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Why can't you try it instead? It's free...

There's at least some work by the algo to recognise different moments of the same day, I still need to upload more pictures to try to understand it correctly.




- It takes longer to try than to read

- I wouldn't want to sign up or upload any of my pictures before I know that I am going to actually use the site


I understand but that's like saying you won't be using Google because they didn't explain the algo. Or you won't try the iPhone because they don't explain the algo that makes it scroll so gently. And so on.

It's free, you can try it if you really want. You can even use someone else's pictures. Asking for the algo seems too much.


You want me to upload a thousand photos to see how it works? :)


As someone who runs another photo sharing site that organizes for you by date, I can say yes.

First, it's important to know that uploading a thousand photos is way easier on such a site, since you do no organizing work. Try uploading a thousand photos to Flickr without culling, organizing into albums, tagging and captioning, and see what your result looks like. It doesn't have to be like that.

Second, they have to be your photos for you to appreciate chronological organization. When I look at my own, I can say, "Wow, I just click 2005, then December and I see my Puerto Rico pictures. And I didn't have to organize them myself." You don't get the same effect looking at someone else's.


You need that many to understand the basics of the algo behind it? If that's how you debug your code than you might need to learn some better ways to do it...




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