Fueling Time
I think this would make a nice watch face.
Thanks for all your suggestions about improving Fotola. And wow, you guys have sooooo much talent. It's inspiring.
One thing that I'm especially concerned about, and I know some of you are too, is how to keep Fotola free or very low-cost, but also keep it from being overrun by the kind of staggering traffic that Fotolog.net has had to deal with.
I was originally going to charge $1 a month or so, but it feels anti-creative -- there has to be a better way to limit growth besides making you reach for your wallets.
So what is it? A long membership application? A send-me-a-postcard requirement? A membership fee, but with grants for talented photographers who can't pay? Or do we just limit this site to 200 active members at a time?
Consider this: the Fotola server software is free, and can run on any Linux server with the proper setup. This takes some of the sting out of limiting membership. It's possible to write the code so that other people or companies can sponsor servers, thereby increasing the capacity for more fotolae. To us it will look like one site, but the cpu load and bandwidth would be spread out.
I might have just answered my own question, but I'd love to hear your thoughts below.
Thanks for all your suggestions about improving Fotola. And wow, you guys have sooooo much talent. It's inspiring.
One thing that I'm especially concerned about, and I know some of you are too, is how to keep Fotola free or very low-cost, but also keep it from being overrun by the kind of staggering traffic that Fotolog.net has had to deal with.
I was originally going to charge $1 a month or so, but it feels anti-creative -- there has to be a better way to limit growth besides making you reach for your wallets.
So what is it? A long membership application? A send-me-a-postcard requirement? A membership fee, but with grants for talented photographers who can't pay? Or do we just limit this site to 200 active members at a time?
Consider this: the Fotola server software is free, and can run on any Linux server with the proper setup. This takes some of the sting out of limiting membership. It's possible to write the code so that other people or companies can sponsor servers, thereby increasing the capacity for more fotolae. To us it will look like one site, but the cpu load and bandwidth would be spread out.
I might have just answered my own question, but I'd love to hear your thoughts below.
