Fotothing's Fotothing

Free money every time we upload a photo?

Serious comments only after I have thought about it.

How about a feature that allows us to put a pic of the CD album we are listening to, like on www.Myspace.com blogs? It is through Amazon, I think. It has a drop-down menu that one can select CDs, books, DVDs or video games. It's kind of cool. Thanks for considering it. :) :) :)

automatic counting of the number of friends.

Message board?

one thing that i would find most helpful, is a kind of "search your friends" if like me you have a lot of friends added, and you want to see when they last posted etc, then just a simple search by their ID would be fantastic. Although you can go the long way around at the moment - a consice search within your own friends are area would be most useful :) Just a suggestion

When I'm working in the My Photos section, I can only see the most recent 5 shots in my archive. Please add an "archive" button to make it easier. That will make it easier to tag my older fotos.

I actually think the My Photos page could go away altogether, now that there's an edit button on the regular photo viewing page. Well, I guess we'd still need an Upload page.

How about a feature so we can change our background colors and text colors? Right now I do it the old-fashioned way by going to Tools, Options, and clicking on use my colors/fonts. I use Mozilla Firefox mostly. Thanks again for considering this and the other suggestions.

I do like the idea of a message board, and the counter, too. I love stats!

Basically, I think fotothing works very well, what I would appreciate, is a counter, that shows how many people have visited each pic.

I also like the idea of changable background and text colors. :).

Cheers for considering.

Maybe something that alerts you to comments on your photos that you haven't read yet. I always forget how many comments each of my pics have had and sometimes miss new ones (I'm very stupid you see)

What Sket said, except maybe some kind of indicator on your own main page telling you if someone has "replied" to any of your comments.. I know we can see replies on the comments list but I find it hard to keep track of which are new comments and which I've already read..

Adding to what sketty said,
Probably a little tag that says "new" or "NC" for new comment or something near the thumbnail pictures on the comments page would be helpful

if we could organize our pictures by dates

I like the idea of a counter. Another thing to consider is to have the exact time that the photograph was uploaded. This would make it easier to find out if someone made the deadline on a challenge.

The new comment thing would be very helpful!

i have a few ideas...
like a thing that tells you the people you have NOT added to friends that have added you.
and this thing that lets you delete ALL the messages you have with a button or atleaset the really old ones.
thanks you ARE the BEST!!!!!!!

FB, you can find out the time you've uploaded by clicking on the letter "I" under your photo. That should tell you when you uploaded your photo.

A thing I would love would be the function of adding
videos. Other thing I would like is the possibility of seeing pictures in larger size format. For example: when you like a picture, you can take a better look when you are hitting it.
Love photothing.

thanks!

dont make changeable backgrounds, pleeeeease. the design is pretty pretty now,
take back the little orange squares as they were the first time you placed them, without the 3d efect.
I also would sugest the possibility of a highlighted hyperlink in a word and not a whole line of text ( see this http://www.fotothing.com/antonio/photo/1af7b0f2e885417e95a53499080bb2d8/) sometimes the long line looks better sometimes not so much.
have some other suggests but I feel it´s ok for the time being

visits counter undoubtedly

Some of the functionality I would like has already been posted by other users. So, I support tbikba's idea for visit counters, HappyPlums idea for the 'missing friends' button and Sketty's idea for the unread comments indicator. And Dom, thanks for asking!

speaking of feeds, is it possible to make my friends list an rss feed?

oh ok... only up to the 10 most recent right?
http://feeds.fotothing.com/rss/username/friends/

The improved RSS feeds are a great new feature!

Its very nice like this!!!!! thank you!

I believe that it would be a good idea to put bellboys 'previous' 'next' to move with more facility from a photo to another one. I woould like too can see under each photo the date in wich was updated

don´t turn it to complicated, with too many changes to do like colored background etc. It should not turn into a fotolog that doesn´t work for most of the time!
by now i think it´s a great thing!
thanks

Completley agree with hartalemao and antonio,simplicity and no changeable backgrounds, please...Its the best like this..
An delete all commets button would be good.
Thank you!

How about adding the ability to rate photos? I would like to see the average rating for the photos I've posted to better learn what people like. It would also be nice to click on a link to see the top rated photos of the week. I would suggest a rating system similar to the NY Times restaurant reviews, so that 1-star = good (i.e. no negative ratings so nobody's feelings get hurt).

that is the greatest idea aliTTLEoFFcENTER, i totaly agree, we should be able to rate pictures to decide the ones that go on popular this week,
thanks ^-^ !!!!!!

one of the things i like the most is the posibility of seeing diferent people of diferent places, and their enviroments.

in that way i would like a directory of members sorted by country.

and the posibility of adding an small foto on the profile page. could be a self portrait. could not.

Dom re RSS feed - using a mac with the new TIGER upgrade i can get them already and it works fine. I have chosen my favorite people and then it shows when they have added and how many. Very quick very easy and brilliant to use.

oh ok! cool stuff Dom!

