Photo Sharing

[road_to_hell]

Time to solicit some help from you all. I've noticed several of you use photo-sharing websites like Flickr and Shutterfly. I want to start using one, but wanted some feedback from people who use them. Which one(s) do you use? Are any vastly superior or inferior to others?

Comments

[picture_kept]

I liked Flickr a whole lot before Yahoo bought 'em, and liked it well enough until my account got deleted from a hacking incident.

I'm now using http://zoto.com and like the albums very much. Clicky

[batzradio]

I've used a few - but really I've had the most success as far as this goes after I shelled 25 clams out for an annual subscription to PhotoBucket's Pro account. No bandwidth limitations to worry about if you're dealing with image sharing en masse (very very useful for my own personal application), and it seems pretty customizable as far as management and gallery setup goes.

[dindin]

If you're still on Gmail, use Picasa.

[road_to_hell]

Can people who don't have gmail view picasa?

[dindin]

Yep, anyone can view your albums if you give them permission, but it's fully integrated with Gmail.

[inahandbasket]

IAWTC.

Hosted my own for many years, my server imploded twice and I had to rebuild from it. I finally threw in the towel and let someone else host it.
Flickr is yahoo now, true, and that nearly dissuaded me as I detest yahoo, but it's still Flickr inside a crunchy yahoo shell. I have a pro account there, unlimited upload and storage for 25 a year. I highly doubt they'll ever disappear my photos, but if they do I have local copies, and if my computer explodes or is stolen I have copies on flickr, so I'm happy.

[darthrami]

I've got flickr (not intentionally, they merged with yahoo) and photobucket. I use photobucket more b/c it's more aligned with the way my brain works, but flickr's not bad.