I’ve been trying to figure out how to display a Snap.as gallery in a Write.as post, and have not been having any luck. I’ve searched the Forum, but have not seen any info on how to do this basic thing.
I know this has to be simple, and I will kick myself when someone points it out–what am I missing?
By display a gallery, do you mean like how Flickr does it? Where there’s a bunch of photos that you can click through to view on the same page? If so, I believe that’s not possible right now.
Yeah, that’s the impression I’m getting right now. That’s too bad, too. Being able to add a line of code to display a gallery from Snap.as with a line of code would be fantastic.
Thanks for the reply.
I agree that would be a great feature to have.
I did find Pixelfed. I think I can upload photos into a “collection” over there, then put a photo from snap.as on my blog. I can then link that photo to the pixelfed collection. Readers can then click on the photo or a link to see all of the photos in a nice gallery.
In addition, pixelfed is a federated service. There are a number of communities, just like Mastodon. And it is free, and not corporate tech giant owned.
I’m going to play with it and see how it works out.
I did find Pixelfed. I think I can upload photos into a “collection” over there, then put a photo from snap.as on my blog. I can then link that photo to the pixelfed collection. Readers can then click on the photo or a link to see all of the photos in a nice gallery.
If you have a gallery already in Snap.as, you should be able to make a photo link to a specific url, in this case, link to your snap.as gallery. If you look at this post, it has instructions on how to make an image in markdown clickable/linkable. You can then just have the photo link to your gallery.
Thanks @dino … Yes, I can link to a gallery from my post. I guess I was being a bit greedy in wanting to have the beautiful gallery show up in my post as an embedded series of thumbnails. I also wanted the thumbnails to open into a cool light box. Oh, and no laborious editing of photos or thumbnails.
I think a link to a Pixelfed gallery will be sufficient for me. I also get the benefit of the photos being on that platform, too.
A lot of this is new to me, and making me rethink my previous assumptions from self-hosting. Part of the fun here is learning new things and pushing my boundaries a little. I like it.
Got it. Yeah, we don’t have that yet. I agree it would be cool to have photos show up in a lightbox that is part of a gallery.
I’d be interested in adding this! Do you all have some examples of how you’d like the gallery to look? E.g. something close to Instagram’s / Pixelfed’s grid? Or all images inline down the page? Or a simple image carousel?
I think the design is the biggest thing holding us back here, as I imagine people will have very different ideas of what they want, and that could potentially take us away from something that’s simple / just works. But maybe we could offer a few simple options and allow you to choose somehow, like picking which gallery embed code you decide to copy into a post.
Thanks, Matt. I agree–you face scope creep of expectations! What I was looking for was the ability to embed the gallery view that we see in Snap.as (upload the photos, they show up with square thumbnails in a grid format), then when you click on the thumbnail, it brings up the photo like you would see in https://www.lightgalleryjs.com.
I like Pixelfed, too. That is what I am doing on my galleries for now–just a link to the gallery on Pixelfed. I’m happy with that, to be honest.