A way of recommending that others have a look at a picture. At some point you will need some moderation tools for handling forum entries (blocking/banning).

What about a "all about me" page that people can include in their emails/email signatures?

oh and optional email alerts when someone comments on one of your own pics

and can we block people from adding us to friends or commenting pictures like a certain person (gloomcookies) who added me and i dont want her to add me OR comment my pictures
thanks again

HP + AlOc I can see the attraction of this idea but too many people just say "nice" without thinking. If there was a qualitative value then the idea might work. I find good pics that other people simply appear not to have looked at (or they have looked at them and not seen anything). I don't think this will work in practice as we all have a different idea of "nice" and what "nice" is worth.

I have only one particular problem at the moment: the judges chose the wrong pic for the last challenge. For all I know one of the judges may be in love with Julia. The lack of transparency didn't bother me before but seeing the wrong pic win upsets my ideas about what I thought fotothing was about.

apart from my moan I am more or less in agreement with James

Dom: thanks for thinking about what people have to say. I'm off to say good and bad things about people's pics. I spit at your judges -- one bad judgement is enough, surely?

1)How about being able to reply to more than one comment at a time?

Sometimes my replies pertain to more than one comment above there and i'd really like them both (or however many I'm replying to) to know a reply to their comment has been made. Something like check boxes on the right side of each comment and then a button at the bottom to "reply to all checked".

2)Another idea, maybe a photo technique/ learning/teaching forum or special fotothing where someone can post a photo (or series of photos) and explain to others how to take a photos like that one. Although I know I've got a somewhat limited camera, I still think I could learn a lot about photography from other folks here.

I love fotothing as it is, there are enough other sites you can chat or learn abouth photography.
People are inventive enough to contact eachother if they wish to comunicate by messages and from there on chat or whatever. The beauty of fotothing is its simplicity!
Ofcourse a few technical needed adjustments is great but the rest of that stuff is not at all atractive!
Thank you so much!

When you add a comment to an older picture in an archive, the image strip at the top of the page always reverts to the most recent 6 images. It would be nice if you could keep it contemporary with the image just commented on... Would save a whole bunch of mouse clicks.

Also can I second Pueo's suggestion for multiple replies...?

and don't bother with changeable backgrounds - let people learn about cascading style sheets :P

lots of good ideas here. the improved rss feeds are nice, i especially like the /friends/single/ link.

thanks heheh

How about a feature for Pro users who can see the last X pages added to the site or since a particular date (be great if fotothing kept track of that). You may want to run it on another URL in order to bandwidth limit it.

Another suggestion: comment filter that removes very short comments like "nice" etc. Should be optional for the page owner whether it is on or off.

1 a.
I know it would be difficult, but if a title feature could be added on to each picture that appears underneath each picture in the "My photos>" bar at the top.

1 b.
If the "My Photos>" bar at the top could be done in flash, frames, or any other indepentant window type of a thing so that you can scroll through the images easily without refreshing teh page

2.
Fotothing buddy icons for AIM (i could work on those personally if i had a bit of time and some base images to work with... but i'm not sure how legal using programs such as animation shop or flash MX to make advertizements is...

oh, and, by the way... thanks for the pro!

:)

I am VERY happy with everything already. Any thing you change will be a bonus, but one thing would be great. Maybe somehow let us know when new people add us as friends as I hate to not add people back and I hate to think they may not be noticed.

ME TOO!!!!!!!!
thats why i sugested the missing friend thing.
oooo maybe you could higlite their name in a different color if we havent added them?

Maybey the possibility to make more than 10 comments in 10 minutes as so many more people joined fotothing and we gained so much more friends whose pictures we like to comment on, that would be so nice!!! maybey 15 comments?
thanks!

Me too, I agree with the other two. I thought I wrote this too, but I guess I must have got over the comments when I thought I posted it, haha

This is probably mentioned above but, some kind of forum or message board where people could just comment not only on pictures, but on life and other things in fotothing. Another thing is, a more in depth profile.

Forums and a chat room would go down well. I was suprised that there wasnt one when I went looking for it.

I noticed that even if you upload a 2 meg pic instead of a 1 meg pic it still shows at the same size - surely the idea of a 2 meg pic (for pro members naturally lol) is that this allows more detail to be displayed? is there a way of making the extra detail available by the option to view pics at different sizes?

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please no forum, chatrooms and all that unneccesery things..love it like this..thank you!

Dunno wat to say here but yeh this site rockz :) xox

A ban on grafitti would be nice :)

The site is wonderfully interactive which is what I was looking for. I don't care about the bells and whistles. I enjoy sharing my pics and getting feedback as well as sharing my reactions to other people's pics.

I look forward to controlled growth but with the emphasis on keeping the site free of the kind of negativity that infects many other internet people sites. In my short time here, I have not had a negative comment or seen a revolting page from anyone else.

Hey! over 2600 users.... right on! Hope your ISP doesn't mind us all piling into your servers.

i didn't read every single thing. i just think it would be great it you could set counters, something like "folders" (cfr. flickr) and it would be sooo great if we could change the background.
thaaank youuuu. ;)

no no change the background no! :)

thinking gives me a headache.

