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I've looked at a bunch of these photo viewer libraries and this is the first one I've come across that seems to handle the pinch zoom on mobile really well. Very cool!

I've done a fair amount of past research around good image viewers for mobile (especially open source) and on the surface this update to Photoswipe appears to move the solution ahead of many competitors.

The original version of Photoswipe was a great image viewer, but unfortunately was not well maintained. This new version that the developer has taken over really leapfrogs over other viewers.

The key is will it be maintained and be able to keep up with a fast changing mobile landscape? Or should I continue using the current paid solution I'm using today (Foobox). While Foobox is not up to par to this solution, it will be interesting to see where Photoswipe is 6 to 12 months down the road. For me, having a well maintained solution is worth the $30

I'm not planning to stop working on PhotoSwipe, it's under active development. There will be a WordPress plugin soon (with paid pro version), so project will be partly monetized.

I don't know the developer personally, but I have been using his MagnificPopup module for over a year now and can say that it is incredibly well-supported and maintained. I definitely trust Dmitry to be a good steward of the plugin (I mean, just look at the documentation!)

Nice gallery. Weird license:

>> The script is free to use for personal and commercial projects. It falls under the MIT license with one exception: Do not create a public WordPress plugin based on it, as I will develop it.

Yeah, so we'd have to carry that exception over in every other piece of software we create that uses it. I hope it gets at least dropped when the WordPress plugin is out...

The >300 open issues and what seems like tons of ignored pull-requests also don't fill me with confidence. To bad, the demo on mobile looked really great.

> Yeah, so we'd have to carry that exception over in every other piece of software we create that uses it

The license is MIT, you don't need to add anything else.

> The >300 open issues and what seems like tons of ignored pull-requests

Old version of PhotoSwipe was not developed me and I did not manage repository. Previous owners just passed development to me a few months ago https://twitter.com/PhotoSwipe/status/444134042787930113 and I started working on a new version.

I can assure you that all new issues and pull-requests will be managed appropriately.

It's in good hands now, no worries. Check his previous work and you will see, he is the master of touch! Royalslider pwned all sliders on day 1 now they have all copied it :)

Then you should make it more clear that you're just asking people not to make a Wordpress plugin from it and it's not part of the license. Right now that is not clear at all.

Mh, I saw the notice that it changed hands but somehow it didn't click that the issues were older... sorry about that then, and great to hear that it now has an active maintainer! Good luck with it!

Really nice library and really modular, Awesome job

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