about in the upcoming survey?
Andrew Erlichson
· 1 year ago
We are going to make the social networking features more optional and we hope that this will reduce the interest in us pulling apart the friends/family thing. in particular, we will enable open public albums and will bring back the ability to share via email with people without requiring the viewer to be registered. Hence, you can use the social networking features of phanfare with closer friends and family.
So, in short, we back burnered the flattening of friends/family but if there continues to be a strong interest, we will do it.
Roger
· 1 year ago
WOW! THIS IS GREAT NEWS, Andrew!
THANKS SO MUCH - I LOVE not having to exit Phanfare over the social networking features which I don't care for at all.
Will you also allow the use of customized URLs as before?
Saki
· 1 year ago
That's wonderful!!! Do I understand this correctly, if my friends go to www.myname.phanfare.com, they'll be able to see my albums again without having to register? Whohoo.
Tony LaMonica
· 1 year ago
I wish to start a site for my club. We are a motorcycle club and would like to post pictures of various events we have thruout the year. We would like anyone and everyone to be able to view these pictures as we do not want to restrict anyone. We feel this is a great advantage for us as far a public relations go. With anyone and everyone being able to see the various events it will increase membership into the club. As I understand now, this will not be possible. If it is possible please let me know so I can sign my club up and get started immediatly.
Jolene Baldwin
· 1 year ago
It would be great if the people I invite to view my albums could invite others (obviously letting me authorise)... this would allow relatives to invite other relatives to see photos, and same with friends. This would also help Phanfare grow much quicker!
A question - if the people I invite decide to sign up for membership for, say, 1 year, do I still get a free year membership?
Andrew Erlichson
· 1 year ago
Tony: as of today, you can mark all your albums as public and all will be able to see the, no registration required.
Jolene: we have been thinking about how to allow pass-along of secure links. we will get to this.
Saki: for a 1.0 phanfare user that upgraded to 2.0, username.phanfare.com will redirect to albums.phanfare.com/username. For a 2.0 user, your albums appear at http://albums.phanfare.com/username where username is chosen by you.
Sorry for the slow response. I was away for the Memorial day weekend.
All Comments
Great work. It just keeps getting better and better :-)
-I (and my friends) want RSS feeds back so they don't have to get email every time I add new albums. If this isn't happening soon then I suggest changing the title on the email that gets sent out because the title makes it seem like spam.
-I also want the other album layout back with all thumbnails in a grid. I don't like how the current layout crops my images in the thumbnails.
I just got updated to 2.0 and am immediately frustrated by the constraint of only two pre-defined categories without any fine-grain control on a per-album basis.
Additionally, in order to mesh with the Phanfare Facebook app, one should be able to choose on a per-album basis which albums to share with Facebook. Facebook could be its own "connection" which would stand as a placeholder for all of one's Facebook friends. Obviously you wouldn't be able to choose through the Phanfare app which Facebook friends can see one's content, but this way it would be easy to decide which albums would show up on Facebook and which wouldn't.
How about the flattening of the connections? A while back you asked for feedback offering two different options and the one I described above (which is a restatement of one of option #1) was overwhelmingly popular. (See this thread: http://forum.phanfare.com/showthread.php?t=1708 ) At the time I had the impression that it was just a matter of time before Phanfare would do that (but that it would take some time and we might lose the pretty TOC).
Is that still the case, or is that up in the air now? Is that something you'll be asking about in the upcoming survey?
So, in short, we back burnered the flattening of friends/family but if there continues to be a strong interest, we will do it.
THANKS SO MUCH - I LOVE not having to exit Phanfare over the social networking features which I don't care for at all.
Will you also allow the use of customized URLs as before?
A question - if the people I invite decide to sign up for membership for, say, 1 year, do I still get a free year membership?
Jolene: we have been thinking about how to allow pass-along of secure links. we will get to this.
Saki: for a 1.0 phanfare user that upgraded to 2.0, username.phanfare.com will redirect to albums.phanfare.com/username. For a 2.0 user, your albums appear at http://albums.phanfare.com/username where username is chosen by you.
Sorry for the slow response. I was away for the Memorial day weekend.