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Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

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Post by fy20 »

akkartik wrote: post #69

I'm in the market for this, albeit for different reasons. Perhaps coincidentally, right after Google announced ending their free storage their sync started acting up for me. Even though I'm a _paying_ customer. In that circumstance the usual Google lack of support becomes quite unacceptable. For me the key feature is partner sharing. My wife and I take lots of baby photos. We see each other's photos as if we took the…

This, and the easily being able to share the album with family is the most important feature right now for me.

I have shared albums with my wife that are generated automatically from photos of our kids based on facial recognition, and then we have a shared album with family where we add curated photos to - as the initial album is shared, we can do this with the other person's photos, not just ours. This works pretty much seamlessly for both photos and videos.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

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Post by Vaslo »

mceachen wrote: post #3

You're certainly welcome to try PhotoStructure! It's got very robust de-duplication, supports portable libraries (so you can automatically sweep your photos scattered across many drives and computers into a single timestamped folder structure), and a novel UI showing a random sampled view of your library. There's also an active forum for both support and to discuss what and how new features are built out. https://pho…

I have an unRaid server and I found your app to be the easiest to use, but I had to switch to photo prism because you don’t have an easy way to tell the difference between photos and videos.

I know you previously responded that people should upvote that feature, but the inability to distinguish video from photo just seems like a must have fix over other potentially over engineered stuff that others are asking for.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

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Post by Brajeshwar »

akkartik wrote: post #69

I'm in the market for this, albeit for different reasons. Perhaps coincidentally, right after Google announced ending their free storage their sync started acting up for me. Even though I'm a _paying_ customer. In that circumstance the usual Google lack of support becomes quite unacceptable. For me the key feature is partner sharing. My wife and I take lots of baby photos. We see each other's photos as if we took the…

I'm pretty much in this boat. I looked up to Google Photos just for the Family Photos Sharing. I keep hoping Apple would come out with a better experience.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

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Post by scambier »

MeinBlutIstBlau wrote: post #52
pjs_ wrote: post #35

Not even remotely an alternative in terms of usability/reliability, but I can describe my DIY setup. I have a DIY NAS, based on a Raspberry Pi and an external hard disk enclosure, running in my kitchen. The disks are encrypted with LUKS. A combination of Syncthing and a cron job ensure that photos from my phone are constantly synced to the NAS without any input from me, and old photos are removed from my phone. A nic…

I'm interested in your rassberry pi nas. Can it be done with a pi0? I've got one laying around and would love to put it to good use. I'm familiar with syncthing so it doesn't sound too much trouble for me right now.

not OP, but I tried to setup a NAS with my older B+, and it was really unreliable. The disk went to sleep every few minutes even when there was a file being read/written.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

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Post by totoglazer »

iamthepieman wrote: post #38
vishnumohandas wrote: post #27

Hey, over the last year we've been building ente[1], an end-to-end encrypted alternative to Google Photos. We have shipped open-source[2] web and mobile apps that have preserved 180,000+ files. Apart from cross-device sync, you can share your albums end-to-end encrypted, and filter photos by location and time. We recently had a "successful" launch on r/degoogle[3]. We wanted to Show HN after incorporating the feedbac…

180,000 photos seems tiny. I have about 20k photos just on my own, my wife probably has more. 180k is like 10-50 people. Not saying you can't handle it but 180k doesnt signal "I've got scaling all figured out" to me.

I’m at 93k myself…

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

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Post by nindalf »

vishnumohandas wrote: post #27

Hey, over the last year we've been building ente[1], an end-to-end encrypted alternative to Google Photos. We have shipped open-source[2] web and mobile apps that have preserved 180,000+ files. Apart from cross-device sync, you can share your albums end-to-end encrypted, and filter photos by location and time. We recently had a "successful" launch on r/degoogle[3]. We wanted to Show HN after incorporating the feedbac…

As a user of ente, I can say I’m pretty happy. It doesn’t have all the features that Google has but they’ve made a promising start. If the search feature becomes comparable, I’d move off Google photos permanently.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

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Post by techrat »

vzaliva wrote: post #81
leetrout wrote: post #34

https://www.smugmug.com/ and https://www.flickr.com/ (Same parent company now). Chris MacAskill founded it with his son. Pretty solid company, seems like. https://mixergy.com/interviews/smugmug-chris-macaskill-inter...

I would never use or recommend Flickr. They lied to me. As premium user (for many yars) the promise to me was that photos uploaded will be kept free forever as long as the service exists. Even if I stop paying. Then they went back on that. They may have a very good reasons, but the trust was broken.

Flickr hasn't been under the same ownership twice over now.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

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Post by Brajeshwar »

Some people here suggested Google Takeout for Photos. I did that and I now have a list of 298 separate downloads in my Gmail.

Is there anyway, I can drop that to Dropbox (or another bigger cloud service) without me downloading it off-line and then uploading it?

Dropbox; because I can set a folder to sync "Online Only" and figure out a way to deal with it.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

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Post by amenod »

Brajeshwar wrote: post #82

I have been looking to get rid of Google Photos from my toolset for a different reason. I don't mind paying for valuable services. I have been on the 2TB Family plan of Google One for a while, as I thought I would use it as the backup for my Photos. The second reason was that I could have a single photo collective for the family. Apple Photos do not make it easy to have an all-shared family photo pool. Unfortunately,…

For anyone else who doesn't know what Google Photos ForYou is:

> For a while now, the Google Photos app has included an “Assistant” tab. This is the place where all of Google’s automatically created creations are shown. Things like photo collages, animations, movies, albums, and more. The name of the tab has always felt like an implication that Google Assistant is creating these things, but it can be confusing if you’re not familiar with it. Google is changing the name of this tab to “For You.”

https://www.xda-developers.com/google-photos-renames-assista...

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

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Post by masten »

akkartik wrote: post #69

I'm in the market for this, albeit for different reasons. Perhaps coincidentally, right after Google announced ending their free storage their sync started acting up for me. Even though I'm a _paying_ customer. In that circumstance the usual Google lack of support becomes quite unacceptable. For me the key feature is partner sharing. My wife and I take lots of baby photos. We see each other's photos as if we took the…

Stingle photos might just be the tool you need. I've been using it for some time and it's good at what it does. https://stingle.org/
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