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Best way to add photos to a web app? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/webdev

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Hi all :)

I'm putting together a web app for a small music festival, and part of what I want to do is add photos from the various events that we hold. At the moment, they're being posted to Facebook, but I'd prefer to have something separate from that.

My thinking is to make a slideshow of lower resolution photos for the web app, and keep the full sized versions on Facebook so that people can download or share them. Even doing this is going to eventually bloat the app though.

The other problem we have is that there's no budget for storage, so I need to make it for free if that's possible.

Does anyone have any better idea than a lower resolution slideshow please?

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[–] nikstarling 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hello! Do you have a remote estimate of the amount of photos you're planning to include in the slideshow? I would have personally used an s3 cloud solution for something like this. AWS, as far as I know, has a free tier which is limited to 5gb, but even if you exceed that, the prices are pretty liberal, especially for smaller applications and you only pay for what you actually use (storage + request) so I advise you to atleast have a look. You can get an estimate of what you'll pay here. P.S. I am not a native speaker, so sorry for bad grammar :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you for replying 🙂

I've got no idea how many photos we'll end up using, but it's hopefully going to change every year, rather than just adding to the older photos.

I didn't know about the AWS free tier, so I'll look into that, thanks 👍

P.S. Your grammar is excellent, and probably better than mine 😁

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You might also contemplate Cloudflare R2. It's compatible with S3, so if you have a library that expects S3, R2 should also work, and can be cheaper (and maybe faster? Not so sure about how they store it across their edge network). They've got a price calculator too here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you, I'll check it out 🙂