Your photos should not have to depend on me forever

Putting a few photos on a new service is easy. Trusting it with years of your life is different. A while ago, someone who had bought a Lifetime Founder plan for Moments emailed me with a question. How do I intend to keep Moments running for the long term? When I first wrote about Moments, I described the idea simply: Bear Blog, but for photos. A quiet place for personal photo journals. No likes, no follower counts, and no pressure to perform. Just a small home on the web for photos from everyday life. But once people begin building those homes, they are trusting Moments with more than a few files. In the email, they pointed me toward Herman’s Bear Manifesto. In it, Herman writes openly about the future of Bear: how it is funded, how it is maintained, and what happens if he can no longer run it himself. I understand why that gives people confidence. Bear is not just somewhere they occasionally publish a post. For many people, it has become their home on the web. Moments asks for a…

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