Before you load up the site think about us poor land liners who acheive only 19-24 kbps......I have noticed a slight slow down since I've been aboard.....Not enough time in the day to see everyone......Just a thought

I just figured out that the "start=#" at the end of a url adjust the thumbnails at the top so they display the thumbs farther back in the fotothing. The most recent photo being "start=0". The problem with this is that when I want to show someone a photo I've taken showing the thumb in context the thumb's number is always changing depending on the photos I've uploaded last. Say, for example, the thumb for a picture is currently at start=25. When I reference that, depending on if I've uploaded more pictures the thumb that refers to that picture may or may not be the thumb I want to be there above the picture. If I've uploaded 5 pictures between when I referenced start=25 and when someone checks it out it may have changed completely to start=30 instead.

My question is, and it probably isn't an easy fix, can the thumbnail counter be turned around so it counts forward from the first picture uploaded instead of backward from the most recently uploaded? That way the thumbnails when referenced to go with a picture will always look the same... and maybe the thumbs above won't shift back to the most recent 6 uploaded thumbs when we reply/make comments in older posts.

can I second DaveB416 and say that a ban on the increasing number of graffiti morons would be generally felt to be a good thing..?

Re: Finding those that have added you. When you go to "My Friends" The thumbnails are those you chose and the list below are those that chose you. A highlight of those you haven't added yet would be a good feature.
I like the picture rating idea a lot.
I left flickr.com because it was down for maint. often. I suspect some of the ideas posted here may cause the same effect.
I like the simplicity of the site. It has a GREAT community and I've been in contact with people from around the world.
So I say no to the "bling-bling"! Just do some minor tweaks and don't add what would later slow the site down.
Thanks Dom.
P.S. The judges are doing a fine job! Over 2500 people and one complaint? CHEERS!

I am new today and have little experience to go on. I landed here because I recently started a local Photography Users Group (on Yahoo Groups -- called "albanyshooters") and was looking for people to invite to join. So, some way to find location for those willing to provide it that is more specific than just country would be nice.

If anyone reading this lives in the NY Capital District, please check out the group. It is new (less than 48 hours) and small, but I am hoping to make it into an active place for discussion and with luck a means for getting together for photo expeditions in the area.

where do you find the winners for each weeks challeng? should be a page for that

The rate that this site is developing new members means that people are recommending it as it is. Don't change anything until you new members count drops off. Forums are deadly. Is there any way we can find out more about where this fotosite is based and the history of its developers.

How about a pro option to allow my full sized photos? The resizing doesn't do some photos justice.

I asked about this earlier - thoughts please Dom? :)

I sooooo agree

I like very much the idea of having hit counters and also something that alerts you about comments you haven't read yet.
Thank you :)

The low resolution of displayed images does not do any photo justice. You allow a max 1MB upload but impose a (very small) maximum resolution.
Wouldn't it be better to impose a 500kb max file size but larger resolution so phtos can be displayed so much bigger and nicer in all their glory?
Come on Fotothing, 550 resolution is far too small !

It seems to me that photos are receiving fewer comments. My guess is that with the increase in users, the photos spend less time on the home page. In fact just now, I returned to the home page to view a photo only to discover that it had scrolled from the "last 12" position. Lost for ever, without me being able to view it or comment on it. It would be nice to see a large number of the latest photos ... maybe an increase from 12 to 100.

1) email notifications of comments posted/received
2) ability to scroll 'back' through recently uploaded pics, rather than just the last 10 or 12 or whatever it is
3) NO NO NO flashy customisations of individuals' pages!!! keep it sleek and simple like it is.
4) More info about the creators/maintainers of the site... their philosophical reasons for doing the site...are they in it for money (more than enough to live on)?, glory (more than enough to inflate an ego)?, or to make the web a better place? One of those three reasons will make me invest in a 'PRO' account.
5) No ban on graffito. Yo! it's art.
6) No 'rating', or 'grading' of photos. That's juvenile.
7) No "flash, frames, or any other independant window type of a thing". Make the site as backwards compatible as possible, so folks struggling along on ancient machines aren't left out. Backward compatibility will do nothing but make your site stronger.

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All that said, thanks for what ssems to be shaping up as a great web resource! Seriously. Mad props to all y'all!

Congratulations Dom! I see Fotothing has now passed the 3000 users mark. What an achievemnt!!

i´d like to add PHOTOS to a favorites list... that would be very nice =]

I hope all our fotothing friends in London are OK.

over 3K! hurray!!

Oh yes,I hope all London folks are recovering from such a rollercoaster of events these last few days.

Still, good going Fotothing 3K! Thanks for all the fun Dom.

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There's a lot of landscape pictures

I would like to suggest if you can add an info link to us everytime there's a new comment in our site from previous to present entries :> so we can easily check all our comments, you can either show a small red highlighted box with text showing NEW comments, for an easy to locate comments. thank you! :>