Huntergram

Huntergram is a free photo-sharing site that you host yourself.
It's written in pure HTML, raw CSS, and vanilla JavaScript.

features

a strictly finite information feed, curated by you
a completely static site that you can host on GitHub pages, Glitch, NeoCities, or anywhere else
a responsive design that scales to fit desktop and mobile web browsers
"functioning" like, follow, and message buttons
a ragged leading edge that lets you add new photos in amounts that are not necessarily multiples of three without shifting your existing photos around relative to one another
- this "ensured stability" lets you arrange photos spacially
  - the resulting bricolage can be used to share context or recontextualize images based on their proximity to others
lazily-loaded images ensure the site loads quickly regardless of how many pictures you add

Huntergram's source code just renders a website
- how you prepare your images, modify the index.html file to reference them, and get your files into your hosting platform is up to you
  - you could write a script to do it for you
  - or you could do it my way

open a raw image in Gimp
- if the image is not square, crop it to be square
- if the image is really big, scale it down to somewhere in the neighborhood of 1200 x 1200 pixels
- export the modified image to the /content directory as a progressive JPEG
- using Gimp's export preview, use the slider to find an appropriate balance between quality and filesize
  - for 1200x1200-ish images, you can usually go down to around 100kB to 200kB without a serious dip in visual quality
using my computer's file browser, mock up and select from potential photo arrangements
open index.html in Vim
- if a new row needs to be added...
  - copy the conveniently-placed, commented out "row" div
  - paste it wherever i want it to be
- update the image src attributes to reference the desired photos
run a python script (not included) to push the updated files to my hosting platform
- WARNING: photos can contain all kinds of metadata, including GPS coordinates
  - you probably don't wanna upload that to the Internet
  - you can strip image metadata using a program like exiftool
    - an example script, strip_metadata.py, is provided, which uses exiftool to strip all metadata from all images in the /huntergram directory

huntergram.js includes a rot13 encoder-decoder
- you can use this to obfuscate your email address enough that bots won't bother finding it, while retaining the ability to be contacted

PS: you can change the "Hunter" in Huntergram to your name if you want to :-)