What site will allow easy public photo uploads to a group page?

March 25, 2018 9:26 AM

I would like to find a site that will allow attendees at a public even to easily upload photos they already have on their phones to a location that everyone at the site can view easily.

I am not very social-media savvy, and this request sounds like something that Instagram, Facebook, or Tumblr can do, but I haven't used them, so I'm not sure.

I am hosting a public event (think variety show) where the audience can participate in different ways. I would like the audience to participate in one element of the show by uploading a photo they already have on their phone to somewhere. I would like the audience and the show participants to be able to view all the photos in one place on their phones. It would be great if only people at the event could see the photos (maybe by having access to a certain link), but that's no absolutely necessary.

Preferably, this will use accounts a lot of people already have or no account creation at all. (I can create an event account if necessary). I figure it will involve uploading to a particular group I've created or using a certain tag?

I hope there's a good solution out there! Thank you for helping out a newbie to all things media.

posted by TrarNoir to Technology (5 answers total)

Cluster is good if you want it private, but does require a log in I think. However, easy to download pics, create a book, etc.
posted by OneSmartMonkey at 9:32 AM on March 25, 2018

I’d make an imgur album: Anyone can upload direct from phone without even getting a free account or getting an app.
See here, you’d want to make the album and circulate the link ahead of time so people know where to upload.

Also you can all just upload individual pictures and tag them with #OurEvent2018 and then searching for that tag will essentially make a browsable album.
posted by SaltySalticid at 9:47 AM on March 25, 2018 [1 favorite]

I think you want to make this as easy as possible for people, so they don't have to figure out some new website. Dreamwidth.org and Wordpress and probably other blog platforms allow posting by email, so all people have to do is open a photo on their device and send it to an email address.

You can make this a bit smoother by also setting up a gmail address which autoforwards everything to the blog. That also allows you to turn it off by just turning off the autoforward.
posted by Lanark at 12:14 PM on March 25, 2018 [1 favorite]

I recently held a scavenger hunt that required people to upload proof to *somewhere*, so similar needs. I ended up just having groups upload proof to the Facebook event page. Everyone attending had access to the event, but it wasn't open to the public, and at least one person per group had Facebook on their phone for easy posting.

It lacks organization features, but it was a good and free option for the ~50 of us.
posted by matrixclown at 8:57 PM on March 25, 2018

Response by poster: I ended up using Yogile and it worked great.
posted by TrarNoir at 4:31 PM on April 25, 2018