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

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Post by ConfusedDog »

damianmoore wrote: post #17

Shameless plug: I'm currently working on a solution called Photonix, though it's still very much pre-1.0 at the moment. https://photonix.org/ Installation is fairly simple with Docker, frontend is web-based (React), backend is Python with a sprinkling of Tensorflow. So far auto-tagging of photos by location, object detection and colour is fairly decent. UI is progressing and is useable on most devices, though quite m…

I really like it, though I'm not photographer, so I won't be able to speak for your main user base. One thing I would like is when I open a large image, it should give me a loading status. Instead, it just blacked out for a moment and image suddenly loaded.

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

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Post by preek »

I did exactly that a couple of months ago. After exporting my pictures, I ran fdupes to find duplicates and then imported all images into Shotwell.

I can still take pics on the phone which will be synced via Dropbox and Shotwell picks them up immediately. The sync is faster than I’m used to on iCloud and finally I just have files that I can tag, again.

Shotwell is also super fast, has a similar UI to photos.app (automatic events for example), but it also had hierarchical tags which it can even write to the files itself. So it’s very simple and yet portable without lock-in. Couldn’t be happier. Of course ymmv.

Good luck!

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

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Post by cobbzilla »

aosaigh wrote: post #2

I’m looking for the exact same thing. Seems to be few and far between. I have a Synology which has two photo products but they can be a little clunky. The challenge seems to be a sensible way to add an import.

rsync and then reindex worked well for me. But I’d agree that’s not really a sensible solution for non-technical users.

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

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Post by uptown »

icebraining wrote: post #14
uptown wrote: post #13

Check out Koken. Pair it with Lightroom for editing if desired. Self hosted and quite powerful. http://koken.me/

Unfortunately not under an open source license, and the license can be revoked or changed "at any time, for any reason, without notice." (EDIT: clarified that the issue is the license; the source is readable)

So basically it satisfies all of trbfred's specified requirements.

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

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Post by zerkten »

damianmoore wrote: post #17

Shameless plug: I'm currently working on a solution called Photonix, though it's still very much pre-1.0 at the moment. https://photonix.org/ Installation is fairly simple with Docker, frontend is web-based (React), backend is Python with a sprinkling of Tensorflow. So far auto-tagging of photos by location, object detection and colour is fairly decent. UI is progressing and is useable on most devices, though quite m…

Will you have support for handling duplicate images? People are either super organised, or the complete opposite. When you have multiple copies for backup and then want to consolidate to a library you want to hide your messiness.

I've been struggling to find a tool that handles that handles the duplicates problem within a web interface. I've been experimenting with some approaches including perceptual hashes and was wondering if that's something you'll include?

Is there any way to use metadata from Lightroom Catalogs, or enable people tagging in your current implementation?

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

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Post by damianmoore »

ConfusedDog wrote: post #31
damianmoore wrote: post #17

Shameless plug: I'm currently working on a solution called Photonix, though it's still very much pre-1.0 at the moment. https://photonix.org/ Installation is fairly simple with Docker, frontend is web-based (React), backend is Python with a sprinkling of Tensorflow. So far auto-tagging of photos by location, object detection and colour is fairly decent. UI is progressing and is useable on most devices, though quite m…

I really like it, though I'm not photographer, so I won't be able to speak for your main user base. One thing I would like is when I open a large image, it should give me a loading status. Instead, it just blacked out for a moment and image suddenly loaded.

Thanks for the feedback. I agree, there should some progress display while downloading. I'll be sure to make sure that's there. There are other optimisations I want to make in this area like selecting a resized version to download depending on the current screen dimensions and pixel density. This will improve loading times.

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

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Post by zerkten »

ConfusedDog wrote: post #31
damianmoore wrote: post #17

Shameless plug: I'm currently working on a solution called Photonix, though it's still very much pre-1.0 at the moment. https://photonix.org/ Installation is fairly simple with Docker, frontend is web-based (React), backend is Python with a sprinkling of Tensorflow. So far auto-tagging of photos by location, object detection and colour is fairly decent. UI is progressing and is useable on most devices, though quite m…

I really like it, though I'm not photographer, so I won't be able to speak for your main user base. One thing I would like is when I open a large image, it should give me a loading status. Instead, it just blacked out for a moment and image suddenly loaded.

As a developing photographer, having the biggest image isn't as important as having a large-ish image with additional metadata.
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