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Introducing Pinry, a self-hostable Pinterest.

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Post by bicknergseng »

"Because I don't like sharing."

I think you missed the point of Pinterest. This is to Pinterest what iPhoto is to Facebook.

But I'll be honest, I was first interested in Pinterest because I thought it would be a lovely bookmark aggregator. This does that pretty well from the look of it, but it's definitely a self-hosted image bookmarker with a Pinterest-esque interface, rather than a self-hosted curated web.

Might be splitting hairs over a title, but the difference is significant.

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Post by sp332 »

bicknergseng wrote: post #3

"Because I don't like sharing." I think you missed the point of Pinterest. This is to Pinterest what iPhoto is to Facebook. But I'll be honest, I was first interested in Pinterest because I thought it would be a lovely bookmark aggregator. This does that pretty well from the look of it, but it's definitely a self-hosted image bookmarker with a Pinterest-esque interface, rather than a self-hosted curated web. Might be…

I think you missed the point of Pinterest.

If you like the point of Pinterest, use Pinterest. If you just like the look of Pinterest, you can use Pinry.

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Post by whalesalad »

schpet wrote: post #2

I really like this, I'm looking forward to digging through the source and finding out how folks set up their django apps.

I came here to comment just this. I downloaded it for fun and was stoked to see manage.py! Interesting indeed to explore others' conventions. I particularly like settings as a module.

One thing I tend to avoid, however (of course this is just my personal taste) is templates in each sub-app. I feel like at that point there are just too many nested directories. I'd rather have one global templates dir for the entire project.

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Post by overshard »

whalesalad wrote: post #6
schpet wrote: post #2

I really like this, I'm looking forward to digging through the source and finding out how folks set up their django apps.

I came here to comment just this. I downloaded it for fun and was stoked to see manage.py! Interesting indeed to explore others' conventions. I particularly like settings as a module. One thing I tend to avoid, however (of course this is just my personal taste) is templates in each sub-app. I feel like at that point there are just too many nested directories. I'd rather have one global templates dir for the entire pr…

I often-times argue with myself over this. I do agree that one global template dir is nice but it makes the apps less copy-and-paste-able and I feel like Django apps were meant to be somewhat self-contained.

However, sometimes you have so many cross-links between apps in Django projects that taking out a single app to use in another project basically breaks most of the functionality.

There are big pros and cons for doing it either way.

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Post by overshard »

lbotos wrote: post #9

Awesome! If I get some time I might hack this up into some type of self-hosted evernote thing. I just started using evernote and it's nice but most of my notes are pictures/sites and this looks to be a great fit. Kudos!

That's actually partially what I'm trying to do! I mostly just bookmark a lot of random sites and images and wanted an quick-view Pinterest like interface to put on top of that. If you create some nice features please pull-request. I'll gladly take a look.
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