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Manage all your photos across social networks in a single place!
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Enhancement suggestion: using client-side javascript for sync service #62

Closed Yehonal closed 8 years ago

Yehonal commented 8 years ago

Hello

I love this project and service! i've developed something similar few years ago to sync my google+ albums with facebook.

i've read that you are offering a 100% free service and with privacy in mind. However i've seen that you're using mostly php for all sync processes. My old project has been written totally in client-side javascript with cookie / localstorage to save preferences.

This would allow you to:

1) make all processes client-side , without any complain about privacy issues. 2) redistributing the application as a downloadable app 3) use some free hosting service, such as google app engine

Of course the takeaway service can remain server-side

vickyg3 commented 8 years ago

Thanks for the suggestion.

The whole point of social photos is to transfer photos from one service to another without using your bandwidth. This is especially useful if you are in a network connection which has restricted bandwidth.

Yehonal commented 8 years ago

Client side javascript doesn't use your bandwidth, in fact you just ask facebook to retrieve photos from drive, via javascript instead of php. But the uploading process never pass from your bandwidth. You misunderstood.

If you want i can send you my script as example.

Il 26/Lug/2016 01:11, "Vignesh Venkat" notifications@github.com ha scritto:

Thanks for the suggestion.

The whole point of social photos is to transfer photos from one service to another without using your bandwidth. This is especially useful if you are in a network connection which has restricted bandwidth.

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Yehonal commented 8 years ago

Client side javascript doesn't use your bandwidth, in fact you just ask facebook to retrieve photos from drive, via javascript instead of php. But the uploading process never pass from your bandwidth. You misunderstood.

If you want i can send you my script as example.

Il 26/Lug/2016 01:11, "Vignesh Venkat" notifications@github.com ha scritto:

Thanks for the suggestion.

The whole point of social photos is to transfer photos from one service to another without using your bandwidth. This is especially useful if you are in a network connection which has restricted bandwidth.

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vickyg3 commented 8 years ago

While that may be true for facebook which allows you to upload pictures by passing in a URL, other services do not allow such an upload mechanism. So this cannot be fully replicated without using your bandwidth in javascript.