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SmugMug Rolls Out "Islands" Feature

breakitdownblog.com — After months of working with the community to find a solution for the problem of privacy-vs-accessibility, SmugMug has finally rolled out the "Islands" feature.

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  • gmoney1, on 10/11/2007, -4/+18SmugMug is 20x better looking than flickr and the others, why isn't it as big?
    • edesignweb, on 10/11/2007, -4/+26uh, maybe because it's not free....
    • Linh, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7because $25/yr < $40/yr. I find there's far more tools that push a community and use of flickr than for smugmug. It honestly serves a different purpose I think.

      I'm contemplating switching (or using both). I liked flickr because.. for $25/yr, I have a decent remote backup for all my pictures. But it lacks severely in the organizational department for showing things to family, friends, and such. But I do like the photostream way of posting.. works well for a photoblog I think
    • humanrobot, on 10/11/2007, -8/+3@ edesignweb

      right on bro!
    • resplence, on 10/11/2007, -4/+5They're not so bright either. FTA:

      "Somewhere over the course of months in that thread, interacting with the community, releasing example implementations to a few select group, the SmugMug crew finally came up with the “Islands” idea of allowing folks to mark their images accessible to everyone, only other SmugMug users or private."

      It took them months and user feedback to come up with custom permissions?
    • Kormac, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1"It took them months and user feedback to come up with custom permissions?"

      If you read the thread, there were patent issues with implementing indexing and searching on "private" albums.

      http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?p=495931#post495931
    • sam991, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3Because it looks like ass.
    • skribble, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0They seem to be quote different in that Flickr is more streams based, while Smugmug is more gallery based. If you want to present a large portfolio which spans time and theme... smugmug wins, if you are most interested in what's happening right now and then moving on, Flickr wins. Flickr also has a nice community that thrives of their free service and that helps it's popularity quite a bit. I use both (but I use flickr much less now that Yahoo has slowly assimilated it into everything I don't like about yahoo!)
  • sully213, on 10/11/2007, -6/+2Blog spam....buried.

    Original: http://www.smugmug.com/help/private-search-island
  • DuhStupid, on 10/11/2007, -13/+1*AUTO BURY ENABLE*

    REASON: Anything named SMug Mug

    *AUTO BURY EXECUTED*
  • Jeifurie, on 10/11/2007, -2/+10Does this site help me check my males?
  • maxxed, on 10/11/2007, -3/+0Zenfolio > Smugmug > Flickr
  • marygrace, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5I'm a huge smugmug fan. Perfect, elegant, and they have a team that knows how to have fun.

    http://cmac.smugmug.com/gallery/2504559#131481399

    Flickr is fun, too, so to each their own.
  • rkalla, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5resplence,
    You may want to skim the forum thread to get an appreciation for what they did. The system was never designed to support the feature, so it required rewriting huge portions of the site along with adding hardware to handle the new permission model. That's a pretty nice reaction (I think at least) to user demand for a feature so specific.

    They already had public/private galleries before, but what people were requesting were addition settings of "public but not searchable" and "private, but accessible, but not searchable"... some very *specific* requirements I thought, but when folks started giving their reasons for wanting these settings it started to make a lot of sense.

    How easy would it have been for them to say "Sorry, won't do it, you can already make forums private, so shut up"... surely a lot easier than all the time/money they spent implementing these changes. I respect that, others may not think it's that important.
  • drzeus, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1It's only a simple Google search away, but I would still appreciate a description of SmugMug or any other less-than-popular service in the article summary. Thanks.
  • Blabster, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2If they make their prices competitive (i.e. something like flickr's) I would love to switch. Smug has potential, they just need to work on the price ;)
  • shazbotus, on 10/11/2007, -2/+0It's built on Ruby on Rails, ZOMG! That has to make it better for sure....
    • onethumb, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Ruby on Rails? Um, no, we're not. :)
  • eatmorgnome, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0I'm used to using fine grained controls with stuff like Acegi and Zope.
    Wow, testing this out now with a trial account on SmugMug and the implementation is really a hack.

  • wildjohn, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1Already submitted. Buried for duplicate blog spamming.
  • thedonga, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1use the code below to get $5 off your subscription at smugmug
    VDPF0KsOczW32
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