Ask HN: Personal photo library recommendations? Open source, browser-based

Post by vorpalhex » Mon, Apr 29, 2019, 6:06 PM UTC

zimpenfish wrote: post #88

vorpalhex wrote: post #60

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Could you try to troubleshoot some of the issues and open PRs? It doesn't take an army to resuscitate a project... -- Edit -- Actually on checking, it doesn't seem like Perkeep is at all dead. I'm seeing several updates in the last month...

I was going off https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/perkeep/Kqvh2dJVmoo Which seems to me fairly definite about it no longer being actively maintained. There haven't been any updates to that posted on the @perkeeporg Twitter at least.

Post by silversconfused » Mon, Apr 29, 2019, 6:34 PM UTC

xingped wrote: post #98

Out of all these tools posted here, are there any that provide a way for you to authorize friends to also upload photos to your library?

Post by canada_dry » Mon, Apr 29, 2019, 6:56 PM UTC

dashundchen wrote: post #22

canada_dry wrote: post #5

I'd love to find one that incorporates the functionality that Picasa (windows desktop) circa 2000 i.e. face recognition/matching. It was way ahead of it's time, and actually worked! Best of all, it did everything locally... not cloud based and thus retained privacy of your personal photo collection.

Digikam has facial recognition and tagging using OpenCV. Can't speak to its accuracy though.

Post by mboperator » Mon, Apr 29, 2019, 7:15 PM UTC

mnutt wrote: post #85

I’ve been tinkering on something adjacent, to replace my Instagram usage rather than Photos.app. I was thinking of a sort of “album as a blog post” concept using Ghost, which could be a single image per entry, or a series of images with optional prose interspersed. The idea is to take an album and auto-generate a blog entry with inline photos that can be edited in Ghost. It can also pull out photo metadata and create…

Post by mceachen » Mon, Apr 29, 2019, 7:43 PM UTC

canada_dry wrote: post #104

mceachen wrote: post #70

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I started writing PhotoStructure because I got tired of being burned by failed open and closed source media apps. I wrote more details about it in a top level post, but this blog post describes why I quit my job to do this full time, where the project is currently, and where it's going. https://blog.photostructure.com/introducing-photostructure/ I'd love to have you try out the beta and have you share feedback!

Signed up, though a quick browse I wasn't able to find any mention of face matching/recognition. It's really the killer-feature that made Picassa so great - find all the photos over several years of a family member or friend. Sadly, I've needed this feature for funeral photo albums lately and could really use the old Picassa!