I remember when you announced & showed a demo of this earlier. I thought it was cool, but what do you want me to do? Upload my very large images? I don't have any. Perhaps you want to get connected with communities that do tend to have large images they want to share. (Partner with them or offer some service.) Smaller Flikr-like upstarts? Certain forums? NASA? Look for "killer app" uses. Turn your site into a giant demo. On the front page create categories/folders that people would enjoy such as Celestial Views, The World in Macro (zooms on very small things), Horizons (sunsets & other panoramas of the horizon), Fractals (one person could almost fill this with beauty on their own), Nature, etc.
At first you (or someone else) maintain the categories for quality control. It's an experiment so you can feel free to spin it off or pull the plug any time. Seek out sources of large pictures for your categories. Perhaps a Google image search for large images with the type of preferable restrictions/permissions. Same with Flickr (I don't know what size restrictions they may or may not have for your purposes). Contact the owners of the pic, cast your vision, request to host a copy, promise to link back to them. Create a site with enough categories and high quality, interesting pics that one person can spend 15-20 minutes perusing. (Some people won't dig macro images, but will stars, or vice versa.) Recruit friends to help make it awesome. It's a team project. If part of the aim is to improve your tech, place a prominent way for users to report issues or ideas for improvement. Once sufficiently mesmerizing, your friends should be willing to share/spread it through social media (Facebook, reddit, etc). You're piggy-backing your technical idea with people's enjoyment of exploring pretty pictures. I don't know your exact aim here. Looking under About didn't help. If what you want is people to user your site as a way to upload their large photos & share them with friends, I see some UX issues that are probably stopping people from doing so. If you'd like to discuss this more, I have some ideas & thoughts I could share. (If replying here doesn't email me, you can do some searching around Mozilla to find me.)
P.S. I don't know that sharing very large pics is a common use case/felt need that people have, so that may work against you, but getting more eyeballs on the site will expand the pool of potential users.
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I remember when you announced & showed a demo of this earlier. I thought it was cool, but what do you want me to do? Upload my very large images? I don't have any.
Perhaps you want to get connected with communities that do tend to have large images they want to share. (Partner with them or offer some service.) Smaller Flikr-like upstarts? Certain forums? NASA?
Look for "killer app" uses.
Turn your site into a giant demo. On the front page create categories/folders that people would enjoy such as Celestial Views, The World in Macro (zooms on very small things), Horizons (sunsets & other panoramas of the horizon), Fractals (one person could almost fill this with beauty on their own), Nature, etc.
At first you (or someone else) maintain the categories for quality control. It's an experiment so you can feel free to spin it off or pull the plug any time.
Seek out sources of large pictures for your categories. Perhaps a Google image search for large images with the type of preferable restrictions/permissions. Same with Flickr (I don't know what size restrictions they may or may not have for your purposes). Contact the owners of the pic, cast your vision, request to host a copy, promise to link back to them.
Create a site with enough categories and high quality, interesting pics that one person can spend 15-20 minutes perusing. (Some people won't dig macro images, but will stars, or vice versa.)
Recruit friends to help make it awesome. It's a team project.
If part of the aim is to improve your tech, place a prominent way for users to report issues or ideas for improvement.
Once sufficiently mesmerizing, your friends should be willing to share/spread it through social media (Facebook, reddit, etc).
You're piggy-backing your technical idea with people's enjoyment of exploring pretty pictures.
I don't know your exact aim here. Looking under About didn't help. If what you want is people to user your site as a way to upload their large photos & share them with friends, I see some UX issues that are probably stopping people from doing so. If you'd like to discuss this more, I have some ideas & thoughts I could share. (If replying here doesn't email me, you can do some searching around Mozilla to find me.)
P.S. I don't know that sharing very large pics is a common use case/felt need that people have, so that may work against you, but getting more eyeballs on the site will expand the pool of potential users.