Show HN: Phofee – Photography social platform built with Svelte 5

Hello everyone! For the past few months I have been working on Phofee, a social platform for sharing high quality photos.

The goal: Make a website that allows users to easily upload, share, and discover photos without having to sacrifice quality or mangle their images.

Phofee allows users to upload multiple images of varying aspect ratios. All sub images in a single post are displayed in a small photo gallery, so all your photos can be seen at a glance.

One of Phofee's unique features is the automatic extraction of photo metadata. When a user uploads a photo, metadata such as Camera Model, Lens, Aperture, ISO, and shutter speed are displayed under your photo. This way, other photographers can gain better insight into your creation process and learn from it.

For this project, I took privacy very seriously. - All metadata is deleted from user's photos before posting. - We store minimal user information. - We don't store user passwords (by using Google OAuth). - We don't use Google Analytics. (We do use Google Search Console)

Please feel free to ask any questions or leave feedback and I will try my best to respond.

Thank you.

p.s., I made an effort to follow the 'progressive enhancement' methodology of Svelte. So most of Phofee should be usable without JavaScript.