Bring the archive home
A Flickr Alternative on Your Own Domain
Your Flickr archive should feel like a body of work, not a hostage negotiation. SnapSmack gives photographs, albums, metadata, and writing a home you control.
Keep the archive, lose the landlord
SnapSmack is self-hosted photo publishing software. The files sit on your server and the public URLs use your domain. Albums, categories, collections, captions, tags, EXIF details, and dates remain part of the archive.
SLICKR offers a familiar photostream and album presentation without pretending Flickr itself is still the only shape a large photography archive can take.
Migration built for real collections
FLKR FCKR is the companion migration path for Flickr exports. It is designed to move images and their useful context into SnapSmack at a rate your server can handle.
No migration is magic and no two exports are identical. The point is a documented path home, not a promise that every historical oddity from every Flickr era will transform perfectly.
- Original images and available titles, descriptions, tags, and dates
- Rate-controlled posting for shared hosting
- Albums and archive views on your own website
- Backups and structured exports after the move
Retro photo blogging, modern technology
The old web got one thing profoundly right: a site could belong to a person. SnapSmack keeps that and replaces the brittle old machinery with signed updates, modern PHP, database backups, responsive skins, and optional federation.
See the broader self-hosted photography platform or read the honest technical FAQ.