Hello,

I would like to suggest two features for a future Chevereto version. These features are also popular with most file sharing scripts and financially very attractive for us webmasters. It gives us, the webmasters, a way to earn money with and/or without advertisement.

Basically:

Premium (Paid) Accounts:
Users can buy premium accounts for the duration of a month, 3 months, 6 months or a year (for example). They can pay with paypal or another gateway and in return they will get extra storage space and/or bandwidth and perhaps extra functions  users with normal (free) accounts don't get (such as, ads free browsing, priority access and etc..). We could also provide these paid accounts as 'business accounts' or something like that.

Advantage: An extra way of income for us webmasters, aside from advertising.

Earn money:
Users can register and earn money for sharing their pictures. The more pageviews/downloads they get, the more money they receive. If, let us say, a picture gets viewed/downloaded a 1000 times they can get 5 USD (for example). It would also be nice if you could set specific prices per country/area of the visitors.
This would mean that more people would make use of our image upload sites because they would want to earn more money.

Advantage: People want to earn more money -> more people will come to our image upload sites = easy advertisement + more users + more people who view our ads and/or buy premium accounts
Disadvantage: The system of counting views would have to be foolproof (per unique visitor, refreshing the page doesn't count and etc..) It might be hard, but many other scripts have this function as well, so it should be possible.

I'd love to hear what all of you guys (and Rodolfo) think of these two suggestions  !

Too much competition in the image hosting industry to charge people for premium accounts. Too many sites already offer unlimited everything with limited ads.