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I'm the founder of the project. Benjamin is one of our community managers and I'm glad he wrote this. The value of OpenPhoto differs for many people. Benjamin

by jmathai 14y ago

I'm the founder of the project. Benjamin is one of our community managers and I'm glad he wrote this. The value of OpenPhoto differs for many people. Benjamin stated why he uses it and even volunteers his time to help make it successful. What I'm focusing on is making it easy and useful for people to regain control and peace of mind that all their photos are safe, in one spot and enjoyable. We are doing this a few different ways. * As the article points out, letting users (optionally) choose whee their photos are stores. I say optionally because we provide storage for those who don't know what that means or don't want to. * Allow people to import photos from Flickr, Instagram and Facebook. More coming soon. * Enable folks to change their mind at any time with their choice of storage service. If they choose us and want to change or find a different service that is cheaper or suits them better, we make the migration seamless. We're an open source project but as you'll see we are very consumer focused. It's why we have apps on the app stores and offer a "hosted version". Happy to answer questions.

troymc 14y ago
What's the cost of the hosted pro version?
- jmathai 14y ago
  Currently $29.99/year but discounted to $19.99. We'll have more plans in the future.
  - bhadra 14y ago
    Does it mean that if I go pro now, I pay USD 19.99 only during the first year and then USD 29.99 from second year onwards?
    - jmathai 14y ago
      Good question. $19.99 forever. We'll make sure that is clear.
      - bhadra 14y ago
        > We'll make sure that is clear. There is no update on the web site (https://openphoto.me/signup https://openphoto.me/signup) yet.
  - troymc 14y ago
    Thanks! The signup page ( https://openphoto.me/signup https://openphoto.me/signup ) isn't arranged like a typical pricing / signup page. I think people expect something more like the following: * https://www.drupalgardens.com/pricing https://www.drupalgardens.com/pricing * https://purchase.websynthesis.com/plans.aspx?oid= https://purchase.websynthesis.com/plans.aspx?oid= but of course you should do testing to learn what works best for you.
berberous 14y ago
How the hell do I delete my account and/or photos? There seems to be no way to deactivate my account, or delete my photos. Also, it took like 6 hours before it pulled any photos from Facebook. No offense, but all in all, this was a really frustrating and unhappy user experience for me.
- jmathai 14y ago
  Drop an email to support@openphoto.me. Sorry it took 6 hours to import your photos from Facebook. We didn't anticipate having so many people initiate imports so we throttled ourselves a bit much (on top of 3rd party API limits). Besides the delay in imports was there anything else you found frustrating?
laureny 14y ago
> Benjamin is one of our community managers and I'm glad he wrote this. You shouldn't, really, the hyperbolic tone is monopolizing all the discussion. Hardly anyone here seems to have even heard of OpenPhoto, so starting with "Unless you've been living in a cave" is basically insulting to everyone. Be modest, focus on the value of your project and don't insult your readers, much less the readers that might want to become users. Tell him to tone it down.

by jmathai 14y ago

troymc 14y ago

What's the cost of the hosted pro version?

jmathai 14y ago
Currently $29.99/year but discounted to $19.99. We'll have more plans in the future.
- bhadra 14y ago
  Does it mean that if I go pro now, I pay USD 19.99 only during the first year and then USD 29.99 from second year onwards?
  - jmathai 14y ago
    Good question. $19.99 forever. We'll make sure that is clear.
    - bhadra 14y ago
      > We'll make sure that is clear. There is no update on the web site (https://openphoto.me/signup https://openphoto.me/signup) yet.
- troymc 14y ago
  Thanks! The signup page ( https://openphoto.me/signup https://openphoto.me/signup ) isn't arranged like a typical pricing / signup page. I think people expect something more like the following: * https://www.drupalgardens.com/pricing https://www.drupalgardens.com/pricing * https://purchase.websynthesis.com/plans.aspx?oid= https://purchase.websynthesis.com/plans.aspx?oid= but of course you should do testing to learn what works best for you.

berberous 14y ago

How the hell do I delete my account and/or photos? There seems to be no way to deactivate my account, or delete my photos. Also, it took like 6 hours before it pulled any photos from Facebook. No offense, but all in all, this was a really frustrating and unhappy user experience for me.

jmathai 14y ago
Drop an email to support@openphoto.me. Sorry it took 6 hours to import your photos from Facebook. We didn't anticipate having so many people initiate imports so we throttled ourselves a bit much (on top of 3rd party API limits). Besides the delay in imports was there anything else you found frustrating?

laureny 14y ago

> Benjamin is one of our community managers and I'm glad he wrote this. You shouldn't, really, the hyperbolic tone is monopolizing all the discussion. Hardly anyone here seems to have even heard of OpenPhoto, so starting with "Unless you've been living in a cave" is basically insulting to everyone. Be modest, focus on the value of your project and don't insult your readers, much less the readers that might want to become users. Tell him to tone it down.