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Re: Glass – Photo sharing app and community

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post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is not a lie. This is a shorthand to quickly convey a meaningful feature. Namely, no algorithmic timeline manipulating what you see. It’s just that, a timeline. Next you’ll be telling me that calling something “cool” is a lie, because that new T-shirt doesn’t have a low temperature.

But it is - sorting by timestamp is certainly an algorithm.

In a world where people nitpick each other to death, sure. Meanwhile, in the real world, language has meaning beyond the literal expression.

And I'm willing to put money on the fact that their target audience understands perfectly what "no algorithm" means. Heck, even the people complaining know what it means, they just like being right.

Re: Glass – Photo sharing app and community

#32

This falls uneasily between two stools for me. For a photography-focused space, it doesn't have anything like the wealth of photography tools and data that Flickr does (or even just EXIF). For a community space, it doesn't have bookmarking or nudging or sufficient interaction beyond comments to make that work for me either. Both those things can be secondary if it's exposing you to great new work and new trends in ph…

It shows a limited subset of the EXIF (camera, ISO, focal length, aperture, shutter speed) - although I notice that not all images have the data, so I don't know whether it's stripped by the person uploading it or somewhere in some version of their pipeline.

My images (exported from Lightroom, moved to phone via AirDrop, uploaded via the Glass app) all have the metadata intact.

Re: Glass – Photo sharing app and community

#33
post #4

I found it very hard to figure out how to choose content, since I don't personally know anyone using the app yet. I like the concept, and I don't think I want an algorithm as a lunachpad, but Flickr always had groups/categories/etc that helped with discovery. I was surprised Glass didn't have anything similar to that. It felt like a huge hurdle to get into the app.

Discovery is definitely pretty limited right now...

(@sib)

Re: Glass – Photo sharing app and community

#34
post #6

It’s kinda disappointing to hit a subscription screen right after sign up, wasn’t expecting that. I definitely would not try out a social network with a subscription fee without lots of experimenting first.

When I signed up (last month), there was a free trial in place. Is it gone now?

Re: Glass – Photo sharing app and community

#36
There’s not that much wrong with Facebook or Instagram. They are what we make them. You won’t have a new kind of community unless you somehow create a new kind of human. Or unless you introduce some kind of requirements for people who wish to enter. But that’s maybe “elitist”, right? :)

Re: Glass – Photo sharing app and community

#37

There’s not that much wrong with Facebook or Instagram. They are what we make them. You won’t have a new kind of community unless you somehow create a new kind of human. Or unless you introduce some kind of requirements for people who wish to enter. But that’s maybe “elitist”, right? :)

That got downvoted fast. Typical Hacker News. (ᵔ◡ᵔ)

Re: Glass – Photo sharing app and community

#38
I am enjoying this, though it is very feature-sparse at the moment. That may be part of why I am enjoying it.

At the moment it is fairly easy to find high-quality work, I find it most akin to the experience of browsing an art fair or open galleries night: wandering without direction between exhibits, some of which are quite strong, others not interesting to me.

The rate of timeline refresh is still quite low, though I've "followed" a few dozen people.

It feels like a proof of concept at the moment but it's slowly quietly coming along.

Re: Glass – Photo sharing app and community

#39

This falls uneasily between two stools for me. For a photography-focused space, it doesn't have anything like the wealth of photography tools and data that Flickr does (or even just EXIF). For a community space, it doesn't have bookmarking or nudging or sufficient interaction beyond comments to make that work for me either. Both those things can be secondary if it's exposing you to great new work and new trends in ph…

Even one (1) queer dude would do. I'd hop right on if I saw a professional fursuit photographer on there, for example.
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