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Photos Too Racy for Facebook? Put Them in the Fridge (YC S10)

60 pointsby austinchangover 14 years ago

14 comments

daychildeover 14 years ago
I've signed up and created a couple of groups. Here's my thoughts and feedback after exploring what I could find:<p>1. Need a favicon. In the expectation that I'll use the service, I added it to my bookmarks bar - where it shows up as the default icon. d'oh!<p>2. Notification on new posts is great! I'd also like the option to subscribe to new comments as well. Two levels: 1) an option to automatically subscribe to comments for each new post, and 2) an option on each post to subscribe to that post. I would use the former; but most would probably like the latter to subscribe to the occasional interesting post. Also, 3) if both above options were implemented, an option to unsubscribe from new commenta made to a post (that would over-ride the global subscription comments - so I could opt-out of a post I had no interest in)<p>3. UI when uploading a pic could use some work. I'm not sure what you can detect, but I assume you can know how many files you're getting - at a bare minimum, "Uploading $num of $total..." would be a help.<p>4. Youtube videos are only embedded when the URL is the entirety of the post. Took me a few tries to figure that out... Perhaps a button like "Add a Youtube video" that, when clicked, becomes a text box to paste the URL into with a "Post" button on that...<p>5. Similarly - it looks to me like pictures upload as a separate post - so instead of clicking in the post field, then clicking 'add pictures' - maybe that should be separated out like the Youtube button idea above - an "add pictures" button (or separate function somewhere easy to find, but separate from a text post). Well, could even have tabbed submission - chosing text or pics or youtube...<p>6. Profile pics need a little work: looks like it makes the largest square it can from the picture, starting at top-left, and cuts off the rest of the picture. All thumbnails seem to do this, which is a little odd. Might be better to at least center the square in the cropped dimension... On the profile pic: Being able to drag the image to set what part of the image was displayed for the profile pic would be awesome, and UI-light, I'd think.<p>7. Per a suggestion below, I set up an "HN" group - for anyone interested: <a href="http://www.frid.ge/?ginvitation=3kharhhlv8owo4wgk0wwo4kcc" rel="nofollow">http://www.frid.ge/?ginvitation=3kharhhlv8owo4wgk0wwo4kcc</a> - I note that the email address to send is at "hn@" - which is great. To test, I set up another group also called "HN", and its email is "hn1@" - which means this is extraordinarily easy for spammers to guess... certainly to send to a@, b@, c@ etc... Also, when I changed the name of the group and created another "HN" - it got the "hn1@" email - meaning if the name is changed and someone has the old addy in their address book and someone else uses the name.......... I don't see how this can end well, even if I like the email feature itself.<p>I like the cleanliness of the interface. I like the ease of switching between the groups I created.<p>I hope this takes off - it seems useful and good.
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pqsover 14 years ago
The fridge is no more than a private mailing list influenced by social networks.<p>It's funny, google is trying to create a new social network (buzz, orkut, wave, ...) and they have Google Groups that are real communities (spam appart) that only need some care.
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ohyesover 14 years ago
Picture too racy to be seen by millions on the internet?<p>Don't post it to the internet. Websites get hacked, confidences are violated. (In fact, if you <i>actually</i> care, you shouldn't take the picture in the first place, as PCs can be hacked as well).
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sproutover 14 years ago
Backups? I'm less concerned about my Facebook pictures leaking out than I am that I don't have easy access to the metadata they're storing about me, and can't browse it locally. (In some simple open format.)
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akshayubhatover 14 years ago
wouldn't it be easier to email the pics to the friends directly?<p>Posterous works because people actually intend to publish their thoughts, and they are uncomfortable with using an web interface. But in case of picture I dont think people would be comfortable with idea of sending it to a third party website, why not just add multiple emails addresses to your 'to' field. also threaded conversations make it easier to have all comments / replies in a single place.<p>Also facebook album with proper privacy settings is much better option.
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nickgeigerover 14 years ago
This has great potential if I understand it correctly. One of the things facebook doesn't seem to address for me is the need to have groups of friends. I've always wanted facebook to implement the idea of "circles" (i.e. high school friends, college friends, current friends, co-workers, etc) so I could post stuff specific to that circle of friends rather than blasting all of my FB friends, which may include all of those groups.<p>Maybe this feature is on the horizon in facebook, or maybe something like this new service will address it, or both. FB seems to be pretty good at quickly copying features that other services provide that are popular and align well with the whole social graph (e.g. twitter, foursquare).<p>I played with thefridge a bit just to try it out and it seems very alpha: it basically didn't work for me at all. It seems many features require email verification and although I followed the email link, I exited out of the password prompt and wasn't able to do much.
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jrockwayover 14 years ago
Good way to capitalize on Facebook's privacy snafus. But the problem is, what's to stop someone in your trusted group from leaking the pictures?<p>What we really need is a photo-sharing service that delivers the photos on that self-destructing paper they use in Inspector Gadget.
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csmederover 14 years ago
Is there an HN group how do I find it or join it?
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zenoconover 14 years ago
It would be nice to add the ability to install open social apps. I'd like to add my own custom Gmap application. Will fridge have any integration capability with open social standards <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSocial" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSocial</a> ?
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Robin_Messageover 14 years ago
This is genius. It provides one of the killer apps of Google Wave -- planning a trip with friends and sharing the photos afterwards -- but without all the extra cruft Wave added (new logins, no email integration, threading, branching and histories).
Locke1689over 14 years ago
With respect to the name -- I'm really not sure why I hate it so much but I do have a really visceral disgust. If I think of why I'll post again.
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joubertover 14 years ago
A friend who once visited me took pictures from in my apartment (I live on a high floor in downtown Manhattan, nice view) which he then posted on his blog!!!<p>I asked him to kill it (would you like if I posted pics of your bedroom for the world to see?)
brcover 14 years ago
Hah! bong from an N64 controller? Kids these days...
u48998over 14 years ago
People don't like to accept but email and email lists are still the fundamental ways people collaborate on important and personal matters. Even though Yahoo and Google groups are not being talked about much, it wouldn't hurt if someone innovate on top of those same old method of communication.<p>Ultimately, it doesn't matter if data (email) is pushed to the user or user is pushed to the date (website). What matters is the quality and integrity of the content and communication platform. If people feel comfortable using your service, if your service is easy enough for them to use, you win.
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