Since making the decision to leave Pixelfed a couple of weeks ago, I'm struggling to find a good place that I want to host the photos that I post each day.

I recently went over to Flickr and to be honest, I'm just not feeling it. There are quite a few issues or features that are missing that seem so basic that we should have in 2025.

I'm not sure I'm going to stick with it for the foreseeable future.

Currently testing @vernissage by @mczachurski and really liking it. Just hoping it gets an RSS feed feature super soon so I can have EchoFeed post my photos from Vernissage to Mastodon.

#Photo #Site #PhotoDump #Photography #Pictures #Flickr #Vernissage

@haikushack I have my own blog, but that's for writing. I don't really like to post/host images there.

@cliffwade I see. I use my website for many things. I find it easier that way. Otherwise I feel that I spread too thin...

@haikushack I've thought about it, but I don't really have a theme that displays photos the way I'd really want them to look.

@cliffwade I understand. It's just that I like owning my space rather than relying on third-party websites. But Vernissage looks interesting! Why did you leave Pixelfed, if I may ask?

@haikushack Because of the developer and how he down/bad mouths people, downs other developers, has public melt downs constantly, claims everything to be open source when it's not. Lots of information on him can be Googled and you'd be shocked to see what you find.

@cliffwade Thank you for sharing! I stopped using Pixelfed a few months ago, but I'm definitely interested in new platforms to display my work beside my website.

@haikushack No problem. If you need a link, I can share one that has some pretty shocking stuff included about him.

I too am always looking for good places to share my stuff. I'd love to have my photos on my site and maybe that's what I need to look into.

@cliffwade I trust you, don't worry!

@cliffwade Do you want to see how I did things with my website?

@haikushack Absolutely! Would love to see how you do things.

@cliffwade I usually write poetry (especially haiku) based on my photos and paintings. But I also have a portfolio page.

https://creativeramblings.com/photography/

@haikushack WOW! As in WOW to the the way they look on the site, but also the quality of photos. I wish I could be that good at photography.

Is that just a page on your website and is your website WordPress or something similar? I believe it's WordPress, so I'm curious if the theme does that or if it's some plugin that you use?

@cliffwade Thank you! I have been doing photography for a long time. ;-)

(I'm sure you are very good.)

I have used WP self-hosted for 20+ years now. I couldn't use anything else. And I tweaked the theme very slightly, but since it's free, I can only do so much.

@haikushack Oh I can tell you've been doing photography for a while. Absolutely beautiful photos on that link you sent.

I'll definitely need to play around with the gallery on my SeerOfSouls.com website and see what I can come up with.

@cliffwade Thank you! Let me know what you decide to do.