{"id":454,"date":"2012-07-30T19:24:46","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T03:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/?p=454"},"modified":"2012-07-30T19:24:46","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T03:24:46","slug":"the-cons-of-being-a-holdout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/30\/the-cons-of-being-a-holdout\/","title":{"rendered":"The cons of being a holdout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really like hosting my own photos, because there are copyright\/rights management, privacy, and cost issues with doing it any other way. But I really would like to outsource it sometimes, because Gallery2 is a bizarre piece of software with a shitty user interface. To get batch-rotate capabilities, I&#8217;d have to directly patch the source code. (Oh, boy.) I had to install a new plugin because none of the upload types was working except the basic web upload, which is extremely limited. To fix its limits, I would have to modify my PHP configuration. (Double oh boy.)<\/p>\n<p>I hate, hate, hate Flickr&#8217;s policy of evaporating your photos if you don&#8217;t pay them, but their interface, although quirky, is about 10 million times better than Gallery.<\/p>\n<p>I checked out ZenPhoto, but it&#8217;s not clear it would be any better, and it&#8217;s not 1-click installable on Dreamhost, so it doesn&#8217;t seem like there&#8217;s a better solution. I just wish there were.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really like hosting my own photos, because there are copyright\/rights management, privacy, and cost issues with doing it any other way. But I really would like to outsource it sometimes, because Gallery2 is a bizarre piece of software with a shitty user interface. To get batch-rotate capabilities, I&#8217;d have to directly patch the source [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[73],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":455,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions\/455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}