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by rezrovs 5711 days ago
"As long as you can email them to us" - is this the only mechanism for sending the photos? I realise you might have written this to simplify the page, but my first reaction was that I'd rather be able to upload them. Then on the 'Photo Guide' I do read that I can upload them. Perhaps instead of that sentence on the home page it would be better to link to the Photo Guide.

Looks like a pretty good idea though :) Good luck with it!
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hellweaver666 5711 days ago
I wanted to make it easy for people to share the photos straight from their mobile device. I know a lot of phones don't have built in upload facilities (e.g. the iphone) so I wanted to make sure there was a mechanism to these people to get the photos to us. I had considered MMS but decided email would be the best solution in this day and age.

I definitely will allow browser based uploads at some point in the future.

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fleitz 5711 days ago
iPhone definitely has upload facilities. I share photos from my phone directly to Facebook. I know it's not supported in Mobile Safari, but it's possible. I'd implement something like swfupload so that it's easy to upload the photos on to your site.
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simonk 5711 days ago
Isn't swfupload flash?

But, anyways it won't work on something like the iPhone because there is not folder structure for it to look for something. You have to build a iphone app like Facebook did.

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