Share files/photos the _other_ way?

[vikin]

Does anybody know of a site that will let me do 'inverted' photosharing?

So, instead of me uploading photos for others to see, others upload photos for me to see. But in a way so I'm the only one signing up for an account, not everybody else. I can't ask 80 wedding-guests to sign up to Flickr.

[temp]

so you want this:

- anyone can upload
- only you can view

is that right?

[vikin]

Yes, that's it. Allthough, not anyone, ideally they need a link from me to be allowed uploading. But that's just a nice-to-have.

Sort of like Flickr's sharing of private pictures to non-flickr members.

[Rachel]

It is certainly possible but I don't know of any existing service. You could quite easily set it up yourself. You'd want to secure the site and the upload form itself. Password + form validation to restrict upload to img files only, less than a certain size, etc.

I'm just wondering if you're over-thinking it though. When I got married (oh, so many years ago..) friends and family just sent through photos as email attachments or on burned dvds when they felt like it.

It was enough of a miracle that everyone bothered to rsvp in the manner I dictated! I'm not sure anyone would have bothered to follow specific instructions for uploading images.

[natgimm]

Sharepoint has a function whereby you can set up a module to receive emails with attachments and the attachments are automatically added to the folder. Obviously you won't have Sharepoint, but I'm suspecting something like that would be ideal.

[heist]

you could just sign up for flickr as "photosofmywedding" - set it to "only viewable by me" and give out the user/pass to whoever you want to upload?