Glass — Photography Community

Glass is something I thought we had lost. A part of the internet which is genuinely creative, polite, and supportive. The photography you can find on here is great and the people genuinely care about photography. No ads, no algorithms. The team developing Glass is in it for the right reasons and builds features for the members instead of advertisers. This place has reignited my love for photography, can’t recommend it enough.

Enjoying it a lot. Have been missing a nice place to upload photography for a while, but my photos have now found a new home! For the future I hope the community keeps expanding. Would be nice to be able to give appreciation from the list view instead of having to go into the detail view to give appreciation.

Beautifully designed app that puts the focus on the work over everything else. My daily dose of photographic inspiration.

Look forward to more learning about Glass.

An amazing place for photographers and help them share photos without ads or distractions like ads. No photo upload limit helps and also no compression on photos. Amazing app 5 stars. ⭐️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

It seemed exciting but 40$ a year to post photos on an app?! That’s not really user friendly seeing any other social media is FREE

Great app, great platform.

No quest for monetization, no fighting the algorithm. Find people who’s photos you like, start a conversation, post your photos. WITHOUT the need to crop them. What 500px was supposed to be and what you wish Instagram was. Everyone is friendly. No trolls, no bots, no scams, NO ADS and no videos. Love it. Long live Glass (hopefully). Try it and tell your friends.

If the curators don’t follow you, you may as not well bother - there’s a lot of evidence that there’s an “in” group - if you’re not in that “in” group, or if you don’t immediately cater to their specific tastes (and I believe there are only like, 2 curators so tons of room for bias for sure), then you’ll basically get no discovery. Very difficult to find other people you like as well, that goes both ways. I’m not a big fan of algorithms, but relying on such a small team of curators who seem to have conflicts of interest isn’t a great solution, either. And if you don’t post often, good luck getting seen by a larger group of people because the timeline feed is a slog to go through. If you want an audience, you have to be as addicted to this app as you would with Instagram.

I was excited to find a new app designed for professional photography. There’s still not many choices. I really liked it a lot during the free trial. It’s easy to interact with photographers’ posts, and the bookmark effect is cool, too. It was after the free trial when things started going wrong. I decided to give it a shot for the next year with the annual membership which was $39.99. Well it ended up charging nearly $15 more at $54.86 instead, which definitely shouldn’t have happened. I emailed Glass support about this twice, & still today no actual response. Just the automated set-one saying they will respond, but they don’t. So then I emailed again for a refund & nothing. This app seemed cool, but they don’t seem to care to scam you. This experience looks like it’s become more common..