My gallery site now just feeds Facebook

The Facebook login has become the de facto door to Internet.

I wonder how many other people out there have Gallery2 sites like mine. It's a big sporting photo database attached to a club website, from which, every week, the best pictures are lifted into a variety of Facebook accounts where they are discussed and commented on. The sport is cricket, a highly technical sport like baseball and some of the comments on shots played by juniors made by coaches and senior players are actually very helpful.

The point is that I want all this stuff on our site, where it can hang around and site members who aren't on Facebook (about 70%) can see them. We need the site for all the things you can't do on Facebook, especially event planning, match reports and so on.

But people log in to Facebook every day. Even users who have set up Joomla and Gallery2 accounts only log in to the main club site one in every 5 visits.

It seems to me that the most important thing for the future of programmes like gallery2 is a bridge (that works and is supported) which allows the use of the Facebook login and a shares the comment system so that the photo remains in the local gallery with the Facebook comments, from all the accounts it has been copied to, displayed below it.

Otherwise we'll just be running a storehouse for Facebook accounts.

As a club, if we can't beat them, we'll be forced to join them and shift all the photo content over to Facebook or a Facebook-compatible gallery and try and get some sort of control on there. That would be a big step downhill.

(Apologies if you've seen this before. I posted this in a part of the forum which seems to be dead)

Data is, by its very nature, empirical. I imagine you mean quantitative data.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/mar/29/myspace-facebook-bebo-twitter

Google might be the login of choice for a reasonably large part of the web universe, but since its social networking facilities are, as yet, limited, I don't think it can compare with the top social networking sites for daily logins. Certainly not with Facebook. And even if it could, I'm not losing the attention of a single user or any part of what I want to keep to Google. This year, however, I have watched almost the entire commenting side of my album disappear off my site and into people's Facebook accounts. That's anecdotal evidence.

JFB Connect is pretty much what's needed but it doesn't seem to be supported and most people, including me, can't get it to work properly.