I wanted Bear Blog, but for my photos 89 ▲ Peter Gombos 46 days ago · Life · hide · 21 comments I love Bear. It is one of the few places on the web that still feels calm, personal, and human. You write something, publish it, and it exists as a simple page on the internet. No algorithm. No follower count. No pressure to perform. For writing, Bear feels almost perfect to me. But I also take photos. Not professional photos. Not portfolio work. Just ordinary life: walks, family days, weekends, cities, small details, strange light, quiet moments I want to keep. And I never really knew where those photos should live. Instagram feels too loud. Cloud storage feels too buried. A portfolio feels too serious. A normal blog feels close, but still writing-first. Of course, you can add photos to a Bear post. But the photo usually supports the writing. I wanted the opposite. A place where the photo is the post. Where text is optional. Where one photo is enough. Where images are large, calm, and treated with respect. Where browsing feels more like moving through a photo journal than scrolling a… Log in to reply on the Fediverse. Comments will appear here. Gordon @snowgoon@mastodon.social 46 days ago [-] Well this is all kinds of wonderful! What a gorgeous place, this might also be the solution I was looking for! Peter @petergombos@mastodon.social 46 days ago [-] @bubbles Thank you so much Gordon, that means a lot!This is exactly what I was trying to solve for myself first: somewhere calm and personal for photos that does not feel like social media, cloud storage, or a portfolio.Would love to hear what you think if you try it. Gordon @snowgoon@mastodon.social 46 days ago [-] @petergombos initial thoughts are very good!! Still playing but will post thoughts soon Andreas Gohr @splitbrain@fedi.splitbrain.org 46 days ago [-] I love the idea. But photos take space. A lot of space. So without a clear pricing/business strategy I'd be wary to trust this can survive in the long run. Peter @petergombos@mastodon.social 46 days ago [-] @bubbles Very fair concern, and one I think about a lot.Photos are expensive, so Moments has to be sustainable. My plan is to keep a basic free tier, then maybe charge later for extras like custom domains, analytics, or more storage.Full export already exists too. I never want Moments to feel like a trap. annie @annie@social.lol 46 days ago [-] @petergombos heck yeah I love this. Have wanted exactly this and I’m so delighted you built it. I’m in https://annie.moments.im/ Peter @petergombos@mastodon.social 46 days ago [-] @bubbles Ahh this made my day. Thank you Annie!So happy this clicked with you. Welcome in, and I’m excited to see your photo journal grow :) Gordon @snowgoon@mastodon.social 46 days ago [-] @petergombos @annie it’s great already! Fin @finjb@defcon.social 46 days ago [-] This is great! Seems like a good answer to Instagram on the indie web. Wojtek Powiertowski @wojtekpow@mastodon.social 45 days ago [-] @petergombos awesome idea and great execution, really like the UI! Wish you all the best with the project! If I didn’t already had a gallery i built on my blog I would have jumped on Moments. Peter @petergombos@mastodon.social 45 days ago [-] @bubbles Thank you so much, really appreciate the kind words! And honestly, having a gallery on your own blog is already very much the spirit of Moments :)If you ever feel like trying the community side of it too, would be lovely to have you take it for a spin. Chris Golden @lyteforce@mstdn.games 45 days ago [-] Absolutely love it and will be giving it a spin momentarily. Was recently thinking of doing a daily photo journal and Moments eliminates much of the hold-up... thedatadavis @thedatadavis@mastodon.social 45 days ago [-] I made a mastodon account simply to be able to comment "This is pretty neat."This is pretty neat. David Soria Parra @dsp@nullptr.rehab 45 days ago [-] It feels a bit like early days Flickr. Truly wonderful. seigel @seigel@mastodon.social 45 days ago [-] This is great. Thank you! seigel @seigel@mastodon.social 45 days ago [-] One usability thing. When editing a moment. If I go to the details and let's say add or remove some tags and then click back to the photos and then back to the details my edits are lost. This was surprising. I was expecting that the photos AND the details page were controlled by the save button on the details page. Al Firous @alfirous@mastodon.social 44 days ago [-] Is this similar to https://glass.photo/ but less "serious"?Awesome project btw. I would love to use it if I don't already have on my website.Maybe provide API so we can cross post to Moments? Jayphen @jayphen@mastodon.au 44 days ago [-] I've been lazy with putting my photos online for some time now, mostly because of disillusionment with Instagram. This looks like a nice solution. Echoing other comments, a read/write API would be great. Niklas Weber @nklswbr@mastodon.social 44 days ago [-] love it alexcaza @alexcaza@mastodon.social 44 days ago [-] This is awesome! Signed up and will try and treat this space as my online photo zine repo :D Raj Singh @rajibsingh@mastodon.xyz 43 days ago [-] I can't tell you how wonderful and soothing it is, no likes, no leaderboard, no algorithm, just interesting people sharing glimpses of their lives
